New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-21
Women Losing
Privileges, Says Anti

To the Editor of The Tribune Womans
Forum:
7 beg your courtesy TO again reply to
Mrs Edna Wadsworth Moody
would first inform Mrs. Moody that II
my former letter impressed her as that
Of a bitter man | am sorry, as it and
all write are those of woman strongly
opposed 10 assuming the duties of man.
Who does not-as the suffragists unjust
~ and enormously state OF all ants
consider her duties arc surrounded by
the walls Of her home: nor does she de
sire To- confinc her activities within them?
] beg right here TO assert that ants
plainly see their duties in social and wei
fare work. the betterment OF conditions
in vice, labor and poverty; in all forms
OF charity, educational and phllantnropic
work: the protection Of women and girls
and the training and protection Of the
minors of both sexes, though bows DO
not seem to count in these days.
VIC desire to, and we believe with the
help Of legislators where necessary We
can, carry on our outside duties best as
women, not party politicians We desire
above all to give men time TO cope with
| the complex problems which our democ-
racy and our cosmopolitan population
present.
Miss Anna Howard Shaw is my au-
| thority for 20 per cent OF the women
not wanting the ballot; or, TO be more
accurate. she quoted the proportions Of s
per cent in favor and % per cent op-
/ posed i'm Brooklyn on November !, 1919.
] regret my former inaccuracy.
] am glad TO know that the w. s. :. &.
docs not advocate a woman's party. but
would venture the opinion that the whole
suffrage movement is largely based upon
sex antago1ism, and most OF it's leaders
make strong use Of that foundation.
Mrs. Moody says: "Of course, women
would abide by the decision of the ma
! jority. Why mott Is this not the basis OF
our present government
Then why will not the per cent in
favor OF equal suffrage abide by the oppo-
sition Of the 20 per cent?
Nv ancestors and Mrs. Moodys wagcd
war as colonists against being taxed by
the mother country while not represented
in Parliament or having any voice in the
, use OF the income, not because any section
OF them did or did not possess lhe right Of
franchise.
To quote Frederick Dwight: IA very
few words will be sufficient to explain
what the colonists meant by taxation
without representation and why they
thought ii so unjust. The whole thing
arose out OF the imposition Of the noto-
ricus stamp tax i'm 1865. The colonists
were on this side of the Atlantic, ParIia-
ment In England. There were no repre-
sentatives Of the colonies in Parliament
familiar with conditions over here and
competent to explain what taxes would
bear most lightly upon the inhabitants.
Under such circumstances Parliament
| coolly decreed this burdensome tax, TO be
collected wholly from the colonists and
not from the inhabitants of Great Britain
as well Moreover. the money so raised
was not to be expended in the colonies,
but Withdrawn to England. When men
and women are Jointly members of the
some community; when taxes are laid not
upon the women for the benefit of the
men, or vice versa; when. finally, they
are imposed by representatives drawn