Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-04-18
Hiss Minnie Bronson Attacks
Suffrage Before I Large
Audience
ALLIED Vlla SOCIALISTS
Federated Clubs, She Says, Ire
More Influential Than
the Ballot !.

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| Miss Minnie Bronson, secretary of
the National organization opposed to
woman suffrage. addressed large
audience in the Commercial club hall
last evening. There was a good rep
resentation of the suifragists off tho
city, and the audience was attentive
and appreciatiye
Miss Bronson Is forceful speak
er, possesses an excellent delivery.
and has a style OF presenting her argu
ments which carries weight. She
argued that women could exert much
more Influence by not being iden-
TITLED VITA p0litical organizations
than they could were they identified
as democrats, republicans, socialists.
or. what not. 'a@@ I
e 81 Says Suffrage Fails.
She claimed that woman suffrage
fhad it's origin many years ago when
the country was swept by Norman
ism and many Others isms, ald that
/! It never has accomplished any degree
OF good. The women's clubs, she
said. have put more good in the stat
Iute books through their non bipartisan
Influence than the combined votes OF
men and women. and further that the
majority Of women do not care for
the ballot, and all the other respon.
atb1ities CT ci4kze1ship which go
with the ballot. 'n' @
K .aAAs sclalms taat the 4gEaRting. ,ol
suffrage is but. a doubling. OF votes
without any perceptfble results, and
lall are inclined TO vote for men ra.
ther than for measures
Miss Bronson was well received,
and her arguments were free from
abuse or sarcasm. She presented her
case we'll. aad pleaded her cause fl
a mcst creditable manner.
h Miss Bronson said in part :ss s..
l. "rhe anti-suffragist yields nothing
to the sufiragist in her belief that
women should be in public affairs
| We believe that the work we are do
Ing now by concerted action and or
,sanized effort through Our c:,tbs ans;
philanthropic organizations would be
greatly hampered il we became in.
v0lyed in the party politics which the
'callOt Is bound to bring. =
| p, 8, Clubs Do Good. Z
| The Federation of Women's Clubs
have written more good Legislation,
on our statute hooks than all the
votes of men and women combined
Fortunately, so far, that organization
is undivided by party politics. !
'''lf women demand equal political
rights with men they must Il share
| equally In the political burdens of
men. Serving on juries, working In
caucuses and primaries, campaigning
for candidates and working at the
polls on election day
For, if we demand the ballot to
help women or society, or anything
at all, 1t is evident that just voting
fsor. candidates will not suffice, for
how are we to vote for the candi-
dates we want unless those candi.
dates are nominated, and how are
they to be nominated except in eau
cuses and primaries, and how are
they to be elected unless we cam.
paign for them and work at the polls
for their election? @s.
Voting With Eyes Shut. 4
| Otherwise, we are voting with
blind eyes for candidates we have
had no part in selecting, duplicating
the votes OF men, whom today the
suflragists declare are unfit to selec.
our candidates..
1"The laws for the protection of
women today, whether property own
Ing women or wage earning women,
are better than the laws for men.
Different With Women.
A man must support his wife, but
1 woman Of property is not compelled
to support her husband. A man mus;
4 pay alimony, but not so with a wom-
an. With the ballot all these things
are to be eglalized; is that what we
Want?a g-r1- -t7l55
1.-THE wage earning, woman does
not need the ballot for her protection.
Only 20 per cent of wage earninS
Women are employed in work where
they would come under the applica-
tion OF the law; but 40 per cent, or
nearly one-half, are to be found in
our kitchens, where women can raise
Uheir wages and diminish their hours
of labor without the ballot.
| Suffragists Socialists.
woman suffrage is q part OF a
greater movement, the Socialis;
movement. 1t is probably no exag-
geration to say that tw0-thirds OF the
leaders are avowed Socialists. A
banner was carried in the Washing
ton parade last March, bearing the
inscription, 100000 Socialists arc
working and voting for woman suf-
frage." Every mass meeting of suf-
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