The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-10-15
why | Became AN
ANTI-SUFFRACIST
{COntinued.)

ment Of a series of articles by Flor
snce Gof Schwarz. business secretary
Of the Cincinnati Association Opposed
to Woman Suffrage:
icy Florence coH schwarz.)
found that Wyoming had no
child labor law worthy to Re called
such. Tluant officers. whose duties
were confined only TO school hours.
were the only officials delegated
to looi after the welfare of chill
drCn. Niaht prohibition of labor was
not TO be found upon the statute
Books of any 8"ijrage state, yet Ne
braskG, where men only cak vote,
with practically identical conditions
!ndustially. has had such a law for
twelve years. Colorado, discovered,
had one of the most corrupt cleo
torates in the United States. Girls of
ten years were allowed to engage in
street trades and take part in theat-i-
cal performances. AS late as 1911
in Denver, according to George Creel,
in an article in the Century for
March, "a corrupt council consigned
a petition containing 10000 sigma
lures to the. swasre basket" From
which it appears that eighteen years
after women were. given the ballot
the legislature was venal and the
council corrupt. 1t was during this
Period that Denver women were
found to, lave helped organize repeat
Denver, in Eyerybody's Magazine for
May, 1910, said: IF any one believes
that woman suffrage is a panacea for
I'll the evils Of our political life he
does not know what those evils are.
Women are as free of the power Of
the Peast as men are-and no freer"
The social evil has not disappeared
N Colorado. but has increased at an
| alarming ate Juvenile crime and de-
| linquenCy have flourished until the
very moral life of the state is threat
ened. Divorces have doubled in the
past fifteen years. Notwithstanding
the disgrace of Reno, Colorado far
outclasses Nevada in the number of
divorces and is third on the list of all
the states, Washington, another sut-
frage state, ranking first. The d.
vorce record is at least distantly re-
lated to equal suffrage, while the in
crease in juvenile perverts certainly
reflects neglected homes.
| l also found that many laws which
the suffragists credit to womens
votes were passed under male suf-
frage before women had been enfran.
chised. For instance, Oregon's child
labor law, California's child labor
law, the eigh hour law for women in
both California and Washington were
all passed under male suffrage.
No progress in remedial legislation
for women and children has been
made in suffrage states that has not
been made in the states where men
only can vote. The Colorado child
labor law makes it possible for a
child as young as IA to be employed
in places where liquor is sold If the
child obtains permit In many east
ern states the age is 21. So far as
the laws for the protection of prop
erty-ownifg women are concerned, in
at least two of the suffrage states
where women have voted long
enough to have effected legislation, a
man may sell all of his real estate,
nd
money without the consent or knowl-
edge Of his wife. In at least one of
them woman must. under certain
circumstances. support her husband.
In several Case3 husbands have sued
for and won alimony from their
wives. Governor Carey Of Wyoming,
the suffrage gCyernor of a suffrage
state says woman suffrage means
absolute equality so far as property
Is concerned" In our own state the
property Of woman is absolutely Sc.
cured to her and may not be attached
for payment of her husbands debts
or for the family support. A wife's
wages and separate income are ex-
emit for nccessaries or support of
the family, even though she pur-
chases the goods herself Life insur-
ance left wife by the husband is ex-
empt from his debts. Proof that the
husband is iusoivent is not sufficient
to hold a married woman for supplies
used in support of the family. While
in Colorado :. wife is liable to part for
support of the children. Taxes have
Increased in the suffrage states; Colo
RADIO is burdened with the highest pc
capita tax rate Of any state in the
Union The tax appropriation of Cali
fornia has increased $3,000,O00 since
women voted in that state. Expert |
mental legislation is a costly thing,
and when women pass bills regulat- |
ing the size of chicken coops. the size /
of hotel bed-sheets and the style of |
sfroes cnildreh~ nfnst wear, as was
done in California, the taxpayers
have to pay the freight" These
tritling matters have received the at
tention of the women voters, yet, up
to the present time, California has
no pure milk law, which is of infin-
itely more Importance and should
properly have been the first concern
of the women.
The public has right to be in
formed upon this all-important Ques-
tion and is entitled to truthful and
correct statistics from the expert
mental states in order to intelligently
decide whether or not Ohio should
adopt form of government which
has not proved successful in any
state which has adopted it. The above
information has been carefully col
lected and / assert, without fear of