The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-10-29
WHY | BECAME AN
ANTI-SUFFRAGIST
(BY FLORENCE coFF scAwARz.)

(BY FLORENCE eoFF SCHWARTZ
The following is the fourth and con-
Guiding installment of a series of
articles by Florence Goff Schwarz,
business secretary Of the Cincinnati
Association Opposed to Woman Suf
frage:
l append the following testimonials
from prominent Colorado women, who
consider woman suffrage failure in
their own state, where 1t has been
operative twenty-five years:
'T have voted since 1893; ! have
been a delegate to the city and state
conventions. and member of the
Republican state committee from my
county; ! have been a deputy sheriff
and a watcher at the polls; for
twenty-three years have been in the
| midst of the woman-suffrage move
I ment in Colorado. For years | be-
leved in woman suffrage and have
worked day in and day out for it-l
nov see my mistake and would abol'
ish it tomorrow If | could.
mo law has been put on the statute
look of Colorado for the benefit OF
women and children that has beel
put there by the women.
"The child labor law went through
independently of the woman's vote
The hours of working women have
not been shortened the wages oi
school teachers have not been raised;
the type of men that get into office
has not improved bit.
LAS for the effect of the vote Oh
women personally, | have known
scores of women who workd for TIN
Republican party one year and work
ed for the Democratic party mex
year, telling me frankly that the
Democrats gave us more money.
Frankly, the experiment is a fa;
ure. 1t has done Colorado no good
It has done woman no good. Tn
best thing for both would be II tomor
row the ballot for women could D.
abolished
"MkS. FRANCES w. GODDARD,
President of the Colonial Danes o
Colorado"
Colorado has been my home 70
many years, and have watched will
interest the result of woman suffrage
have considered it my duty at times
for certain reasons, to vote; but hav
always done so under protest.
81 cannot see that suffrage has pul
flied politics, or placed better men
uIFlce, or has been productive OF an
LEGISLATION beneficial to either wome
or children. | think women are to
tysterical, too personal in feeling, an
lot we'll enough balanced to exercis
the -'ght of suffrage. And their att
tude in all these discussions prove
tIe truth of my opinions.
81 do not hesitate to state that
Il oroughly disapprove of it, and hav
no wish ever to vote again.
MARY MACKENZIE GAMBRILL,
Colorado Springs"
"My views concerning woman su
frage, in q nutshell, are: TheCre
ically | believe in it. PRACTICAL,
after watching it for many years
Colorado, | consider it failure.
can see nothing that it has accon
plished IN its % years here that hs
not been done equally in other state
where they have no woman suffrag
> Our political ring" remains as co
rupt as ever, and the addition
vomen's votes in the downtown di
tricts has been only to double its pu
chasable vote. Personally, having tt
vote, | believe in the obligation to u:
it-and do 30 conscientiously, HI
there are grea- numbers among Il
better classes of women who new
60 near the polls. believe that the
is a growing feeling that the who
!" thing has been a mistake, and that
would be a great relief to be relieve
: of the responsibility.
MRS. CHALONER B, SCHLEY.
Colorado Springs"
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