Evening journal., 1919-07-31
lNTIS OPPOSED TO
SPECIAL Session
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understand. would be from s2s,O00 TO
$4,000 This money could be spent 10
better advantage on new schools and
good roads.
"Thlrd, Delaware is opposed 10 Suf-
frage as a State. and so are most OF our
Legislators as individuals, but with the
methods the Suffragists now employ. no
legislator is safe. To use the words Of
Mrs. Benton MacKaye: You women
must be optimistic; keep dashing like
the little frog In the churn, churn
around every member OF the Legisla-
ture TIN you make his head swim DO
we want the laws Of the country made
by men whose heads are swimming?
"This is question that should be
submitted TO the people for calm action.
Miss Katherine IIllles said In her
maiden speech, Il would be delightful to
have the amendment ratified by special
session as a surprise for her mother,
on her return from France. But do the
people Of Delaware really wish to sur
prise Mrs. Hilles at a cost Of s2s-000Y
mo. Governor Townsend, special ses-I
sions should only be called to act upon
war measures. and the people Of Della
ware should not be asked TO spend
s2s. 900 in order TO please a handful OF
women and few henpecked men.
eNTay / urge you, in all sincerity, not
to cali a special session at this time.
'Yours very truly,
MARY WILSON THOMPSON"
The Delaware Association Opposed TO
Suffrage today addressed the following
omen letter TO members OF the Legis-
lature:
Gentlemen Of the Legislature:
"You may be called in special session
Go ratify the Federal Suffrage Amend
ment.
I'VE wish to inform you that the
country is now alive TO the fact that
highly financed special interests, con-
trolling Congress and State Legsla-
lures. are tsmperng with the constitu-
lion OF the United states. They are
using A. as a vehicle 10 fasten on the
nation laws which the people Of tho
several States viii not grant at the polls,
and as a steam roller to crush out
state rights.
"Thls tampering' will not stop with
this amendment.
"Any special interest, sufficiently
financial and financed, now knows that
failure to win consent from the people
simply means concentration on vulner-
able members OF Congress and Legisls-
lures.
Under pressure OF special interests
YOU are opening the way for the United
states constitution TO become collec-
lion Of force bills on bitterly contro-
sersial issues, and blanket laws or sec
Iional measures possibly requiring en-
by federal troops, inevitably |
leading to sectional retaliation. North
ern Congressman were openly accused |
Of voting for thefederal suffrage amend |
ment as retaliation by the North on the
SoutY for the prohibition amendment.
Western interests may invoke the |
United States constitution TO attack
eastern business interests, etc.
''The peoples so-cslled representatives
are perverting the constitution OF the
United States, former safeguard OF the
peoples liberty. into an instrument Of
political trickery and oppression.
I'VE know, and all the country knows,
the many kinds Of pressure that the |
suffrage ring iIss used TO force this /
amendment. Suffrage leaders have
boasted OF their control over the peo- |
pleis representatives.
Suffrage speakers advise their work |
ers to 'churn around the Legislators
until their heads swim
"The cost of special session VIII
amount TO s2s.o00 at least, possibly
more. The State could spend this sum
1etter on schools and good roads.
America today is the balance wheel
# tho world, and we do wrong to urge
woman suffrage in this reconstruction
,erlod The people are demanding re-
urn to normal conditions and sound
usiness basis, You may force on the
ountry a revolutionary change that is
dhstruAed experiment In yeur esvn
tate and is known 10 increase the
sXer OF revolutionary factions.
'sThe people are demanding back frem
e federal government the powers They /
llsgated temporarily as States and in
viduais for the period Of the war
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