Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-19
Anti-Suffrage
Suffragists will tell you
THAT woman suffra re will

THAT woman suffrage will do
away with saloons.
According to Senator Work, of Cali
fornia, San Francisco, where women
vote has $500 saloons; Boston, which
is one and half times as large, has
less than 700 saloons. Cambridge has
been dry for twenty years. No city
of its size in any suffrage state has
ever voted itself dry. Springfield, the
capital of Illinois, went wet, 4,Soo
women voting for saloons, 4,300
against At the same time Lansing,
the capital of Michigan, with only
men voting, went dry. The women of
Reno, Nevada, have just voted against
reducing the number of saloons.
2-Woman suffrage is needed to les
sen infant mortality.
Montclair, N. J., leads the country
in its reduction of infant mortality,
and New Jersey women do not vote,
the ballot having been taken away
from them in 1874. OF the large cities
of the country, New York, Boston
and st. Louis lead, and in none or
these do women vote.
S-That woman suffrage Will I'M
prove moral conditions.
In Denver Judge Lindsey says
cases of sex charges coming before
his court having increased 300 per
cent. He says suffrage leads to fem
inism, which means loose women,
and that "it is time to call halt.
In San Francisco questionable dance
halls increased since women have had
the vote, and at the election In NO
vember, 1914, state prohibition, an
eight t-hour law, the abatement OF
houses of prostitution, abolition or
prizefghting, q minimum wage 1or
women, and one day of rest in seven
were all defeated by big ma1orities'
4-That suffrage is needed to do
away with child labor.
The National Child Labor Commit
tee, the highest authority in this
country. saws the child labor laws are
better in male suffrage than in women
suffage states. Such laws are con-
stantly improving without the
women's vote.
5-That the working girl needs the
vote for her own protection.
The laws protecting women In IN
dustry are better in male Suffrage
than in women suffrage states. In
California, Washington and oregon,
where women vote, there Is absolutely
no restriction as to the hours women
and children may work in the Gamer
les. There are no laws forbidding
night work for women in any suffrage
state.
6-That the taxpaying woman needs
the vote.
Colorado has the highest tax rate
of any state in the Union, and the
poorest protection to life and prop
erty. Woman suffrage increases taxes.
Do taxpaying women want to pay
higher taxes? Under woman suffrage
the proportion of taxpayfng voters
would be greatly decreased, so prop
erty would be less secure of protec-
tion.
THAT equal suffrage will bring
equal pay for equal work.
In Colorado, according to the four
teenth biennial report of the Bureau
of Labor statistics, the average wage
for men for a nine-hour day in baker
les is sass; of women, for an eight
hour day, ST. In confectionery COM
panies, men, ten-hour day, $3.50:
women, eight-hour day, $1.30; in print
ing establishments, men, eight-hour
day, 1925; women, eight-hour day,
$2fn in dry goods establishments,
men, ten-hour day, 50; women,
eight-hour day, $3.50. Women have
voted in Colorado for twenty-five
years In New York women teachers,
without the vote, have secured equal
pay with men teachers.
S-That there Is no instance on rec
ord of divorce arising from anything
connected with the ballot
Mrs. Alexander Jarmuth, who took
a leading part in the campaign for
woman suffrage in the State of
4. o..
last winter on the grounds of aban-
donment by her husband, who lives
in Seattle. When women got the
vote in Washington, Mrs. Jarmuth
lost all interest in 1t and moved to
New York to continue the agitation
for suffrage, where 1t Is at It's height
"a proof of the anti-suffrage conten-
tion that what many women want Is
not to vote, but to agitate for the
vote. Mr.. Jarmuth, in his bill for
divorce, alleges that his wife's en-
thusiasm for suffrage has destroyed
the domestic side of her nature.
Many cases of homes disrupted by
the political activities of the wife are
known to people who are informed
on the subject. The divorce rate per
900 of married population in Col
orado is 400. In wyoming 361; while
in the adjoining male suffrage States
of Nebraska and South Dakota the
rates are only 226 and 270, respec-
lively
10. That woman suffrage will do
away with strikes.
No State in the Union has such
savage conflict between capital and
labor as Colorado. where women have
voted since 1893 For nearly a year
the Federal troops alone prevented
the horrors of civil war.
IL. That women are powerless to
improve civic conditions without the
vote.
Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, the Eng
lish militant, admits that this is not
the case She says: II never saw
so many women working for social
betterment as I have seen in the
American cities I have visited. In
England the women have turned
their attention to politics and have
accomplished nothing like SO much
civic reform" And Mrs. Vickery, a
prominent social worker in New
South Wales. where women vote,
says: "Suffragists are leaving the
real work for an empty cry. Women's
votes don't bring about reforms; 1t is
womens' endeavors and hard struggle
against evils. Government listens to
women ,more when they have not
the vote, because 1t knows there is
\ no party to think about"
All woman suffrage does Is to in
crease taxes and weaken the govern
ment.
Do you want weaker government
and higher taxes?