Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-07
Additional Reasons For
Opposing Women's Suffrage.

TO the Editor Of The Evening Capital
kindly allow me space in your es-
teemed paper 70 answer some Of the
articles in the CAPITAL Of Feb. 5.
To do this at all intelligently it
VIII be necessary TO again publish an
article from the Official History OF
Woman Suffrage
The first Of that sex 10 preach votes
for women III America was Frances
Wright. the foreign atheist and so
cialist. who with Robert Dale owen.
established the communist colony in
New Harmony Ind, in 1925 saying
4 have devoted my time and fortune
to laying the foundation Of an estab-
Iishment where affection shall form
the only marriage and kind feeling
and kind action the only religion"
The second woman to advocate this
propaganda among US WIS Ernestine
L. Rose. who was banished from Aus
tria in 1S36.and made president Of the
American National Suffrage Associa-
ton, with Frances Wright, Susan B.
Anthony and Elizabeth cady Stanton
as associate leaders.
The Pankhursts and Mrs. Beatrice
Hale who have figured in recent years
in suffrage agitation in the United
states, are from foreign lands, while
Miss Alice Paul head OF the Con-
gFessional Union, with others asso-'
ciated with her were students and
companions OF Mrs. Pankhurst in
English prisons. The fruits of her
teaching ripening in America being
lighting the party id power" through
piclIets, among these pickets being
daughter Of Mrs. Stanton
The mother of Elizabeth Cady stan
ton was author Of THE Woman's
Bible from which passage bearing
upon the Creators design in regard
60 women and their place in His uni
verse have been eliminated while
poem by another suffrage leader,
ending with
This doctrine Of Jesus preached By
Paul
IL followed in spirit will ruin us all
At their convention such rebeIlions
against the Divine order for women
were instigated as to be unfit for
young readers, but urgently to be
commended by those having the care
Of the young at one Of these, "The
Easy Divorce Convention" presided
over by Susan b Anthony, Mrs. STAN
ton said: $50 long as you insist upon
marriage as a Divine institution yon
make separation even, so odious that
the most noble men and women
choose a life Of concealed misery.
And again IF the only way to es-
cape from such infamous laws by
which all power is placed in the
hands Of men is through divorce,
then it is the hospitable door to open
for those who wish to escape
Now are such sentiments things OF
the past The Rev. Anna Shaw says:
The marriage ceremony should be
cut out I have different service
for each marriage. The principals
consult me beforehand, and we pre-
pare the vows according TO the views
and convictions Of the couple.
Can we wonder that Bishop More
land Of the Episcopal Diocese Of Sac
ramento, is CRYING out against the re-
cent alarming increase of divorce
which lis threatening to undermine
the homes Of California" pointing to
Montana, Washington, Colorado and
California Cali eiual suffrage states)
as the worst offenders. and stating
that 40 per cent of the children in
California orphanages are the chill
dren Of divorced parents. etc. Such
is the origin Of woman suffrage in
the United States.
By their "Oficial History it was in
trodueed by foreigners.
The statement that the majority of
the advocates OF woman's suffrage
are foreigners can be easily proven.
The Western States" that have
given the vote to women are inhabit-
ed BY mixed population of foreign
ers, having but very small percent
age Of inhabitants who are descend
ents OF the old or original colonists.
DO not these women who vote consti-
tute the roll-callg Then the foreign
vote gave New York woman's suf-
frage.
For want of space must answer
all other arguments in a future arti-
Gle.
Very respectfully,
MRS. THOS L. GLADDEN..