state government was "feminized." Federal troops have been sent to quell labor troubles in four states where women could not vote, and in only one state where they could. They were sent into Illinois, Nevada and Montana before women got the ballot there, and they have lately been sent into Arkansas. SUFFRAGISTS OUTNUMBER ANTIS It is said that most women are opposed to suffrage, and that it would not be fair to force it upon them. Julia Ward Howe wrote: "Of the women who take any lively interest in the suffrage question either way, the great majority are in favor. This has been demonstrated wherever the matter has been brought to a test. In every state where petitions for suffrage and remonstrances against it have been sent to the Legislature, the petitioners have heavily outnumbered the remonstrants. In Chicago, 104 organizations, with an enormous aggregate membership of women, petitioned for municipal suffrage, which only one small organization of women. petitioned against it. In Massachusetts, when the Legislature took an official straw vote of men and women on the question in 1895, the women's vote was in favor, more than 25 to one. The Massachusetts AntiSuffrage Association ever since 1895 had been gathering signatures of women against suffrage, and in twenty years it has only secured. the signatures of a little over 3 per cent of the women of Massachusetts, according to its own figures. At its last annual meeting it boasted of having organized 33 new local branch es during the year; but the Massachusetts Suffrage Association had organized 138 new local branches during that time; and all their activities are on the same relative scale. People are urged to vote against equal suffrage on the ground that, once granted, it can never be repealed. But the women could repeal it at any time, if the majority wishes. Give the women the right to vote on it legally, and let us see! Meanwhile it is interesting to note that equal suffrage has been endorsed by the General Federation of Women's Clubs. and by the State Federations of 27 states-more than half of the whole number; by the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, 236 to 13; by the National W. C. T. U. and nearly all of its state branches; by the National Women's Trade Union League and all its state branches, unanimously; and by the International Council of Nurses, representing the nurses of nine nations; with only one dissenting vote. WILSON GIVES VERDICT Equal suffrage is steadily winning its way. President Wilson seven years ago was a pronounced opponent. Now he says that he will vote for it, and that he believes it will do a great deal of good. For three years the suffragists and the antis have been marshalling before him testimony to prove that suffrage does or does not work well in the enfranchised states. He has studied the evidence judicially and is converted. Anyone who will look into. the evidence with an open mind will come to the same conclusion. DOWN THE CONNECTICUT IN A CANOE-By Robert J. White 203 208 211 THE NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE PUBLISHED AT 221 COLUMBUS AVENUE, BOSTON, MASS Publisher, THE NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE CO Editor, FREDERICK W. BURROWS Stockholders: Samuel M. Conant, Pawtucket, R. I.; Bertrand L. Chapman, New York City; James F. Mortgagee, John F. Tracey, Belmont (Published in accordance with postal regulations) Subscribed and sworn to before me, Chas. W. Gilmore, Notary Public, for the Commonwealth of Massa- My commission expires ápril, 1920. Published monthly at $1.75 a year. Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Boston, Massa- The Salvation Army Incorporated Respectfully solicits contributions for its charitable and phil- REMARKABLE WORK BY A CAPE COD PHOTOGRAPHER T HE remarkable photograph of "Moonlight on Cape Cod Bay," which faces this page, and the beautiful views of Cape Cod that appeared in our August issue, are the work of Miss Lillian Small, of Small's Studio, Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts. These views in our August issue were erroneously credited to "Gray's Studio." Miss Small has shown a fine appreciation of the peculiar charm of Cape Cod scenery, and has interpreted it with her camera in a masterly manner. It is interesting to note that she has met with great success in her undertaking. The summer visitor of today, and the native as well, is educated as never before to the beauties of the natural world and to the artistry of good interpretative representation. Miss Small says that she finds her pleasure in the delight of doing something useful, and doing it well. She has taken up a work that might be followed, in other districts, by New England girls, who would find in this beautiful pastime of nature photography pleasure and profit. |