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EQUAL SUFFRAGE NEWS. 
Two IMPoRTANT RALLIES. 
The next Suffrage event in Man- 
chester will be an open-air rally on 
Monday evening, Oct. 25, at 7.30 
c’clock, at the Common, or “Square,” 
when the chief speaker will be Hon- 
Herbert Parsons of Boston, Mr. 
Parsons has been in the state legisla- 
ture, and is a writer, social welfare 
worker, and one of the best speakers 
we have. We are fortunate to get 
him to come to Manchester at this 
time, and all citizens, young and old, 
especially voters are invited to come 
and hear him. There will be a wom- 
an speaker also. 
The other important rally for all 
Massachusetts men and women will 
be in Tremont Temple, Boston, on 
the evening of Friday, Oct. 29, when 
two great speakers, Senator Borah of 
Idaho and Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, 
the president of the National Woman 
Suffrage Ass’n, will be heard by ail 
who can get in. It will be an event. 
All republicans especially should go 
to hear Mr. Borah, and every person 
who has never heard Dr. Shaw 
should make a great effort to seize 
this—probably the last opportunity to 
hear her in Boston. 
I should like to thank all the Man- 
chester people who so kindly helped 
and co-operated to make our enter- 
tainment on Monday evening the 
complete success that it was. And 
the friendly and gentlemanly _ be- 
havior at the dance was noticeable 
and gratifying. I hope to co-operate 
with the young people of the town 
again, on many pleasant occasions, 
and I also hope that all those who 
enjoyed this lively evening will rally 
round us next Monday evening for 
a more serious demonstration, and 
Pine 
hear Mr. Parsons speak in the square. 
In last week’s issue, an Anti-Suf- 
frage leader quoted the old song by 
Robert Burns,—“My love is like a 
red, red rose,” etc., in connection with 
the Anti flowers. But when I refer- 
red to their color as “red,” the same 
lady wrote a letter to the Transcript 
to say that their color is not red—but 
“rose-color.”” Now I feelwery apolo- 
getic about it,—and bewildered as we 
often are by the contradictions of the 
Antis. I hope, however, that the fol- 
lowing short poem may help to ad- 
just the matter: 
THE Rose Mapr (Mar). 
My love is a magenta paper rose, 
The faded color of a by-gone day, 
Fresh from the gardens where child- 
labor grows, 
NO Ry i. 65 Hy Or RH 9B RAB as Zt 
Sold on the streets,—or even given 
away! 
No life, no fragrance, and no heart 
of gold, 
Sad, sentimental, artificial, cold,— 
My love is a magenta paper rose, 
Made for the No’s! 
(ieeanusty explain tog tiem nn 
ladies that when we say “gold” it 1s 
the poetic and imaginative use of the 
word, not the literal. It means the 
same kind of gold that we find in the 
golden-rod,—‘“‘rrree given gold of 
God.” Or what a wonderful Irish- 
man called the “fairy gold,—i. e. the 
sunshine. ) 
—L. R. 5. 
WRITES FROM DENVER 
FORMER MANCHESTER GIRL TELLS OF 
SUFFRAGE IN COLORADO, 
ROM Denver, Colorado, comes a 
letter to Miss L. R. Stanwood, 
from Miss Florence M. Leach, a 
former Manchester girl telling of the 
working of Suffrage in Colorado. 
Miss Leach is connected with the 
Election Commission in Colorado, 
and she is well qualified to talk on 
any subject to do with the political 
conditions. Her letter follows: 
Miss L. R. Stanwood, 
Manchester, Mass, 
My dear Miss Stanwood :— 
I suppose that Denver will have ts 
bear all the calumnies which the antt- 
suffrage people are pleased to heap 
upon its fair name. But in all sin- 
cerity, I do not believe that Denver 
is any better or any worse than any 
other city of its size in the United 
States. 
The anti-suffragists take delight in 
claiming that equal suffrage has in- 
creased divorce in Colorado, but per 
capita divorce granted in Colorda is 
not any greater than it was before 
women had suffrage. If those who 
advertise the divorce evil as a result 
of equal suffrage will study statistics 
they will find the divorce evil is Na- 
tional and not peculiar to Colorado. 
The last legisature of Colorado, large- 
ly upon the initiative of the women, 
passed a much more stringent law 
than heretofore existed. There has, 
as a result, been a marked decrease 
thus far of divorces in Denver since 
the law became effective. 
You are told that taxes will be in- 
creased by equal suffrage. It is true 
to the extent that it increases the cost 
of an election as the number of voters 
increase, But it is not true that gen- 
eral expenses of either municipal, 
county or state government in Colo- 
rado are increased by suffrage. 
Oct. 22, 1915. 
It is said that women do not care 
to vote and that their percentage of 
vote is very low. In glancing over 
the past (1912) Presidential election, 
the percentage of women voting :n 
Denver was 67% while that of the 
men was 76%, a difference of only 
11%. Comparatively the same figures 
were true of a Municipal spring elec- 
tion in May 1913. Women are as 
eager to register as men and take a 
lively interest in public affairs. 
It is unfortunate that votes for 
women must be put upon the plane of 
having a real, economic or moral 
value, before the right shall be grant- 
ed. When suffrage was granted to 
our brothers, it was not on the basis 
cf whether or not they would improve 
the moral condition of affairs or the 
economic conditions of affairs, but 
purely and simply upon the ground 
of right. Massachusetts of all states, 
should be the last to oppose the right 
of suffrage to women, for history 
teaches us that Boston had a tea 
party, that the reason for that party 
was because the right of suffrage was 
denied to men and that they should 
not be taxed unless they were given 
the right of representation. I have 
yet to hear of a single instance where 
@ woman is not taxed where she 
owns property and if a woman pays 
taxes she should be granted the same 
right to vote as men. Going further, 
if one woman is allowed to vote be- 
cause she is a freeholder, all other 
women should be granted the same 
privilege as long as the right of men 
to vote is not regulated by property 
holding. Reduced to its last analysis 
the question of women suffrage is 
one of right and not one of expedi- 
ency. 
They say that equal suffrage has 
not helped Colorado! But before we 
had equal suffrage it was a common 
occurrence for an election to be stolen 
in Denver. But since women have 
had the right to vote the political sit- 
vation has been so modified that it 
has been years since there has even 
been a mention of fraud in an elec- 
tion, and in a series of thirteen elec- 
tions conducted by an Election Com- 
mission headed by a woman, Mrs. 
Ellis Meredith Clement of the City 
and County of Denver, there has not 
been a single suspicion of fraud cast 
upon any of the elections. Indiana 
with her anti-suffrage law in force, 
cannot boast of such a record, You 
are told our laws are not as good as 
those in Massachusetts, but those 
who tell you this are those who are 
interested in using child-labor and 
working women overtime, We have 
a child labor law which is strictly en- 
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