ies and one
quarterly. The suffrage movement maintains seven weekly papers,
one fortnightly and four or five monthlies.

In every State where petitions for suffrage and remonstrances
against it have been sent to the Legislature, the petitioners
have always outnumbered the remonstrants and generally by 50 or
100 to one. At the time of the last New York constitutional
convention as far back as 1894 the suffragists obtained more than
300,000 individual signatures to their petitions. Suppose only
one-half of those were women, that would make 150,000. At the
same time the anti-suffragists obtained only 15,000, men and
women. In Chicago, a few years ago, 104 organizations, with an
aggregate membership of more than 100,000 women, petitioned for a
municipal woman-suffrage clause in the new city charter, while
only one small organization of women petitioned against it ...

One of the opposing speakers claimed that the majority of the
grangers were opposed to suffrage. The National Grange passes a
strong resolution in favor of woman suffrage every year and a
long list of State granges have done the same. Individual working
women have appeared before this committee and have said that they
believed that the majority of working women were opposed to
suffrage, but all the great organizations of working men and
working women have repeatedly passed strong resolutions in favor
of it.

We have been told that all kinds of terrible things will happen
if suffrage is granted. With the exception of Illinois, every
State that has adopted it borders directly upon some State which
has it. If, as has been claimed here, homes were broken up and
made desolate, if husbands found that their wives were neglecting
their home duties and their children, it is not likely that
suffrage would spread from the State which first adopted it to
one adjoining State after another. You have had one California
woman here who claimed that woman suffrage there does not work
well. California adopted the initiative and referendum at the
same time with woman suffrage. The "antis" immediately started an
initiative petition for the repeal of woman suffrage. They said
that 80 per cent. of the women of California were opposed to it
and that they would repeal it. Both men and women were elig