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NATIONAL SUFFRAGE NEWS

Continuing the
HEADQUARTERS NEWS LETTER

 

A printed attempt to maintain intimate contact
between the National American Woman Suffrage
Association and its thousands of members throughout
the country. "

Published once a month by the National American
Woman Suffrage Association, at 171 Madison Ave.,
New York, N. Y. Subscription price per year, 25c.

Entered as second class matter Oct. 6. 1915, at Post Office, New York. N. Y..
under the act of March 3, 1879.

 

RosE YOUNG, Editor

 

National American Woman Suffrage Association
Honorary President Corresponding Secretary
DR. ANNA HOWARD SIIAw MRS. FRANK J. SHULER

President Treasurer
MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT MRS. HENRY WADE ROGERS

First Vice-President First Auditor
MRS. WALTER MCNAB MILLER MISS HELOISE MEYER

Second Auditor
MRS. PATTIE RUFFNER JACOBS

Second Vice-President
MRS. STANLEY MCCORMICK

Third Vice- President

Con ressional Committee
MISS ESTHER G. OGDEN g ,,

Headquarters:
1626 Rhode Island Ave.,

Recording Secretary
Washington, D. C.

MRS. TnOMAs JEFFERSON SMmI

 

 

 

EDITORIAL

 

 

 

Salutatory

With its hand on its heart, and the one—time Head-
quarters News Letter behind its back. the NATIONAL
SUFFRAGE NEWS assures the suffragist reading public
Of its desire tO serve and to please.

AS the Official organ of the National American
\Voman Suffrage Association, it should surely be able
to do the one. As suffrage news for 1917 promises to
be uniformly good news, it may hope, by the mere
exercise of its chronicling function, to do the other.

* * *
Keeping up with Suffrage

On the next page will be found what is, at the
moment of going to press, the latest suffrage map for
1917. But no guarantee is given that it will be the
latest by the time this book is opened. Keeping up
with suffrage is a precarious undertaking in this
auspicious year 1917. Hardly was the ink dry on
the new map which added North Dakota with her
five electoral votes to the suffrage column, when word
came over the wires, “We Win Ohio.” And that nice
new map is out of date before it is in circulation.

However, it can be borne. It’s worth a new map
to get the twenty—four electoral votes of the great
commonwealth of Ohio. The Illinois victory planted
the suffrage banner fairly in the Middle West. Ohio’s
triumph carries it on into the North Central States.
Count East from West, the Yukon to Lower Cali-
fornia. and you find the Pacific Coast tier of states,
from Alaska through British Columbia, Washington,
Oregon, and California, white for suffrage. The next

tier from the NOrthwest Territory,'through Alberta,
Idaho, Utah and Arizona, is likewise solid suffrage
land. SaskatCheWan, Montana, Wyomin and C010-
rado keep the ranks intact down to New exico. In
the fifth tier, Manitoba, North Dakota and Kansas
hold the balance against South Dakota, Nebraska,
Oklahoma and Texas. There is not a suffrage state
in the sixth tier. But in the seventh tier stands Illi—
nois, and in the ninth is now Ohio. How is Indiana
in the eighth tier, with Illinois on one side and Ohio
on the other, to resist the pressure? It is not believed
that she will.

The Ohio triumph brings the number of electors
whom women have a voice in choosing to 120. Equal
in importance is the fact that Ohio, the fourteenth
state to be listed in the suffrage column, has become
the new salient, or wedge, pushing eastward.

Who can doubt that the thin black line of Atlantic
States will soon be penetrated by the new democratic
faith? By referendum or by legislative enactment
some state is sure soon to let the light break through.

Will it be New York?

It It fit

“ If ” Or “ Until ”P

Some are saying, “If the United States becomes
involved in war, we stand ready to serveour country.”

Others are saying, “Until the United States becomes
involved in war, we will not by thought or promise
heighten the tension.”

On these two conjunctions have hung vivid differ-
ences of opinion during the present national crisis.
Violent militarists would keep the country steeped in
preparedness thought and galvanized with prepared—
ness activity the year round. Violent pacifists would
so subordinate preparedness that preparedness ceases
to be the word. Defense becomes the word. With
the passivist defense ceases to be the word, submission
becomes the word.

There is hardly a suffragist who is not a pacifist.
But pacifism knows many degrees of self-commitment.
Pacifism is an ideal toward which we are all strug—
gling. The essential point about an ideal is the point
of application. Pacifists are in no 5011 of unity on it.
Witness the inability of the peace societies to get to-
gether on any constructive program. In spite of
which, one is glad to concede that if pacifism’s great
leverage is not, as yet, inherent in the ability to work
out these practical adjustments, it does inhere in the
creating of a mind for peace, the will for peace. Its
surest point of application lies in prevention.

Women are averse to war. They are averse to the
creation of a war psychology in advance Of the event.
They deprecate ill-considered war talk in the name of
patriotism. They want peace. They work for peace.
They pray for peace. If peace can be compelled, they
will compel it. But suffragists have shown that women
will rally around America’s need, if war can no longer
be averted.

Suffragists are not usually considered precipitate
in patriotism. Indeed, the burden of accusation has
always come the other way around. Of all people,
wordy jingoism has left the suffragist untouched. The
fact that suffragists the country over deem the moment
fitting for discussion of. and action on, the crisis which
the nation confronts is distressing evidence Of the
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With two single victories already scored in the pres—
idential suffrage campaign, the “big drive” goes mer-

' rily on. Legislatures seem almost uniformly favorable

to the presidential suffrage idea. Probably this is be-

.cause of the obvious justice of the proposition. What

a legislature can pass, it can repeal. If presidential
suffrage does not prove expedient in any State, the
legislature of that State can set the matter right by
taking away the measure of franchise it has bestowed.
In Ohio that measure varies somewhat from the meas-
ure granted in the two other states that have presi—
dential suffrage. In both Illinois and North Dakota
women have municipal suffra 6 under the provisions
of their presidential suffrage ill. In Ohio they will
get presidential suffrage only.

The determination of what citizens may possess the
right to vote for presidential electors rests with the
legislatures of the several States. Any legislature may
extend that privilege to women. Members of those
political parties which in National and State platforms
have endorsed woman suffrage by State action can-
not logically withhold support to the extension of this
form of suffrage to the women of their respective
States. This proposal was first introduced in the In-
diana legislature in 1873 and several States have had
the measure under consideration since that time. It
has frequently passed one House or the other, but
hesitation upon the ground of the possible unconstitu-
tionality of the law and the non—support of political
parties has delayed its establishment. A bill containing
a-presidential suffrage clause passed both Houses of
the Illinois legislature and became a law in 1913 and
has since become known as the Illinois Woman Suf-
frage Law.

The question of the constitutionality of the Illinois
Law has been raised in the courts several times and
every time it has been sustained by the Supreme Court.
One of these cases tested the constitutionality of the
section of the law permitting the women to vote for
presidential electors and the Supreme Court upheld
the constitutionality of the law. It was held by some
persons that the vote of Illinois would not be counted
in the presidential election of 1916 because women
had shared in the election. The election passed and
no question of throwing out the vote of the women
or the State has even been proposed. The prompt
passage of a presidential woman suffrage bill bv the
legislatures of North Dakota and Ohio is an indica-
tion of the changed attitude of public sentiment to-
ward this form of suffrage for women and is un-
questionably the beginning of a movement which will
end only when the law has been passed by all State
legislatures.

The Constitution of the United States provides:

. Article II, Section I. II—Each State shall (In/mint
m such manner as the legislature thereof may direct.
a number of electors, equal to the whole number of

.Senators and Representatives to which the State may

be entitled in the Congress. . . .

The source of this power of the State legislatures
being the United States Constitution, the word “male”
defining the qualification of the usual electors of a
State does not preclude the vote for presidential elec-
tors being extended to women, for, according to Arti-
cle VI, Section II—This Constitution . . . shall be
the Supreme Law of the Land.

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SUFFRAGE WEEK AMONG THE
NEWSPAPERS
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Plans for the gigantic, many-in-one special suf-
frage edition of newspapers are maturing rapidly
under the direction of the National American Wom-
an Suffrage Association. Thanks to the interest and
good will of editors and newspaper proprietors, there
will be enough papers in line to plaster the country
west to the Rockies and‘south to the gulf with a
huge suffrage sheet. The week chosen for this
demonstration is February 19th-26th, though some
papers will not have their special editions until dur-
ing the first week of March. Four pages of suffrage
features have been prepared by the “National” for
the use of plate-using papers and various special
features are at the command of the large dailies that
are to give special space to suffrage during February
and March. Among the dailies as now listed are the
Baltimore American, the Detroit Journal, the Provi-
dence, R. I., Journal, the St. Paul Daily News, the
Minneapolis Daily News, the Duluth Herald, the
Nashville Tennessean, etc. Oklahoma newspapers are
pledging special support in view ofgthe imminence of
suffrage as a campaign issue in that state. North
Dakota suffragists find editors very hospitable to the
idea of the special editions because of the great
suffrage victory just won in the state (presidential
suffrage). There will be sixty-five special suffrage
editions in this state during newspaper week. Minne-
sota will have about thirty, Michigan about twenty-
five, New Jersey about sixty-eight; Tennessee hopes
to have forty. Georgia, South Carolina, Nebraska,
Rhode Island, Maryland, Massachusetts, Indiana and
Missouri will have special editions. It would seem
from present indications that every section of the
country will be covered.

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Now that presidential suffrage is a popular political
issue, there is a constant swirl of interest about “the
Illinois law.” As the first state to put a presidential
suffrage bill into effect, Illinois has given its name to
this highly potential measure.

The full text of the Illinois law is given below. It
specifies the offices for which women are empowered
to vote under it.

(Senate Bill No. 63. Approved June 26, 1913.)

AN ACT granting women the right to vote for presidential
electors and certain other officers, and to participate and
vote in certain matters and elections.

‘ Section 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illi-
nois, represented in the General Assembly: That all women
citizens of the United States, above the age of 21 years, hav-
ing resided in the state one year, in the county ninety days,
and in the election district thirty days next preceding any
election therein, shall be allowed to vote at such election for
presidential electors, member of the State Board of Equaliza-
tion, clerk of the Appellate Court, county collector, county
surveyor, members of Board of Assessors, members of Board
of Review. sanitary district trustee, and for all officers of
cities, villages and towns (except police magistrates), and
u n all questions or propositions submitted to a vote of the
e actors of such municipalities or other political divisions of
this state.

Section 2. All such women may also vote for the follow—
ing townshi officers: supervisors, town clerk, assessor, col—
lector and highway commissioner, and may also participate
and vote in all annual and special town meetings in the t0wn-
ship in which such election district shall be.

Section 3. Separate ballot boxes and ballots shall be pro—
vided 'for women, which ballots shall contain the names of
the candidates for such offices which are to be voted for and
the special questions. submitted as aforesaid, and the ballots
cast by women shall be canvassed with the other ballots cast
for such officers and on such questions. At any such election
where registration is required, women shall register in the
same manner as male voters.

 

PRESIDENTIAL SUFFRAGE TALLY
BY STATES

 

 

 

There are nine states in which a presidential suf-
frage bill is now pending. They are: Indiana, 'Con-
necticut, Minnesota, Missouri, Rhode Island, New
Hampshire, Nebraska, New Jersey and Tennessee. In
six Southern states suffragists have taken the initial
steps toward presenting presidential suffrage bills.
These states are: Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Mississippi, Florida and Arkansas; Wiscon-
sin also may have a presidential suffrage bill intro—
duced. Arkansas and Texas have bills pending giving
women the unique right to vote in the primaries.

 

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OPINION OF JUDGE HIRAM 5T. GILBERT, OF THE
ILLINOIS BAR

Clause secondof Section 1 of Article II of the Con—
stitution of the United States provides as follows:

“Second. Each State shall appoint, in such manner
as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of
electors equal to the whole number of senators and
representatives to which the State may be entitled in
the Congress; but no senator or representative, or
person holding an office of trust or profit under the
United States, shall be appointed an elector.”

Presidential electors perform only duties pertaining
to the government of the United States. They are pro-
vided for, not by a State law, but by a United States
law, to wit, the Constitution of the United States.
Therefore, in providing for the appointment of presi-
dential electors, the legislature of the State does not
act under the authority and constitution of that State,
but solely under the authority of the Constitution of the
United States; and the latter instrument has placed the
matter of appointing presidential electors in the hands
of the State legislature and has given the latter full
discretionary power with respect thereto.

It would be within the power of the legislature to
provide that presidential electors should be appointed

by a vote of a majority of its own members, or it_

could delegate‘the power of appointment to any class
of persons whom it might see fit to select for that
purpose. In fact, its power is plenary. For this rea-
son, it is very clear that it has power to provide that
presidential electors shall be appointed by means of a
majority or plurality vote of such residents of_ the
State, whether male or female, as it may designate for
that purpose.

The only bearing the State constitution might have
upon the question would be with respect to those pro-
visions which regulate the manner and form of legis-
lative acts. So long as the provisions of those sec—
tions are complied with, no valid objection can be
taken to any act of the legislature regulating the ap~
pointment of presidential electors.

ABSTRACT OF AN OPINION BY MR. CHARLES LE ROY
BROWN OF THE CHICAGO BAR

In a review of judicial decisions and pertinent facts,
Mr. Charles LeRoy Brown, of the Chicago Bar, shows
the history and practical construction of that clause
of the Constitution that bears on the right of State
legislators to determine the manner of appointing pres-
idential electors, and from the showing he argues that
“if the source of the power of the State legislature
to establish qualifications of voters is exclusively in
the Constitution of the United States, then no pro-
vision in a State constitution with respect to suffrage
has any bearing and a legislature is unhampered
thereby. The second clauseof the first section of
Article II of the Constitution of the United States is
as follows:

-“Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the
legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors,
equal to the whole number of senators and representa-
tives to which the State may be entitled in the Con-
gress; but no senator or representative, or person
holding an ofl‘ice of trust or profit under the United
States, shall be appointed an elector.”

In an historic case which came to the United States
Supreme Court from the State of _Michigan in 1891,
Mr. Chief Justice Fuller delivered an opinion that was
concurred in by all the other members of the Court.
He said:

“The Constitution does not provide that the appoint-
ment of electors shall be by popular vote, nor that the
electors shall be voted for upon a general ticket, nor
that the majority of thOse who exercise the elective
franchise can alone choose the electors. It recognizes
that the people act through their representatives in the
legislature, and leaves it to the legislature exclusively
to define the method of effecting the object.”

Mr. Brown goes on to say that the early operations
under the Federal Constitution make it plain that the
State legislatures were universally regarded as having
complete power to select presidential electors in any
manner they saw fit. Various modes of choosing the
electors were pursued, as by the legislature itself on
joint ballot; by the legislature through a concur-rent
vote of the two houses; by a vote of the people for a
general ticket; by a vote of the people in districts; by
choice, partly by the people voting in districts and
partly by the legislature; and by choice of the legisla-
ture from candidates voted for by the peOple in dis-
tricts.

Mr. Brown sums up as follows:

“The peOple in adopting the Federal Constitution
took away from the States, as such, all control over
the manner of appointment of presidential electors.
They provided that the electors shall be appointed in
such manner as the legislature may direct. The
words, ‘In such manner as the legislature thereof may
direct,’ have been held by the Supreme Court of the
United States to be a limitation upon the power of the
States. As those words are a limitation upon the
power of the States, nothing in any State constitution
can divest the legislature of the power to determine at
any time the manner of selecting presidential electors.
In so far as provisions of a State constitution attempt
to limit the right of suffrage to men in voting for
presidential electors, such provisions of a State consti—
tution are void.

“The legislature of each State has supreme and
plenary power over the manner in which electors shall
be chosen. That power necessarily includes the right
to prescribe the qualifications of voters when the ap-
pointment of presidential electors is ordered by the
legislature to'be effected by a popular-election. Any
State legislature may itself retain that right of appomt-
ment or it may give it to all of its Citizens, women as
well as men, regardless of any provisions in the State
constitution.”

 

WOMEN HAVE 120 ELECTORAL VOTES
(Fourteen States)

Arizona ............ 3 North Dakota ....... 5
California .......... 13 Ohio ............... 24
Colorado ........... 6 Oregon ............ . 5
Idaho .............. 4 Utah ........ . ...... 4
Illinois ............. 29 Washington ........ 7
Kansas ............. 10 Wyoming .......... 3‘
Montana ........... 4 -~--
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The month of February always brings to the
thoughts of Older sufiragists one name and one annual
event—the gathering at Washington in National
Convention during the week of February lSth—Miss
Anthony’s birthday, on which day funds were sub-
scribed for carrying on the two principal lines of
work—the Federal Amendment to the national consti-
tution and propaganda and state campaigns.

The name of Susan B. Anthony is synonymous with
the Federal Amendment, which was introduced in
the Senate through her efforts by Senator A. A.
Sargent of California, January 10, 1878, and has been
persistently and constantly urged by the National
Association in every Congress since. Though Miss
Anthony’s name will always be linked with this
amendment, it is but one of the many lines along
which she traversed, all tending toward the same goal
—the full enfranchisement of women citizens of the
United States.

One of the characteristics of Miss Anthony was her
far-sighted and clear vision by which she discerned
that, though the goal was one and unchangeable, there
were many paths which led toward it, all of which,
like the branching streams that swell the water of a
mighty river, increasing its force, are helpful in de-
termining its power. So, while many different
methods of work were employed, they all tended to-
ward the final recognition by the National Govern-
ment of the political equality of all its citizens.

Miss Anthony’s genius of initiative was remarkable,
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could focus attention upon the cause of woman suf-
frage, was allowed to pass unnoticed.

Once, at a convention held in Omaha, Nebraska,
the discussion was upon the medical service of the
Army during the Spanish War, and the lack of in—'.
telligent treatment and adequate preparation for the

care of sick soldiers; Miss Anthony made a thrill--

ing speech, pointing out the need of women not only
as nurses, but women .who could use their experience
as housekeepers and caretakers of the family ‘in ar-
ranging for its comfort and by right of this knowl-
edge could prepare for the comfort of the ill and
prevent the vast amount of unnecessary sickness
among the men.

Boys and Bugs

One woman, a strong partisan, thinking the criticism
reflected upon the Republican administration, inter-
rupted Miss Anthony by exclaiming: “Dr. S—, at
the head of the Medical Department, is one of the
greatest bacteriologists of our time.” Miss Anthony re-
plied: “That may be; he may know all there is known
about bugs, but he does not know anything about the
care of boys.” The lady turned to me in great anger,
saying: “Miss Anthony will find a suffrage argument
in anything.” “Yes,” I replied, ‘even in the red tape
and prejudice which allow brave young men to die,
rather than recognize the value of woman’s knowl-
edge and experience. That is why people who profit
by ignorance, cowardice and self-seeking fear her.”-

The Crime of Voting

The single incident in he1 life, which is strangely
little known even to sufi‘ragists, but which was of
the most vital importance in its results, shows her

 

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ability not alone to seize every opportunity to push
woman’s cause, but her willingness to sacrifice and
suffer for it. This is the incident of her voting at
the general election in 1872 and her arrest, trial and
sentence by the Federal Court. This, as with every
act of Miss Anthony’s life, was not an act of bravado;
she believed the 14th Amendment of the National
Constitution recognized that women citizens as well
as negro men were entitled to the full rights of

citizenship, an opinion still held by many sufi’ragists.

The only way to settle the question was to bring a
fciase to the courts, and she offered herself as the sacri—
ce. , . ,
ByWay of Thanksgiving

On Thanksgiving, a very appropriate day for such
a purpose, when, by the proclamation of the nation’s
chief executive, the people assembled at their various
places of worship to give thanks for freedom, justice
and equality, a warrant was served upon Miss An-
thony, and she, an American citizen, was arrested for
the crime of veting. ' »

The officer conducted her to the court house in
a street car, but, evidently disturbed at the situation,
knowing Miss Anthony was greatly beloved in her
own community, seated himself in the car as far away
from her as possible. When the conductor demanded
her fare, she said: “Oh! That gentleman is conduct-
ing the to "court; I am a prisoner and am riding at the
expense 0f the National Government—ask him for my
carfare.” _

Miss Anthony was tried, found guilty and sen—
tenced to one month’s imprisonment or to pay a fine
of one hundred'dollars. When asked by the judge
if she had anything to say, her words revealed her
sterling honesty, her indomitable courage, her uu-
flinching purpose, and she ended her remarks by hold—
ing her hand aloft and declaring: “I will never pay
one cent of your unjust penalty, and I shall earnestly
and persistently continue to urge all women to the
practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim
that ‘Resistance to tyranny is obedience to ‘God.’ ”
Fearing the result if Miss Anthony were imprisoned,
the judge hastily’remarked: “Madam, the Court will
not order your commitment until the'fine is paid.”

No suffragist should fail during the month of Feb-
ruary, or on Miss Anthony’s birthday, to read the full
accOunt'of this trial and the unexcelled address de—
livered by her, in every school district in the country.

This trial, and sc'ores of other occasions when Miss
Anthony stood almost alone in her struggle for wom-
en’s freedom,'makes February 15th a sacred day to
sufiragists' throughout the world.

. For Humanity

Other leaders Whose birthday occurs in this month
were supportedby public sentiment and popular ap-
plause. George';Washington led an armed force of
men of indomitable courage and fierce determination
who rallied about him. The whole world recognized
the right'of men to fight for their principles, be they
what the might. Abraham Lincoln was backed by a
nation o patriotic citizens and a vast army of men
in his magnificent struggle to preserve the Union;
but Susan ‘B; Anthony, in the beginning, and for
years, was the butt of misunderstanding, misstate—
ment and ridicule, with' all the prejudice and ignorance
of ancient custom, with both church and state against
her. But with unflinching fortitude and consecrated
purpose'she never faltered from the straight line of
service and sacrifice which led to the goal of freedom
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SANDS AT SEVENTY

Who that saw her does not remember the spirited
figure, gay with the immortal gayety of the ever young
at heart, trudging up Fifth Avenue, carrying the palm
of victory in that mighty suffrage parade of 1915!

Now she is telling us that she is seventy years old.
And we are not believing her. Yet, after all, seventy
years is a short time in which to have amassed the
wealth of esteem, love and reverence that are hers.
Among the many messages of congratulation that she
received during February was one from President Wil-
son, which said:

MY DEAR DOCTOR SHAW:

May I not wish you for your seventieth birthday not only
a return to strong health, but the happy anticipation of many
more years of useful service? You certainly have many years
of self—sacrificing work to look back upon with pride and sat-

isfaction, and I want to join with your other friends in wish-
ing you many returns of your birthday and an increasing

happiness as they come. Cordially and sincerely yours,
Woomzow WILSON.

When Dr. Shaw began her fight for woman suffrage
nearly a half century ago there were only a few small
voices to support her. Last year suffrage was the
dominant element in a national election. Fifty years
ago equal suffrage was an academic theory. It is now
a fact in fourteen states.

 

  

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THE SUFFRAGE SCHOOL

 

 

 

One of the activities of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association that is commending itself
highly to conservative people is the chain of suffrage
, schools that are interlocking the country.

Concerning the work of the suffrage school in the
South, one southern neWSpaper, the Raleigh News and
Observer, has been moved to say:

“We believe in the value of systematic organ-
ization. We know of no army that could ever
hope to obtain victory which was not organized
and directed. That political party which goes into
the field of contest without any plan of campaign
is pretty apt to be driven to the wall.

“So we think that wisdom is being shown by
the advocates of ‘votes for women’ in their pro-
gram of giving instruction in the matter of equal
suffrage to those who are seeking to obtain the
ballot. That such instruction is given the name of
a suffrage school is only as a matter of distinction,
all that is sought being to give to the suffragists
the arguments held to be needed and instruct them
in the plans for securing the approval of the
people for their cause.

“This morning there begins in Raleigh a suffrage
school. We believe that the instruction given at it
will be of value not alone to the women, but like-
wise to the State. It might as well be recognized
by the opponents of woman suffrage that We are
in the midst of a thinking age, and that women
are taking steps to put their arguments before
Legislatures and the voters in the best form shows
their wisdom. Indeed it shows that they know the
worth of the ballot, and are equipping themselves
to secure that right for which men have yielded up
their lives.

“We commend the suffrage leaders in the pro—
gram of study and preparation and organization
which they have arranged. And we believe that
the results will fully justify all the effort that they
have put into this plan of campaign for the bal-
lot.”

Among the instructors who have been sent out by
the “National” are Mrs. Frank Shuler, of Buffalo,
Mrs. Halsey W. Wilson, of New York, Mrs. T. T.
Cotnam, of Arkansas, and Miss Anne Doughty, of
Manhattan.

THE CARDINAL AND THE SUFFRAGISTS

Cardinal Gibbons, who has long been actively op-
posed to woman suffrage, was recent] waited on by
a delegation of such representative atholic women
as Mr