The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21
BEYER OBJECTS TO
 WOMAN SUFFRAGE
To the Editor of the Age-Herald:

am an old-tine reader ana sup
 scriber to The Age-Herald and I am
 reading with amusement and amazement
 the enormous amount of bunk you are
 printing in favor of womaus suffrage via the national amendment or any other old way that it can be fastened on the people.
 If one was to limit their reading to your great family paper one could not help but come to the conclusion that unless women were emancipated, and at once, immediately if not sooner, that the end of time were near or that some other dread calamity or catastrophe would overtake the world. Just the other morning, the venerable ex-legislator, Captain Cranford, came out in strong indorsement of suffrage in your columns and in support of his state nent he pulled out of cold storage statement and indorsement from the late Rev. Dewitt Talmage as to the beauties # woman's suffrage that he saw on ex- hibition in New Zealand way back in | 1894.
 While Captain Cranford has an un- doubted right to call on and to quote these reverend gentlemen, the fact re- mains that there are a great many peo- ole that believe that the less that preachers and women concern them elves about state matters. the state will ne that much better off. I am of the belief. however, that the recent election in Walker county, in which republican mopped up a. demo- arat for the legislature by over 600 ma lority, has great deal to do with the captains espousa1 of the womans i cause, as the captain is well known as full jeweled, six-cylinder democrat, and perhaps with the ladies voting in Wal ker the county might not in the future be .defiled by a republican victory. 1 do not believe in woman suffrage tor the simple reason that it will create lot of she men and he women, and for the further fact that it has not re- suited in any good to anyone, the women included, wherever it has been given a trial.
 l I am fully familiar with the argument that man is out of date; that he has made mess of things, and that we ought to turn everything over to the women to manage, but I pay no atten- | tion to this stuff, because the facts do rot bear it out The best governed states | In the United States are not the states Ixhere the women vote, but to the con- l tary, in the states controlled by man suffrage.
 Colorado has had woman's suffrage for | Q years, but have yet to hear from the | champions of suffrage as to the wonder ful benefits accruing to that state from woman's participation in political affairs. 1 want to quote from a communication l addressed to President Wilson by the I Nevada Association Opposed to Woman | Suffrage, bearing on the Colorado case l and pointing out the beauties of it in l that state:
 Tn Colorado, the only state where time | population and general conditions have | afforded test, we find after 20 years | a disappointment for every promise. Tn | lieu of government we find anarchy; in l lieu of order chaos in lieu of home rule, 1 federal control; in lieu of economy in | government, the highest per capita rate of any state; in lieu of improved domes- | tic conditions, we find but two states in
 the 4S with a higher divorce rate.' l This is the result of 20 years of woman l voting and surely does away with the | argument about better homes, better I laws, etc.
 The state of Washington is also
 blessed" with womans suffrage, and | there there are some big doings out there
 also. The following ought to interest married men with children. and no doubt | will make a few hesitate before going through the erdeal that MT. Hackett had
 to go through. thanks to woman suf- frage and his wife called on to do jury service. I quote from the Washington
 Post of June 8, 1915, and reprinted from l the Spokesman Review of Spokane, Wash:
 While the law is so stern that 1t re- fuses mother permission to go to her baby while she is doing jury duty, there l is nothing to prevent a baby going to it's
 IF other, at least that is how the law was l interpreted in the court of Judge Will 1 liam Huneke, when baby Margaret Hack !! ett went to the courthouse for her din- | ner.
 | Father Hackett rushed Margaret, aged 1 3 months, in an automobile to the court 1 house. Mother gave baby her o'clock meal and father and infant retired sub 1 ject to hurry calls during the night
 Mrs. R. W. Hackett was serving on a l jury which failed to agree" l While I do not know, of course, but
 imagine MT. Hackett felt better when l the jury was dismissed and no doubt he gave three or more hurrahs for womans | suffrage as it applies to man with
 3-months-old baby at his home, l From Tacoma in the same state we get
 the following good news: | Judge c. M. Easterday granted a di- vorce to Margaret Hopkins from Elmer 1 Hopkins. Mrs. Hopkins alleged her hus- | band forced her to adopt his political views. Politically the Hopkins family wasn't one and incompatibility devel- :, oped."
 Case after case like the above could be l quoted and believe that there is not a
 state in the union that has woman s suffrage but what wouldn't repeal the | law if they could.
 1 I well know that any person that dares say word in opposition to woman's suffrage invites the unforgiving wrath l of the suffragettes. but I do not care | for their hostility. I am not caring
 about political future, and as the Irish men said. my political future is be- I hind me"
 l My only regret is that when this fool l ish proposition was before the United | States Senate, there were not 50 Oscar | Underwoods there to vote it down. 1 GEORGE J. BEYER.