Henry Stimson Mount Holyoke College Trustee 1894-1936
	Stimson published one piece of anti-suffragist literature and spoke on the subject often. His 1893 piece, "Is Woman Suffrage an Enlightened and Justifiable policy for the state?" was written just one year before he became an MHC trustee. Among the many jems contained in his writings are:

      
 

      

        
"Granting woman suffrage
        would greatly increase the ignorant proletariat."
        
"Giving women the ballot
        would at once add greatly to the number of ignorant voters, and
        the mass with which every reform movement has to deal with would
        become so much more obstructive, making the situation so much
        more difficult than it is now."
        
"It will not secure
        better personal treatment for women. Despite the emphasis with
        which some women speakers repudiate the thought of priviledge,
        the fact that society rests on the possession of privlege as
        one of its corner-stones."
      


Can you believe this guy was a trustee at a college by, for and about WOMEN? 
If you would like to see the name of the STIMSON ROOM in the library changed to something
else, PLEASE e-mail me with your suggestions!!!
sbmclaug@mtholyoke.edu 

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