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OrcANizE Locat. Branch WHuiIcH 
_ Promises To Br Boru SrrRonc 
i AnpD ACTIVE. 
__If “votes for women” is to win in 
Manchester, it will have to do some 
“tall hustling.” Half a hundred 
Manchester women, meeting at the 
home of Mrs. John C. Mackin Wed- 
nesday afternoon “showed up” wo- 
‘man’s suffrage as one of the worst 
calamities that could befall these 
United States at the present time and 
there-upon formed and founded the 
363d branch of the Association Op- 
posed to the Further Extension of 
Suffrage to Women. 
_ The special feature of the occasion 
was the presence of Miss Minnie 
Bronson, who came all the way from 
Springfield, Ohio, to explain why wo- 
men should not vote. Miss Bronson 
is fast forging ahead as a national 
character in the movement to keep her 
‘sex out of politics. At the convention 
of the National Association in New 
_ York City today, she is to be elected 
Secretary of that great body. Hence 
she speaks with authority. 
~ In her address Wednesday she 
‘pointed out that a large percentage of 
the women in Massachusetts today 
are foreigners, many of them illiter- 
ate. At present more than two-thirds 
of the population of the state is for- 
eign and the commonwealth now has 
80,000 more women than men. I[n- 
telligent observers agree that the en- 
tire country is on the brink of com- 
mercial, industrial and, in sone cases, 
a calm, thinking electorate is needed, 
governmental revolution, and, if ever 
‘it is now. The granting of suffrage 
‘to women at the present moment 
would cause incalculable harm. 
Miss Bronson laid much stress on 
‘the fact that even the leaders in the 
“women’s suffrage ‘movement do not 
consider the ballot an obligation— 
merely as a function which they may 
or may not perform according as they 
are individually disposed. Such an 
attitude toward the ballot is infinitely 
harmful. For the granting of wo- 
man’s suffrage permits the vicious as 
well as the good to vote and, on any 
moral point—say, for example, no- 
license, or the segregation of the so- 
cial vice—the evil forces in any given 
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= MANCHESTER, MASS. 
community will have their women 
thoroughly organized and cast every 
vote possible, while the women on the 
other hand are indifferent and scat- 
tered in their support. 
In the eight years in which the Na- 
tional Child’s Labor Committee has 
been in existence, the committee has 
caused the passage of more laws for 
the good of women and children than 
have been put on the statutes in all the 
states where women have had the 
franchise. This committee has a 
“black list” of the states which do not 
have satisfactory laws regarding the 
working hours of women. In this list 
are Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, and 
Utah where the women have voted 
from 19 to 43. years. Colorado, 
Idaho and Wyoming have no law re- 
garding the working of children un- 
der 16 at night. 
One of Miss Bronson’s strongest 
arguments for her cause was that a 
woman’s sphere must not be bounded 
by the four walls of her home, by her 
social circle, or by her.church. It is 
her right and her duty to make her- 
self felt in public affairs but not 
through the ballot. As soon as wo- 
man enters politics her influence must 
be lessened as a factor for the good 
because, while all are, perhaps, work- 
ing for the betterment of mankind, 
each feels that the good can be best 
accomplished through her own poli- 
tical party. Working independently, 
they can gain the support of any 
party. Miss Bronson quoted E. C. 
Durand, the director of the census, to 
refute the argument of the suffragists 
regarding working women. In_ the 
latest census, which has not appeared 
in print, Mr. Durand has statistics to 
show that of the 7,000,000 women in 
the country engaged in “gainful pur- 
suits,” only 23 per cent of them are 
JO Wd} osesiaAe Ioy} pue sdoys ut 
working is only five years. Forty per 
cent of the 7,000,000 are domestics 
and their condition may be bettered 
by a little individual attention just as 
well as by the ballot. 
Dodging matrimony is like putting 
off going to the dentist: the longer 
a man defers the dreaded step the 
more nervous he gets—and the harder 
it goes with him when he _ finally 
capitulates. 
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WM. F. ROBERTS 
CARRIAGE PAINTER 
Rear 53 School St., 
Manchester 
Business formerly conducted by E. A. Lane at’same 
location for last 30 years. Prompt and efficient ser- 
vice guaranteed. Your Patronage solicited. 
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE 
MANCHESTER TRUST COMPANY OF MANCHESTER 
at the close of business Noy. 26, 1912, as 
rendered to the Bank Commissioner. 
ASSETS 
U. S. and State of Mass. Bonds 
(market value $17,000) ....$ 16,850.00 
Other Stocks and Bonds 
(market value, $237,613.50) ..$236,676.35 
Loans on real estate, ........ 45,300.00 
Demand loans with collateral, . 2,000.00 
Time loans with collateral, .... 200.00 
Ophers tine vOAUs <8. <5 3 sess 172,334.15 
(VVOTOLALCS MY Fa cites sis ckot esis 2.99 
Banking house, furniture and 
fixtures (not assessed since 
DOCINNING) pare tse elias ee es 2,500.00 
Other assecsyeas-een ae yo ees 57.00 
Due from reserve banks, ...... 23,831.43 
Due from other banks, ........ 1,496.65 
Cash: Currency and specie, .. 29,767.49 
Other Cash Items, ...... 10.00 
$531,026.06 
LIABILITIES 
WADILA PO COCK IM wade ays atti hohe: $100,000.00 
SMIPLUSSE UN va. He de «218 hues soa! 25,000.00 
Undivided Profits, Less Ex- 
penses, Interest and Taxes 
LEGG ee acte che, Codie RIO aU Ce De 4,931.81 
DEPOSITS (demand) 
Subject fo Check, .......... 400,088.56 
Certified Checks, .......... 100.00 
Treasurers’ checks ......... 787.69 
DEPOSITS (time) 
Certificates of deposit, not 
payable within 30 days, ...... 90.00 
Dryidendsmunpatd.o. so). cine oes 28.00 
$531,026.06 
For the last thirty days the average 
reserve carried was, currency and specie 
6.6 per cent; deposited in reserve banks, 
5.9 per cent; United States and Massa- 
chusetts Bonds 3.1 per cent. 
Essex, ss. Manchester, Dec. 4, 1912 
Then personally appeared Harry W. 
Purington, Acting Secy. and Treas., and 
Oliver T. Roberts, President, and Edward 
A. Lane, William Hoare, Horace Standley 
and Ernest §. Curtis, directors of the 
Manchester Trust Company, and made 
oath that the foregoing statement, by them 
subscribed, is true, to the best of their 
knowledge and belief. 
Before me, 
George E. Willmonton. _ 
Notary Public. 
