New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-03-12
SAYS WOMAN HAS ASPHERE
MRS. GEORGE, OF MASSACHUSETTS,,
SPEAKS AGAINST EXTENSION OF
SUFFRAGE TO HER SEX.

Yesterday afternoon, at the home of Mrs. Edwin
Packard. No. PAL Henry-st.. Brooklyn, a meeting
was held of the Brooklyn Auxiliary New-York
State Association Opposed to the Extension of the
Suffrage of Women. The meeting was called TO order
by Mrs. William A. Putnam. who introduced Mrs
A j. George of Brookline, Mass, the latter having
been invited to make an address upon "Woman's
Opportunities as a Political Factor"
Mrs. George said she must he pardoned for feel
Ing very much at home in Brooklyn. There was
only the difference of '1' and ''y' between it
and her own home. and her letters often took
journey 70 Brooklyn before reaching her. Sketch
Ing briefly the history of the suffrage agitation
said that the first convention of its advocates was
held fifty years ago. just about the time Victor
Hugo's famous saying that this the woman's
era If he said so then. what would he have said
In 1902? Continuing, she said:
In 1909 there were thirty-fve women and children
employed in factories in the whole United States
In 1906, there were in the country five million
women and children emploJ ed in over four hundred
gafnfll occupations. Now, Il call this
tbsn o yemen G an Sort3 o. lhdusuleS PIosress
then we mast look 10 nations across the sea Tor
true progress rather thar to our own. In France
women.
Speaking of the great advance during the century
just past in the education of Mrs. George
declared thai II due &c educators like Horace
Mann and Mary Lyon and not to suffrasists as
such
ba, az = M b ose M Ia hot insteod NJ
women is not the logical outcome OF Industrial and
organized life IS the nation. and to md her place
in such an organization and fll 1t worthily is an
There is word that we anti,suftragists are not
T[ald oI ana mat Is @ Reror nd w
are not afraid of it being narrow one. The high
her true mission TO the State.
Speaking Of public service by women Mrs.
George said that it could be rendered much better
by women when they unhampered by political
connections. In this connection she spoke of the
work in street cleaning. etc, and the agitation for
public Fairgrounds.
A young in Brookline who botanist,
and had made a careful study Of trees. was put
upon the tree planting commission. Nobody knows
whether she is a Democrat or Republican, she Is
EaqaGie person IN regard 70 trees; lndr Is az,
state by some sort of public work can always md
1t is not pessimistic to that here and, now
hoGa sGragG r even Is On t'sl d so TewYort
VIII marvel at the possibility of creating American
citizens from that crude mass of material which
comes to US from the Old World
mans everyday life is along the lines of politics
market place. while the average woman is in the
t,oIe' ~ course one TINS me i w6ro az }baf baI
place is in the home heard prominent suffra-
place was in the world; but we think that the
But why can't women do all these things and still
vote? One Of my suffrage friends told me that att II
up the Capitol and protest against it.
In speaking of the problems and dangers Of man.
hood suffrage Mrs. George said it did not seem TO
be time for a change in the suffrage.
You remember that Lincoln said that II was no
time to swap horses while crossing a stream. The
nation has still it's tremendous problem 10 work out
in manhood suffrage.
The results of woman suffrage in the four states
which already have il were reviewed.
4 am a pessimst- l do not believe in woman
suffrage. but do fear very disastrous results
If 1t comes" She added that those who oppose the
movement were in hard position because the
suffra gsts claimed progress and reform for their
watchwords. and they were alluring II there was
word the American woman didn't like TO hear
1t don't"
Women have not even begun to solve the do
nestle service problem. The person who has done
the most toward this is a man, and rather
ashamed Of that. Women ought to solve the prob
lem OF housekeeping before undertaking that OF
municipal housekeeping.
In closing a letter was read from Edward Everett
Hale declining join in the movement to throw
the responsibility OF the suffrage upon woman
The address was followed by informal discus
sion, questions being asked and answered.
Two three meetings OF the Brooklyn Auxiliary
held in the season. The secretary IS Miss
Lillian Hart. of No. 4i4 Sixth-st.. Brooklyn. from
whom Information and literature the subject
may be obtained. All women over twenty-one who
disbelieve in woman suffrage in New-York at pres
cumstauces, invited to send their names TO the