Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-20
PLEAD FOR VOTES FOR WOMEN
Audience of 300 in Town Hall Applaud Arguments Presented by Mrs. John Rogers, IT,, Mrs. Herbert S.. Owen and Miss Emily Pierson, State Organzer-Norwch Woman Subscribes $1OO to Campaign Fund.

About half the men present made a start for the door as Mrs. Rogers com cludedt her speech, but Mrs. Owen was introduced as soon as quiet was restored. Mrs. Norton said that Mrs. Owen would tell something of how it worked. and the Utah woman re- sponded by saying that it had not yet brought the millenium in Utah, but 1t had raised the standard higher in place where it was hard to raise it. In vigorous language she told of the way both the antis and the pros look ed with fear and trembling upon Utah and woman suffrage, ana she said that if it would work in Utah it would work anywhere. When she carried the banner of her state in the suffrag- ist parade in New York she said she was hissed all down the line. and it filled her soul with-joy. Slaughter and applause.) |.
 Continuing, Mrs. owen said that they had tremendous problems to solve in Utah, but the men had got now so that they looked to the women | to help solve them. The women were 1 powers when it came to questions on moral issues, involving the plague spots of the city and state, and you ! could count upon 90 per cent. of them ] being at the polls. The women of | Utah need the women of the east to back them up to wipe out the plague | spot of polygamy, which will make | Utah foreign country as long as this i evil exists. And today it is fully as | prevalent. if not more sO than in Brigham Young's time. As soon as l women have the power they will speak with voice that has to be listened to. ! Mrs owen as well as the other speak CTS were vigorously applauded as they concluded their addresses.
 Miss Pierson was the concluding speaker, telling how the people could
 help in this movement by recording their names as believers in the votes for women proposition through sign | ing the slips which were passed ? around The campaigners were out to
 have the absurd sex qualification
 stricken from the state constitution
 she said, just as we had once stricken
 out the word white in defining those
 who have right to the suffrage.
 The speakers then invited questions
 from the audience and a number were
 sent up, the answere being given by
 Miss Pearson Mrs. Owen and Mrs
 Rogers. Among the questions were
 the following: What has woman's sui
 frage to do with child labor? Has
 not woman SQIrdge been failure
 in Denver and destroyed the credit
 of western cities? Is mans govern
 ment so poor that we need woman
 suffrage? {
 In answer to the question about
 Denver, Mrs. Owen replied that you
 mustn't expect to get the truth from
 western newspapers. and in answer tC
 a question as to why more women dC
 not qualify as voters on the schoo
 question, Miss Pierson replied that the
 experience in Colorado showed tha
 when Colorado women had only
 school suffrage only two per cent
 voted, but when they had full suffrage } about 70 to so per cent. voted. Arthur H. Brewer interposed orgu ment for the women here by statinl that he believed only about 1 per cent , of the men voted on school question l in Norwich.
 There were also questions about tn l white slave traffic which Miss Piersol answered with examples of what ha ? been accomplished by the women il t Hartford. but blocked from full result l by the politicians, whi were men. : The meeting adjourned about 94; r In the New London county campaig l there have been 2S meetings held an l 2,099 new names have been secured l The campaigners estimate that the 8 have spoken to about 5000 people S . far, and they have two more week l ahead of them yet.