New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-02
Will Close Up mop if Opponents
Can Show hat Majority OF
WomenNant Ballot.
FEEL OFFER IS SAFE ONE
National Association Says Less
than 10 PR Cent of Women
of Laid Sympathize
with Movement.
rprorIrhe Tribune Bureau. J

washington Oct. IF the suffragists
..n submit 10 Congress next December
ss,,-es showing that majority Of the
.ro,,sn OF the United States want the
,..rchise. me National Association OPP
r1 "a Woman Suffrage will withdraw
y. ornos,ton. albeit sorrowfully, and al
W. rona, suffrage to roll on It's destruc-
uys cour'e o 90
ror,an Suffrage. realizing that the APP
..s-ance OF suffragists and anti-suhrag-
-, before Congress next winter for and
80, woman suffrage will be one or
.s. r,st important engagements in the
...,,. between the opposing forces, issued
.~..rsb IFS Washington headquarters to-
r,,st a statement containing this an
nounament
.sr,ls organization" the statement con-
.,,u., wages its campaign against the
s..,chise because II knows that the vast
-,.,ority OF women DO not want woman
"~srsge II the average woman attends
,.r own business and DISCHARGES the
IN. NJ a competent wife and mother
~. bs, @ many burdens resting upon her
,h., she cannot successfully assume any
,,o-, TIE average woman realizes this
~ because OF this realization, she IS
onnosed 10 woman suffrage.
Wiling to Close Its Doors.
~rb.r, are in this country A,6S5'7oi
xomsn twenty-one years OF age and over
7, the gists can show that a ma
,o,.v OF them want the suffrage-are
r4lIinf 10 undertake the additional duties
,s,, 70 with TIE suffrage-then the Ma
,IonsI Association Opposed 20 Woman
sr.,age will ,lose its doors. since the
principles and Constitution OF this gov
eminent compel compliance with such
demand.
cas- a mater OF fact. the highest au-
,,snt,c claim OF the suffragists indicate
that less than 10 per cent OF the women
Of this country are in sympathy with
the movement and, since the membership
AZ their organization is not limited 70
women OF twenty-one years OF age ana
ovtr. the percentage OF women OF voting
.gs ubo deuAnd the ballot is much less
than 10 per c,nt. Those figures based on
suffrage claims have never been success
fully contradcted. and suffragists tacitly
admit their numerical inferiority by their
onnosjtion 10 q plebiscite Of women
which the inti-suffragists are urging.
Even thu claim that there are 100000
women already voting in the United
States is 10 proof of suffrage adherence.
For. whilethere are 10000 women or vot-
ire age in the suffrage states. less than 80
per cent o. them register and vote. There
fore. the suffragsts who have advertised
the fact that they intend TO drive Con-
gress 20 enact suffrage legislation for the
remaining states are asking that large
majority OF women be compelled 10 un-
6ertake a work which is repugnant 10
then-a work which would seriously in
erfere with the better and higher duties
that they have TO perform for the state
An Absurd Proposition.
BY what right can those who want the
vote, unless they are in the majority
ask that the responsibilities Of the cleo
torats be forced upon those who are
ether hostile or nstless? Obviously, this
Is an absurd proposition. and the only
way for suffrlgists TO substantiate their
claim 70 the ballot is TO submit reliable
figures showing that a majority Of their
sex want this additional burden for which
8 noisy minority clamors at the doors OF
Congress
III they have the figures with them TO
prove that majority OF the women OF
voting age in this country want the
ballot, they can end the fight next De-
csmber I. they cannot produce the fig
ures they prove themselves engaged In
trying TO convince the country that the
minority. not the majority. should be con-
sidered In all legislation"