Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-16
EQUAL SUFFRAGE FROM
 A MOTHERS VlEWPoIl
Interesting Facts Brought Out n Ad- dress Before Norwich cranssra.


  At the regular business meeting o4 Norwich grange No. 172 P Of H., 1n
 sytliian hall one of the feature num- the address on Equal Suffrage From Mothers Viewpoint delivered by Mrs. D. J. Bartlett of Putnam Equal Fran chist league. Mrs Bartlett's address was in part as follows:
 It Is difficult task to convince some of the Amenican men who never think Of women as human beings. If men would consider women as justly as they consider men, kh1a question Of sui. frage would be settled in five minutes. All we ask of men is to believe what they say. When men say this is 2 government of the people, they should believe 1t. When they say this gov- ernment Is ruled by the people, they forget that half Of tha people are not heard, and they have been as, DE Shaw said. listening to a bass so- To for all ehese years"
 No class can think and act for an- other class.
 A woman can express her opinion S64 days in a year on any subject. but iUil the 365the day she can only express that opinion 100 feet from where 1t Ibecomes authoritative. We educate CT, on the same terms they engage in business and bear the burdens Of tax ati0n, The women in the cities as well as in the farming districts ara proving themselves faithful. intelli- gent industrious helpnates, bearing the burdens, profits losses, and anxi- Ieties, side by side with men. Why should they not have the same poli- I tical priveleges2
 The National Grange believes they lEhouid. At the Wilmington session oi the National Grange over year ago a Idiscussing vote:
 Resolved, That the National Grange declare efnphaticaaly and unqualified. Fly in favor of woman suffrage. Charles M. Gardener, high priest stands absolutely and unduaIfhediy fl favor of equal suffrage. So h arriv. ing at decision, we ask people to re member that some woman went doWI Unto the valley of the shadow of deatf
 that each one Of Us might live.
 Int woman watched over us ans
 guided our footsteps from infancy ft lmanhpods and Womanhcod. That sh' had more to do In forming oui
 characters and preparing Us to mee
 succeesively the responsibilities of If I than any other person and ara no ltIle broadest sense of the term entitled Ito all rights and privileges of citizen
 ship. This injustice to women hal been tolerated too long. And thel SQLAe say 6Il WQ1ueA ROA Wt14t 2 vote All men don't vote. How oft
 an are we told, when women wan the suffrage 1t will be given then ; that is to say, when an oyerwheiminI D majority of women want what the s I ought to have, then thsss can have I k Extension of suffrage has never bee granted on those terms. In an en = frightened state, wanting Is not con - sidered a necessary condition to tn F 1 granting of education on the extensio - of privilege The enlightened stat {, ccnferH the privilege in order to ereat v I the desire. Women. a large ma5bFtt 3, I I venture to say, 10 to 1, want to Fotl ell don't care whether they do sor no {. it's an unrescapable obligation wone I-I have been released from 1t altogefhf y too long. Then some who are oppos a ed to woman suffrage are in favor { l-ss a limited eiectorate anyway, says Hol .el MT, Higgins, who represented us z IT, the Nafional Republican conYentio ,e It would be alright for some woHe rs to vote, but not all. But even thoue Ia democracy has made many cost Id hiunders, you and believe and kno le that its going to work out right ip Il la lend. believe in equal suffrage 2 csd believe in the sacredness of tAeEnocrt " lcY.