Show womans comans suffrage should not be F forced on the states that are opposed to it by ELIHU ROOT former secretory secretary of state iam I 1 am against having the constitution of the united states amended so 60 as to impose woman suffrage on the states which do not wish for it not fiot merely or chiefly because my judgment does not approve of woman 7 s suffrage U but for a much more vital reason itis a destruction of the right of self government and a subjection of the people of one sta state teto to the government of others having failed to secure the assent io woman suffrage of such states as south dakota west virginid virginia ohio new york and pennsylvania the advocates of woman suffrage now speak it against their will and to compel them to carry on their local government and select their representatives in the national gov government emment to the opinions of the people of other states who ire are in favor of woman suffrage I 1 think such an attempt is contrary to the principles of liberty upon which the american union yas was established and without which it cannot endure to subject any section of the country in its local affairs to the dictation t of if the vast multitude of voters living in other parts of tb the e country aoud create a condition conditto condi tio n of intolerable ab tyranny and to use the power powe of N the nation to bring about that condition WO would uia be to make the nation k Rn instrument of atyia tyranny n |