Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-13
TEN 10 MINUTE SUFFRAGE SPEECHES
Given by Norwich Women at Equal Franchise Meeting Combat Mrs. Goodwins Ten Good Reasons-Profts of Recent Food Sale Were S1O5.

long experience with the industrial
 conditions under which women are.
 She showed how Mrs. Goodwin used
 Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah
 as examples of suffrage states where
 there were no labor laws affecting wo-
 men in manufacturing industries, no laws protecting the time of women'S
 labor or regulating night hours for em-
 ployment, while the fact was that
 there was no reason for such laws
 when the total number of women em- ployed was not probably 200 while in Massachusetts and New York, where there were tens of thousands of wo- men workers, laws on these points were on the statute books. In one state in the west which is a suffrage
 state, they got a law protecting the hours of women's labor the first time they asked for it from the legislature. while in contrast to that it took 54 years before a nine hour law was passed in Massachusetts.
 When women have the vote they will have a more equal chance in the in dustrial struggle.
 The Ballot and Vice was the topic treated by Mrs. E. J. Graham, who claimed that it could be shown that in places where women now have the | ballot the result had been a great bet terment in vice conditions. She de- scribed how the women of Seattle, when they received the ballot, accomplished the recall of Mayor Hill. for which be- l fore that they had long been striving l without success. With the recall of | Mayor Hill there was a cleanup of he notorious vice conditions of the city. 1 She mentioned how the women of San i Francisco had sent petition after pe ! tition to the city council for keeping | saloons out of the residential district l but all were disregarded until the women became voters. Mrs. Goodwin | also showed how suffrage states were notable for the laws they had passed | in the regulation of vice, measures | which it had long been impossible to pass previously
 Mrs. J. Eldred Brown spoke upon | Property Rights and Privileges, and 1 said that there was not a single suf- | frage state where women had suffered l in their property rights, but on the l contrary their property rights had been | improved. Mrs. Brown touched upon ! the question of privileges for women
 and the equal guardianship of children
 and recited a poem effectivel ypointng | out who the classes of women are who | tell us they have all the rights they 1 want
 | Sex a Dominant Factor was the ar | gument combatted by Mrs. W. B 1 Birge. Affectability and disability were | Mrs. Goodwin's two main arguments | Mrs. Birge said. The three points con- | nected with the franchise as relating tC | aHeCIdDlllIN ana QlSdDll1JN WOulu De | the act of casting the ballot, the intel | ligent study of political uestions, and | the holding of office. Mrs. Birse argued | that none of these were real reasons | against equal suffrage.
 l Sex Problems, in which might be 1 included politics and religion. were dis 1 cussed by Miss Louise Howe. In an | swer to Mrs. Goodwin's contention that when women enter politics another 1 source of family discord would be ere ated, Miss Howe said that as vel might it be claimed that another i source of family discord would be ere l ated if men went into religion. as it is hoped they will through the Ner and Religion Forward Movement 1 American men are the best in the | world and would be the best to repre- 1 sent women. but men are physically l incapacitated from truly representing 1 women.
 Mrs J. Dana Colt took up Condition; in Suffrage States, and claimed thaf suffrage states have shown far more i desire to protect women than non- ! suffrage states. She referred also tC | what the ballot in the hands of wom
 en had done in the cleanup of Seattle She showed how suffrage states were I conspicuous for passing child labor | laws. and said that against Mrs ! GoodWin's statements regarding di- vorce and the social evil, were the law. ! no win black and white on the books
 1 of the suffrage states, and to these ont
 could look for proof of what suffrage
 1 was doing.
 The chairman summed up in a brie-
 way, and after the collection was talk en tea was served, Miss Howe pouring