The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01
T'OTHER SIDE
Of SUFFRAGE
What Lucy Price Has to Say About
Women Going to the Polls and
Casting Vote Like
Men.
CAUSE WILL Dw1NDLE
Spells Tragedy for the Future Of the
Race If the eentIer Sex is
Permitted 70 Dip Into
Politics.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nav Is
Here's t'other side of it. In the face
OF claims by the suffragists that votes
Tor women will be reality through
out the nation within a short time,
members OF the national association
opposed to woman suffras-, are lust
as positive that the high water mark
mas been reached, and thas srom now
on those states which base got the
/ vote for women soon will change the
laws and return to the ola order of
male suffrage alone. Arguments tend
4 Ing to show the truth Of this asser-
ton were made today in a statement
written for the United Press by Miss
Lucy j. Price, of Cleveland, a perm
anent employe of the N. A. o. w. S.,
who claims to be the only N.man who
4 lever held the position of city editor
of an Ohio newspaper.
by Lucy J. Price, written for the
United Press.]
The wave of suffrage sentiment has
seen Its height. For a time it seem
ed to promise rising which would
eventually carry with it many of the
saner minds Of the country as we'll as
those OF more hysteric bent. But /
believe the recent campaigns have
proven that the reaction has set in
II we can call by the definite name OF
reaction the change which has come
with sober second thought And it
may also be said that these same re-
cent campaigns have hesped to ac-
complish this change as well as to
demonstrate it.
The increase of a majority against
suffrage in Michigan from 1872 last
November to $4,000 on April 7 was not
Que to chance, nor was it due to in
lfluence of various selfish interests, as
the suffragists are making an effort
Ito prove to the public. It was the
inevitable result of five months of
consideration, brought about by the
fact that the women of the state or
lganized to fight the danger when they
once realized 1t was an actual danger
| What caused this change? That is
the question Of utmost Importance to
the suffragists, and its answer is one
/ of tremendous satisfaction to those OF
us who have not been carried away
by the magic of the suffrage slogans.
The men of Michigan, first of all,
REALIZED that when women of the type
of the Michigan anti-suffrage leaders
rose up and protested against having
the suffrage thrust upon them, there
must be reasons back of their protest
more fundamental than the selfish
one of which we are accused bv the
ffragists-that I'VE do not want to
vote and therefore we are unwilling
that you should vote They realized
that, when the anti-suffragists said
they believed there was menace of
actual disaster to the state In the
granting of equal suffrage, they were
at least representing the opinion of a
great body of honest intelligent
women
And when the men voters Of state
begin to think about this question
to put aside the American attitude of |
"Oh we'll, If they want to vote, | /
don't want to refuse them"-to ex-
anime the suffrage claims OF starting
the world toward millennium through |
the vote then we are SAFE
In every state where suffrage has
recently been defeated, and this in
cludes Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan
by vote of the people, and Con-
necticut Massachusetts, New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, Maine, Delaware,
Rhode Island, Iowa, Nebraska and Mis- |
souri,. by legislative action, the cleo
torate and the legislators have been
given every opportunity to understand
the claims of the suffragists. I,itera-
ture has been distributed into every
corner of the states, the press has
thoroughly presented the suffrage side,
and suffrage speakers have upheld
their cause in a thorough manner. In |
Michigan, for instance, there were
twenty suffrage speakers in the field, |
and in Connecticut campaigns Of one
week each were held in most of the
towns of the state prior to the legis-
lative hearings on the question.
And the result of all this?
Aided by the anti-suffr>se organiza-
tions of women, the men saw the suf-
frage movement in all that 1t meant
and In It's true relation to progress
which, by the way, is the ravorite cry
of the advocates of votes 70. women"
They saw that the suffragists were
too optimistic when thew promised |