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THE WASHINGTON . HERALD. SUNDAY, AUGUST 30. 1914. Newport Suffragists to Lash Wayward Congressmen - f Campaign Conference Plans a Whirlwind War in 'Home Districts' of Members Un fortunate Enough to Dare Oppose Them at the Cap itol or on the Stump. By ALICE PAX'L, Chairman of the Ccofmaonsl Union for Wonun Safinra. With an enthusiasm that can mean only speedy success for the campaign In behalf of the constitutional amend ment enfranchising; women, suffragists Xrom one end of the country to the other are gathered at Newport to participate In the conference of the executive com mittee and advisory council of the Con gressional Union. The conference will make the entrance of the woman suffrage movement Into the field of practical politics. Heretofore suffragists have concen centrated upon gathering strength In cheir communities. The time has come to apply that strength to the achieve ment of their end so ions desired and so long delayed the enfranchisement of the women of the whole country. The object of the conference is to complete the arrangements for the de feat in the coming Congressional cam paign of certain candidates for Congress CALLS SUFFRAGE Miss Pitt Says Only Three Em ployed Women in Every Hundred Want Ballot. GIVES FIGURES AS PROOF "Anti" Bases Assertion on Canvass and on Own Arguments Advanced by Advocates of Vole. By MISS. M. EMMILIXXi: PITT. Tanner nnTetuy Iron Citr Centjml Trmde. Council, f PUUburEb, field leerrtuy remvrtTinU Asso ciation Orfroed to Woman auffras. One of the most plausible pleas made by the woman suffragist is that the self supporting woman, who competes w-lth man In Industry or business, should have the franchise Obviously, the woman who works, her self, should know whether the vote Is desirable A thorough canvass of thou sands of women employed In practically every occupation open to Pennsylvania feminine workers has extended over a period of several years, with the result that a great mass of data has been gath ered on this subject by the anti-suffrage workers. The import of this statistical study Is that about three working women out of every hundred consider woman suffrage desirable. "Anti" figures that are gathered on the "firing line" are always considered to have a partisan bias, and there it no use in producing them until the "show downs" come before the legislature or at the polls A controversy over figures at this time would be no more Interesting to the general public than are some of the wild war rumors that are premature ly put out by the French, Germans or English "Attempt to Hypnotise Inblir.' The suffragists have always been In the habit of using imposing numbers In an attempt to hypnotize an unwilling public Into the belief that "woman suf frage is surely coming," when as a mat ter of fact Its history In recent years the overwhelming defeats at the polls In Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin, Its repeal in Switzerland, and Its repudiation last week bv the Swedish Parliament is a record of rejection from some of the more "forward looking" commonwealths in the world One of the suffrage slogans that has been Introduced at every recent conven tion Is "Eight million women who are wage workers demand the ballot for their protection." Of course. It is not set forth that the said "eight million" (8.0TS.7T2 according to the Census) Includes every feminine worker In the United States over the age of ten years' Nor yet Is It considered good policy by the suffragists to tell us thatythe largest proportion of these fem inine workers in any ace period, are those between sixteen and twenty, where the percentage Is S3 9, and where the bal lot would be utterly useless unless wom en were allowed to vote before they were twenty-one Neither i it mentioned that 541 per cent or I.013.9S1 of the "eight million" are negroes, nor that the Pennsylvania suffragists hired a giant auditorium last spring at an advanced expense of S4A0 to "rally" the negro women of Philadel phia to the equal franchise standard, and got Just four. It is said, to attend the would-be convention that had to be abandoned Even the race of women who do the hardest manual work, and most often compete with men at tasks requiring great muscular exertion, could not be persuaded to listen to their "emancipators " Women Workers Indifferent. Of the feminine workers, over half, or 4..13&.337 are engaged in agricultural pur suits or employed as domestic strvant. Obviously, the ballot could not benefit either of these classes Neither agrleul tural workers nor domestic servants come under the provisions of the work. man's compensation acts, limitation of hours, and other legislation for the pro tection of women In Industry. This mi porlty of women workers, then, ballot or no ballot must depend on the "direct action" of masters and mistresses, and not on the "piece of paper In a ballot box" The S.7SH.S31 feminine workers engaged in the manufacturing Industries, trade, transportation, professional and public service and clerical occupations cannot be deeply Interested in woman suffrage, or the total number of suffragists ac knowledged last month, GM.Oft). would represent more than one-fifth the num ber of such workers. No matter how we compare the total suffragist figures with women workers, the result makes their "eight million" claim ridiculous. The number of women who demand to be "emancipated" is only 3 per cent of the 24.S55.75t women over voting age In America three women In a hundred, the same proportion we got In our canvasses of Pennsylvania women. It is less than one-third the number of negro women Gainfully occupied, about one-seventh of the "four million women who vote now" In suffrage pamphlets. The actual number enfranchised in nine States, 75 WORKERS SNARE whos elimination Is considered essential to the satisfactory progress of (he na tional woman sunrare movement. A fund of several thousand dollar will be raised to defray the necessary expenses of suffrage, speakers and organisers, and. should Congress adjourn without taking favorable action on the Bristow-Mondell resolution providing for a constitutional amendment enfranchising women, rep resentatives of the Congressional Union will go Into the Congressional districts and campaign actively against candi dates whose presence In another Con gress would be c disadvantage, to our cause. Sntrnure st Live Issne. - Such a campaign, if carried through with even a. measure of success, will convince members of the Senate and House of Representatives, as nothing else could, of the fact that woman suf frage Is a live political Issue to be reck oned with not In a dim and distant fu ture, but at the present time. Arrangements for the conference were made by Miss Doris Stevens, the organ izer In charge of the Congressional Union headquarters at Newport, with the co operation and active assistance of Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, at whose beautiful home the sessions of the conference are being held. Not only has Mrs. Belmont thrown open her home for the formal meetings of" the conference, but she en tertained the executive committee, of which she Is herself a member, at din ner on Saturday night, and will give a tea on Sunday afternoon In honor of the members of the conference and other dis- tlnuglshed guests. The warmest Interest in the plans and purpose of the conference has been, per cent of which has never voted ftc. cording to election returns. Is 1.998,163 or 115.S45 fewer than the number of wom en over twenty-one in the single State of Pennsylvania. Also, the 631,000 suf. fraglsts represents only little more than one-third of the 1.750.000 American club women whom they claim as "would be women voters " Now If woman suffrage appealed to club women, business women. Industrial workers, or even to negroes, its total figures would not be represtnted by such pitiable fractions. If only half the num ber of women enfranchised In the nine suffrage States would Indorse the move ment It would be represented by almost double the present figure. And yet wom- ! an suffrage has been agitated for sixty- five years. "Tried and Fonml Wantlnjr." Why don't women want the vote? Why. after half a century of "woman's rights" talk. Is the enfranchisement of women more vigorously opposed by the women themselves than it has ever been It is mainly because It has been tried and found wanting. Experience In suf frage States has checkmated the senti mental appeals and academic theories that used to be chief arguments of suf frage orators. The present suffragists continue to speak of "when women get the vote" and still repeat some of the old promises, but mainly they occupy themselves in trying to convince politicians that it will "pay" to help the "woman's party." Before 191ft, woman suffrage was mere ly a national curiosity, exhibited in the four Western State of Colorado. Vtah. Idaho, and Wyoming, each of which Is twice as large In area as Pennsylvania, and all of which have fewer Inhabitants than Philadelphia alone Women were enfranchised in these sparsely settled States on "waves" of political intrigue In order to exalt Mor monism and populism by adding an emo tional and easily controlled element to the electorate From 1910 to 1?12. woman suffrage was "slipped through" the five States of California, Oregon. Arizona. Washing ton, and Kansas on waves of Insurgency In the old political parties. a the suf fragist writers admit In 1912. the Col onel hrtehed his Progressive wagon to the star of suffragism, which gave it a new Impetus But since then It has heen a losing movement ai any candid examination of the facts will prove. Threaten Wilson with Defeat. JuU before the last Presidential elec tion, the suffragists became so elated at their seeming success that they prac- Ucallv ordered the Democratic candidate. , President Wilson, to Indorse their move ment under pain of being defeated. Though the then governor of New Jer sey was asked in several letters to ap prove the "otes for women" propa ganda, he paid no attention whatever to the demands or threats The woman's party was going to de feat him Just as It plans to defeat can didates now who are manly enough to resist suffragist threats. The newspapers in October, 1912. were full of what the suffragists intended to do for Roosevelt and against Wilson, Just as they are now running suffrage threats of reprisals against lesser can didates But Wilson became President, and Col Roosevelt is rather farther away from the White House than when he Indorsed woman suffrage The colonel carried only one suffrage State In 1912, Just be cause the "woman's party" utterly failed "to deliver" Its promised held or hurt. The women could not be prevailed upon I to cast the ballot after they got It, and the few who did vote were entirely un der control of the dominant male voters A similar thing took place last spring in Chicago, where, with all the encour agement, automobiles, money and politi cal backing that could be brought to bear, onlv one woman In four could be rersuaded to cast a ballot, and the women candidates who expected the ben efit of the feminine vote lost In every Instance, while men like "Bathhouse John" used "Votes for women" and "women bosses" to sssure their return to power more easily than ever. Experience of Candldntrs. It is experiences such as these that make the present political candidate of wide knowledge unwilling to take suf fragists 'seriously when they offer their help or threaten defeat. The history of politics reveals that the candidates who were most vigorously threatened by the "woman's party" got elected, while those who have espoused the suffrage "cause" as well as the parties that have put It in their platforms have generally gone into oblivion. Only the weak candidate and the third or fourth rate partv will grasp at the straws that the suffragists hold out. Those who are acquainted with the de tails of the suffrage movement are not misled hy the promises or threats of the professional agitators whose only "pow. er" Is to draw the attention and passing interest of the average crowd for a laugh. The "woman's party" has never been able to help anybody, and the mere fact that It Is suppoed to. makes the male In the States where women vote Indifferent to his duties toward women. No man Is going to bother about trying to "protect" A woman who claims from the housetops that the only protection she needs Is the ballot. Consequently, after women get the vote, they can ask for nothing In the name of humanity and womanhood, but must "fight for what they set" at the polls. And comparative legislation and the census figures In the States where women do and do not vete, ibovr how effective shown by the people of Newport, perma nent resident, and summer colonist alike. The Newport women are opening their homes with a remarkable hospitality to me visiting suffragists. Mrs. Crystal Eastman Benedict, of New York. Mrs. John Jay White, and Miss Ruth Astor Noyes, of Washington, who have been spending the summer in the Catskilis. and Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubbs. press chairman of the union, who has been In charge of the Atlantic CKy cam paign during August, arrived early in the week and have been assisting Mrs. Belmont and Miss Doris Stevens In com pleting the final details preparatory to the two days' session of the conference. SliemUrrs at Lnucheon. Mrs. Charles Bell, wife of Representa tive Bell, of California, wno was promi nent In the campaign which won the vote for the women of her State, was 6ne of the speakers at the luncheon at the Cbannlng Parlors, at whlcn the executive committee met the members of the ad visory council on Saturday. Mrs. Law. rence Lewis, of Philadelphia, was toast mistress, and Introduced the speakers, among them being Mrs. William Colt and Miss Inez Mllholland. of Nsw York, both of whom are members of the advisory council. The first business session of the con ference was on Saturday afternoon at Marble House, when Miss Alice Paul, chairman of the union, made the report of the executive committee. Miss Joy Webster, of Washington, reported as treasurer, and Mrs. Donald R. Hooker, of Baltimore, discussed the suffrage measures now before Congress. The members of the executive commlt- tee were Mrs. Belmont's guests at dinner on baturday evening. At the reception It Is for women to "fight man at his own game," as the feminists say. Comparison In Two State. There are nearly three times as many women working as laborers on farms In Colorado as are similarly employed In Nebraska, a neighboring State where women are not "emancipated." But Ne braska has over eight times as many in dependent women farmers as the State where women are supposed to be "eco nomically Independent" of and "politi cally equal" to men. Also, Colorado and Wyoming, where women have voted twenty-one and forty four years, respectively, have C6 per cent more families without separate dwellings than Nebraska and Nevada, where worn. re worn- i . en are still supposed to be "slaves." Even In marriage the figures are black indictments against the suffrage plea, vun M per ceni irwrr raamfa women i than Nebraska. Colorado has S per cent' more women divorced. i -". " wuuuai pouuuon. mria Even Pennsylvania, whose native suf-j under twenty-one will be excluded from! fraglsts like to ridicule Its treatment of, the sacred precincts. its women, has ,6.430 fewer inhabitants. But hold It Is undemocratic to shut but over 9.000 more homes than all the' out a woman who Is old enough and! woman suffrage States added together! w-lre enough to undertake the manage And besides, only li per cent of the ' ment of a man Why not allow a gltl ! women over forty-five in Pennsylvania f eighteen to vote' Sift It down, ou have to earn their own living', while In "id that the otes of women who are "model" Colorado, 16.3 per cent or more married and have families will he the than the average for the whole rountry r'a' 'ft The burden rests on them, feminine workers In the suniet of life nl on the lady from Alabama, who must keep on tolling Just lik a man flnce they have become his "equal ANTI CITES BIRTH RATE DECREASE Tn Prnrpct Aoainct Si I fTra rr ' in rroiesi Agamsi ounrage, , Urges Mothers Be Spared Tax of Voting. By SIRS. 5IETTA K. TOW SE.D. This is the day of expeiimentalism. Nothing seems stable. Monarchies tumble and republics are upturned The church Is criticised because she Is not progres sive. The criticism is scathing, since progressiveness is the fashion, although the indeflnlteness of the world Indicates the chaotic state of the public mind. I.Ike feminism, it may be construed to mean an thing, except a tendency to b,,, ,hat ou'r forefathers. and cape daily our foremothers. were possessed of any wisdom It Is not to be expected that our women would be unmoved In the midst of such turbulence, yet we do have a right to expect that the noisier ones of our sex nouia speax lor inemsejics. ana not lor the rest of us. Men Would Herd 3Iaorlty. Dr. Shaw. Miss Addams. and the rest are perfectly aware that American men would Impose upon us the duties that belong to the franchise. If these same men knew that a clear majority ot American women wish to undertake such duties. There are many who would do this under protest. Just as a husband sometimes gives his wife a bauble be cause she cries for it. but If a majority of women should signify their wish for the ballot we would soon have It. what eer the result might be Miss Blackwell uses the merest bluff when she argues that the antls are un able to show that any large number ot women are opposed to the movement. Miss Blackwell knows it to be true that a number of American women are will fully falling In the matter of maternity. Does she believe that ninety-nine out of a hundred American women are deter mined to quit the business of mothering mm' Would she Judge this to be true because no considerable number have come out In the open and declared their willingness to perpetuate the race' There are certain things so natural and Innately correct we are not Inclined to agitate them until we are forced to do so. The methods and Inconsistencies of suf frage leaders are not such as to com mend th movement to those of us who are trying to look at the matter with unprejudiced eyes Plan Holds Mllltantlsm. I Dr. Shaw orders the antls to stay at home and leave the field to the pros, while she Is planning a system of politi cal boycott that holds within It the spirit of mllttantlsm. "If Congressmen do not come Into line we'll destroy them, root and branch. We will show force. Our parades and gatherings will show our power, and yet when the rough and tumble world turns against us we will appeal to men on the plea that we are ladles Instead of citizens. If we choose to murder our husbands we must go free becauss It Is a shame to hang a woman, and besides no man-jury can possibly understand the workings of a woman's heart Put us on Juries so that we can clear our women murderers whose little children, alas! would be orphaned if the brutal laws of men should hold away If one of our lady delegates should have trouble In getting reduced rates to our conventions you'd better watch out. We're going to own the railroads when we vote. Of course that might tend to centralize power. Our critics will say it's not democratic, but we'll show them a thing or two when we come into our own A crowd of men, to be absolutely and purely democratic, would run to so cialism. They would take the big. swelt ering mass of humanity and make count less mistakes in their efforts ta work out a. real democracy. But we shall see. In that evening at the Casino In honor of th advisory council and Invited guests. the hosts were the Bishop of Pennsyl vania and Mrs. Darlington and Mrs. Bel mont; others in the receiving line being Mrs. James Orlswold Wentz. Mrs. Alice Doer Miller, and Mrs. Norman de R." Whltshouse, all of New York. Mrs. Mauds Howe Elliott, a daughter of Julia Ward Howe, and Mrs. Marsdtn Perry, ot New port. On Sunday afternoon the second busi ness session will be held at Marble House, when the question ot party organization and the record of the present Congress on suffrage will be discussed by Miss Lucy Burns, vice chairman of the union-; the methods of organisation In the constitu encies by Mrs. Crystal Eastman Benedict, and the plans for the Congressional elec tion campaign announced by Miss Alice Paul. Tea will be served at S o'clock, and in the evening the members of the confer ence will meet for the last time at the garden party at "Hill Top." the beautiful home of Mr. J. K. Sullivan, at which the speakers will be Mrs. Belmont. Mrs. Hooker, and Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, president of the Connecticut Woman Suf frage Association. Conference Week Miss Psul. Miss Burns and Mrs. Bene dict will be the house guests of Mrs. Be mont during conference week, Mrs. Man den Perry will entertain Mrs. John Rogers. Jr.. of New York, and a large number of other Newport members of II. e union are opening their homes to the members of the conference. Among others who are attending the conference in addition to those already announced, are Mrs. Mary Hutchlnsun Page, president of the Brookline Suffrage Association, and a member of the board our time the kinks will all be straighten ed out" In the face of this rich promise I wish to ask. what will be done after our Congress members have been whip ped Into line and have granted us the privilege of voting? 'Will Dr Shaw pass a national law or dering all women to the polls and the Jury bench? Unless such a law be passed It rests with the quiet Women of the land to make a success or failure of the whole plan. Aim Is to Parlfy. . It is not the exceptional women Dr Shaw or Mils Addams who like will prove the merits of the system They e ": eacn. anu. ot course. :ney I would never stoop to ordinary man j methods In order to control the votes of ,,. n.An, . .. ,M th" "0ln"1' W 'nter the tMi measures the Southern woman s Intel!!- ' gence by her wish or nonwish for the ' ballot, not on the Boitonlan who is skilful with ratio per cent, not on the most heroic social worker, nor the most progressive organizer of forces, but on the quiet homeseeker who bears the ' children of the republic And these, m.nd you. are the .ery ones who am not heard from. They would have to be drilled and reasoned with before they COUld See the Wisdom Of tmPOSlng Other! . burdens upon themselves and bringing . Into their homes what will pro. e a source! of d"""0"1 unless wives allign themselves with their hu.bands and thus prov, jesa - heads In the political world I would suggest to the suffrage agita tors that It might be well to Institute some method of finding out the sentl men of women who are the motheis of children Less than three to the mother would mean race suicide and something migm oe conceded to the women who give their time to the duty of rearing cnuaren tor me repuDlIc Blrlh Hale MnM Inrrrnse. To pass some Napoleonic measure giv ing such women the right to vote would be more democratic than for Congrets to enact a national law forcing suffrage on millions of women who do not w-aul It- Cllltzatlons move in wves One breaks upon the thore and another rises above the spra. to lose Itself on the same Impediment. France. England. Germany. America have touched the high-water mark physically. Slow-lv but none th less surely the breaking up Is going on. and unless the declining birth-rate be ar rested our country will have but a brief record as compared to the older chillza tlons. Is this a time for experiments which virtually affect the status of our women Already does the republic hae enough I ciiain un nrr. Switzerland has length of days to her credit, but she Is peculiar In conditions Homogeneous as her rple are. she would find greater difficulties If her vot ing population were larger. With u. sheltering even- creed and polltcal ag ary. every race- and nationality, our problems are tenfold m"re difficult The ery cumbersomeness of the American vote Is a drawback to efficient legisla tion. The States rights' Southerner In herits the beliefs that he carries to the polls, but his ballot counts for no more than does the ballot of the foreigner who lines up with Tammany one day and gets out naturalization papers the next The college don who puts thought and con-s-lence Into his vote stands on equal footing with the Slav whose training and lack of English preclude his grasping the real meaning of our conditions. Can it do any good to double the elctorate unless we decidedly increase the ratio of Intelligence and conscience that g'j Into the making of It? Our best women would use the ballot to wise ends when they use It at all. but does anybody be lieve that Tammany's wives and daugh ters would purify the Tiger's lalr? Spare tbe Mothers. Will you disfranchise the women of the red-light district or will they march to the polls In a body to vote for civic betterment? Dr. 8haw and her conferees may have the wisest views of the Initiative and referendum, the tariff, our banking sys tern, and other questions which con stantly press upon us. but I disclaim any profound knowledge of these things. My duties. If the ghost of Ibsen will allow me to use the word, have busied my mind In other directions. American cus toms are giving our women absolute freedom to choose marriage or a career. Dr. Shaw and Miss Addams are proofs that women can find the broadest fields of usefulness or self-expression outside of marriage or the political world, but for those of us who have chosen to be home-keepers simply the men of our na tion should have consideration. Our physical nature cries out for the quiet and restfulness of which modern lire gives too sparingly. In the nam of moth erhood, do not further tax ua. And do not tutor our girls Into a belief that men are our enemies when they endeavor to shield the child-bearers of the race from life's utmost strenuoutness. It Is a coward's plea for men to ac knowledge that they are making a botch of government and need women to help them. When the country Is In such case then she Is doomed. Just as surely as a civilisation Is doomed when bar women refuse to bear children. of the Massachusetts Association. Mrs. Maude Wood Park, founder of the Na tional College Suffrage League, and exe cutlve secrttsry of the Massachusetts Suffrage Association: Mrs. Whtttemore and Miss Margaret Whlttemore. of De troit, both of whom are on the board of the Wayne County Suffrage Association of Michigan; Mrs. Charles Klauder. ef Philadelphia, one of the most setlvs workers of the Philadelphia branch of the union, and Miss Mry Oay, of Boston, for merly chairman of the organization com mittee of the, Massachusetts Woman Suf frage Association. SWTRAGIBTS. NATION-WIDE, ABE ALL AGOG OVER PLANS BEING HATCHED AT NEWPORT J By DOIUS STEVENS, Onaaiser st Newport of the OneiraskiMl Union. There are always those who say "It can't be done." Many such uttered these discouraging words when we opened Congressional Union headquarters at 128 Bellevue ave nue, Newport, R. I "This Is a very pe culiar community," said one. "This is the home of the conservstives." said an other. "You never get the summer colonists," said a third; "they are too much Interested In their summer frivoli ties." In spite of this "pecullsr" community, we have found It possible to csrry on our suffrage activities In much the same way as we do all over the country Onen-alr meetings on "The Parade." the busiest msrt In the city proper, continue to Increase In popularity. Here we have large and enthusiastic audiences, made up of every type ot man. from the sometimes too-Joyous 11 English Suffrage Societies Suspend Campaign to Help in Relief Work. AID DESTITUTE SISTERS . .. . . Ml itanls in Jail Released by "Thr. King's Pleasure" History of the Movement. nr CI.AItV nEWIC COLIIY. NO. XI. All the woman suffrage societies in England have suspended their ordinary suffrage activity and are ulng their ma chinery of organization for war relief work In conjunction with citizens' com mittees. The London Society for Woman Suffrage is placing its skilled workers in connection with the central authorities, training for service every woman that applies and "organizing good-will " Fac tories are ceasing work women and girls are thrown out of their usual emplo- m.nti mnA tarvntinn fllceit thnilKAnrll unless' they are sought out and helped by sympathetic women Their appeal says -h 1 ,ng ere 1 a war as real as anv now he- fought a war agalnt hunger and misery and In fighting It we are prepar ing for the new social order which will be built upon the ruins of what we now call civilization " "Th.- King's Plrannre." "By the King's pleasure" an order has been gten that suffragist prisoners, as well as all prisoners serlng sentences In connection with strike offenses and In dustrial disputes, are released It Is an I ill wind that blows no one any good, and ' It Is a relief that we no longer have to hear about the terrible doings of the ' suffragette and th thousand times more I terrible tortures that the government has been innicting on tnem A great mass meeting of women was held In King's Hall August 4 under the auspicea of the International Women's Suffrage Alliance, five great national so cieties of women taking part. A German woman was the flrt speaker and wa warmlv greeted Women are united In International efforta for the good of hu manity, and they will not have anv part In the hatred and antagonisms that men set up The alliance Is authorized to speak for twenty-six countrte and IC1'. Ofio women, and it has spoken It ha Issued a manifesto to the governments of all nations and sent a special message to Queen Wllhelmlna. aklng her to recelv a deputation of w-omen. with a view to taking step that might enable the pow ers to settle their disputes by peaceful measures Tarn Bark n Wnya. To return to our hitory As the gov ernment had refused to Investigate the brutal maltreatment of women Novem ber 15. 2. 2, 191". a memorandum of which had been placed before it by the conciliation committee early in Februarv. 1911. it was stated by a woman, who was not a suffraglt hut was indignant at the way women had been used, that she would refuse to slve the government the Information which it would require at the forth-coming census The Idea spread like wild-fire and on all hands It was determined to evade the census Since women do not count with the government the government hall not count the women, wa the war cry. It may seem a small thing to refuse to be counted, but the heavy fine Imposed as a penalty for refusing Information show the value the government sets upon the census as a bats for tahles of all sorts It Is comparatively easv to evade the census In England, for everywhere throughout the Island the count is taken on the same night and you are count ed where you sleep If you are not In the house your landladv may not give your census, nor may the husband speak for his wife If she Is absent. Ac cordingly, there were rendezvous at places where no official was allowed to enter; at homes where the hostes enter tained an all-night party and they all agreed to stand In with her on the fine, an all-night song and play-time under the shelter of the Actress' Franchise League in the Aldwleh Skating Bint, where at leas two thousand gathered, there were Jaunting parties Into the country in covered wagons: there were walking parties; there was hiding In barns and haylofts, and there was open defiance by those who did not fear the fine. Hnr the Plan Worked. The lady I stayed with refused on be half of her whole household, which In cluded a dozen of each sex. One lady gave the returns with name of one man servant adding "No other persons, but many women." And this took place not only in London but all over the kingdom. How many actually evaded the census will never be known, but there must have been many thousands. It was very amusing to find Mr. John Burns, who was at th head of the census, saying that the quantity of evaders waa quit negligible, and it was the government WOMEN MAKE WAR ON H NOER sailor, who always buys a Suffragist, to an occasional very distinguished aristo crat For the less courageous we have week ly teas at headquarters, which attract all classes. Such talented women as Mrs, Mauds Howe Elliott, daughter of Julia Wsrd Howe, and Mrs. Normsn de R. Whltehouse have given of their vacation time to speak at these teas. Mrs. Bel mont, certainly one of the greatest champions of womanhood I have ever known, has given Inestimable service. She keeps In almost dally communica tion with the work at headquarters. The 8uffragist our official organ, has been very popular. We have sold LOGO copies this summer. We have had a squad of very young suffrage "news ettes." one of attractive young women and one of handsome matrons. We have visited the beach, the circus, the Wild West show, the parks In fact, we have Invaded every congregation of people. Now we come to the climax of the summer's work the conference. In addition to preparing for the con ference, we have been holding meetings this week as usual. "Immense Interest Is expressed not only by the women of the Newport summer colony, but by those coming from various nearby States. Supporters All Agm. "Our huslnea eslona At Marhte House promise to be most thrilling, for as autumn draws near, union supporters are all agog with our election plana. Every one knows these plans will be eonsummated at this confernee. hence , the anticipation. Suffrage sentiment ! among the rich and poor at Newport is mere to stay Among those who have accepted In- vltatlons to attend the conference as the policy "in the hour of success to show mercy and magnanimity Apropos of the women not being "per sons." Miss MacMlllan having been re fused permission to be present at the counting of the votes at an election, pointed out that the law which said "No person can be present" etc . did not exclude her because the law courts had decided when she was asking ad miralon to the bar that ahe was not a person. If she were not a person, there 1 could he no objection to her presence eW- .1 ! JiJ .. !... . M..A. ,ka aiio Bueriii urn nwi ,cr nvjw ,. iin-:v i,, argument, and therefore allowed Miss MacMillan to remain. An interesting revival of a custom that had been In disuse twenty-five years took place about thl time The corpo- ration of Dublin hating hy a vote of 2? to 9, paflM a conciliation hill, the lord mayor ex em red hi privilege of ap- parlnr before th House of Common In perron with hi, petition, which, ac- cordlngly he did. clad in his full regalia Onlv one other nuvnr the lorn mavor of London, has thi right to appear in per - son before Parliament Cnronatlnn Procession. As I stated before, the conciliation bill had passed about Easter'lts second read- Ins by a ote of Si to . and all the' societies were pushing for its passage. and there was no division of sentiment I n Iffaranjw nf mathiwl In lime 1111 I they organized a grand "coronation pro- cwt.lon." in which more than M.flO women marched It was such a day (of soft, mellow, brightness) as only the hazv atmosphere of London can furnish when the sun Is shining Mot of the women wore white, manv were bare - headed, all carried banners and emblems and the mot exquisite devt'e-, the prod - net of the Artist' League, added to the beautv of the picture Many nationall- I&A HAa l,MVJh ! Met Aa-A Bj4 9 s44ttA ties were there, and whoever had a dis tlnctive national costume wore It All London was out to see the sight, which for effectiveness has never oeen urpaed It took five hours, walking fve abreast to pass a given point, and all along the way from Victoria embank ment to Rojal Albert Hall four mnes. the crowd orderly and friendly lined the way score deep and filled everv ehicle. for th traffic was stopped, and every window and every antace ground whe,e a human being could lick Fifty binos furnished the music and women ang their glorious marching song It alwas take a touch of eomed to make the plav complete, and it was furnished on thi occasion by a dozen andwich men who 'ad heen hired to rnrry their boards with the lettering. "Women do not wih to vote i hey seized an opportunity to break Into the 1 ne evenhody greeted them with boo They were made to get out of the line and they contented them ele with walking up and down a rde ! treet. looMng rather foolish, especially ' as eome of them hd turned their boa'ri I upside down n if ashamed of them, but I de'ormined to farn thev monev i Eerhod said this was the lat rro- cston the women would rer hae till the victnrv march, which 11 fell was ceir at hand but in tho autumn Mr .Anuith crushed their hope and diwed their forcts b announcing thai he wo ild Introdmv in the coming session of '.914 his electoral reform b.l! glUnc vote., to citizens of full age and competent un dertaniling." It being understood that women were not included Crnrlet of IIIotts. To introduce a measure to enfranchise the most irresponsible unettled. and Im provident men the only lass of men who did not alreadv ha'e the vote under tho verv tnclutve houeholder and lodgers' pro tsion- w ho h-d made no ef fort to get the franchle and it the same time to leave out all women when for o mum xears !n such larse number! thev had been us.ng everv effort to oh-. .,. I ,. . f -, tllr.tr..-ril aH in. Illtl 1. I."!- SUl IIIV r .'rv.- u-- - tolerable .v., ,r . hin h,H heen tmro than if a bill had -1'"1"''?; give home rule to ever, bodv nh riTj.h!i.lr""k; lured to hut the Inc for it It taf the moM rruhintr and Insulting Won eer directed a-rainst the woman movement "m:Vm.::.r"' ...... , ,. v, , .. , . 7, ,. c".l.. ,i..,-. . bodv Conservatory in Baltimore Miss I nion of Suffrage Sot-iet.es. always nun- e..., . , militant, and the large, and most ,. Jtlebler has a pleasing prano vn-.-e ,nJ nucntC S all the organizations, had ?r vor' ""'fl0 n.!. ?' "'"Treta nn inter-. lew w,th her deputation. ln ve accompaniment, added much to the which Mr Asquith a.ured her that P'"ure of the evening was the in-entlon of the government to puh through it reform bill In 191J. tbat the bill would not Include women, but It would be open to amendments which vv.iuld He promised tha' If such mend- ment wa adopted It would be regarded i as part of the government measure This ,ioked fair on the surface and the IJb eral Woman Suffrage Association was fooled and some others, but Mr Lloyd George was not He boldly said that the conciliation bill was torpedoed, end so it proved Some of the leaders thought there might he a chance for an amendment, and advised patience, others reasoned that what women wanted was a meas ure that would give them some degree of political equality with men. while If to the present voters wa to be added every last man In the kingdom, the concilia tion bill with Us proposed enfranchise ment of so small a number of women would leave women as unequally sit as before Truce Declared nt End. The Woman's Social and Political Union declared its truce at an end and that nothing would be accepted as satis factory except a government measure en franchising women. Thl Is the position It has maintained ever since A demon stration was made In Parliament square ln the middle of November. 1911. with the avowed Intention of taking their plea to Parliament itself Of course the women were driven back as before. The result was mat windows wer oronen as a pro- test and on this occasion, aa a warning, Noted Leaders Fire Hearts of Women at Meetings At tended by Brains and So cial Lights of America. Enthusiasm Runs Riot Among Conferees. guests of the committee and advisory council of the union are Mrs. Robley D Evans. Mrs. Frank Taylor Evans, and Mrs. Sewall. the widow, daughter-in-law, and daughter of Rear Admiral Evans. affectionately known to the American peo ple as "Fighting Bob." Mrs. Wilfred Lewis, president of the Philadelphia Equal Franchise Society, one of the most powerful suffrage organizations in tha country. Mrs. R. D. Hasbrouck. wife of Lieut Commander Hasbrouck. of the navy. Mrs. H. fi Luseomb and her daugh ter. Mis Florence Luscomb, of Boston Mrs. Eugene Shlppen. of Detroit Miss Agnes E. Ryan, of Boston, business man ager of the Woman's Journal Mrs Eve lyn Peverly Coe. clerk of the Massaehu- setts Woman Suffrage Association Mrs. Richard Walnwrlght. of Washington. D C. wife of Rear Admiral Walnwrlght Dr. Esther S B Woodward, chairman of district work. New London Countv Conn., Woman Suffrage Association. Mrs George Cove, member of the executive committee of the Massachusetts Equal Franchise Society, and Miss Dorothy O- ' born, Montcialr, N. J. i a few windows of business houses -fere broken. It looks cold-blooded In the telling, but If any one has1 followed the history of the movement up to this point and has noted the forty years of educational but determined agitation, and then the more active but peaceful methods of 'he six years preceding this, and has seen the women foiled, deceived, and maltreated at every tum. he will be ready to concede that unless they were possessed of quall- , ties quite different from their brothers . .1 . I .--.a ... - . j me.- muei nave reaenru me point wnare patience had ceased to be a virtue From this time the militant movement has been , aggressive I CITITTJD APICTC DITV ' -jUrrXVVulO i O V 1 1 I THE POOR FILIPINO , Jf Q,ngress Deals with Them as It ' 1 Does with Women, There's Rea son. Says Miss Burns. The suffragists of the country are up In arms against the action of the House Rules Committee la dodging the vote on suffrage Thursday, when Representative Campbell of Kansas moved that the House be given an opportunity to vote on ttlK Bristow-SIondell resolution , "The President and his party certainly do not hestate to mak, ,t p,rfeetiy ciear ,.- ..,., . ... , ,. ... , m hat r"at,Te "t"ra "? hold th American woman and the Filipino man 1 said Miss Lucy Burns, vice chairman of I the ronBTelonai comrnlUM who watt,a , " " "" outside the office of Representative Henry of Texas during the meeting "Tsift 1Y1A Atnafl J)-. . The rules committee refused ta allot time for a vote in the House on the suffrage amendment Tet they passed a rule providing for the consid eration of a bill granting Increased self government to the Filipino. ' she said "The action of the committee is all the more unjutlnable since the woman suffrage amendment was reported to th House as long ago as Mav 5 A rule pro viding for action upon it was referred to the rules committee on Mav 13 Since then, the Democratic majority on the rule committee has been requested by women all oer the rountry to give the representative, of the people in the House an opportunin to record their .ote on the woman suffrage amendment but the seven Democrat who fi-ra the majorltv of the rules committee and con trol its action haie persistently refused to do thl. Mi Burns said "If the methods pf self-government thev extend to the Filipino are of this pattern, it will be a doubtful boon MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. The musi al program at the Church of Our Father this morning prom ses to be verv emovahle Mrs. DorothJ Rax ter. the organist will play Hande. . ' ar- go and "OfTertoire" of Batiste A duet for contralto and bass hy Mendelssohn entitled "Thy Will Pe Done w, i be erne bv Ml Lillian Chenoweth and Mr. Walter Matson. Among the local artist and teachers who give much pleasure f those around them even when they are taking a much needed vacation i Mrs Emily Freeh Barnes Mrs Barnes is at Hotel Eagles mere EagVsmere, Ta.. and delighted x large audience there last week with sev eral of her dramatic and humorus read-Ins- at a muical which was one of t' events of the season . . .. . . U"";-'B "T?. -... .j-..-1. .....,., . " ' " ""eresting recital at the Taki Park Sanatorium last Wednesdav evenng , nonor flf of Pa r "" " I- a guest a tthe sanatorium Miss Stlebler waa the instructor n voi,e with whom both Mis Le-kie and ?"- ".-WW studied . at the Pea Mr William Taber. the well-known or ganist, who left Washington some months ago owing to the demands of his posl- ,,on '" 'be War Depa-tment Is again ln "" r"v- n" will probabi. be a per manent iddltlnn to the musical artists nrrr ne wn inrmenv me organist ana choir director of the First Congregational Church. Mr. George Anderson, who possesses a pleasing tenor voice, has resigned from the choir of the Church of the Covenant and accepted a position ln the ch"lr at the Church of the Ascension. He wll' take up his new position on October 1 Miss Marie Hanson, the well-knowm pianist, is spending her summer at Chau tauqua N Y . studying with Ernest Hutchison, who was formerly in charge of the piano department of the Peabody Conferva ton' at Baltimore PILES CUBED AT HOME BY HEW ABSORPTION METHOD If you suffer from bleeding, itching, blind, or protruding Piles, send me your address, and I will tell you how to cure yourself at home by the new absorption treatment, and will also send some of this home treatment free for trial, with references from your own locality If requested. Users re port Immediate relief and speedy cures. Send no money, but tell others of thli offer, tvrne today to Mrs M. Sum mers. Box P. Notre Dame. Ind. Adv. .-Ut.