Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-20

In their New London county tour, which has been underway since the Fourth of July, the votes-for-w women campaigners carried out a successful meeting in the town hall in this city on Friday eening, having an audience present of about 300, of whom at least one-third were men. To the right of the platform hung the banner of the campalgners, showing on a field of green bordered with purple the slogan in white letters, Votes For Women. Members of the campaigning party with scarfs over their shoulders bear ing the same words distributed liter ature before the meeting opened and passed the slip for signatures and the hat for contributions at the end of the meeting
 One of the happenings that called for burst of enthusiasm was the an- nouncement made through Mrs. Will jam A. Norton of the local league that Norwich woman had contributed the sum of $100 towards the expenses of the campaign.
 After Mrs. William A. Norton, pres ident of the Norwich league, had open ed the meeting, three speakers. each with a different message and a per sonality appealing in different way presented the arguments why wo- men should have the ballot, and each enlisted the close attention of her au- dience. Mrs. John Rogers, Jr., of New York, concise and logical and intense ly earnest, made the plea upon the side of the reasonableness and ex- pediency of giving women the ballot. She was followed by Mrs. Herbert Sumner Owen of Utah, who had come east she said to head delegation which was protesting against placing the face of Brigham Young upon the silver to be given to the battleship Utah. 1t was easy to see that Mrs l Owen would be a success as a pro- testor and she was heartily applaud ed at different points in her address Miss Emily Pierson, state organizer | closed the argument, speaking with ] the dash and swing and enjoyment o1 one perfectly at home upon the plat | form.
 | In her opening words, Mrs. Morton | thanked the people of Norwich fol | turning out an audience of such good 1 proportions to encourage the speak CTS and quoted Wendell Phillips 1T support of woman's suffrage She in. | troduced Mrs. Rogers as one whC would speak upon the expedieney O. 1 granting the ballot to women.
 Mrs. Rogers remarked in opening
 that she was intensely desirous tha | Connecticut should be a leader amOns l the Eastern states to win in the fgh
 for votes for women, since 1t had for
 merly been her home. The American | government was committed to and tn, | people believed in a government b, | the people, that everybody should haV
 a say in matters that concern every
 body. It Is only simple justice thel | when the women ask for this politica | right. Class rule has always beel 1 unfair and an unrepresented class is powerless class politically Not tha | women have no power or influence bu
 they want political power. They wan power to help choose the men wh
 govern, who make the laws. right l that men in former times have tough
 and died for. Women are told tha
 home Is their place and to stay there
 but it is not the housekeeping wome
 that men have honored most.
 Women want a chance to share i
 the human duties that men and wom
 en can do together. They want tn
 ballot, and they want it quickly.
 isn't going to make the millennium a
 at once. Women have not been un
 womenly in making their demand fC
 the ballot. They have merely knocke
 in the head some old conventions
 ideas that it was wrong for woma
 to be conspicuous Never if she conspicuous for something good. CAT
 plause.)