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Show BUMES WOMEN VOTERS FDR ALL SORTS Or ILLS I Los Angeles Woman Says She ! Regrets She Ever Worked For Suffrage KNOXYILLE, Tcnn., July S. Miss Annie Bock, of IjOS Angeles, formerly an equal suffrage leader, In a letter to W. K Anderson, representative In the lower house of the Tennessee legislature, leg-islature, urged him not to support ratification rat-ification of the Suffrage amendment. Suffrage, she ss, coarsens and cheapens women. She expresses her regret at her former activity in its behalf, be-half, saying that since suffrage has been granted there has been an alarming alarm-ing increase in immorality, divorce and murder in California. The letter follow a '1 was one of the prominent workers work-ers who helped to bring suffrage to California, ami 1 regret It. "A year In politics hu taught mo that women are Intolerant, radical, revolutionary and more corrupt In politics pol-itics than men. also all this so-called reform leads to the socialist co-operative coniinon wealth. WOMEN ARE BLAMED. "Since suffrage there has been an liarming Increase In Immorality, di-vaSie di-vaSie and murder In California. Boiiiau suffrage has made cow-aifHand cow-aifHand puppets of men. It has oHened anil cheaponed women.1 WB the nii-n to vote on woman euf-fra euf-fra in California today n would not' "WUffraglsts asked suffrage that the - might put only good men in office; of-fice; now they clamor for a fifty-fifty fifty-fifty show for all offices. 1 Nhall do penance forever for thei part I played In bringing suffrage to California. ILL BRING DISASTER. "Please urge your colleagues not to' do what will bring regret and disaster 1 but to stand for that ninety per cent! of women who do not want suffrage,' but are glad to trust all politics and, governmental affairs to 'their loved, husbands, fathers, bons and brothers, j To thr south, woman suffrage; would bring moro than calamity." |