olution to the Senate because we
believe very earnestly that it is a question which should be taken to
the States to be voted on by the electorates and not submitted to the
Legislatures." Mrs. M. C. Talbot, secretary of the Maryland
Anti-Suffrage Association, read a paper prepared by the Hon. John W.
Foster, a strong argument against a Federal Amendment but without a
word of opposition to the granting of woman suffrage by the States.
The other speakers were Miss Florence H. Hall, publicity chairman of
the Pennsylvania Association; Mrs. George P. White, a member of its
executive board; Miss Lucy J. Price, secretary of the Cleveland, O.,
branch; Mrs. A. J. George (Mass.), executive secretary of the National
Congressional Committee. They were trained speakers and their side of
the question was well presented. It was heard by the Senate Committee
without interruption except on one point. Miss Hall said: "On waves of
Populism, Mormonism, insurgency and Socialism ten States have been
added to the pioneer State of Wyoming and are recognizing the suffrage
flag." When she had finished the following colloquy took place:

Senator Sutherland. I do not ordinarily like to inject anything
into these hearings, but one statement has been made by the last
speaker which I do not think I ought to let go without making a
suggestion in regard to it. If I understood her correctly she
insists that Mormonism has had something to do with the granting
of woman suffrage in the ten States in which it has been granted.
I want to say that in California, Oregon, Washington and Kansas,
taking those four States which are the largest in which suffrage
has been granted, the Mormon population and Mormon vote are
practically negligible.

Miss Hall. I did not base it on that. I said Mormonism, Populism,
Socialism and insurgency brought suffrage along with them.

Senator Sutherland. There is only one State in all of these, so
far as I know, where Mormons are in the majority and that is in
my own State of Utah. There are comparatively few in Colorado,
probably not more than a thousand altogether in the entire
population, and their numbers are practically negligible in the
other States.

Miss Hall. How about Idaho? Forty per cent. there.

Senator Sutherland. I think perhaps there are twenty-five per
cent. There are probably 400 or 500 in the State of Ne