Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1917-01-12 | Page 5 | Woman's Suffrage Should Not be Forced on the States That Are Opposed to It

womans comans suffrage should not be forced on the states that are opposed to it by ROOT former secretary of state I 1 flin am against having tho ilia constitution of tho ilia united states amended so as to impose woman suffrage on oil ilia states which do not wish for it noi not merely or chiefly because my judgment does docs not approve of woman suffrage but for a much more vital reason it is a destruct destruction ioa of tile right of relf pelf government and a subjection of tile alio people of at one state to the government of others having failed to secure ilia assent to woman suffrage of such states as south dakota west 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 in the national government in conformity to the opinions odthe of the people of other states who pro in favor of woman suffrage I 1 think such an attempt is contrary to the principles of liberty upon which the ilia american union onion was established and without which it cannot endure to ro subject any section of ilia country in its local affairs affair ii to the dictation of tho ilia vast multitude of voters living in other parts of the country would create a condition of intolerable tyranny and to use the power of the nation to bring about that condition would bo be to meke the nation ali nn instrument of tyranny i