New Britain herald., 1919-02-26


the voting power to its women Now
while Is states of our Union are able
to vote on terms with the men, said
Miss HUT the same privilege must
soon be accorded all, in justice.
I'VE don't have to shudder along
with the ants, and the s5eptics," the
speaker continued. I'VE can rest our
case on the conditions which have al
ready sprung from the states in which
suffrage is an established fact. The
contagion has spread most naturally.
Colorado has looked inquiringly at its
neighbor state, where suffrage is es
tabIished on good working basis; Col
orado decides for suffrage, and so it
goes.
THE PEG pie who are making our
laws are trying 70 please the people
who put them in office. Some of the
women's bills will inevitably be neg
Iected. And we have found that as
soon as we assert our individuality
and become wage earners in the in
dustrial world. we come up against
stone walls of legislation, and find
how powerless we are.
After all the matter is largely q
question Of progression. The kings of
early history usurped all power; in
1915, came the beginning of democ-
racyi the Magma Charta was the be-
ginning of representation; at the time
of the Revolutionary war, only four
per cent. of the men had a right to
vote, others being debarred by re-
ligious or property disqualifications.
Now all men vote, and it is only
plain common sense that the same
spirit of progression will apply to
women"
Miss HUT said that women had
asked for religious, educational, so
cial and industrial freedom, and that
how they were appealing for political
freedom. She spoke of their early
struggles for self expression in relig
ious thought, and cited q number Of
Instances of the crudeness of educa
ton accorded to women in past
years Nathan Hale, she said, had
once announced the opening of &
"school for young ladies" which was
to be conducted between the hours of
five and seven in the morning, fol-
lowing which the remainder Of the
dav was to be devoted to the educa-
ton of boys, Following the element
airy education had come the demand
for higher education, which was
shocking to the masculine sense,
since man had desired that the place
for women be the home. Miss HUT
however declined to believe that q
universal upheaval of home conditions
need follow, and she said that to the
woman in the industrial world, each
step of the evolution made her more
efficiently able to cope with the world.
AS to woman and the social free
dom, she spoke of the admiration and
q
wake of the woman who had dared
the adventure overseas. She spoke
of the difficulties of women in any
sort of public life. None of the bug
a-boos, which had been forewarned
by the unbelieving, in regard to the
outcome of the woman in industry,
She said, had come to pass.
1--WE hope that in Connecticut, the
presidential suffrage bill will be
passed, so that we may vote for a
president at the next election" said
Miss HUT. "The hearing will como
up this week. Women must know
the state referendum this autumn. IF
we want the vote badly enough, we
must wor kfor it, Women should be
interested in public welfare questions,
as we'll as home problems; sanitary
conditions, child problems. school
questions are all within our province.
Is it not true, that we too, as we'll as
the men. have to obey laws and abide
NV conditions? We must make suf-
frage popular. It is casting an asper-
sion upon the intelligence Of our
women that others have been given
the power of vote, while we havo
heen denied it. Many people who
have come to scott have stayed to
help us. It must be a strong pull and
pull all together
Mrs. A. NJ. Beardsley, president of
| the suffrage party Of New Britain,
spoke briefly. suffrage is going to
do much to broaden women she
said "Thetr lives are too full of pct
| ty things Women need courage,
, these days Of pioneering. l believe
| that right in this town, the vote of
| women is needed to curb certain con-
| ditfons, to be found in certain Of our
! foreign element which is seething
/ about us III Il powerful and dangerous