Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-09
Anti=Suffrage
The case against woman suffrage:

1. The vote is not a question OF IN
dividual right" or what is best for
the Individual or for any class, but
solely a question Of what is best for
the State.
2. The net result Of woman suffrage
wherever tried has been a loss to the
State and q noss to women.
g. The vote is demanded by only
small majority of women.
L. To force the vote upon the great
majority of women to satisfy a small
majority would be undemocratic and
unjust.
s. Men and women are created diff
ferent and designed to work in diff
ferent spheres for the common good,
to cooperate with and supplement
each other and not to compete.
s. The vote would deprive woman OF
her non-partisan power, which en-
ables her to do for the State what
man is unable to do because he is
bound by political party obligations.
T. The basis of government Is phys
ical force and the physical power to
enforce the law, without which the
vote is useless, Is neither possible nor
desirable for women.
g. Woman suffrage is demanded by
socialists and feminlsts as "a means
to an end" the end being complete
social revolution.
Such, in briefest outline, is our in
dlctment of the woman suffrage
movement.
The obvious failure of woman suf-
frage has forced many persons, once
ardent believers In VOTES for wom-
en-" to admit that their hopes have
been disappointed Some of these
still profess to believe in suffrage, on
the ground of inherent right"
Others frankly declare that they
would vote for its repeal n they had
tho opportunity
Judge LiDdsey's View.
There are a few of these fatal ad-
missions. Judge Lindsey, Of Denver
tstill a suffragisD.
'The women are as free of the
power of the beast as the men are
and no freer. . Their. leaders
in politics are politicians
Women in politics are human beings
and they are unable to free
us because they are not free them
selves. s."-Everybody's Magazine, May,
1910.
Where is our adult probation law7
We are a suffrage State Massachur
setts is not. but they have an adult
probation law. Where Is our home
finding society7 We have suffrage,
but our dependent children are put in
homes for dependent children, instead
of being given the rights of family
ties.
I'VE are twenty years behind Mass
achusetts in spite of suffrage. From
an address at a Susan h. Anthony
banquet in Denver, Col. 1915.
Mrs. r. c. Campbell of the Colorado
State Board for the Care of Dependent
Children: We believe, of course, in
our hearts that women In public life
would purify politics and would make
for higher moral and political stand
ard. After twenty years we are
forced to admit that human nature as
displayed by women Is not different
from that displayed by men, and IL the
appeal has been made on the ground
of upllft of politics 1t would have been
disproved by the facts"
Judge Lane, of Tacoma, Wash: II
favored woman suffrage in Washing
ton and voted for II. But = I
am so greatly disappointed at the way
1t has worked out that l would today
welcome an opportunity to vote for
its withdrawal: and I believe If II
were resubmitted to the people of
Washington, and every man and
woman of voting age were compelled
to vote upon it, woman suffrage
would be defeated by an overwhelm-
Ing majority From the Boston Post,
March 81, 1915.
Mrs Francis w Goddard, one of
Colorado's most prominent and re-
spected women: For years l believed
In woman suffrage and have worked
day in and day out for II. | now see
my mistake. The experiment
is n failure. 1t has done Colorado no
good 1t has done woman no good.
Tho best thing for both would be II
tomorrow the ballot for women could
be abolished
Mrs. c. w. Kayser, Of Wheaton. ILL.,,
on resigning her craftsmanship of the
Woman's Suffrage Association: Men
have been bad in politics, but the way
| women are going on Is worse. | want
| to get away from suffrage.
| The best element among the suf-
| fragists is hampered and insulted and
mistreated by women who expect
some day to land a big political plum
/ A Disaster.
Miss Annie Beck, of Los Angeles
| Cal, former secretary of the Califor-
MIA Equality League, addressing q
committee of United States Senators
| "I gave without remuneration over 1
| year of my life working for suffrage
IL | had to do it over again | would
work twice as hard, If 1t were pos
sihle, against il. / have had mor'
than ordinary opportunity to observe
and watch the workings of suffrage
and | consider the results not onl!
unsatisfactory and disappointing bu
disastrous"
The time to think of this is now
not after election.
The statistics of divorce prove be
yond a doubt that this great socia
menace is more prevalent and In
creasing faster in woman suffrag'
west than in tho male suffrage east
Treating the matter first from tn
standpoint of locality, with only in
cidentai reference to suffrage, let u
compare the New England States Wit
the nine States which adopted woma'
suffrage in the period, 1869 1872.
In the twenty years, 1SS7-l9O6, ther
were 1875 divorces to every 100 mar
. riages in the nine States referred u
In the same period in New Eng
land there were only IA divorces !
every 100 marriages. The increase !
the number of divorces in the twent
years. 1887 1906, over the previou
) twenty-year period was:
United states ......,... let't per zen zen
: Nine Suffrage States. .24l.S per cen
: New England States,., 6S.S per cen
> These figures show that the divore
= evil fourishes out of all proportio
e in the territory which mas aoopte
s woman suffrage.
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