Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-11-30
REFUSES TO PAY Her TAXES
Woman Lets the Law Take Its
Course in Grafton.
Incensed because Representative from,
That Town Voted Against Woman
Suffrage BiIi in the Last Legis-
1nture.

Court. whose refusal to pay taxes on
her property and that OF her sister IN
iGrnfton. VT, because the Representative
from Grafton in the last Vermont Legis-
lature voted against the Woman suffrage
bill, resulted in the sale by the town OIL
several shares Of stock in the Beho"S
Falls National Bank, declares she mas
as yet 10 cause to feel upset over the
turn affairs have taken. says the Bos-
ton Sunday Globe.
The stock. which was sold at auction
and was bought by her nephew as agent
of her brother, has been paid for by the
latter, but not delivered to him by inc
Governments since the law does not allow
| it to seize national bank stock with
! ont the concurrence of the party VINO
/ own IT, The only way. therefore, that the
authorities can deliver the goods W'lch
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
I the stocks will stay in the family
Miss Daniels is an ardent Suffragette
and an active worker for the winning
of woman's right to vote in Vermont
and in fact through the country. She
believes it 1nanifestly unfair for women
to he allowed to vote in the West ana no.
in the East. as is now the case. she mas
Inherited her ideas on this matter from
her mother. she says and 1t was also
from her that she received the stocks OF
the bank, so she feels that they nave
gone for a good cause.
Resides she seems particularly satis-
fed because these same stocks which the
Government authorities have sold are
regularly taxable property and their SAFE
eliminates one source of income, now
ever small. to the town. Yet she VIII
rot try to stop the law in It's course
she simply enjoys the game ana in'ends
to keep it UP as long as she can since
there are many who have expressed thelr
approval of her action In refusing TO
pay the taxes
!, Miss Daniels is one of tamiN OF
four now rather widely scattered
throughout the country. She stays in Bos-
ton a 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 broth
ers located in Chicago. one OF them a
, prominent lawyer.
Tie 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 aid
, ing the cause of the suffragettes ms
much as she can. In the Bellows Fails
Times she supports continuous adVer-
,isement for Votes for Women, a
small reading notice to the same purpose
There nre many who will doubt wheth-
or Miss Daniels was justified in her &C
, ton. but she thinks that Just such ac-
ton as hers is needed on the part of al
suffraEettes in order TO make the men
. voters and their legislative representa-
. tives realize the importance Of the dues'
ton She said in this connection;
, II am quite in accord with everything
that has yet been done in the woman
, suffrage cause. both here and abroad. II
is ALI par Of the game. Something has &c
be done to draw the attention Of the poo
= pie to the subject and 1t is only by max
, ing themselves prominent in their worf
that the suffragettes have a chance TO &c
considora lion at all
MANY people think that 1t is unneces
sary prominence that we give ourselves
, hut it isn't anything of the kind. We al
, believe that women should vote, are
hear, and soul in the cause. and are
willing to sacrifice ourselves for the SAKE
of It. am sure thai II t. were no
for some of these so-called hghhanded
proccedings that we would not have 20
so far as We have Not enough is though
about the subject nowadays. either %!
men or by women.
Women take it too much as a Joke
and then there are many others WI
are afraid TO say anything in its favo
~, IL to