Bisbee daily review., 1913-05-07
WOMAN SUFFRAGE IS NOT POPULAR.

IS NOT POPULAR.
 The Review during ten years pre-. vlous to the granting to the woman of Arizona the right to vote contended there was very little sentiment here favorable to woman suffrage among the women themselves. That the Re view was correct in its conclusions on this question is abundanuy proven by the little interest so far manifested by the women in the right conferred on them by their husbands, brothers and fathers
 During the recent registration per iod in the State. providing especially for offering the opportunity to women to qualify themselses as electors. it is safe to say that not fifteen per cent of the women qualified to vote would ave placed their names on the regis ter bod it not been for special effort put forth by men to get them to do so. In Yavapai county the woman regis, tration did ,Iot amount to twenty per cent of those who are otherwise qual- ided to vots.- Que peculiar feature of the late ilgistration period was the  fact that th6 wofsn of the state who were promtlent in the fight for sui frage for tieir sex did practically nothing to induce the women 10 avail themselves of the orportunity to qual. fly themselves as electors.
 In the large voting precincts iH Co ehise county-Bisbee. Douglas ana Lowell the most st1enuous efforts were made 70 register the women be cause of thS Ianysipated struggle in county seat removal fight effecting directly th.iiSsscsiities. Those who participated lin this registration cam, paign all as4ee that they found very little interest manifested by the wo- men over the fact that they were now entitled to vote on an equality with men and many were disinelined to avail themselves of this new right and were oaly induced to do so by ap- pealing to their local pride in the ex. pected fight which might affect their home city.
 Women suffrage came to Arizona as a result of ssociaIistic agitation. The Socialists have been and are be- Bind what they term the rights Of women" and now boldly assert that suffrage is destined to sweep the country. But this claim is not prover by a close review Of the facts. Tho suffrage moyemept is sixty years old in this country and during that time it has not made great head way only nine states have granted wbmen the right to vote and we doubt if in a single one of them a majority of the women de rired it and in every one of them there is much disposition towards socialism.
 A Ieanet is before us, from the IT, inois Association opposed to Woman Suffrage. contains the following which agrees perfectly asith eur idea of what must come as a result of suffrage ana the attempt 10 put woman on an equality with men The cannot become the equal of men in the business ard political world without the neglect Of home, children and those duties assigned to woman by the law of nature and the law Oi God.
 Brief as has been the time since the new system Of placing men ana women upon a political equality hal been attempted. it's resnits are airead' obvious. The negIect of the hom' duties whies nature ezac;s Of womc and the pushing of them forward in 10 the ranks of paid workers results as public statistics prove. in throWih' upou the shoulders af the weaker se'