Show the minority of women the opponents of woman claim to represent tho majority of women the claim is baseless the majority of women are neither suffragists nor remon they are indifferent of those who take any lively interest in the question either way the largo majority want to vote this has been shown year after year by the relative numbers of petitioners petition ers and re mon not only in massachusetts but in maine new york illinois iowa in short wherever petitions for suffrage and against it have been sent in the petitioners petition ers have always outnumbered the remon at least five to one and oftener fifty or a hundred to one the so called referendum of 1896 merely demonstrated the same thing by an official count boston comans womans journal |