Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-11
REASONS FOR OPPOSING
 SUFFRAGE FOR WOMEN. Mrs. R. c. Hazard of Peacedale Spoke to Norwich Women Monday After noon.

On Monday afternoon Mrs. Rowland G. Hazard of Peacedale R. l., ad- dressed a gathering of ladies at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Richard h. Graham on Washington street on Some Reasons Why We Oppose the Suffrage: It's Effect on the State While in this city Mrs Hazard was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. Graham Mrs. Hazard has for some time been interested in the anti-suffrage move ment She spoke in part as follows:
 We believe Woman's suffrage will not be a 1ienet to the state because the basis of government is force. its stability rests upon it's physical power 10 enforce its laws.
 On the Physical Side.
 Much confusion might be saved it this question was always discussed on the broadest lines as a sex question When the statement is made that man stands behind his vote" it is meant that man as sex stands be- hind his vote, which is indusputably true, although men are not all re- quired O. all able to fight. Woman as a sex would not and could not stand behind her vote, although th gre may b eindividual women fitted for mili- tary or police duty.
 Suffragists declare that woman does not want protection Or privileges. but only the right to fight for her rights" It would seem little less than inhumau to withdraw the protection now given working women and the special legis- lative privileges enjoyed by women generally in this country. such as the right of dover, now no longer existent in the suffrage states, the husbands fnV H-H ga s- wife Gin some suffrage states the wife is liable for he~ husbands support and debts), etc. But if these advantages are continued when the franchise is given, woman becomes a highly privi- legged class in the electorate instead of a privileged sex outside of it.
 It is often claimed that woman should vote because there are aues- tions affecting woman's welfare which man cannot rightly understand, but if this Is true, the converse must also be true, that there are many masculine questions impossible to be rightly de- cided from feminine point of view.
 Laws Tumble to Pieces.
 Quoting an English authority. the speaker said:
 Suffrage or no suffrage, her rela- tions to man will always remain con sultative and never become compulso- ". Where she has a vote already, as in Finland and New Zealand. the ap- ,pearance of political power is illusory. The laws now passed by those coun- tries are no longer laws, for they are no longer compulsory comments. which is the definition of laws Tfey are pious expressions of opinion dis guised in statute form. Whey they meet with mems general approval they are tolerated. When they do not, they tumble to pieces, as the New Zea- land arbitration act has done.
 One immediate result of woman's suffrag is shown in some western state where we are told by MT. F. s. Grant, women juries. women chiefs of police and N%man suffrage general ly are destroying the credit of west ern cities.
 Affecting Naturalization. A fact in regard to the naturaliza- - tion laws seriously affecting this ques- ton is perhaps not generally known. The law requires of an alien man three years residence. certain educa | tional and other tests. but "an alien woman whose husband becomes 8 nat uraliZed citizen of the United States is thereby made a citizen. even though she has not attained her majority, or does not come to the United States until after hos death" When we have the franchise, then many an im- migrant woman, knowing not a word of English, might vote on dandng-a bcondition not likely to redeem the ig norant vote.
 In regard to the corrupt vote in Col orado Miss Sumner says!
 Prostitutes generally vote, and their vote Is east solidly for the party in control of the police force g Neither is 1t surprising To learn that the prostitutes vote not only once. but more than once. Whenever re- beating is to be done, their aid nat uFally Is required"
 Mrs. 6, w. Townsend Of Buffalo, who has been identified with every forward movement in wonan's behalf for years,