Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-12

in Connecticut And what the same type of manhood which crowned us with citizenship in California will stand by the women of Connecticut when the test comes.
 And so. I want to tell you who vot- ed yes and who voted no in California. we Californian women are very hu- man, and after the vote was won, we wanted to know our friends from our enemies in order to remember them unto the third and fourth generation" as we are told in the Bible. So we hire experts to make suffrage survey or the districts that were for or against suffrage. And this was the report Four classes of men who voted no in California:
 First, the Vice interest,", The Bar bary Coast' Cor Red Light iistricts) voted solidly against woman suffrage. There was not low dive, a corpor- atfon which wished to work women and children for starvation wages, or single element in California which made it's money out of destroying and degrading the life women create which failed to vote no.
 Our illiterate element voted no. The man who has never had a chance of education, who thinks of woman as an inferior creature, a drugde or slave, he will always vote no. Sometimes he comes from some foreign country where he has known nothing but pow
 
 been taught that women is mans in ferioI-and this is reflected in his vote. wards, where the population was largely negro, voted against the Suf- fraGe amendment, November 2nd, in New York. I stood at the polls in Chinatown in New York giving out literature and doing my best to in- duce the Chinamen to allow Eastern women to vote-onIy to be refused.
 Our third enemy was the very rich man. can best explain this by say ing that when you becomN very, very well off in San Francisco-when you have a summer and a winter home and French governness and a butler-and your daughters go to Europe, and men go in the "best society" Well Pacific with the Iliteracy and vice and voted solidly with them-no-on woman suf- frage.
 Great wealth-like great poverty seems often to stupefy the souls of people.
 Our fourth and last enemy was the pedestal man. You have all seen him and had to listen to him talk. One thing above all others he hates, and that is a new idea. He worships all that is old and distrusts all that is new. Women seldom like him. almost never love him. for they know him to be weak, tyranniCaL unreasonable, vain and worst of all an unmitigatsd bore. He covers his distrust of women under a cloak of something which he terms "chivalry." He pretends it is be- cause of his rare respect and admira- ton of women that he is unable to give them justice. Women, according to this gentleman, are flowers in gar dens. queens of homes, their place is on a pedestal to be worshipped.
 The man who thinks of women as a doll will always vote no.
 How then with vice against us-with the corrupt political machine fighting us. and every reactionary element in California joining with them, how is it that on December 12, 1912 over 700. 900 women were crowned with citizenship and woman suffrage won in California |?
 It was from our great free state, from our small towns, from the rank and file of the people thaat the vote came, which has made us able, as voting women, to put some of the best laws on the statute books for the pro- lection of women and children that America possesses. And this we have done alone but side by side with the men who believed in us and enfran- chised us. There is nothing radical or strange in woman suffrage. All that it means. is that woman. who ere ate the life of the world, shall have the power through the ballot of protecting the life they create.
 And in the face of this brutal out