The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-14
WHY Women Should Not
Vote ---Thoughts for Men

know. Judge Lindsey's honest opsn,on
is after many trials before him that
deep down have found It was a case
OF the woman tempted me-"
Have care. Judge! You're on IN.
way to the nincompoop club: above nll
things don't attempt to characterize IN.
reported urgent invitation OF ths ~,
fragists TO men ito come and tango with
our prettlest girls as lure" TO IN
veigle the men into the fold by methods
you condemn.
My logical opponent concludes that
"the articles of Mrs. whtehouse argue
with reference to daylight life and NOT
moonlight nonsense" - IKE Bernard
Shaw's emancipation ideas or JUDGE
Lindsey's Interview. or Antrs night.
mare about the divorce figurcsc
These are In direct denial OF Mrs
Whtehouse's daylight argument" tina,
the census already proves that divorce
las decreased where women had tha
vote and that 1--WE are better wives IN.
day." Therefore are they "moonligh,
nonsense?
In conclusion I would impress unon
men the plea TO heed we'll "Anti's nigh.
mare In which he dreams that m.
census shows many times more dis
rupted homes in the suffrage States and
which stirs him TO believe that this "a
n momentous issue of this day and gem
Grafton.
Whether or not women will Use m.
vote, whether or not the mon will n.
chivalrous or women economically i'm
proved without injury to their fathers
brothers or husbands. whether child
labor and welfare laws that have been
enacted in suffrage States will be
more frequently adopted through votes
or women, whether strikes will continue
or all will be serene IN industries.
whether intcmperance and the social
evil VIII be abolished by equal suffrage
these are minor Issues still open 10
dispute, compared TO the disruption of
homes in enormously larger proportion
in the suffrage States. old or recent.
This fact is demonstrated beyond cav,i
and proved by the testimony under oath
of UMPIRE udiced census officials.
The divorce rate of New York at tho
last census was % per 100000 popula-
ton. that of Colorado was 15s per
100000. Which will you choose? The
proportion of non-resldcnts seeking
| divorce in Colorado was 81 per cent.
, the non-resldents in New York were
| L. per cent, difference only 10 per cent.
THE times are out of joint" enough
without the additional infiction upon
our people of equal suffrage, with its
| near and distant relatives-militancy.
! feminism. socialism and anarchism.
! Conservative men, arise from your
| lcthargy and cease minimizing the i'm
port of this issue! Go slow. Let US
| be cautious in our desire to please
lovely woman in her aspiration to be
| liberated frofff>a yoke that exists only.
/ as Mr.. George says. in the longing for
high offices. or in her poetic Imagination
If we accept the dlctum of her brilliant
| advocate. Mrs. Whitehouse, I'VE all
agree that women are better off to-day
than they have ever been since tho be-
ginning OF civilization" Woman album
dainty merits a continuation of the ef-
forts OF man TO strive and labor and
pour out II need he his blood and his
| treasure for the preservation of that
| civilization which she has helped to
build mp and which has caused her to be
better off than ever before. according 70
the frank testimony of her representa-
! tive in THE SuN.
, Past and contemporaneous history
warn against the extension of absolut,
equal suffrage; that Is, without modi.
| fication, impressed by the question Al
\ issue.