Letter: Remember the suffragettes

We are approaching the most important presidential election of our lifetimes. Voting in this election is very important. I strongly encourage women to vote. Their voice matters.

I was recently in Washington, DC and visited the National Women’s Suffrage Museum near the US Supreme Court. How important was the work of the women who marched, protested and demanded the right to vote. Three of my great-aunts, Emma, ​​Cora and Clara Wald, were active in this effort. In 1918, Clara Wald was shot, arrested while demonstrating on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, and thrown into prison. Previously, she was arrested during a meeting in front of the White House and put in prison, where she went on a hunger strike. In 1920, suffragists finally won the right to vote for women.

Please remember their efforts to give women the right to vote.

We must exercise our right to vote in this and future elections. It is not an obligation, but a hard-won right.

Harold Payson
Falmouth

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