The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-02

which l take great pleasure and nr,da,
mat had to postpone 1t until TO-
day. u"''i To-
began to write on this subject not
from any desire for notoriety, but from
an honest conviction. Woman's birth
sht IS being stolen from her-that
Vi protection by maa. l do not see
'nat Eve gained anything when she
ate OF the tree of knowledge" 1
know TINS may appear more antiouated
than the French Revolutions" but IL
seems TO me that my authority is the
Des.-the Bible. though George Harvey
uio thihN IL was not reliable. Why did
H 200 make man first? Because he was
the one to rule the world, He made
Eve. because man was lonely, as "a
heip-meet for him" He said to the
woman: Thy desire shall be to thy
husband and he shall rule over thee
Genesis Ill. hTe whole government
OF the world is founded upon force"
ana man was put at the helm because
ne IS stronger and can protect" As
Tor the remark that intended single
handed" to crush the suffrage move
ment VIII simply say that / shall do
my best. The little boy in Holland
who. when he saw the leak in the
dixie. put in his tiny hand and kept
back the rush of waters until he had
assistance saved Holland. Until now
In the dixie" laughed at II as nothing
So have seemed to be alone. butlnow
there is steady movement among
our most cultured women TO organize
for work They disapprove thorough.
ly Of Miss Johnston and her friends
lecturing before the schools and col.
leBes The girls are young and i'm.
pressionable, with just enough sense
to think they know everything. New
be>y
are told 1t is only believed by clever
women. Some teachers have given
holiday to classes to hear them. Had
j child at that school l should at
once withdraw her. This doctrine is
certainly not taught with the con-
sent OF the mothers of Virginia. Grace
Vernon laughs at the married woman
who gets only board and clothes,
which are often poor" The average
working woman gets !ess-her board
and lodging and clothes. which are
often poor. and misses the true de-
lights Of a woman--love. wifehood and
motherhood. do not see where
study Of biology or sociology viii help
this question. We are discussing
whether woman has a right" TO
vote. for woman's suffrage used to
be called ''woman's rights" and /
think can prove she has none.
Womans suffrage is not so new az
some Of us think. In 1876 the pro-
v!ncial Assembly OF New Jersey con.
ferred the Suffrage upon women. Very
few voted but on one election where
the contest waxed warm. and there
were only 900 voters, over 1880 votes
were pol!ed. one woman voted three
times-once as Mary Johnson" het
real name, next stouter looking, as
Mary Still and later. very corpulent.
as Mary Yet" Does this show tina,
women Will be better than men in
politics? The legislature was so dis
gusted that they abolished woman's
suffrage Since that time they have
not accomplished much. only four
MISUNDERSTANDING full suffrage.
II does seem strange to me that women
OF Virginia should point to wyoming,
Colorado. Idaho and Utah IS ex-
amples OF culture and rehnen u, and
until recently Utah has beer a blot
upon the civilization and purit OF the
United States. Why. New City
has female population OF ..l15,S4i.
four times the female population of
the four woman suffrage States COM
bined.
Colorado has a juvenile court and
SO have twenty-one other States where
women do not vote. In Colorado has
1t benefited women or purified politics?
shall take two representative people
say:
The United States District judge for
Colorado. the Hon. Moses Hallett, says
Our State has tried the female sui.
frage plan a sufficiently long time to
form a fair idea OF its workings.
am not prejudiced in any way, but
honestly do not see where the ex.
pertinent has proved of beneht. 1t has
produced no special reforms, and II has
haI
upon politics. There is a growing ten
dency on the part of most of the bet
ter and more intelligent OF the female
voters OF Colorado to cease exercis-
Ing the ballot. If 1t were TO be done
over again the people OF Colorado
would defeat woman suffrage by an
overwhelming majority"
Hear what Mrs. Frances w. God
dard, president OF the Colonial Danes
of Colorado. says:
NO law has been put in the statute
books OF Colorado for the beneat of
women and children that has been
put there by the women. The child
labor law went through independently
OF the women's vote. The hours of
the working women have not been
shortened: the wages of the school
teachers have not been raised; the
type of men that got into office has
y,
experiment is a failure. 1t has done
Colorado no good. 1t has done woman
no good The best thing for both
would be If tomorrow the ballot for
women could be abolished"
Divorce has increased IN all four
States. and immortality also in COL
orado; also juvenile crime This is
their banner State. Will 1T increase wo.
mems wages? Women's cry in New
York for equal wages with men in
the public schools only resulted in
mems wages being cut down equal
with theirs. Do you not see that she
was robbing her own sex. as the men
had wives and daughters to support?
They will lower their own wages as
30 many women will be thrown upon
their own resources, and therefore the
supply will be greater than the de-
mand.
Votes cannot make work when II