The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-01-04
Those peIuded Ants.

Gently enfranchised they defined an
Anti as "a lady who travels 5000
miles from home, to prove that wo-
mans sphere is In the home
Ohio Women describe an Anti thus
-"She is a person who goes into pol
itics 10 keep other women out
II womans only place is in the
home as the Ants maintain. then
all women should have a home in
which TO remain. Many DO not
choose to labor outside, but circum
stances over which they nave no con
troll compel them to do so.
Why should il be sin for women
to mix IN politics when the politics OF
today govern the modern home and
determine The duty on every single
article which enters the home
Politics control the purity or i'm
purity OF water, milk, meat aud food
Are not these woman questions?
Politics determines every single
public question touching the indy .du
al from the cradle to the grave. and
when the Anti foolishly object TO haV
ing the ballot forced upon them
they might as well complain that nie
itself is forced upon them.
If such deluded ones are happy and
contented in their ignorance. AID pre-
fer 10 remain legally classed with
idiots, insane, alien and minors, we
should perhaps respect their choice
but they should reflect that there are
women who have advanced beyond
these types. and who desire and are
entitled to full citizenship and the
ballot
The Ants tell us women now rule
by their influence. There undoubt
eddy are a few puppet men in every
town who obey the debating wife
men having no judgment OF theT
own, and there may be Ants who de
light in attracting the attention OF
men and teaching them 10 please
vote my way, but ii certainly is not
the most dignided method OF making
ones influence felt in the affairs OF
state
Many Ants boast that they can
control the votes Of their husband,
their son, and a few others.
Now let us suppose a man has a
mother in the family who favors
Roosevelt, a wife who fayors Taft. a
daughter who approves Of Wilson,
IN aunt who endorses the Socialists,
and a grandmother who is an ardent
Prohibition ST, how can one man with
lne ballot represent Eve women2
Wouldn't IL be we'll for the present
Legislature to enfranchise the women
Of Vermont and thus give the poor
men an opportunity to represent
themselves, and not longer subject
hem to the maddening influence
If half dozen women?
For six years the Massachusetts
Association opposed to Womau's SUI
'rage actually circulated under its
official imprint "A leailet in opposi
ion to equal guardianship OF chill
lren
Some AntLSunragists maintain
that they stand solidly against child
labor If this is true are they not in
very strange company, as every
single exploiter of child Labor is Anti
Woman's Suffrage
The white slavers are against equal
suffrage. The gambling fraternity
are opposed TO it, and the Factories
and Department stores where women
and children are employed for small
pay and long hours are opposed 10 IT,
At the recent campaign i'm Ohio the
owner OF q big department store eayo
one thousand dollars 10 the anti-suf
frage campaign, and anti-suffrage biz
erature was circulated by the saloon.
and their allies.
The question can now very PROF. 5r
ly be asked is the general public I'd
be blamed if they Judge the Ants by
the political company they keep
Every single vicious interest
would rather cope with womans in
direct influence" then cope with wo
mans ballot
One OF the really amusing features
in the suffrage states is the suddcr
and absolute disappearance OF the
female Ants when women are given
the right to vote. Their theories ther
undergo rapid change and they
vote as easy and as naturally as suf
fragists.
II has been demonstrated that
these same women who formerly bin
terly opposed suffrage for women are
the very first ones to appeal TO Gov
errors asking for appointment Cpou
educational. charitable sanitary sad
reiormatory boards strange that
they should so soon forget that "a
womans place is in the home
The male Antis-oilice seekers are
kept busy for time explaining their
former views. and why they helped 20
defeat the equal suffrage bills
The right type of men have nothing
TO fear from equal suffrage
Annette ". Parmelec