The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-07-21
IS AGAINST
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Noted Woman Writer Gives
Her Views.
Woman Voter is Jointly Respon-
lsible With Husband for the
Support Of Family.
(By Molly Elliot seawsll.)

First, no electorate have ever exist
ed, or ever can exist, which cannot
execute It's own laws.
Second, no voter ever claimed or ev
er can claim, maintenance from an
other voter.
Law consists az a series Of Thou
ShaIt-ncts, but government does not
insult until an amned man stands
ready to execute the law. Suffragists
claim that the moral forces ought to
supplant mere physical force. But
the law is made for the law-brealoer,
who always USES physical force.
"A dozen rumians could prevent
hundred women from depositing a
single ballot. Supposing the ballots,
however, deposited by the indulgencd
of men, women will surely be called
upon to legislate upon subjects of
which no woman has ever had, or
ever can have practical experience.
The entire execution of the law
would be in THE hands of men, backed
up by an irresponsible electorate
which could not Lift a finger to appre
hend or punish a criminal
The relation between voting and
maintenance lis based upon the prin-
ciple that no voter shall be compel-
I'd to maintain any person who has
a vote which may be cast against
his beefactor. No priciple of gov
eminent is worked out with more
mathematical exactitude On at
tanning his majority a man loss all
claim to maintenance as long as he
is a voter. If he should become
pauper he at once loses his vote.
The slffragist claim that wife
renders services to her husband which
entities her 10 maintenance is not
sound. Maintenance has nothing to
do with service. A wife may be par
alyzed within an hour of her mar
riage. She is, however, just as much
entitlsd to maintenance as If she
shaved for forty years for husband
and fourteen children. She may become
insane, but her husband is still bound
to maintain her, nor can he get d.
vorce from her on the grounds of her
in-anity and inability to perform any
service. A wife's maintenance is her
equivalent for vote.
The fact that in the suffrage states
women have been d prived of enor-
NOUS property privileges proves that
the principle is working. In Colorado
Utah, Idaho and Wyoming a wife
has no dover. She is jointly respon-
sible for the support OF the children
The homestead may be mortgaged
or sold without hsr consent. Non
support of a husband is a ground
for divorce. Six women in Utah vera
divorced by their husbands for non
support.
The phrase taxation without rep
resentation is tyranny WIS nayer
the payment of taxes carries with it
a vote.
Taxation, in it's inception, meant
protection. Property owners paid to
have their property protected. The
property is taxed, not the individual.
Nobody has proposed that the proper
ty of miners be exempt. The idea
that taxation carries with 1t a vote
is peculiarly ludicrous when employ
I'd by suffragists from the South. ii
no one should he taxed who has not
a vote, then ten million nagroes should
be exempt from taxation; also all
lunatics. minors, and criminals, all
inhabitants OF territories and this
District of Columbia The million or
more foreigners added annually TO our
population would he exempt for at
least five years. If Carnegie. Rookie
Teller and Morgan should choose to
become aliens, they would he ex-
empt
ANTI-SUFFRAGISMS.
Perhaps the Supreme Being made
a ridiculous blunder in creating sex.
but 1t Is now too late to remedy it.
Woman suffrage is so advantageous
to men, in relieving them OF respon-
slhillties and endowing them with
property at the expense OF their
wives. that it is a wondsr all men
are not in favor of it.
Ii voting be a natural night, not
only women, but children may vote,
for a natural right is acquired at
birth and lasts till death.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has decided that voting is not
a moral right. but privilege.
Government exist by a consent of