Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-14
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
Wants Representation.


 Mr. Editor We no not believe that local women who so diligently scan the papers to get information pertain Ing to the right of franchise question overlook any item of importance in a paper of the up-to- date and progress stVe standing of The Bulletin.
 Despite the fact that letter of pro- test, because of the nsn representation of Catholic women on the team com mittee of the clean-up Norwich move ment appeared in The Bulletin of June IT, the team leaders had the im- pudence to emphasize their attitude and insert in. the Record of the same date @ printed list of their helpers, in which did not appear the name of a Catholic woman. This is a double in- suit, since it proclaims to all-Catholic women lly-throughout the state. wherein The Bulletin has such a large circulation, that the Catholic women of Norwich are either indiffer- ent to the interests of their city or else are too cowardly. to insist on their rights. That Catholic women of Nor wich have ability and courage was proven when. not so long back, they settled the question as to who would comprise the board of education in the Greeneville district by electing a body of men who considered the applica tions' of Catholic young women, who saw that these young women had an equal chance, and who in all fairness gave positions to those who proved themselves qualified to teach. The high standing maintained by the Greeneyille schools since that long to be remembered upheaval is due to the fact that at least the Catholic women of Greeneville had the ability and courage to decide a question for the good of all concerned
 The tactless. dominating selfstyled leaders of this interesting cleanup campaign will yet learn that right has been known to gain strength from it's weakness. The greater the force i'm pelled by might against right, the sooner will right gain the victory, as in the case of capital against labor. Within one generation capital took puny labor by the neck, shook the weakling, kicked it from shop and storehouse alike, and from every known field of toll in which it sweat ed to earn an honest living, and open ly and threateningly said to it: How dare you, you miserable cur, Labor. dictate to me, the mighty and impos ing parsonage, Capital?' Today Cap- ital cringes to Labor, and capital has itself alone to blame for all the trou- bles brought upon it's head by it's car ly attitude towards the honorable body represented by labor.
 Catholic women are competent to counsel in all that pertains to the welfare and interests of their city. Ali it requires is to get sufficient num- Der of the Catholic women of Norwich to awake to the fact that they are delegated to back-way back-seats. only, whenever matters pertaining to the public interests of their city in are discussed. whenever these matters which women are specially to share are decided upon. and when tine com mittees to execute are named-When such ah awakening eomes-and it will come-expect and in an intensified de- gree if possible, repetition of the spirit of '76, when that unreasonable dictator, George third, was beaten to a frazzle, because he presumed to in- sist on taxation without representa- ton
 A DAUGHTER or NORWICH
 Norwich. June B,