Connecticut western news., 1918-01-17
Letters From the People.
THE SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT.

It passed at last; at last it passed. Either way you pnt it, it is correctly phrased After forty years of Suffrage pilgrimage to and fro. back and forth to and from Washington the Susan B. Anthony Amendment at last got by; it was tight squeeze but lots of things get by that way It is not with in the pur view of this article to re. state that of which the newspapers have been fuil-suffrage history; suff- rage defeats of the past and the great sutfrsge -ictories of the present time Personally, I am mt calmed down from the joy of the great New York victory yet; have trod an air ever since I knew for a certainty (woman's intui- tion) that the Amendment would pass after that New York landslide and it did No one can really be ecsta tically happy all tile time, however. with this nightmare of war glooming over the world like boody pail; but the real dved-in the-wool suffragists can rejoice that the forty years pilgrimage through the willie ness of Lrejudices, injustice and cruel senseless delays is at last practically over. Women have held on the real suffragi ists-like bull dogs. Excuse me for the inelegant compari son but it fits. Big leaders, little leaders. the great lights and the little way of in-the corner rush lights have held on with the tenacity of grip, the unbeatable grit and sheer pluck of all real fighters. Whether canine or human Real, woman suffrag:sts are unbeatable. Meu recognized that son @ little time ago. The lazy, indifferent don t-care whether-I vote or-not suff- ragists are out of the fight, always have been, and do mt count except by way of the signatures on suffrage slips which helped ir way but suffrage would forever have remained just where it was in Susan B Anthony s day, but for the unbeatable fighters, and now all such, whether big or little can honestly rejoice. AS for Susan B. Anthony I trust she will be made aware that the victory is at last hers I have an unshskable belief that we mortals live after death. Were it not for that, should feel some bitterness mixed with sadness and a sense of dreary futility in all noble human effort. We'll, forty years IS long time l to fight for right that rightfully be- longed to woman all the stime; still let us reflect that peace on earth WAS promised 19 thousands centuries ago, aud the world toGay is blood soaked with war as never before Now before we women can actually become voters there will be tue ijenate fight, then states ratifycation, and about seventeen billion miles of government red tape to unroll from the Washington Ticker (meaning congress assembled), before the Amendment will make voters ot wcmen. I want to say right here. that the women anti ti-suffragists have never held back the suffrage from their sex, at least not to any appreciable extent. The worst foes, among women, to tuff- rage, have been the indifferent ones in the ranks, and I am honest enough to admit that, tenths of the women suffragists are utterly unfit to vote; but keeping the vote from them hasn't made them more fit, and never would, and exactly the same things can be said of men. They are never required to be made fit, or to know enough about voting to last them up short hill. They simply are made voters at 21 years, whether they know beans or not. The antis, to my notion. (mean. ing the wcmen) have been far more consistent than many suffragists, in that they have never pretended to want that for which they really cared noth- ing about, and, for which they could never be induced to make Gl4e slightest personal effort or sacrifice. l honestly think the Antis will make the best voters.
 B. H.