B. L. Young to FPK, January 27, 1923
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Title
B. L. Young to FPK, January 27, 1923
Description
Letter from Massachusetts House of Represetatives Speaker Benjamin Loring Young to FPK regarding her Good Housekeeping article on the "Equality Bill" proposed by the National Woman's Party.
Creator
Benjamin Loring Young
Source
From the collection of Frances Parkinson Keyes Papers, Special Collections, University of Vermont.
Date
1923-01-27
Contributor
Digitised, transcribed and encoded by Jake Mandirola
Identifier
Box 3, Folder 3-21
Coverage
Massachusetts, Washington, D. C.
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Text
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
House of Representatives
Office of the Speaker
State House Boston
January 27, 1923.
Mr dear Mrs. Keyes:
I was very much interested in your article on the “Equal Rights” bill in the February number of “Good Housekeeping”. I feel that the “blanket equality” program is very dangerous, but I also feel that the National Woman’s Party is acting in good faith and that its errors can be better corrected by persuasion than by violent criticism.
For example, the Massachusetts branch of the National Woman’s Party introduced a “blanket equality” bill in the Legislature of 1922. This bill was modeled on the Wisconsin act. It failed of passage as might be expected. This year the Massachusetts branch of the National Woman’s Party adopted a new theory at my suggestion and have put in a bill, a copy of which I enclose. This bill takes up a number of specific matters in separate sections so that each can be considered on its own merits.
If you are interested in the general subject, you may care to read a short article which I have just written for the Massachusetts Women’s Republican Club.
I hope you will pardon my intrusion upon your affairs with this letter. I have had the pleasure of corresponding with Senator Keyes and also met him personally several years ago although he probably would not remember the occasion, I have sent copies of my article to all the Congressmen from Massachusetts so that they would have a little material ready in case of sudden activity by the Woman’s Party in Washington. My article will also be printed in a slightly different for in the next number of the quarterly journal of the Massachusetts Bar Association.
Very sincerely yours,
Benjamin Loring Young
Mrs. Henry Keyes
2400 Sixteenth Street
Washington, D. C.
House of Representatives
Office of the Speaker
State House Boston
January 27, 1923.
Mr dear Mrs. Keyes:
I was very much interested in your article on the “Equal Rights” bill in the February number of “Good Housekeeping”. I feel that the “blanket equality” program is very dangerous, but I also feel that the National Woman’s Party is acting in good faith and that its errors can be better corrected by persuasion than by violent criticism.
For example, the Massachusetts branch of the National Woman’s Party introduced a “blanket equality” bill in the Legislature of 1922. This bill was modeled on the Wisconsin act. It failed of passage as might be expected. This year the Massachusetts branch of the National Woman’s Party adopted a new theory at my suggestion and have put in a bill, a copy of which I enclose. This bill takes up a number of specific matters in separate sections so that each can be considered on its own merits.
If you are interested in the general subject, you may care to read a short article which I have just written for the Massachusetts Women’s Republican Club.
I hope you will pardon my intrusion upon your affairs with this letter. I have had the pleasure of corresponding with Senator Keyes and also met him personally several years ago although he probably would not remember the occasion, I have sent copies of my article to all the Congressmen from Massachusetts so that they would have a little material ready in case of sudden activity by the Woman’s Party in Washington. My article will also be printed in a slightly different for in the next number of the quarterly journal of the Massachusetts Bar Association.
Very sincerely yours,
Benjamin Loring Young
Mrs. Henry Keyes
2400 Sixteenth Street
Washington, D. C.