The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-01
SAYS HER ACTION
WAS UNSUITABLE
WomanWho Refused oPayTaxes
in Grafton
GIVES HER VIEWS ON SUFFRAGE
Miss Lucy j. G. Daniels Let the Law
Take It's Course Because Town Repre-.
sentative Refused TO Support Votes
for Woman" Bill.

Miss Lucy J. e, Daniels Of Trinity Court
Boston, whose refusal TO pay taxes ON her
property and that Of her sister in Grafton
because the representative from Grafton
IN the last Vermont legislature voted
against the woman suffrage bill, resulted in
the sale by the town Of several shares Of
stock in the Bellows Falls National bank,
declares she has yet no cause Ia feel upset
over the turn affairs have taken.
The stock. which was sold at auction and
was bought by her nephew ~ agent OF her
brother, has been paid Tor by the latter.
but not deliveries to him 10y the govern,
meut, since the law does not allow il TO
seize national bank stocks without the con.
currence of the party who owns them The
only way, therefore. that the authorities
can deliver the goods which they sold in
advance Is to get Miss Daniels consent 10
the seizure, which she does not propose TO
| give.
Even If she is compelled to yield she
feels that everything is all right since the
stocks Will stay in the family.
Miss Daniels is an ardent suifragette and
an active worker for the winning OF wo-
mans right TO vote in Vermont, and in
fact throughout the country. She believes
it manifestly unfair for women TO be al
lowed TO vote in the west and not in the
east, as Is now the case. She has inherited
her ideas on this matter from her mother
she says, and il was also from her that she
received the stocks Of the bank, so she feels
that they have gone for a good cause.
Besides she seems particularly satisfied
because these same stocks which the gov
eminent authorities have sold are regularly
taxable property and their sale eliminates
one source of income, however small. to
the town. Yet she will not try to stop the
law in its course. She simply enjoys the
game and intends 10 keep it up as long as
she can, since there are many who have eX.
pressed their approval of her action in re-
fusing to pay the taxes.
Miss Daniels j. one OF family of four
now rather widely scattered throughout
the country. She stays in Boston 4 large
part of the winter, while her sister, who
has apartments in New York city, spends |
much of this part OF the year in travelling. |
There are two brothers located in Chicago, |
one of them prominent lawyer.
The Daniels family owns altogether a
large amount of Property in Grafton, to
which its members retire IN the summer
for rest. Miss Daniels is constantly aiding
the cause of the sutfIagettes as much as
she can. In the Bellows Falls Times she
supports a continuous advertisement for
''Not for Women, a small reading no.
tice to the same purpose
There are many who will doubt whether
Miss Daniels was justified IN her action,
but she thinks that just such action as
hers is needed on the part of all sutfra-
gettes in order to make the men voters
and their legislative representatives realize
the importance of the question. She said
in this connection
Il am quite in accord with everything
that has yet been done in the woman sui
frage cause, both here and abroad. 1t Is
all part of the game Something has to be
done to draw the attention OF the people
TO the subject and it is only by making
prominent in their work that
the suffragettes have chance to get con
sideration at all.
MANY people think that It is unneeces-
sary prominence that we give ourselves
but it isn't anything of the kind, we all
believe that women should vote, are heart
and soul in the cause, and are willing to !
sacrifice ourselves for the sake OF IT.. am :
sure that if it were not for some OF these I
,o-called 'highhanded' proceedings that we
would not have got so far today as we nave. I
Not enough is thought about the subject l
1owadays. either by men or by women, 5
.yVomen take it too much as a joke,
md then there are many Others VINO are 5
,fraid to say anything in It's favor because
hey dread the ridcue which the men oil 1
heir families hold out to them. Women c
ire much prouder than men, and there Is a
nothing they hate so much as ridlcule IRON ;
heir husbands and sons and brothers. Ana
,et il is with the men that we have lI'osi Z
# our work. for they are the voters ana u
he ones who later are gong to bring II
bout that we shall be allowed to vote
II confidently expect that we Will nave
woman suffrage on all matters IN a 1eW q
ears. The very fact that they now nave
/ in California. Colorado. Wyoming, utah, !
daho and Washington proves It. thihk
hat inst as soon as majority OF the states d
ote for woman suffrage, then congress WIZ s.
aka Il nm as a national issue and attempt a
o make it general for the whole country 81
Now in these states in winch u mas oeeli n
ried it has worked very well, and not ohiN b
hat Int these states are attracting people So
rom outside who are going there and help
40 TO increase their population. lhls ques- Of
ion is surely good advertiser and thihk o.
would help to attract people to vermont g
woman suffrage was adopted. doii u
,ant nv home state to be IN the rear; 70
q the last state to take it up and then ell
ossiblv through national law ;, re
"To saw that women are Just as capaple u
: nronerly exercising the right OF suffrage pl
. most men would be commonplace ana a pl
anatition of one of our old detenses. l &c
link women should vote also IN ofder 10 az