New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-05
WHO OPPOSES sUFFRAGE7
No Particular Glass Save the Liquor
Interests, Says a Reader.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: | cannot quite agree with all the
statements OF tho Michigan Equal Suf-
frage Association in your issue OF Sat
urday, especially not with the idea that
the upper class" and the lowest OF tho
low" are working for the defeat or
woman suffrage. although that may be
the case in Michigan.
There is no question that the liquor
interests" everywhere and in all nations
are working for It's defeat, as none know
better than they the misery that liquor
| brings into the home and the unhappi-
ness that women have endured because
of IL.
But as 10 the upper class being OPP
posed TO suffrage, II seems 10 me the up
per class" in this country is the highly
educated class. and as a class they GER
| tainly are not opposed to II.
Even the militants I'm England have in
their ranks women OF title and high sta
ton. Miss Davidson and Mrs. Pank-
hurst, the martyrs" were both highly
educated, and think ] have read Of
one duchess. at least. some OF whose
effects are annually being sold for taxes
because she refuses to pay them without
representation.
What is rapidly making a suffragist OF
me- however is the poor opinion that the
ants have OF womanhood. | cannot inn
aglne what sort OF young married people
! they have in the circle OF their acquaint-
ance II they can believe that anything
would make them neglect their children.
The fathers and mothers who neglect
their children and whose names get into
the newspapers are in the infntesimal
minority; otherwise the country would
go TO destruction.
It is the same in the cases of the di-
vorces and Divorces. From my observa-
tion-which Is that OF an unprecedented
old maid. with a number of young mar
ried relations and friends-nothing could
| divorce them from devotion TO their lit
tie ones.
"Daddys dear little daughter" is, next
| her mother, the most precious thing in
his life. For them he works all day and
! shares the vigils of the night, and in the
I perspective of after years looks upon
those-when the children were llttle-as
the happiest OF his life.
As for the young mother-all the jolly
L
little dances, picnics and card parties OF
prenuptial days are relegated to the time
when the babies shall be ''out of hand
She is looking out for the noxious germ
watching to correct any disorder I'm the
small digestive organs and guarding her
own diet that the nourishment she gives
may be the very best To strengthen the
little one.
| III she had n vote she would probably
go out to deposit 1t while baby was taxi
ing his nap and kindly neighbor watch
ing over the little household, but as for
being active In politics. with all the mul-
hilarious duties OF young motherhood and
wifehood Il would be doing violence to
the strongest instincts of her nature.
But there comes a time when the chill
Adren are "out of hand" when the boys
are at work or in college, and the girls
running the household in preparation
for the care OF their own when they have
them.
| The mother is in the prime OF her life
and her cup Is full OF experience. II is
then she takes up her civic duties. All
over the land she Is engaged i'm chart
table work-on the executive boards OF
institutions and acknowledgements
the missionary work of her church, start
ing all sorts of benefcient things and not
at all neglecting her home or the social
side OF life II she is a woman Of means.
| And In all this, as far as my observa-
| ton goes. her husband backs her up"
is proud to have her useful in these ways,