CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1905-10-19

Former President Grover Cleveland's
article. Would Woman Suffrage Be
UnwiseT" written for the Ladies'
Home Journal. has aroused a storm Of
protest and condemnation from women
who claim the right TO vote. The gen
eral tenor Of the criticisms directed at
Mr. Cleveland is that his arguments
against equal suffrage show Il lack Of
information On bis part concerning
the subject
The New York Herald recently pub
lished the following comments Of lead
ing suffrage advocates:
Rev. Anna NJ. Shaw, president of the
women's National Suffrage associa-
ton:
After Mr. Cieyeiand's recent sweep
ing denunciation Of women's clubs IL
is not surprising to read an argument
by him against equal suffrage. His
first article showed him to be very i'm
perfectly acquainted with the good
work that womea's clubs are actually
doing all around him. His second ar
ticle shows him 10 be even less ac-
Quainted with the facts in regard to
equal suffrage, which he has not had
much opportunity to observe.
"Mr. Cleveland says that most wo-
men do not desire the ballot Most
women undoubtedly are Indifferent.
but Of those who take any lively In
terest in the question either way the
large majority are In favor. This has
been demonstrated In every state
where petitions for suffrage and re-
monstrances against II have been sent
to the legislature.
Theodore Roosevelt recommended
woman suffrage in his message to the
legislature. 10 the great horror of the
conservatives, when be was governor
of New York. And on this question
the facts OF experience bear out the
views Of our present president who
faces toward the future, rather than
those of our former president. who
faces toward the past
susan r. Anthony:
I'VE don't ask Grover Cleveland or
any other man to find the God g.-en
sphere Of woman. There are enough of
us who ARE sufficiently Intelligent to
md II ourselves
II nm glad that Mr.. Cleveland sees
that the organization OF women's clubs
paves the way for suffrage. 1t 10 nat
urnl sequence. because women's clubs
are Interested in movements for the
betfermcnt Of city. state or government
civics. and when they attempt to do
anything they run their heads against
the ballet box In short order. They find
that the vote Of one ignorant, illiterate
man outweighs their entire club In
fighting for or against legislation
Women are interested in bQuor
laws because they affect the home.
When the man gets drunk he goes
home: when he is uufaithful IL II the
home that is hurt The grog shop,
gambling room and brothel are directly
antagonistic to the home. Why would
not women vote against them II given
the chanceT'
Carrie Chapman Gait. former presi-
dent OF the National Suffrage associa-
ton:
-GroveT Cleveland. like most oppo
nents of woman suffrage. evades the
dowed with the ballot Few woman
suffra gists have ever claimed the bal
lot for women as an Inherent right
They are agreed mat II attaches nei-
ther to man nor to woman by nature
They claim II as an act of justice, not
as a concession Of chivalry. The ballot
WAS first given to men upon the prin-
cipic that taxation without represen.
tation In tyranny Women are taxed
and women are governed. and for these
reasons and for no other do women
sufIragists ask the ballot"
Lille Dcvcreux Blake. president OF
he Legislative league:
''Mr. Clevcland's article ON woman
suffrage is written in hts usual
thoughtful and scholarly style. but one
cannot help regretting that he did not
make himself acquainted with the
facts In the case before he attempted
10 important a dissertation. One OF the
first assertions u that women are 'un-
businssslike' In reply We might ask,
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