Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-30
SUI R .GE LEAGUE DINNER
Equal Franxhss Cause Earnestly Advocated in Brilliant Gath erins 1t Wsuregan House Mrs. Helen Hoy Greeley, Chief Speaker, Combats Claims of the Antis.

believe Tn woman suffrage or not. It is not for pure pleasure that women great good that they can accomplish if they have 1t. There are matters of city government schools. cleanli- ness. Ripping the city pure and sweet and in the national field there are the problems affectins child labor, women labor and the checking of the rising tide of socialism, in which they can exercise a large influence It is by the vote that they can declare them selves. If we are men and women fighting for the common good. why do we leave half our army. the active, intelligent, earnest half weaponless? An Able Legal Mind.
 Mrs Helen Hoy Greeley of New York was then introduced for the prtn- cipal address of the evening
 When she had concluded her com prehensive address of over an hour which held the closest attention of her hearers. Mrs. Norton expressed the feelips of all present when she said that the suffrage cause was proud to kiiow that it had in it an able woman ] lawyers mirYd that could match with l any mans.
 Mrs Greeley declared that the anti suffragist is specialist in sex. the in telligent suffragist, a specialist in hu- manism. There are too many people that think of women as if she had only a physical organization. Above all things woman is a human being and that is what the founders Of this movement in 1S48.
 Suffrage as condition and not a theory, and those who say it is radi- cal, abnormal, dangerous and undesir- ed. Don't know what they are talk ing about or else they are not honest Some form of woman suffrage has been in operation for over 100 years. After all these years the antis would have us understand that suffrage is radical and experimental. It Is in ac- tual operation in one third of all the territory in the United States not in- cluding Alaska Woman suffrage is a | vital political issue because women l control one third of the votes which ! can control the electoral college. There l is not a politician who can afffford to 1 disregard this.
 In addition to this we have 13 more states in line for suffrage and this will give us 23 states out of our AS if we 1 win them all.
 Disputed the claim of the antis that the suffffra gists had failed to win wherever the antis had organized. In | Berkeley the antis were organized but 1 the suffragists won. In Oregon they organized the week after Mrs. Greeley had left the field. but the suffragists won.
 Come back again and again to the statement that this responsibility 1 shouud not be thrust upon majority ! by jealous minority.
 | Why Not Try the Referendum. 1 She challenged the antis to put into | operation the referendum, where they | could do in equal suffrage states | on the question of equal suffrage the ! antis could call for an initiative pe- { tition. Why 6on't they do it. if wo- mems suffrage issso dangerous, if so | ss ~l-, ,E l they have got 1t. why don't they do | it. if the women of California, Oregon i and Colorado have made such a mess | of it. If they could defeat it, they i would give suffrage the blackest eye which 1t could receive. There's the gauntlet in the ring, but it will lie l there without doubt for they will no'
 have the courage to take it up.
 ] She took up the claim that the result
 of women's suffrage where 1t has beer | given has been a benumbing effect ! upon the men and has kept them away
 from the polls so that the combined
 vote of men and women is pitiably
 small to what it might have been. She criticised the figures in an ant circular which she said was made uI
 na false basis and was impressive
 only from its size and its type.
 On Socialism.
 The anti suffragists, she said, ara trying to inflame every audience b5
 telling that your suffrage campaign i:
 doubling and trebling the socialIs | vote. Yet in the district in Milwaukee
 that sent Victor Berger to congres. woman suffrage was defeated. Appar-
 ently there were enough socialist vote:
 to defeat woman suffrage against th'
 combined republicans and democrats She showed how 1t was the woman'i
 vote in California which came in il
 time to defeat Job Hartman when ht
 had been within coco of election ant
 how a prominent newspaper had il
 consequence made a complete switcl
 to the suffragist cause. In conclusion she took up refuta
 tior of the claim that the vote was no
 right. and made the argument tha
 it was a primary right. not prfvileg'
 or a responsibility, but a right b.
 which all other rights ere protected
 and which the women ought to hay' by the constitution of the United
 States if rightly interpreted.
 Among Those Present.
 Among those present were: Dr. ant
 Mrs. s. H. Howe. Archdeacon ant
 Mrs. J. E. Brown, Rev. and Mrs. F. J
 Bohanan. Mir. and Mrs. Herbert R
 Branche, pr. and Mrs. Frank s. Bun
 nell. MT. and Mrs. Leonard O. Smith
 Faith Leavens, Mrs. George D. Colt
 Mir. and Mrs. J. Dana Colt. Dr. anC
 Mrs. Frank $. Bunnell. Mrs Charie:
 l.. Richards. Mrs. Nathan c. Gilbert
 MT. and Mrs. John l.. Mitchell, Mir
 and Mrs. Willis Austin, Mrs. William A. Norton, Miss Helen Perkins.
 MT and Mrs. Grosvenor Ely, Mis-:
 Winifred Welles. Dr. and Mrs. William
 Leonard. the Misses Hall, Mir anC
 Mrs. Charles A. Hagberg. MT. and Mrs
 Albert H. Chase. Dr. and Mrs. Edsor
 F. Gallaudet, Miss Meech. Miss Rich ards, Mir. and Mrs. Lucius Briggs, Mis-.
 Louise c. Howe. Miss Isabel Mitchell
 Dr. Dwight Tracy, Raymond Ther-
 man, William Rllen. Mrs Frank A
 Mitchell. Mrs. William B. Birge. MT
 and Mrs. George T. Lord.
 Miss Carrie Chapman, Miss Grac,
 Moore, Miss Alice Bennett, Miss F. " Avery, Mrs. John NJ. King, Dr. Hugi
 B. Campbell, Dr. E. J. Lynch, Mis-
 Sarah Loring, Miss Ethel M. Worth
 Andre Carlet, George Hunt, Bridgeport
 Dr. Esther s. B. Woodward, Mrs. Bel.
 P. Learned, Mrs. William Fitch. Arthu | H. Brewer, Miss Jennie E. Spencer, G
 Warren Davis, Mrs. Edward D. Fuller
 Mrs Rienzi Robinson, Danielson, Mi
 and Mrs. Herman Alofsin, 2d. MT. an, I hrS 1Ohp N6Wf1liapna .1