The border vidette., 1912-11-02
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Interesting Coai5lunicatinn Written by
 Mrs. George B. Marsh.

who have made up their minds to vote against Woman Suffrage:
 We thank you for the interest you manifest when you ask for
 light on the subject of female suffrage.
 One of the reasons why we
 should be given the ballot is
 because our forefathers taught
 us that taxation without repre-
 sentation is tyranny"
 Another reason is that We be-
 long to a government which is said to be "a government of the
 people, for the people, and by the people," But this will not
 be true until all the people, the women people as well as the men people have q voice in the government.
 = We do not wish to take any rights from the men, who do not think we know more than the men. We know we do not. We do not think we are better than the men. We have always look ed up to them as masters, and we always will. But we think we understand the needs of women and children better than you do. We have helped you blaze the trial. We have helped you to make homes. We have helped you to make it possible for Arizona to become a state, and now we wish to help you make the laws which govern ourselves and our children. We do not wish to make all the laws. We only wish to help you.
 Woman. is- the complement of man. In, the beginning god created man, male and female created he them
 Years ago women were more occupied in the home. than they are today Invention has taken her work from her, Weaving, knitting, sewing, bhttermaking preserving, pick4ing have by the substitution of fact ory goods been taken practically out of the home, and women are going out into the world to earn their daily bread. This is one reason why we need the ballot more than our grandmothers did.
 What effect has suffrage had in the states where it has been tried<? Space will not permit me to tell what has been gained. But is it not enough to know that these states are all neigh bors ? Wyoming was .the first to grant suffrage to her woman. If it were bad for Wyoming, why did her neighbor Colorado fol- low her~example? And why did Utah, Washington and fall in line. They are all neighbors. And Arizona, is next. ..;
 Women who came from the east to assist in this campaign have been amazed to see that the women of Arizona are talk ing for granted that they will get the franchise. The women of the east have told us that they are looking to the men of the west to assist them in ob- taining the ballot. -<s-.,
 We have not resorted. to street parades and brass bands. We have believed that the men of Arizona are too broad minded, too generous to deny the women of Arizona this privilege. We are aware that we-are not de- pendent upon the bigotry of the east for our privileges. For in- stance the young scapegrace in the Ladies Home Journal who is supposed to be teaching his darling gray haired mother what an idiotic sex she belongs to.
 Men of Arizona, we want your vote. And we do not think you will ever have cause to regret that you gave us the ballot. If you should find it to be a mis- take, there is remedy in Ari- zona you know.
 And listen, there will be a mass meeting of thousands of women in New York City next anxiously awaiting the result of the vote in Arizona, Oregon, Kansas. If we win, they will telegraph the news all over the world to the women of every nation Arizona can get a lot of |. free advertising this way. Will>you help us? We are only asking for the privilege that belongs to the other half of the people. Yours truly,
 MrS GEOticE R MARsu