Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-09-25
Anti-Suffrage


We have already seen of how little
value are tho Endorsements of wom-
an suffrage by politicians from wom-
en- suffrage States. The recent gov
ernor's convention in Boston was at
tended by governors from several of
these States. The Boston suffraglsts
seized this opportunity. engaged Fa-
neuil Hall for rally, and invited these
governors to tell benighted Massa-
chusetts of the glories of double
suffrage. The rally was widely ad-
vertised as Governors Night" When
the night came one lone governor
Governor Alexander, of Idaho) was
on hand to speak. The others had
gone to a clambake. These poor gov
ernors are sometimes obliged by the
necessity of placating the local poll
ticians to speak in favor of woman
suffrage in their own States. But
when 1t is a question of helping the
Boston suffragists to fasten the sys-
tenn on Massachusetts, they show how
much real belief in 1t they have by
staying away from the meeting at
at which they are advertised TO
speak to enjoy a clambake.
The suffra gists tell us what the vote
will give us. Ask them what 1t will
take from us. Is It gain to have to
work through party machines? Is 1t
an advantage to have TO gain your
object by political compromise and
strategic juggling? Look at the re-
suits attained by women in the last
fifty years. Is not the whole country
profiting by the fact that we can go
straight to the governor. to the
mayor. to whom we will, and know
that he will give us respectful atten-
tion whatever the party in control,
for we alone have no political ties.
We are one mighty body, working
solely for the public good, regardless
of party bonds. And in the face of
all these, and all we are now 40
eomplishing, are we to be robbed, be-
yond possibility of recovery. of all
that sets us above boss and above
party?
The suffragists have always been
linked with the most extreme believers
in Socialism-those who believe that
the home, the private family and the
duties of husbands towards wives are
hindrance to their freedom" Along
with this they have put into their
own official history as unmistakable
oNiubnto VI LiltlT dIlll-I6HBlOub 5oull-
ments as any Socialist has ever
framed into language. One OF the
first resolutions adopted by them IN
1S4S was against the so-called
monopoly of the pulpit" by men--a
claim all the more significant when
we remember that only two weeks ago
Rev. Olympia Brown, suffragist
preacher said in San Francisco that
men were no longer fit to preach.
But the Rev. Brown was introducing
nothing original, for in It's chapter on
cial history of woman suffrage de-
clares: "Our government and religion
are alike essentially masculine in
their origin and development. All the
evils that have resulted from dignify-s
ing one sex and degrading the other
may be traced to this central error, q
belief in trinity of masculine gods In
one, from which the feminine element
is wholly excluded"
No city with less than 1900 In
habitants has so many women di-
Vorced as Denver, Col, where one
woman in every twenty-nine who are
married is divorcee. The average
is one divorce to 113 married women
throughout the Union. Denver, which
leads the whole country in divorce, in
proportion to population, where wom-
en- have voted for twenty three years,
recently broke its own record with
fifty-four applications for divorce in
a single afternoon.