The evening world., 1909-02-24
Fight for Ballot in Albany
By Suffrasist Army

| ''' 'Hc once, street, market 0Ni shop
does the voter get the training which
hts him. In some degree, for the exer-
else OF his duty. We admit the inevit.
able exceptions to this rule. but be.
lieve that the rule should not be all.
tered To r. the exceptions.
We maintain that by functional
specialization women are fitted to pro.
duce and rear children and maintain
the home, That the artificial reaction
/ against this womanly vocation Is due
to temporary economic and social con.
dItons, which, II established bv con.
certed effort on the part OF women
VIII tend to the dis!ntegration OF the
| home, and the hurt OF the nation and
the race. For We maintain that the
/ health Of the nation is rooted in the
family, not in the individual, and tina,
the entrance OF woman into the politi-
cal field would tend to increase the
alienation Of woman from tie duties
and responsibilities OF the home which
rest upon her by virtue OF her endow.
ment both mental and physical"
Suffrage Has No Effect.
| Mss Margaret Doane Gardiner, grand.
daughter OF Bishop Doane, OF Albany,
also spoke for the ants, saying:
There are torty.sx States In the
Union. In four women vote. in only
one Of these four--Colorado-is there
Juvenile court. In twenty-five OF the
forty-two noa.suffrage States there are
Juvenile courts, Massachusetts, estah-
lllshed the first in 1895, Chicago in lSo
Denver not till 1901,
The SuffraGettes wrote to the four
| Governors OF Colorado, Utah, Idaho and
wyoming for testimony to the working
! OF woman suffrage. | have here their
answers. Their opinion In general is
| that woman suffrage has no eFec,' on
marriage and divorce on politics. on
home life, or on anything else, good or
I bad
President Allston Ellis. Of Ohio Uni.
Versity, writes to our secretary that he
| lived many years in Colorado, that he
voted TO amend the constitution tn let
women vote and that the hope then en-
tertained by him and Others for a bet
| terment OF affairs through woman suf.
frase has not been realized in any meas.
/ ure.
He says: In political Offices the won.
en- almost Invariably hold subordinate
positions and assert no influence either
for good or evil You see that this is a
man who has come 10 dislike women in
politics, though he thought quite other
wise before he saw II tried
AS to education In many States. in
Guiding our own. women have the school
franchise and use 1t practically not at
all, because voting, the mechanical and
mathematical method, IL not woman's =
natural way OF affecting public opinion
and conditions"
Immigrant Factor.
Miss Mary Dean Adams, investigator
for the New York State Commission OF
immigration, opposed the measure to-
the special reasons. She said In part:
The part the immigrant woman would
play under system Of woman suffrag
Is most significant. First, because she
!s so very numerous; not, as some peo-
pie think. In Greater New York alone,
but there Is scarcely a city or town in
the State which has not an ever-increas-
ing allen population. There are at least
twenty places outside OF New York City
which have an adult immigrant popula. L.
ton OF over a thousand And In some
cities. as Rochester Buffalo, Utica, Nj.
agara Falls and Syracuse, there are
large colonies of foreigners. out OF l5S
cities and towns In New York State only
seven this year reported few or no I'M
migrants.
The Immigrant woman 10 a fckle,
impulsIve creature. irresponsible, very
superstitlous, ruled absolutely by emo
ton and intensely personal in her point
OF view; in many things much resem-
bling a sheep. She would be capable Of
understanding Just about as much OF
matters political as a man born deaf
and blind would OF the opera
"A few weeks ago asked man
who is a naturalized allen and active
labor organizer what effect he thought
suffrage would have on his country
women. He laughed and said. Why,
she would sell her vote for a pound Of
macaroni"