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
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