The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-10

 SUFFRAGE NEWS
G. Porritt.

Hardly had the legislature ad- 5oalrned on Wednesday after the vote on woman suffrage, before Miss Emily .Pierson and Miss Alyse Gregory had packed thEir grips and started for New Jersey where they are going to work in the campaign which will end with the vote in September. New ! Jersey is the first of four campaign states to vote on woman suffrage this fall and for this reason it is sconsid- 1 teked by the suffragists the. most inn rs3rtant- The winning of an eastern state for woman suffrage will be far more effective in winning over the people of Connecticut than any amount of work that could be done within the borders of this state It ia for these reasons that Miss Emily Pierson and Miss Alyse Gregory both 7 wished to join in the campaign work ! in New Jersey, and, at it's last meet ing the executive board of the C. M S. A. voted unani11ousiy to release their organizers for the summer. and to allow them to go into campaign work in New Jersey
 Miss Isabella Sanders the third torganizer Of the Connecticut Woman Suffraee Association, is also going in to the campaign states,S but before engaging in more work she is going Ito have a short vacation at her home in Illinois ike Miss Piersqn and Miss < Gregory, she starts this week, but it VIII De len 0<19S O1 lWO W S7SAAH lOSAS1 v I she is again in harness and at work ing helping lthe New Jersey women to- win the vote
 There will be no cessation of work in Connecticut through the summer q The only difference between this and former years will be that there will be nossorganized summer campaign. The local leagues will take up suffrage. vzork with even more enthusiasm than previously, because they Will feel that I<--,x and not as heretofore largely on the state organizers
 Massachusetts is one of the four campaign states: The vote on the wo- man suffrage mendment to the con 4 4sttutien of Mass chusetts takes place tin November Already the Afassa- chusetts people are hard at work, and in order to organize their press work and to send out regular Eeryles of news to all the weekly and bi-Weekly Enewspapers in the small towns, Mas sachusetts has appealed to Connecti- cut for help The Massachusetts suf- frage association is asking the o. w. Is A for the loan of the press secre- tarys and Mrs Porritt expects to. go to Boston in a few days to begin the organization of the presA department there Mrs Porritt will stay for a few days and then return to Connec- ficut, but she will revisit Boston from time to time until the press work
 
 The anti-suffrag of Connecticut are putting forward the suggestioh that suhragists and antis should give up their own agftations and join hands to obtain all the reforms that women are needing in this state. From fhefr point of view the sugges- ton is excellent and it is to be hoped for their own credit. they will adopt it. They do not~need the help Of the sllffragists, nor would this change in k1-- point of opposition to woman suf- frage. They say that the sufragists form only three or four per cent. of the women of Connecticut-as negligi- bIe number, let them go ahead with outsus9 If they can obtain all the re- forms needed without the vote they will have arguments to present thai will have more force than any they can now bring forward. Let them & raise the age of consent Of girls here to IS, build a woman reformator5 without further delay. amend the law governing the hours of labor for women and reduce these laws toi g day. build a school for the feebIe
 minded, and effect all the other re. forms for which suffrag1sts have Ions been working Incidentally to theI own particular cause
 AS a matter of fact it would be nothing new for women to work fol all these and many other reforms lnFy nave pSS1At cong 131As5 Tor us4Ls { century, and after twenty or twenty five years of solid and laborlous worl they are now and again able to get reform through. The suffragist complaint is that too much labor i required of women when reform
 have to be won in this manner, ans they ask the right of suffrage in or der to be able to bring direct infIu ence to bear on the politicians, an, to make their oplnionf of conseuuenc
 in the political parties.