| Show A SETBACK FOR SUFFRAGE the result of the vote on woman suffrage in massachusetts last tuesday was wae a pulverizing blow to co the hopes of the equal of the old bay state it if it showed one thing plainer than any other it was that the opponents of the suffrage were the women themselves for an analysis analyst it of the vote clearly proven that they were the ones who defeated the project by simply staying at home and baylog nothing the may as well prepare themselves therefore for an educational campaign among the indifferent members of their own sex and leave the men mein alone for the present the ones upon whom it to is proposed to confer the ballot are just now the oses ones who need deed conversion up to the pointon point of accepting the be proffered boon bood and while it may seem a little harsh to say gay it we nevert eless elees believe the truth to be that bat equal suffrage guff rage in the united states would have heen been well nigh universal before this it if its opponents opponent bad not been able to say and to prove by actual figures that the women themselves did not want it the apathy of the women of massachusetts chu however must not be taken as an evidence of the temper of the sex in other sections of the country the fast east has long ago ceased to be the leader in all lines of progressive thought bought and reform no such euch re suits as are telegraphed out from boston could be reported from wyoming or colorado jo in both of aboh states the tuf suffrage frage for women Is not cot only appreciated but exercised with effects that are unquestionably beneficial while the massachusetts setback may cause a momentary disappointment therefore to the equal suffragists of america and the world there Js Is abundance of encouragement 1 I As to the growth and popularity of the caone lo in other places where it has faai i r actually 60 tully been tried |
