The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-01-05
Antl-suffrage News and Comment

Anti-outI'a9e VIEWS anu Soi"'"S'"
The suffrage photoplay, your Girl
and Nine now going the rounds
conveys the impression that a mar
rled woman must.pay her husbands
debts even those contracted before
the nuptials, and that he can viii
away her children. When you see it
or hear about it. ask the sufffaeists
to explain in what State or States
such laws exist. Then ask lawyer
about it, and see if you don't un
fathom another suffrage myth.
1.-THE Sehemer,' one-act suffrage
play, also on the boards" facetiously
suggests a bill to be put before the
electors-"Do the women of your
family know enough to voter 1t is
an expression OF the sufi age idea
that anti-suffragists contend that wo-
men are not intelligent enough TO
vote Where, when and who among
the 'antisr have ever argued that wo-
man is less intelligent than man or
that she does not possess the :nensal
qualifications? Women proved them
selves so intelligent and cognizant OF
the burdens of the ballot and so re-
they influenced the men in Ohio, Mis-
souri,, Nebraska. North Dakota anG
| South akota, last November, to de-
| feat suffrage. Had there been more
women in Nevada and Montana, these
| two sparsely settled States which are
| claimed by the suffragists, also would
have remained among the Common
| wealths which have said mo. EN-.
phatioally no. to the suffrage "invas-
| ion
| Former Senator Frank G. Cannon
of Utah. who has inaugurated na-
tionwide campaign against Mormon
ism, says that their prophets travel
freely with polygamous wives ard
that the Mormon church exercises
| political control in three States, Utah.
Idaho and Wyoming, holding the bal
| ance OF power in the two latter ones. -
| Mr. Cannon's interviewer, recalling
| that Utah has had woman suffrage
| since 1870. Idaho since 1896 and Wyo-
ming since 1860, asked ''how about
| the women?"
| They enter the (Mormon) rela'-
| ions sincerely as a conservation fos
the most part" replied Mr. Cannon.
'One OF them told the whole story in
a sentence: They catch us by relig-
ion she said to me: they hold us by
| our children.
Think OF it. Women with the vote
being held in such slavery for nearly.
a half century, ASK sufffagists to eX
| plain why the vote for women in
| these States has not relieved them If
the stigma which Mormonism has i'm
posed. Strange. isn't it, that Nor
| monism has always thriyed where wo
men vote, and that suffragists, in face
of the polygamous history in their
| States, will continue to argue that
| the morals of the nation will be i'm
proved If women are allowed 20 drop
that little piece OF paper into the bal
lot box? Does Mormonism follow wo-
| man suffrage propaganda? 1t would
seem so, for Mr.. Cannon SAYS that he
will fight the spread of Mormonism
| eastward, and he is now in these parts
conducting his campaign. The free
| woman" will have much to answer for
if the tentacles of polygamy arc fas-
| tened on respectable communities
The drift of feminism knows no
bounds. but regenerated public sen
timent is still Christian and not bar
barous and ii holds the balance OF
power against suffragism, Mormon IN
( and Socialism.