Show WOMAN SUFFRAGE mrs julia ward ilowe afes president of the now new england woman suffrage association with headquarters in boston mass has sent us it a list of eleven quest ions with reference to woman s rafe its cause and effects etc some odthe of the questions were ably inspired by remarks made by president taft at the forty second annual convention of the national american woman suf frage association held in avash washington a short time ago to t o summarizing Sumar izing the presidents president s speech to the delegates the washington correspondent of the boston transcript says ie he had bad frankly told them that he was not alto altogether ether in sympathy with the suffragist movement and was explaining why he be could not subscribe fully to its principles ile he said he thought one of the dangers in suffrage for women was that woman as a whole were not in interested te in it and that the power of the ballot as far as woman wits was concerned would be contrell con troll ed ad by the loss cass 1 lo 10 for bose remarks the president was hissed bythe by the delegates dec dee t gates tho the hisses having stilled the president smilingly rejoined now my doar dear ladies 3 ou must musts show bow yourself capable of suffrage ra go by exercising that degree of restraint which is necessary in the conduct of govern ment me nac affairs by not hissing aurthur Fur thur thui giving his confession of faith on the suffrage ques question tion president taft continued ial if I 1 could be sure that women as a class would exercise the franchise I 1 would be in favor of it at presen there exists in my mind considerable doubt in certain states have tried the elpi r ment states in the hooky mountains where there is no great concentration of population to cope with equal suffrage rage e has not been a failure it has not made I 1 think any distinct difference though it is pos sible to say that it has shown some improvement in the conduct of public affairs me to say that the task before you in establishing your political rights is not in convincing the be men but in convincing your own class not withstanding the high regard we uve have for president vili t taft we certainly can not agree with him in his views as credited to him on the woman guffra suffrage e question his argument appears to us both illogical and unjust Ad admitting mitti ng that some women would not care to exercise their franchise how can that justify the discrimination against again t them all why not apply the same argument against men thy they donot all care to exorcise exercise their franchise if it it is feared that the elections might be controlled by the less dasi desirable rable class of women 19 what about the less desi desirable raUe class of men we are Oe cidely in favor ot of equal equa rights to all and all arguments advanced against equal suffrage that we have hake heard or read have been devoid of both lo loic logic ic and justice and are of barbarism ye we say it is 9 a blot upon the civilization of any state or nation that will den denie ie a moral intel intelligent igent educated property owing owin t and tax paying I 1 0 wo man the same political privileges that are claimed and exercised by men in many cases far inferior morally and intellectual ly to them it is a shame that women shall have to ask and beg for their rights it should be given without their ash asking ing at the request of mrs julia ward V ard howe we ans ansi answered vered all of the questions sent us one of them was do the im moral women cont control rol the election to which wo we replied 11 no iho the immoral women do not control the election but b in 0 salt luke city the their r influence is felt they join with the lower masculine elo element ment the ministerial poli political ti aspirants 1 ant and I 1 other anti mormons cormons Mor mons and make up a local party under the title ameri cans |