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OFFICIAL ORGAN

Nailonal American Woman Suffrage
Assoclation.

 

 

 

 

SUBSCRIPTION PRICE
25 Cents Per Year.

 

 

 

 

Volume IX.

FAILU

Number 9

 

 

 

SEPTEMBER, I909

RE lSIMPOSSIBLE—Susan B. Anthony

 

 

 

PROGRESS

PUBLISHED MONTLHY AT WAR-
REN, OHIO, BY THE
NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN

SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION.

President. Rev. Anna Howard Shaw,

505 Fifth Avenue. New York City.
lat Vice President, Rachel Foster Avery.

Swarthmore. Pa.

and Vice Pres, Mrs. Florence Kelley,

105 E. 22nd St., New York City.
Cor. Sec, Prof. Frances Squire Potter,

505 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Recording Sec‘y,

Mrs. Ella S. Stewart,

5464 Jefferson Ave., Chicago, Ill.
Treasurer, Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton,
Warren, Ohio.

lat Auditor,
Miss Laura Clay. Lexington, Ky.
and Auditor,
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell.
6 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.
Legal Advisor,
Catharine Waugh McCulloch,
Evanston, 111.
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS.
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OFFICERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL
WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE.

President, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt,
No. 2 W. 86th St., New York City.
First Vice President,
Millicent Fawcett, L. L. D.,
2 Gower St., London, England.
Second Vice President,
, Annie Furuhjelm,
Helsingfors, Finland.
Secretaries,
Martina Kramers,
92 Kruiskade,-Rotterdam, Holland.
Anna Lindemann,
Degerloch, Stuttgart, Germany.
Signe. Bergman,
10a Arsenalsgatan, Stockholm, Sweden.
Treasurer, Adele Stanton Coit,
London, England.

 

 

 

Entered as second class matter Nov. 1,
1906. at the Post Office,
Warren, Ohio.

 

HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Editor.

Form of Bequest.
I hereby give and bequeath to the
National American Woman Suffrage
Association, said Association being in-

 

corporated under the laws of the Dis-
trict of Columbia, the sum of $. . . ..... i,
principal and interest, to be applied by
such association for the support and
promotion of the cause of woman suf-
frage.

Signed ................... . ........

 

California—Stockton—Sept, 30 and
Oct. 1 and 2.
Ohio—E‘lyria—Oct. 2-6 to 28.

 

 

The November Progress will be is-
sued from New York City.

Send the dates of yOur fall conven.
tions immediately to Mrs. Upton, War-
ren, Ohio.

Do not pride yourself on being con-

 

servative. A conservative blocks the
way to progress. A conservative be-i
lieves exactly as a radical believes, ex-i
cept that he is ten or more years late.-
A conservative must always hear the?
voices of those ahead shouting “I tolaj
you so!” ‘

If a man were running towards the:
shore to save a child from drowning}
and you threw a rope about his waisti
and held him back, declaring eitheri
that there was no child in the water,
or that it was not best to try to save,
it, would you be an aid or a hindrance? 1.
He would make the rescue, of course,‘1
but he would have t0\ drag you with:
him, and the danger would be in-i
creased. Would you really think you}
had “lent a hand?” And when you saw ;
the beautiful roly-poly child restored:
to its mother’s arms, would you shout}
out, “See what we have done?” If youi
are a conservative,you‘would. 3'

Try being a radical. See how much;
more invigorating it is to breathe thel
fresh air at the head of the line than

to swallow the dust at the rear. ,

A LETTER FROM OUR
NATIONAII’RESIDENT

Dear Comrades:—

With this issue of “Progress” our
new year of work begins. We are en-
tering upon it with enthusiasm and
renewed consecration to our peerless
cause.

Ineleased opportunities for progres-
sive activities are afforded by the
spacious and conveniently located new
National Headquarters which we have
been able to secure through the gen—
erosity of Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont. Five
offices have been set apart for the
work of the National Association, one
for the National President, and Cor-
responding Secretary, and tw0 for the
regular office work. The latter will be
under the management of Prof. Mary
Gray Peck, headquarters secretary.

Prof. Frances Squire Potter, the Na-
tional Corresponding Secretary, and
Prof; Mary Gray Peck resigned the
positions of Professor and Assistant
Professor of English in the Univerity
of Minnesota, to accept positions with
the National Suffrage Association. In
these officials we have two of the best
known educators of the West, and they
bring to the work of our Association
in addition to well trained minds and
scholarly attainments, an enthusiasm

and deep seated understanding of the .

greatness and importance of our cause
which has rarely been equalled.

Two oifices are devoted to press
work in charge of Mrs. Ida Husted
Tia finer. IL nab lung Lin: ficairc u; LESS
Anthony that the time might come
when Mrs. Harper might be placed at
the head of the press work of the Na-
tional Association, where she could be
in touch with the leading newspapers
of the country. This has at last been
accomplished and from September first
the work of the press department will
be carried on under her direction.

The National President has decided
to move to New York feeling that
much better and more economical ser-
vice can be rendered the Association
by as many as possible of the national
officers directing their work from Na-
tional Headquarters, and for at least
six months in the year she will leave
her home in Moylan and take apart-
ments in New York City so as to be
near the headquarters.

Under the management of those who
have our headquarters in charge, aid-
ed by a carefully selected office force,
the headquarters cannot fail to be a
center from which there will radiate
throughout the nation influences which
must quicken and vitalize the energies
of our whole association into new life
and activity.

It is always sad to make great
changes in plans, even to better con-
ditions, and we will all miss the cheer-
ful letters of Miss Gordon, L119 retir-
ing National Corresponding Secretary,
Whose resignation was reluctantly ac-
cepted after she convinced the Oificial
Board that she felt it her first duty to
devote her entire time to the South.
What we lose in her active co—opera-
tion with the National Association we
will gain in the growth of the move-
ment in southland, and we shall look
forward to great progress in the Gulf
States under her leadership.

Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton and
Elizabeth J. Hauser, after years of
splendid service in increasing the ef-
ficiency of the headquarters, turn the
work over in excellent condition to
their successors.

While looking forward with hope to
the future, and while deeply thankful
for the generosity and unselfish devo—

Learn what it is to feel the panting 5 tion to our cause which makes these

breath of him whom you have helped
to live. Throw away your lasso;- cease
to drag; help to lift.

changes possible, we are filled with
grateful appreciation of the work of

ithe past and of its struggles and suc-

cesses. But our work now lies before
us. Let us press forward with hope to
the larger promise of the future, and
to that victory which is as sure to

 

 

PROF. FRANCES

come as is day to follow the night.
Each one may share in its fulfillment;
Ewhat is to be your part?

i ANNA H. SHAW.

SQUIRE POTTER

 

THE BEST LEGISLATORS
REGARDLESS OF SEX

 

Ella Flagg Young. who was lately
elected superintendent of the Chicago
schools, at a salary of $10,000 ayear, is
a remarkable woman. No one finds
fault with her or her work. The worst
said of her is that she is a woman.
This fact, which leads conservatives to
shake their heads and 100k sad, makes

in our time, that the best person is
chosen for office regardless of sex;
that a woman succeeding a man re—
ceives his salary?

Regarding Mrs. Young, Louis Post,
in The Public, says:

“Her success as principal of
Chicago Normal School bears strong
testimony in behalf of her fitness for

of demoralization existed there when
she took hold, as exists in the whole
school system now—though on a
smaller scale of course—and she has
turned the discord into harmony. She
was able to do this, because her funda-
mental theory of educational manage-
ment is not drivership, but leadership.
And this is why, if untrammeled, she

system.
ship that the system has lacked.”

The St, Louis Mirror says:

“A woman has been made Superin-

at a salary of $10,000. But the laws of
Illinois do not permit such a woman
to vote. Woman has demonstrated an
intelligence equal to the demands of
most important and complicated af-
fairs of a complicated civilization, but
her mind isn’t equal to the perform-

 

us shout for joy. Has it come to pass, l;

superintendent. Much the same state:

may be depended upon to establishj
harmony in the whole public school;
It is the element of leader-i

tendent of Public Schools of Chicago,f

ance of a function which we freely ac-
cord to the lowest and most ignorant
classes of the male population. We
“revere” and “idolize” woman, but we
don't give her credit for the simplest
common sense. If all women do not
want to vote, they need not, but for
that reason it is absurd to deny the
ballot to the intelligent women who do
fiwant it and can and will use it for
itheir own benefit and that of the gen-
leral public. I believe the true under-
lying reason why most men do not
want women to have the vote is that

__ ‘women would make an end of hypo-
the ‘

crisies in politics, that they would
lwork to smash most of our conven-
‘tional lies. Women are honest, save
as man’s domination has made them
otherwise. With full play for their in-
;telligence, women with the ballot
would not stand for the miserable sub—
{terfuges whereby politicians contrive
itO palm off upon the people, shadows
jfor substances. The woman who has
lbeen made Superintendent of Public
Schools of Chicago has the most im-
portant administrative and executive
office of any woman in the world, If
Lshe doesn’t go straight to the mark of
perfectng the efliciency 0f the schools

it will be for no other reason than that

’she is subordinate to a School Board
appointed by the unspeakable Mayor
:of Chicago, Fred Busse.”

 

3' At the Minnesota State Fair the suf-
, fragists are to have three speakers
i each day.

 

I THIS MEANS YOU I
. Are you securing signers to the Na-

tional petition? This is something

everyone can do.

 

WHAT GOOD ?

What good does it do to work—
To toil from sun to sun,

To wearyoneself so ruthlessly
At tasks that are never done?

What good does it do to plan,
To say, “Thus will I do, but not so”?
Fate stalks ’twixt the plan and the
planner,
And orders for weal or for woe.

What good does it do to try
To make lives of others more bright?
For could we make sun or make sky——
Each sees but with his own sight.

What good does it do, I wonder,
To love and .wait and yearn?
To bear the pain and smile

while,—
To live and suffer and learn?

th e

What good does anything do?
Canst answer for me, my brother?
Nay, none may answer for me,
Nor I for any other.

And yet I know that somehow
Work is better than play;

And I’d rather be tired from doing
Than from idling all the day.

And I’d rather plan to do nobly,

. Though Fate may make me

' wrong;

And rather than think of self only
I’d sing for others a song.

And I’d rather live and sufier
And wait and sorrow and yearn,
Than never to‘ feel the heartache
Of‘the great world through me burn.

No, none can answer for me,
And I can answer for none;
Of the good that anything does,
Of the good that anything’s done.

"121411: +hinlz..T know m‘lnv “no Faint an? ._ .-
Why we keep to the open road;
Why light streams into dark places,
Why we struggle along with the
load.

It’s because of that wonderful Some-
thing
Which sees in each cloud above
The lining of gold or of silver——
Blest Hope, that is born of Love;

Not the little love of one for one
That answers to Passion’s call,
But that mighty force—diviner thing—
The Love of Each for All.
ELIZABETH J. HAUSER.

In The Public.

THE SUFFRAGETTE LEADER

Mrs, Emmeline Pankhurst, the lead-
er of'the militant suffragettes of Eng-
land, will arrive in New York City this
autumn for a series of meetings in the
United States. The League of Self-
Supporting Women, Harriot Stanton
Blatch, president will arrange all city
meetings for her and her time outside
the city will be managed by the Pond
Lecture Bureau, New York.

Alice Stone Blackwell writing to the
New York Sun says:

Mrs. Pankhurst, the leader of the
militants, who is coming to America,
was called in her youth‘the most beau-
tiful woman in England. Her husband,
a distinguished lawyer, secured at her
instigation the passage of the married
women’s property bill.

When she was left a widow with
four small children, Mrs. Pankhurst
went into business, made a success of
it, and gave all her children a uni-
versity education. She has lately sold
her business, and also her house, and
given the proceeds to the suffrage
cause, to which she is devoted. In
Manchester, her home, she has served
on both the school board and the
board of guardians of the poor.

Mrs. Pankhurst and the doings of
her followers have been much misrep-
resented in the press. This will prob-
ably turn to her advantage now that
she is coming here to lecture. The
fantastic stories that have been told
of her will inc1ease people’s curiosity
to hear her; and some of those who
come to scoff will remain to pray.

 

 

  

HEAnnunnngns Wonk

Report of Headqiarters Work Presented to
the Annual convention at Seattle

Not only was there a normal in-
crease in the demands upon the Head-
quarters in 1908, commensurate with
the growth of public interest in our
question, but the year brought its own
opportunities for special propanganda.

Opinions of Candidates.
In no previous presidential campaign
in the United States were the views

of candidates on the enfranchisement
of women ever so generally comment-

ed upon by the press. Perhaps never
before did candidates consider the
question of sufficient importance to
have any opinion upon it. Never be—
fore did a President of the United
States, through the medium of the
high priest of the anti-woman suffra-
gists, issue a manifesto on the question.
Never before did the newspaper inter-
viewer prrt to every possible person-
age—politician or preacher, writer or
speaker, inventor or explorer, captain
of industry, social worker, actor, prize-
fighter, maid, matron or widow—the
burning query, “What about votes for
women?”

Never was there a more powerful
object lesson than in the campaign
for the regulation of the liquor traffic,
which spread all over the country, en-
listing non-voters in its service.

Fine Legislative. Work.

The legislative Work of our mem-
bers in the various States was marked
by unprecedented earnestness, de-
termination and careful planning for
the future.

Great Growth of Business.

It is not remarkable, therefore, that
the conduct of the Headquarters bus—
iness in 1908 called for an average
outgo of 95 letters daily, or 29,241 in
all, as compared to an average of 42
daily and a total of 13,061 in 1907; or
that the average output of literature
grew from 675 pieces daily in 1907 to
955 pieces daily in 1908. Formerly the
Headquarters had to make opportuni-
ties for service; now it has only to
meet them.

No one can be enthusiastic over
the routine of office work except the
persons directly engaged in it, who;
see its significance in relation to other i
and seemingly more important efforts.

PROGRESS

 

but three exceptions, we had to have
reprints of all of these in 1908. Eleven '
new leaflets have been added since the
Buffalo meeting, and twelve others
have been reprinted. Other documents

Book Department.

No department of our work has
been more diligently prosecuted than
the book sales. Miss Reilly has had
entire charge of this and from Jan.

 

 

PROF. MARY GRAY PECK
(See Page 3.)

 

of various kinds, numbering 20 in an, i 1, 1908, to June 15, 1909, the

were issued. When one adds to the 85 Life and Work sales amounted
different pieces of printing here enum-i to ........................ $800.00
erated, the proof-reading on the 197-lCash collections .............. 691.95
page report of the annual convention}
and on 14 galleys of Progress proof;
each month, one realizes that our pub-

Outstanding ............ .. $108.05
The expenses amounted to $347.96,
fishing alone has come to be a little including an item of $300 for 100 sets

business in itself. In addition to this,‘0f V01S- I and II- The sales, there-
we purchased documents of Six dif—g fore, exceeded the expenses by $452.14.
ferent kinds from various sources. We i Bilt it must be borne in mind that
added some postal cards, photographs i V01- III was 91113118th by the execu-
and prints to our stock. ‘tors of the estate of Miss Mary S.

The demand for literature made the 1 Anthony, without cost to the Associa-

 

Realizing, therefore, that what follows
will be of inspiration to very few ex-j
cept to the writer herself, we shall en— ‘
deavor to present it as concisely as
possible.

In addition to the general corre-
spondence, the editing and publishing
of Progress, the printing and distribu-
tion of literature, the sales of the
History of Woman Suffrage and the
'Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony,
the press work and the treasur'er‘s work
are done from Headquarters. The two
last-named are separately reported,
and form no part of this statement.

Progress.

Progress is edited by Mrs. Upton;
43,072 copies were sent out in 1908.
The total cost of printing, mailing,
circularizing, etc., was $892.63; the
receipts from subscriptions $355.80,
leaving a defiicit of $536.83. A goodly
supply of circulars and envelopes, in-
cluded in above expenses, remains on
hand. Persistent and constant circu-
larizing failed to bring up the sub-
scription list as we hoped, but did keep
it at about 2000 most of the time, the
figure at which the list stands at
present; 22,704 copies of Progress have
been sent out this year. The postal
regulations have reduced the sample
copy privilege from a number equal to
the paid subscriptions to one-tenth of
that number.

Literature and Supplies.

The preparation of copy for leaflets
is largely in the hands of Miss Black-
well, Chairman of the Literature Com-
mittee, but the printing, proof-reading
and distribution belong to Head-
quarters. Up to the time of the Buf-
falo convention, 43 Political Equality
Leaflets had been issued, and, with

increase in kinds of material neces-i tion, and the receipts from the sales of

‘ r ' ~ I u -
sary, and the Susan B. Anthony Me-iVOl' III are kept intact in an interest

morial Fund (provided by Miss Thom- - bearrrrg account. Sales Of the ' "

as and Miss Garrett) made it Posswe- i Hlstigoiizf 116311 suffrage $282 00

l Cash Collections ............. 254.60

The year the Headquarters (fame to? Outstanding ............. $27.40
\Varren, 1903, the average darly out: Expenses on the books, the largest
put 0f literature. excluding Progress, , item being for storage and insurance,
was 165 pieces; in 1904,.200 preces; iamounted to $173.25, thus giving a
in 1905, 342; 1n 1906, 600; 111 1907, 675; ifavorable balance of $108.75.

11,1 1908’ 955’ or a total Of 298’919‘ Four copies of Vol. IV. of the His-
pieces.

h's .
And 11.1) to £11119 ‘10 if sterlit tor-y were grverr as club or Progress
year, 271,166 pieces ave ee premiums.

Some Striking Figures.

tive year in most of the States, caused
a large demand for literature. Letters
were sent to the delegates to the Na-
tional Political Conventions, though
this was not done'on so extensive or
thorough a scale as has been our cus-
tom. The Self—Denial Week effort call-
ed for many letters and the widely ad-
vertised petition work brought many
inquiries.

As usual, the Treasurer and Head-
quarters Secretary aided local work,
the former giving much assistance to
a book sale conducted by the Warren
Political Equality Club for the benefit
of the Susan B. Anthony Woman Suf-
frage Fund. Together they planned
the hearing before the Ohio Legisla-
ture. In the time covered by this re-
port, they have, between them, spoken
upwards of 40 times at meetings of
various kinds. A meeting of the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Ohio W. S.
A. was held at Headquarters, and there
have been conferences at various times
with some of the National officers and
organizers. We have had calls from
State workers, or intersted persons,
from Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Mary-
land, Michigan, New York, Ohio and
Pennsylvania, among our more dis-
tinguished visitors being Hon. Oliver
W. Stewart, Judge Lindsey, John Z.
White, and Rev. Edward Ellis Carr.

The minutes of the Buffalo Conven-
tion were edited and published by
Mrs. Upton. During part of the time
occupied in this effort, we had the help
of Mrs. Lucy Hobart Day, of Maine,
who spent a few weeks at Head-
quarters.

Work Among the Other Organizations.

The American Federation of Labor,
at its annual convention in Denver,
following its long-established custom,
passed a woman-suffrage resolution.
The American Federation is the
strongest ally we have, representing,
as it does, 37 State branches, central
unions in 570 cities, 27,000 local unions,
and 2,000,000 members. Other im-
portant organizations endorsing wom-
an suffrage are the National Council
of Women, at its annual executiVe
meeting in Union City, Ind.; the So-
cialist party; the International Brick-
layers’ and Stone Masons’ Union at
Detroit; VVomen’s National Trade
Union League in Boston; Johns Hop-
kins Alumnae Association, and Inter-
national Cotton-Spinners’ Union in
Boston. The United Mine Workers of
America not only passed our resolu-
tion by a unanimous rising vote of the
1,000 delegates present at the meeting
in Indianapolis, but presented us with
500 printed copies of the resolution,
480 of which we promptly mailed to
members of Congress. Our President
attended the National Conference of
Charities and Corrections at Rich-
mond, and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe was
received by the General Federation of
Wiomen’s Clubs in Boston as fraternal
delegate from the National American
Woman Suffrage Association. Mrs.
(Maud C. Stockwell, of Minnesota, act-
ed as fraternal delegate to the Ameri-
can Library Association; Mrs. Mary

 

out, lacking less than 28’000 0f the, Some time since the Official Board
number sent out for the whole of the ,1 voted to give away 200 sets of the

precedrnrg fiant ‘ . ‘_ a a mEHistory, and not the least important
Thoug 1 erature 1:. given ‘ w yt of . work of this department has been the
generous quantr res, t e maJor par lplacing of these books in the libraries;

u' ' d ‘ _ ' '
the output as gone to persons or er lof 200 of the leading colleges and unr-i
ing the specrfic thrngs they want. The

_ f 1, t , t _ d ativersities of the United States. This:
only stanillng _refh ls1'fma1n1:i)::shi) entailed a large and discriminativel
Headquar ers 1S e re me 1 correspondence, but it revealed manyi

lisgt’ and we. have andleavotrfd :10 Sweet: I hitherto unknown friends of the cause,
lrfe members supp 1e WI a O 'and brought some able allies into thei

merits issued. . . service. Another result of this effort
The 1908 sales from the Political

1.1: L n t o nted t more was that it created a demand from cor-
Equa rdy bleat: s ain “f ‘ 1937 As I respondents for other literature.
thanh ou f? e Sa es .0: d out our“ We heartily recommend to the offi-
we ave requen y .porn e ’ , cers another appropriation of the His-
Lrterature and Supplies Department rsl _. _ _ _

torres for srmrlar purposes.
operated for propaganda, not for pro-i,
fit, yet our cash receipts from Jan., Reports for Libraries.
1, 1908, to June 1, 1909. amounted to‘ One hundred copies each of the an-
$1,520.95, while the total cost of this nual reports of 1908 and 1909 Conven-
department for the same period was itions were sent to the libraries which

$1,987.61. The difference between ex-lkeep a file of our printed proceedings,
l

1 Nurses’
1United States.

i was voted down.

S. Sperry and Mrs. Alice L. Park, of
California, in a similar capacity to the
Associated Alumnae of the
Mrs. Coryell was our
delegate to the American Baptist
Home Missionary Society in Oklahoma
City. Mrs. Duncanson of Chicago pre-
sented a woman suffrage plank to the
Independence Party Convention, but it
Miss Gregg attended
the League of American Municipalities
in September. The program was so
crowded that there was no opportun-
ity for her to speak, but the Secretary
has asked for a fraternal delegate
from our Association the coming year,
and has reserved a place for such dele-
gate on the program. Rev. Henrietta
G. Moore and Mrs. Elizabeth Welsh
were invited to be fraternal delegates
to the Woman’s Prohibition Club of
America, and their names so appeared
on the printed program. Mrs. Jessie

 

perrditures and receipts, $466.66, caniand to these same libraries copies of
by no means be considered a deficit, ; Mrs. Harper’s pamphlet,
since we have a large and valuable i Suffrage Throughout the World,” were
stock on hand, including the boundisent.

leaflets. The Chairman of our Liter-l General Work.

ature Committee, in her report, Willi Requests for material for essays,
give the titles of our various publica-prations and debates multiplied. The

 

tions. _ iwinter of 1908-1909 being the legisla-

"Woman ,

Waite Wright and Mrs. Helen Rand
lTirrdall presented a resolution to the
‘National League of Woman Workers
Pin Washington, but it was not acted
,rrporr.

L It will be seen that this work has
Lnot only extended to many organiza-

 

 

 

tions of diverse character, but over a
very wide territory.

To summarize, 29 National Associa-
tions have endorsed woman suffrage;
14 others have taken action on some
phase of the question; 20 State Fed-
erations of Labor, 16 State Granges,
and seven State Letter Carriers’ asso-
ciations have endorsed it. Some of the
States have carried on a very active
propaganda in this direction, securing
endorsements from hundreds of 10-
cal organizations, representing labor
unions, educational and religious so-
cieties, Farmers’ Institutes, etc., all
of which will doubtless be detailed in
the State reports.

The report which we give annually
does not begin to represent the work
done, as there are scores of letters
written to State presidents and other
workers, asking them to see that the
question is presented, and many times
the workers go to the conventions and
make the effort, but are unable to get
a hearing; or if they do get a chance
to speak, are unable to introduce a
resolution. This is not work lost by
any means, for every time the effort is
made it calls the question to the at-
tention of at least one person. The
States can hardly do better than to co-
Operate with the National Headquar-
ters in this line of endeavor, espe-
cially now, when the petition work
ought to be enlisting the best energies
of all the workers, and can be so eas-
ily combined with the effort.

Cost of Headquarters.

The cost of maintaining the Head—
quarters for 1908, including rent, tele-
phone, general postage, oifice furnish-
ings and salaries, exclusive of the
proportion of the latter charged to the
press department, was $3,651.25.

ELIZABETH J. HAUSER.
Headquarters Secretary.

 

THIS MEANS YOU l

Are you securing Signers to the Na-
tional petition? This is something
everyone can do.

SUFFRAGE MEETING
AT NEWPORT

The suffrage meeting held August 24
at Marble House, the Newport home of
Mrs. Belmont, was a great success.
Mrs. Belmont welcomed the guests
and introduced the chairman, Mayor
P. J. Boyle, who presented Julia Ward
Howe. Mrs. Howe lives at Newport
and attended the meeting accompan-
ied by her daughter, Florence Howe
Hall. Mrs. Howe said the change in
the status of women in the country is
miraculous. Rev. Anna H. Shaw was
the principal speaker and delighted
the audience, which was too large for
the tent erected to accommodate it
and chairs were placed upon the lawn.
The meeting was held in a tent in the
yard, tickets to this being one dollar
each. Those who paid five dollars
were shown through the house.

“Marble Hall faces on one side
Bellevue avenue, and on the other the
famous Cliff Walk. It was built by the
late Richard M. Hunt, who also de-
signed The Berakers and Belcourt, and
is famous throughout the world as a
work of art. * * * This lecture
was given for the purpose of arousing
interest in the suffrage cause and in
order to raise funds for the suffragists.
All the money received for entrance
fees will be turnedover to the Na-
tional Suffrage Association.

For one hour before the lectures the
lower floor of Marble Hall was open
to the insDection of ticket horders.
They entered by the front door of the
large hallway, from which the house
takes its name. It extends upward for
two stories, and is built throughout of
yellow African marble. Statuary and
valuable bronze stand about, and
through the marble arches and mas-
sive bronze doors in the rear, one
looks out across the lawn and high
hedge, guarding it from the strollers
on Cliff Walk, to the wide expanse of
ocean.

The flags used in decorating are
heirlooms in the Belmont family.
Some of them belonged to COmmodore
Matthew Galbraith Perry, grandfather
of the late Oliver H. P, Belmont, who
negotiated the first treaty between this
country and Japan, and the others be-
longed to Commodore Oliver Hazard
Perry. the hero of the Battle of Lake
Erie."

 

 

 PROGRESS

 

 

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PERSONAL

Wm»

Mrs, Wm. P. Trimble has been made
temporary chairman of a local council
of women at Seattle.

The Unitarians, in their Pacific
Coast conference at Seattle, declared
in favor of woman suffrage.

Alarger number of women than
usual are candidates for the office of
membership of the school boards in
Ohio.

Emma Smith Devoe presided at a
meeting of the Seattle exposition
August 15 at which Judge Ben. B.
Lindsey spoke.

Mrs. Frederick D. Green of Uppper
Montclair, N. J., has been indorsed for
the position of member of the Board of
Education by the Republican Club of
that town.

Hon. Brand Whitlock has been
unanimously nominated for Mayor of
Toledo by the Independents, without
one dissenting vote.

The New Jersey Federation of
Labor, at its meeting in August, en-
dorsed woman suffrage. Clara A. Lad-
dey and Dr. Mary D. Hussey were
present.

Miss Irene Osgood has written a
pamphlet which has been published
by the Wisconsin Bureau of Labor,
entitled “Women Workers in Mil-
waukee Tanneries.”

The Political Equality Union, of Chi-
cago, Mrs. Raymond Robins, President,
recently held a meeting in Fraternity
Hall, with Rev. Gertrude von Petzold
as speaker.

Mrs. Adelaide B. Hyde has been
elected president of an Equal Fran-
chise League lately formed at Green-
wich, Conn. Mrs. Ernest Thompson-
Seton is one of the members,

Miss Nellie Horton, Fort Worth,
Texas, has been appointed secretary
and treasurer of the Farmers’ Union
of that State. She is only 24 years of
age, and the association has a mem-
bership of nearly 250,000.

The fact that Governor Crothers, of
Maryland, has come out in an official
protest against woman suffrage has
aroused the Maryland women to their
subordinate position. We will hear
from them later.

The Suffrage Clubs of St. Paul and
Minneapolis celebrated Lucy Stone’s
birthday by picnicing at Minnehaha
Falls. Prof. Frances Squire Potter
made the address.

Rev. Mary G. Andrews, the president
of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage As-
sociation, is about to remove from
Omaha to Minneapolis where her son
will take a course at the Minnesota
University.

MiSS Chrystal Eastman, a Vassar
graduate, has been appointed by Gov-
ernor Hughes on a special commission
to investigate the causes of unemploy-
ment. John Mitchell and Henry R. Se-
ger are also membesr of this commis-
sion.

Anna C. Etz, of Hornell, N. Y., con-
tributes an article to Harper’s Bazaar
on the Hornell Equal Suffrage League.
She tells of the methods employed by
that club to call the attention of the
people attending the County Fair to
the question of suffrage.

The debate on