Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-01
REASONS FOR NOT
 WANTING THE BALLOT Given by Miss Burnel of Hartford at Anti Suffrage Meeting.

Miss Elizabeth Burnell of Hartford addressed a large audience at the anti
 suffrage meeting at the Norwich club
 Tuesday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock when
 she spoke on the subject Why We
 Don't Want Votes for Women.
 Miss Burneu said there are two classes of answers which may roughly
 be termed negative and positive. We do not want the franchise because We believe that it has not and cannot bring about the reforms promised by it's advocates; but We do not want IL more especially because we believe II to be a symptom of an openins wedge 1 to movements definitely destructlYC, embodying the indissoluble trio, social ism, suffrage and feminism.
 Under the first head-negatye req sons-the liquor interest, the woman Tn industry and education by political life movement does not stand for prohlDi- tion No equal suffrage state has adopted it. Women in industry should have special protective legislation which they could not expect under equal rights before the law.
 The real leaders, the speaker saul. those who have pushed the moG eEent- for woman suffrage, are actIdted pr!n- 1 cipaliy by the sOCialstic, mnlstlc. Many cases of the growth Of femin1sm i and it's intimate relations U wo!nan l suffrage were instanced. A suffragist says you need not vote unless you 1 please. Men are not taught that they | have no duties as citizens and eVtl now the indefinite voter is a menace: 1 But what think you of a new half Of ! the electorate deliberately taught that 1 the ballot bears no obHgac,Gn.
 Regarding the ability of -ue oa:i)t to 1 strike deep enough to cure certain HIS, 1 one rnisapprehension may be thus iI- 1 lustrated Suppose women wish 10 1 show their disapproval of indecent the
 atrical posters. The shows they ad vertise multiply because they are well attended. The theatrical manager un- l derstands but one aTgument-einpty seats. Who fill the seats in our thed- i tres? Eighty-fiYe per cent. are won en.
 The legislation regarding factory foods does not insure their continued
 sanitary condition unless the house
 wife has thorough cleanliness il ner home I have never known 8 visiting nurse to be in favor of s.GraSe for women She perceives the necessity Of
 personal educated work. According 10 the census of 1910, of the seI n TGll-
 lions of working women, 49 per cent are in homes. There th~ -aY of sup ply and demand has opera.-i to raise
 their wages beyond the reach of many
 housekeepers. In this law oz s4ppiy
 and demand the labor unions af.1 CT
 sonal efficiency and not the ballot reg l ulate the matter of wages
 If she were equal befo e the law 1 woman in industry would nave -iC 1 right to expect special prote i've leg isIation. and she needs it be1ause she is a woman. All over our land 1n-
 creasingly are appearing stAtutcs o1 justice and mercy. In this connection
 there are two things we must note | | First, that the more prOtect'Vc Ie8iS- lation comes for the unenfranchlSeii 7 the women and children, md, toCon1 that it comes first in non- suiTra6f states, which is quite logical Juds>
 Lindsey is quoted as believing in ant 1 featuring for woman suffrage. In hl.
 book of 1910 he says that wome ar'
 as free from the power of the beas \ as are men, but no freer. In tyiiG@
 American communities such as our' where the beast rules women are Q; | helpless as the rest of us.
 In the Woman's Journal GoveTnoi
 l Shafroth says that equal suffrage na . been d great success in Colorado. [
 1 has established a. high standard in DO
 | litical parties and in officeholders Il
 l a hearing before the United State
 | senate BfeiIie Elliott Sewan says it i true that the beneficiaries of the wom
 | en's vote unite in praising the bride1 V that carried them over Senator Sh :: Q froth is a voter in the First congreS I 1 record in the second session of the 5S : . congress as the most corrupt elect : 6 ate.
 e A map printed by the Woman d Temperance union was exhibited b V Miss BurneH showing that no suffraG; stale is prohibition state except Kan i sas which was SD before. Nor are th . general temperance regulations as Soo q as in the non suffrage states.