The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-28
He HAS REASONS
Topeka Man Advances Fifty
Against Suffrage.
Writes to Children in New York
on Subject.

| The following is copy of an anti
suffrage letter a we'll known Topeka
man wrote this week to his son and
daughters in New York:
| Howard, you need have no fear
your papa will follow after the suf-
| fragettes, especially the type of the
| Londoners. 1 have not fully deter
| mined yet just what 1 shall do in No
Vember when we vote on the full en-
| Establishment of women. Whether you
girls desire to give up domestic
science, the care of babies (sweet as
they are); the homemaking; the rear
| ing of children; adding to the pleas
ure of the man who you love and call
husband; the selection of shirt waists,
peek a-boo or otherwise; skirts, har-
EN-, hoop or clinging, or what-nOI;
| hats, shoes, stockings, unionsuits, col
| lars, cuffs, furS, gums, ETC., for the
on the citizen for answer is for you
| to determine. 1 have no fear of you
two girls going astray if you should be
entrusted with the ballot, for your
husbands, good men and true as they
are, could guide you into all political
truth.
Gould you think of surrenderlng
your home life for the turmoil of po-
litical campaigns and then assume the
responsibility of citizenship upon
such conundrums as: Divorce; child
labor; wages of women considering
quantity and quality; union labor and
it's demands; employees compensation
for damages on interstate railways;
the drink traffic; protection to Amer
lean labor; the tariff; the Sherman
antitrust act and it's enforcement.
interstate commerce; regulation and
control of big business Canadian
reciprocity (now dead); the rights of
patentees; pelagic fisheries; proceed
ingS in courts and the fidelity of
judges; whether unanimous verdicrs
of juries shall be continued; nepotism;
state rights and their maintenance;
shall appellate courts import words
into statutes; prison reform and indie
terminate sentences; parole of prison.
ers; shall convicts' earnings be given
dependent ones; white slave traffic;
immigration; the yellow peril; war
with Japan; the far eastern questions;
China and Mexico; Mexican insurrec-
ton and our duty under the Monroe
doctrine in relation to foreigners and
their properties within disturbed ter
r1torfeS in this weston hemisphere;
the Panama canal and its problems;
shall American vessels go free of tolls
over the canal; our attitude toward
South American republics; reclans-
ton of Florida everglades; the square
deal; state and nationwide primaries
from president to hog constable; the
short ballot; conservation of natural
resources; irrigation of arid lands;
Improvement of waterways; building
of national highways; the Bible in
public schools; radical changes in
methods of instruction in schools and
colleges; the initiative, referendum
and recall; recall of judges; submits
sion of constitutional issues to the
people; Aldrich monetary plan and
American finances generally; shall
railway. shareholders hold stock in
companies shipping through the Pan
anna canal; commission form of gov
eminent for municipalities; female
SURFACE; arbitration treaties for the
sake of peace; the Hague tribunal ana
its Jurisdiction; the public health; the
white plague; pure food laws and their
enforcement; the third term boyle: |
revision of the tariff up or down. |
which; interstate commerce commits