Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-07
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Declare W Should Hot Be in Active Polisics- -ls~ Hsysn LII Iaised y sufizae Advoeases Asssr1sd Tat Methers Did Not Want suff1see, But It is tlse PI.szhIz II Women Who Have Issed of Dos .nd Hcpf and Want Swell Colony at Reno

Hartford Conn, "A Apxil 6. Some ele
 iuent arguments against equal sui
 IraGe werR 1p&1e n the hopse chanbs
 his afternoon whom the legislatiy
 committees yS6iaA Il ssJfgrage conclud
 ed it's hearing upon this subject Th
 specif1c Dill sdiscussed was the grantin
 of municlpal aufEraGe to women, tn
 exciss m ccgnnattee latening to pleas Q ,irs, tne D.ii ~ foE giving women vote on tn
 The audience was not so large a yesterday; but there werk no seats | spare, and mucha'Of the standing rooI at points o6 vantage wan taken.
 "A TAI A Ars, Esaa!r ssys ninshasn-
 women was. in charge of Representa tive Bingham of Naugatuck, who frs made plea based on 2the princip1 enunciated by the founders of tn country that all are equal he claiminl that in the generic sense the term TnAl en should have every right that ma1
 Mrs. EHzabeth D Bacon. president . the state association, sspcke for gen, eral sufkra6e, recalling many fncidsnt. in her long service in the interest Q equal suffrage wherein she has attend. d the legislative hearinEs.
 "Ws Want Full suffrass~
 Upon, the conclusion of her address Senator. McNeil asked Mrs. Bacon n she would prefer the bill for rnunic ipa suffrage to that for full suffrage. ssW< want full suffrage" said Mrs. Bacon
 That is what we have been workinf for. We will take municipal suffrage in preference to no suffrage
 The reply crested enthusiasm
 Mrs. Catherine Lent Stevenson oi Boston recently from her globe -cir- cling trip in the interests of the Wom- ans Temperance association said that she was present to give testimony as the arguments of yesterday fully cov- cred the subject. She told of what suffrage had done for women in Aus tralia and New Zealand.
 She closed with the wish that the free state of Connecticut may not be above taking lesson from the coun- tries she had mentioned and that the mothers and wives may help in making the legislation of the future.
 Opposed by New York Woman.
 Mrs. Arthur Dodge. president of the New York Anti Suffrage association, spoke in opposition. She appear ed, she said, because the women ia Connectf- cut who opposed equal suffrage had net the confidence to appear Tn Mas sachuAetts, Rhode Island and Connec- ticut the campaign for equal rights had been wAged, but it had been a losing ffsht. Rhode Island killing the measure In committee and Massachusetts vOt- 1ngs 1t down. It seemed rather serious that the full strength of the suffra- gfStS had been centered on COnnacti- cut. She asked the committee to kill the proposition in committee. She claimed the argument fur equal rights had lost ground. The once potent arr Gument that women were entitled to the ballot because of inherent right had been dropped. She did not hear anything verN practical. she said Ona speaker that went back into her mothers time and the other dragged In foreign countries to show what Connecticut should do
 Wemsn Should Net Be in Politics.
 We do not believe women should be n eA active politics. Active politics means | the holding of ofiice. There can be. no disguise of the fact that those active for the ballot want to have of- nee. We consider that we have more direct Influence, more far-reachinE irl- f1usnce. than if we had the ballot. Af- ter this year you will ind strong op- position to suffrage and it will not be necessary for the women of Connects cut to 90 outside the state to get some- one to speak for them.
 Spirit of Democracy is Fulfilled. Miss Alice Hill Chfttenden, also in
 
 rage had been reached in this coun- try The highest point was reached when the negro was given the ballot. The claim that to withhold the ballot rom women is contrary to the spirit sr democracy is untenable said Miss Chittenden. The spirit of democracy was fulfilled when the ballot was given 10 the negro for since then no family pr household of an American citizen nss been excluded from the exercise of l suffrage. Movement Fifty Ysars Behind Times. | The rapid changes in economic de- | 'el0pment in this country the past half | 'entury have forced many women into Industrial life" she said. There. are ! io absolute facts to prove that the | 'allot will help the working women. !" Ass Chittenden touched upon economic Iuestions and statistics and the char .cter Of legislation affecting women. | 'no said the movement was fifty years | ,ehfnd the times. Men have found | nat social reform could be brought | bout by other ways than merely yot- ng on election day.
 Will Mean Deterioration of Women. Conservation is the watchword of le hour said Miss Chittenderi. If omen snouid assume the responsibili- les and duties of political life, if she 1ust do a mans work in addition to CT own--it will mean a diffusion of err own natural forces and enerries-l nd we shall have deterioration andj ct progress
 Now Haven Man Hisssd.
 J. J, Splain of New Haven made a lea against suffrage and once wasi issed by some of the audience He ailed the movement an effort of fad lEts and a menace to the state.
 Ina ese the question, especially in the resence of such . bouquet Of beauti- II feminity shedding fragrance trough these legislative halls.s He ad listened to the arguments of the iffragists and "suffragettes" and 'nifzed the dangers to political ana tions He rendered his sympatFlies the committee and said he entered aGn sna r H discussion whereon a politician nbition. He opposed the qraftinr Of 1other petal on the plant of mother