Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-12-30

ton. which SO vitality affects woman
personally and In her home.
Before one week had lapsed after
license was granted Ia Danislson, "a
man got drunk and so abused his sick
Wife that she died In twenty -four
hours-the children were sent to the
county home and the husband LIS in
Jail. DO YOU think women voting Will
break up the home more radically than
this? That drunken. TOUCHDOWN fellow
mad the right to vote for the~open sa.-
loon, and the sober wife and mother
could not say one word against IL
that amounted to anything. Think OF
The moral and physical degradation
that wife had to wallow through
Think you that she found Justice"
domestic tranquility" and the bless
have seen so many such cases my
soul is sick. BY what right has the
manhood OF Connecticut to ask me TO
submit To such unjust treatment?
Are we represented by the men la
our lesislature2 Heaven help us. n
we TO be represented by another
like the one that sat In Hartford last
winter! In the name OF ali that is holy
In life. / protest against being repre-
scented by men who amuse themselves
IN the Legislative halls by throwing
spitballs. putting chunks of ice down
a neighbor's back. and throwing books
at speaker until they knock him
down.
ask for the ballot for the protec-
ton of women. for the protection OF the
home, for the protection not only OF the
children living but for the unborn
child.
Does Dreamer not know that the
liquor trust IS nghting woman's suf-
frage tooth and nailZ Every woman
who works against the Votes for WON
en- works with the liquor trusts. Does
Dreamer know that 100000 American
citizens I'LL annually drunkards' graves
causing an economic loss 20 the coun
90 Of
doHars2 Would women voting blast
so many lives. so many homes, so many
children.
A Japanese officer was visiting IN
enc of our large cities and saw a man
stop a large milk wagon.
rs he going TO arrest that MANI" he
asked
No" was the answer. "he must see
that the milk Us pure"
Would chalk or water poison the
milk"
NO. but people want pure milk
II they pay for It."
Passing a whislSoy saloon, a man
| staggered out. struck his head against
| the lamp post and fen to the sidewalk
What is the matter with that manT
HE is fun Of badly whiskey."
rs It poison7"
DO you watch the selling Of Wits
key as you do milk" asked the Iogica
Japanese
no"
II can't understand your country
I You watch tho milk and meat and ie'
men sell as much poisonous whiskey az
I they please"
Who suffers the most from this IN
1 Just law. the man who drinks or The
woman he calls wife and the children
/ he gives 10 the worid2 I have dwell
/ on this one point because IL so horribly
I affects the life OF women and the home
/ I was born I'm a manufacturing towT
| and did much work among the victims
| Of the open saloon and know whereof
| / write. / saw there was no hope bu
| the ballot in the hands OF women.
! have prayed. I have begged OF the mer
| who held the power I'm the ballot II
/ vain not for myself. for L have novel
| known personally any of the horrors
mine has been a tenderly sheltered life
but for the millions OF women and
| children who were less fortunate, who's
| hcmes were hell.
Prof Henry p. Nash of the Episcopa
| Theological school has given "A new In
| depreciation OF the Golden Rule: "GiV'
| Unto women the ballot for their yer.
| own, as you know that you need 81
| yourself, for" he said, ''it is harder FOL
| man to represent woman than {,
| square the circle"
Dreamer, wake up. grid on your ar
| NOR and work for Votes for Women.
| MARINDA G. BUTLER ROBINSON.
1 DanfeIaOn.