The Prescott daily news., 1916-05-18
,NTIS START NEW
 DRIVE AGAINST SUFFRAGE

In the campaign number" of the woman's Protest, the ofiiciai maga- zine published by the National Asso- ciation Opposed to Woman Suffrage, tbe anti-sutfragists seem to have started drive" on woman suffrage from new angle, in which history and legislation are produced at length to show that woman suffrage is costly experiment that has not broupht better laws for women and children. has not increased the wages of women, nor placed the States in which it has been established in superior position.
 On the other hand, Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge. president of the anti-suffrag ists who edits the Protest, declares that woman suffrage is detrimental to the advancement of women and lis an attempt to substitute political ma chnery for personal motherhood.
 Let women," she says, "concen- trate on the human product. It takes much more ability to make law abiding citizen than it does to write and pass a law. Woman can remake the world and remould its citizens in each succeeding generation. Is this not a big enough field for one sex?"
 "Women have made a miserable failure of life and opportunity both if they cannot train their sons to do something for them, once or twice year on election day" she continues.
 Eight women in ten over twenty one marry, and there is a child under ten and another between ten and twenty for every married woman in America. Doesn't the mother deserve to have the details of politics at tended to by the men? Can women neither elect husbands nor rear sons capable of representing them? They can and do, according to the anti suffragiSts."
 A feature of the campaign num- ber' is a copyright article compar- ing the laws, population, proportion of men and women and action on wo- man suffrage for the entire twenty two States which have submitted this question to popular vote in the last thirty years.
 According to tables in this article, the largest suffrage majority was 25,95l votes in Utah in 1896; the largest suffrage State, California, adopted woman suffrage by a major lty of only 3.5S7 votes, with only lS per cent of the men voting in favor; the suffragists gained fewer recruits in Massachusetts in 1915 than Tn Kansas in 1912, although Massa- chusetts has twice the population of Kansas; and four of the States which rejected woman suffrage, New York, uhlo, Massachusetts and Missouri, gave greater single majorities against woman suffrage than the combined puralities of all suffrage States.
 After quoting the official History or Woman Suffrage to show that even the pioneers of the "woman's nghtS' movement in 1S4S were afraid mat "a demand for the right to vote would defeat others they deemed more rational, and make the whole movement ridiculous" the various iaws regarding women and children are given, ending with a quotation rom Susan B. Anthony in 1860 to he effect that special legislation for women should be abolished. Special 'awS for women exist in spite of the sNty-year-old suffrage demand for equal rights" it is said.
 Instead of the suffragists having oeeh responsible for Lincoln's free uig the slaves, the antis contend that history shows the woman suffragists attempted ito graft woman suffrage On to the emancipation act" and an- noyed the Great Emancipator during ,ne % Clyl War as they have annoyed War.