The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-29
DR.. ANNA SHAW
DELIGHTS new
HAVEN HEARERS
Brilliant Woman Gives
Clear and Convincing Dis
Course ON Suffrage Cues
ton.

Course on Suffrage Cues
ton.
1.-The Declaration of Independence
has been violated; also our constltu-
ton in preventing women from hav-
ing a voice in the government, yet
we sing, as did our ancestors. THE
home of the brave, and the land OF
the free" said DR.. Anna Howard
Shaw of New York, president of the
National Association Of Women's Suf-
frage, when she addressed an over
flow audience of representative New
Haven men and women in Warner
hall in that city Thursday evening.
The forcefulness of her statements, the
pleasing personality and the keen wit,
combined to make the lecture one Of
the most interesting ever delivered in
New Hagen on the Equal Rights ques-
tion
Governor Baldwin. Directly upon
reading the headlines in New York
paper that he had come out for suf-
frage 1 fastened to send him a tele-
gram, thinking at last that Demo-
cratic governor believed in democ-
racy, but when learned the next day
that he favored it only for taxpaying
women I knew that he believed IN
democracy for men and aristocracy
for women; however, I am glad that
he has taken that step in advance"
said DR.. Shaw.
Continuing, the speaker said: 81
never heard a statement against suf-
frage that was not thing apart from
the main issue, and one that is sell
dom worth answering. Suffragists
simply believe in democracy for wo-
men, which is none other than that
the vote be obtained, for the supreme
court has decided that women are
people, and democracy is supposed
to be government of and by the
people. Sex should be no stipulation
best we know how, and learn from
our failures as men have done. The
American women are in position
inferior to other women. The French
are governed by the French, and 9TH
er countries in like manner, but Am
erica received people from all over
the world, and many Of these foreign
ers are allowed to fill the, govern
ment positions and rule our Amer1-
can women. We are subject to all
classes regardless of race, color or
creed, but when we come pleading for
our birthright the legislators tell us
that we must wait How long must
we wait when the vote is cast into
the hand Of every foreigner? Are
we the people who will hurt this gov
eminent? Men tell us they are afraid
the government will hurt us. If men
have made such a mess of things that
they are afraid for us to mix up in
it they do not need to tell us. Don't
we know it when we have to live I'M
der the government, and with them,
and clean up the odds and ends for
them now. The women of this coun-
try should do as they did in Eng
land, refuse to give their names 10
the census until they have the vote"
Men tell about the time that wo-
men would have to be away from
They just seem to think that women
would go to the polls on January 1,
and remain there the 365 days in
the year. AS a. matter of fact had
a woman time herself as to the time
she was absent from her home to
vote, and it was just twenty minutes.
During a suit brought by a wom-
an against the railroad for loss Of
clothing in Massachusetts, it was de-
cided by the court that a woman did
not own her clothes, and there were
women in Few states that did. After
that women in Massachusetts, are
now wearing their own clothes in
stead of those of their husbands. 1t
was also learned that a widow had
10 right to be buried after she died
if the man she married had grown
up children, who opposed her being
buried beside her husband. The law
held that the wife had only a life
use to the cemetery lot. SO that the
only way that she could be legally
buried was to be buried before she
died. It took the women of Massa-
chusetts just one-fourth Of the time it
took the children of Israel to pass
through the wilderness-ten years
to get a law passed so that widows
could be legally buried.
q GA-~x 49, L r
climbed Beacon Hill to
get the legal right to keep their chill
dren and then it was only accom-
plished by the efforts of a minister
who had a head of his own and did
not rest on his church people. This
man interceded after mother had
KILLED four Of her children and her
self because her brutal husband was
going to put them away in the poor
house, or give them away, and when
she went to law there was no redress.
the lawyer told her, in that state
MEN tell about what, they have
endured. Why. they have done moth
ing more than grow up, many of
them
The picture of pioneer life. as a !
memory of the speakers childhood
days, was ably and sadly depicted by
Mrs. Shaw. Her mother, like many
woman, had given up all that
was dear and best to her to take up
pioneer life, and the strength of char
acter that made her live that life for
her children was such as many wom-
en- knew, and in the end came the |
broken heart of the women with
which the western cemeteries are fill |
ed The men had always their out
side interests to goad them on, the |
women the household drudgery, and |
the western asylums were filled with |
the women who were worn body and |
soul in their efforts to keep up the |
struggle. The women of to-day are
to be kept down as were |
their ancestors Their very natures !
rebel at the thought. AS the home |
is better where man and woman work |
and plan together, SO would the gov
eminent be. The men have for
gotten us women too long, and the |
time has come to let them know that |
we will not longer be forgotten. The
worst feature about it is that they
don't seem to realize that they have |
forgotten us. Men try to tell wom-
en- that they are not grateful for the |
changes they have made in laws to |
better them. If the laws were made |
80 bad that they had to be changed |
why need women be blamed for it I? |
Women are as good as men. and why