Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1914-02-11

committee OF AUltOuUltuts u tue
Constitution, called 70 order the meet
ing in the evening iu opposition TO
votes for women. Mrs. Francis T.
| Redwood, vice president Of the Mary
nd Association Opposed to Women
suffrage. in the absence of Mrs. Rob-
| art Garrett, president of the Associa-
zion, presided.
The speakers were Mrs. N. G. Tai
bott, secretary Of the Maryland Asso-
ciation; Charles l.. Underhill. Of Bos-
ton, "a member of the Massachusetts
Il uslature; Cy Cummings, Mise
Alice Abel president Of the Wage
earners' League, New York, and Hor-
ace S. Whitman, Baltimore lawyer.
Mrs. Talbot was loudly spplauded
when she emphatically declared that
be majority Of women in Maryland
| DO not want TO vote. She reviewed
conditions in those states in which
women have the right to vote, which
conditions she described as not being
u q high order. In Colorado, where
women vote, the perez ntage of crime
! among women IL higher than in any
other State.
II must be noted that one difference
between Suffr Lists and Ants is the
former speak without notes, the lat
| ter always use notes, especially was
| this true last night. Mrs Talbot the
first speaker, confined herself 10
manuscript. She began with saying
noue had escaped the personal attack
Of those favoring woman's suffrage.
| She said the Ants did not arrive with
| flying streamers, nor did they hike-to
Annapolis, but came quietly and IN
ostentatiously. She asked for favor
able consideration of the cause che
ospoused. She said no State can sur
pass Massachusetts,, in which suffrage
for women has been defeated many
| times.
Mrs. Talbot said the Child Labor
Law and other such advocated by
Suffragists, had been on the statute
books in Oregon and California long
before they became suffrage states.
| She said women today are so busy
with their own politics they cannot
end time to rear their childen. Ne
brssks, she said, has had the lave
women advocate for years, and our
own State, Maryland, has the ten
hour law for women without suffrage
being granted, or the assistance Of
Women's votes.
(She did not cay it is because of
women and women's clubs that these
laws are on the statute books of
Msryland)
Mrs. Talbot urged that women
be not burdened with the responsible
ity of the ballot which she said. the
/! Ants do not want, aud it is not right
| TO thrust upon them. "You know"
she said, your constituents oppose
Votes for Women, just as much as
your constituents advocate Woman's
Suffrage
She spoke of the liquor interests
ard said tn Anti-Suffraee League
was not responsible for the printed
matter in circulation favoring the
liquor interest. in closing Mrs. Tai
bolt said can open mind is not neces-
sarily an empty one.
She was followed by Mr.. Underhill,
Of Massachusetts. He had taken
I
meeting and took issue with DR..
Shaw on several Of that learned wo-
mans arguments. He said legisla-
tires cannot be fooled by evi dence.
That sound we hear of little mean
inc (suffrage advocates) fools the
people, but is not the "Voice of the
| People" He said he had served eight
years in the Massachusetts legisla-
ture, and each year the women had
asked for votes. First it was for wo-
mans rights; then tor votes. At
fast th, Massachusetts legislature
listened respectfully and called the
women Mrs. or Mise So and So, but
now il was, when the women came
upon the hill, Mag or Sweet Alice, or
Old Mrs. So and So.
He said the Suffragists who spcke
in the afternoon Glove you Demo
Gratis of the Maryland Legislature
just as much as they love US Repub-
licans Of the Massachusetts Legisla-
ture Man rules the world, but who
rules usT" He said women adVocat.
ing suffrage had only one idea, only
one subject to karp on, and TO illus
trste, he told the story of the woman
who went &c every wedding, end
thought herself more important than
the bride, and to every funeral, and
thought she was the corpse.
When women tell you, be seid, that
they are abused, they are not speak.
ing according to the evidence. They
want one thing and will have il, but
they are losing ground, and he illus.
trated by statistics of women voting
when the number dwindled in 1908
to 90, then because of a reli gious
question and an unprincipled politi.
elan in 1912 at the election the wo.
men who registered in that locality
numbered 5000. With women
votes, he said, il lie not a question
Of mans cspability, but who shall
co ltrol. There never was a right made
wrong, OF wrong made right BY
legislation. Do you wish to be gov.
erned by the same kind of women OF
whom DR.. Shaw speaks? be asked.
lie said q property qualification has
nothing T. do With voting, and illus.
1 trated by the man who ovvnad q y,,,lx