The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-23
THOSE OPPOSED TO
SUFFRAGE COMING
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION SENDS
ORGANIZERS INTO THIS
STATE.


Miss Minnie Bronson, secretary of
the National Association Opposed to
Woman Suffrage, and Miss Clara E.
Markeson, field secretary, arrived in
Reno from Montana yesterday, says
the Gazette. They said they had
come in response to numerous letters
received from women all " e the
state who were opposed to this meas
ure and who wanted help in their eff
forts to bring to the attention of the
voters of Nevada the fact that the
~suffragists do not represent the ma
jority of the women of the state.
I'VE expect to form an %organiza-
ton but that organization will be for
the purpose of disseminating litera-
ture and for enrolment of members
in order that the voters of Nevada
nay know that Nevada women as a
whole do not want the ballot" said
Miss Bronson today. "The men of
Nevada are willing to give the women
of the state anything they want and
the aggressive and spectacular efforts
of the s~uffragists nay deceive the
voters into thinking that the women
of Nevada really want to vote. AS a
matter of fact they do not except a
comparatively small minority. The
rest are not in sympathy with the
movement.
The organizations opposed to wo-
man suffrage differ altogether from
those which favor it. We do not en-
gage in the ordinary political meth
DDS, spectacular street parades, cross
country hikes, soap box Oratory, or
street corner speakings. We are join
ing together to use our influence in
the most dignified way TO show u
disapproval, not only of the move
ment. but the methods of forwarding
its propaganda. We are not in pol
tiles and we do not want to get into
politics, even to the extent of organ
izing. But we feel thai If a few wo-
men arrogate to themselves the right
to speak for their SEX we must lay
aside for the time our
and come out to say just as emphatic
ally that women do not want the bal
lot as others say they do. Other
wise we will be forced into the polit-
zeal game in spite of Il wishes.
Women have always accomplished
more by quiet work. through their
clubs and similar organizations, than
through the ballot, and while our
Organization will be little more than
the enrolment of those who oppose
it, it will be all sufficient"
Miss Bronson said the national or
ganiZatiOn was composed of women
many Of whom are conspicuous for
their work in philanthropy and hui
man betterment.
Our president" Mrs. Arthur M.
Dodge she said, has for thirty
years been the president of the Ma
tiOnal Day Nursery Organization and
is on many other boards of a similar
character. Miss Emily Bissell of Del
aware, who originated the Red Cross
stamp in this country, and who has
been said to De the greatest single
force in the eradication of tubercu-
lOsis in the country, is one of our
speakers, as is also Miss Ida Tarbell,
the well known economic and politi-
cal writer.
Among II members also are
Mrs. Barclay Hazard. the only woman
member of the Committe of Fourteen
of New York City; Miss Mabel Board
man, head of the Red Cross Society:
Mrs. William Putnam of Harvard,
who has led the determined campaign
for pure milk in Massachusetts; Mrs.
James M. Goldman. the first woman
overseer of the poor ever elected in
Massachusetts,: also Mrs. j. Eliot Ca
bot, the second woman elected for
the same work.
Mrs. Thomas J. Preston, who was
formerly Mrs. Grover Cleveland, is
an officer of the National AssOcia-
ton. Mrs. William Howard Taft, the
wife of the eX-president, is a men,
Der of u Connecticut association,
and a sister of ex-President ROose-
welt is the chairman of one of the
Connecticut branches. The presi-
dents Of the Woman's Municipal
league in New York and Boston are
both members of our organization.
Scores of other women who have
done similar work belong to the AS
ISOLATION Opposed to Woman Suf-
frage, and while the suffragists have
many social workers in their ranks,
they have no monopoly in devoted
service for the good of human kind.
"A Wage-earners' League was
started in New York about four
months ago. which already has a