Republican farmer., 1919-11-14
Governor HOlCOn1b And ROrabdCk Are
 Bitterly Arraigned
Speakers at Suffrage Dinner Assert Rorabaek and His Crowd Have Not Passed Progressive Act Since
 They Were In Power''

to masquerade as protectors of worn- en, in the advocacy of such laws, when their purpose is rather to pre- vent the competition Of women with male labor. The truth is that many mem bers of organized labor now look askance at the general introduction into industry and other activities, of women as laborers.
 AS one of the Joint Chairmen of the National War Labor Board, I had for year a fairly good opportunity to see what was going on in the labor world, and I became convinced that women needed protection against some of their would-be protectors and that the only way they could se- cure this would be through the ballot with legislative representative chos- en by them to scan closely the pur- pose of such legislation and insist upon the preservation of as much freedom as possible in the employ ment of women where they could render service, and where they with out injury to themselves, could earn a livelihood. Before this, I found it difficult to see how the exercise of the suffrage could help wQmen in se- curing a wider opportunity for work and better wages. That official ser vice, however, satisfied me that I was wrong in assuming that women may not, by active participation in poIftf- cal matters and the making of legis- lation, help themselves. If women can use the ballot to secure proper benefits to themselves as a class, the fact is a powerful argument in ia vor of their receiving the suffrage.
 Third A third reason which has influenced me in this matter grows out of the campaign in reference to the League of Nations A dis heartening development since the ease with which men who were preaching and praising loudly the sacrificiaI spirit developed by the war, self-denying patriotism, world charity and love, fraternal brotherhood. all
 to make the world safe for demo- cracy, have reverted to the coldly selfish kind of so-caIed narrow Amer icanism that would let the world wag as it will. would wait to meet world wars until they threaten us and would assume no burdens and take no re- responsibilities for lending off wars by an international arrangement. The intense desire of many styles of the male individual to get back to busi- ness and to relieve himself from the patriotic burdens assumed during the war and the reactionary tendency
 manifest everywhere. have discour- aged ministers of the gospel whc looked for a continuance of the re- l ligious fervor manifest during the war, have baked reformers who look ed for a greater interest in others than has survived the Arnlistice Day, and have disappointed the advocates i of the League of Nations who looked for a greater sense of international obligation among those who were strong and loud in their demands for a vigorous prosecution of the war to save the world from autocracy and for peace.
 1 Ut is not a question in which party | considerations or personal considera- tions should have any influence has been sufficiently discussed now ! before the country to invoke decision
 one way or the other. I hope the | governor may be induced in the near
 future to call the legislature of Con-
 necticut together to pass on this i'm portant issue.
 | Mrs. Fletcher Dobyns chairman ot l the Illinois Republican women's ex | ecutive committee, spoke upon the l necessity of women to join politica l parties when they obtain the vote and l urged suffrage associations to be par, | tisan rather than non-partisan.
 At the speakers table were the ] following honored guests: Hon William Howard Taft, Miss Rather.
 inc Ludington, Mrs. Fletcher Dobyns | Mayor and Mrs. Clifford B. Wilson | Senator Richard Bisseu. RidgefieId | Miss Mary Bulkely, Hartford; Fred,
 erick Salmon, Westport; Colonel ant
 Mrs. Isaac Ullman of New Haven
 Hon. and Mrs. Harry Sherwood O. | Westport; Mrs. A. H. Rotch of Bos | ton; Senator John B. Dillon of SheI 1 ton: Judge John H. Light of Nor. l walk; Mrs. George Bass, Chicago MT. and Mrs. Samuel c. Shaw, Mrs ! Grace Thompson Seton of Green | wich; Mrs. Emerson Newell Green
 wich; MT. and Mrs. Harrison B | Freeman of Hartford; Mrs. Mario1 | Nichon Rawson of Sound Bend; Mis-: | Mabel c. Washburn, Hartford; Dr
 H. w. Alec of Ridgefield, and MT and Mrs. A. E. S. Taylor of Nor | folk.
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