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DECEMBER, I909

Number 12

 

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PUBLISHED MONTLHY AT WAR-I
BEN, OHIO, BY THE

NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN I
SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION. 1
President. Rev. Anna Howard Shaw.

505 Fifth Avenue, New Y01k City.

1st Vice President Rachel Foster Avery.
Swarthmore Pa.

2nd Vice Pres, Mrs. Florence Kelley,
105 E. 22nd St., New York City.

Cor. See, 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, I
Warren, Ohio. I

Auditor, I

Miss Laura Clay, Lexington, Ky.

2nd Auditor,
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell,
6 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

Legal Advisor,
Catharine Waugh McCulloch,
Evanston, 111.

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OFFICERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL
WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE.

President, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt,
N0. 2 IV. 88th 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,
L,ondon England.

 

 

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W arren

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 $. . . . . . . .
principal and interest, to be applied by
Such association for the support and
promotion of the cause of woman suf-
frage,

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Me11y Clll istmas.

The national convention will be held
in Washington in April.

This is the last issue
The January number will be issued
from New York City under another

of ‘Pogress.

 

name and with Ida Husted Hal per as
editor.

In turning over the editing of Prog-
ress to Ida Husted Harper the present
editor feels it is due her to say that she
never has felt that Progress was what
it might have been in her hands if
she had had time to give to it. So
pressing has the work been always
that copy was piepared at night at
home or under great pressure and
mid confusion in the office. She
took the editing of Progress as she did
the headquarters work, because there
was no one else available or willing.
She has not done the best she could
do she has only done the best she
could unde1 the conditions She has
never believed that P1ogress should
be used for propaganda alone, be-
cause it circulated among suffragists
but should contain news of the doings
of suffragists and suggestions for
work. Hosts of fiiends have contrib-
uted geneiously to the columns and
many have given the edit01 kind and
app1eciative w01ds. To all r'eadeis
the editor says a kind good-bye.

Send all orders for subscriptions to
Progress to National Headquarters,
505 Fifth aenue, New Y01k City, N. Y.

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And whose face shall be used to il-I
lustrate the last number of P10g1ess?I
Who, of all the faithful, shall be lasti
as well as first? Who else but sheI
who never sought self- comfort, self-I
aggrandizement, self lov she whoI
remembered the humblest worker and
told her of that remembrance. .She.
who never criticized the frailties of
her followers, she who stood fast
when others maligned, she who sacri-

MRS. LA FOLLETTE
AND MRS. HOWE

At a recent meeting in Madison
called by progiessive women, Mrs. La
Follette, wife of the United States
Senator, said: “While I do not in the
least approve of the militant English
method of securing the right to vote,
nor wish it to be transplanted to
American soil, I think an aggressive
campaign is justifiable in suffrage as
well as in other causes. I feel that
we may with propriety use all moral
and honest methods of appeal and
that the women of the United States
should avail themselves of all such
procedu1es to secure enfranchise
ment.”

She deplored the sensational prac-
tices in England, but expressed sym-
pathy for the workers. “England,”
said the gracious champion, “has es-
tablished a precedent for violence in
other causes, and it seemingly re-
quires sensation there to arouse at—
tention. But in Ame1ica, more sane
me thods should be followed.”

Marie Jenny Howe, the
speaker, gave the result of her
search and study of the woman
frage question in Colorado.
quote one paragraph.

other

re-
suf-
We

 

“As to raising the moral status of

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

ficed, toiled and worked smilingly and
lovingly as she jouineyed on. She
upon whom we rested when we were
tired, who wept with us as we wept
and dried our eyes with her comfort-
ing words. She, the figure of her cen-
tury, the embodiment of honesty, the
saviour of her sex, but more than all
else, the friend, the real, true, stead-
fast friend, not swayed by hearsay nor
falsehoods; just a firm, true friend.

 

.. rIINInJconnn. .11.

Here was she greatest. Blessed
be her mem01y, blessed be the day
when her path crossed ours. Faith-
ful let us try to be as she was
faithful, forgiving as she was for-
giving, fair as she was fair, fearless
as she was fearless. ‘ It is her face
one most often sees as one works, her
voice one most often hears her spirit
one most often feels, and it is well it
is so.

 

 

 

 

candidates for office, the women of
Colmado have achieved distinct suc-
cess along that line.” She cited the
well known case of a certain senator
whose election was opposed by the
women of the state. He was twice
defeated. After such experiences the
campaign bosses are reluctant in
bringing out candidates whose morals
are such as to call forth strenuous op-
position from the feminine voting ele—
ment. ' '

“There is a lack of leadership
among women,” declared Mis. Howe,
“in the western states, where there is
no so-called leisure class. Woman
suffrage had its birth in a place ham-
pered by natural conditions. In the
eastern states, IVIassachusetts for ex-
ample, where there is every advantage
of birth, education, 1efinement and
leisure, the cause would receive every
impetus, were it not for the old con-
servatism.”

“In China,” she said, “the women
are responsible for the custom of
binding the girls’ feet to make them
smaller; they cling with idolatrous
persistency to the tradition. The
Tinkish women still honor the an-
cient practice of completely veiling
their faces. Our conservatism,” Mrs.

Howe decla1ed, “is none the less pli-
able. In Ameiica we hug oui restlic-
tions.’ I

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SUSAN B. ANTHONY
MEMORIAL FUND

It is impossible to urge too strongly
upon Suffragists throughout the Na—
tion the plan devised for securing the
Fund by Miss Kate M. Gordon, 1800
Prytania street, New Orleans,
Chairman of the Committee.

Upon application to Miss Goulon
full information will be given to allI

who will assist in the w01k of collect-I

ing the Fund.

Loyal suffragists must now bend
every energy and honor themselves in
honoring our great Leader, who gave
herself and all she had to the cause of
women.

It has been delayed too long—we

must do it now. Each one can help,
and by following Miss Gordon‘s admir-
able plan, it can be accomplished be-
fore the next National Convention.

If it succeeds, remember you will have .

If it fails, it may be be-
W‘hat is your
A. H. S.

a part of it.

cause you have failed.
answer?

____________.____

Take stock in the South

campaign. The shales are sold at a

low price and the dividends we expect.
' State Treasurers to begin the gather-

will be great—not however,

but to human kind.

to you,

La., I

Dakota '

NATIONAL SUF-

FRAGE MEETING IN
NEW YORK CITY

The Carnegie Hall meeting, Novem—
17, was one of the greatest tri-
umphs for Suffrage in its history, and
can claim the largest paid audience for
,a purely suffrage meeting. After all
expenses have been paid, there will
be at least seven hundred dollars to be
placed in the treasury of the National
Association for the benefit of the
South Dakota campaign. This is re-
markable, since most suffrage meet-
ings heretofore have been free. The
boxes sold at ten and fifteen dollars
each, seats at fifty cents and a dollar,
while the balcony and gallery were
free. Boxes occupied by persons of
‘note and members of organizations
were gay with banners and colors.
There were about three thousand
piesent.

Mis O. H. P Belmont presided and
the speakers were Rev. Anna H-
Shaw, National President; Prof. Fran-
ces Squire Potter, National Corres—
ponding Secretary; George Foster
Peabody, President of the Men‘s
League for Woman Suffrage; Harriot
Stanton Blatch,~ President League for
Self-Supporting Women, and Mr. B. O.
Aylesworth of Colorado. It is to be
regretted that no report of the
speeches was made. An extract from
Mrs. Potter’s is given elsewhere. As
we all know, Miss Shaw always speaks
without notes.

One hundred and fifty prominent
men and women accepted invitations
to sit on the platform. Mr. and Mrs.

'IV'.’ ) «flan-aw. .nb-om‘. ‘fl :{sowmw‘d’

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the boxes. "0r? f“
Telegrams and messages were re-
ceived from friends throughout' the
United States, none more important
than that from Governor R. S. Ves-
sey of South Dakota in which he said:
“I believe that with an earnest, defi-
nite, well organized energetic cam-
paign this state can be cariied for
equal suffrage, and I hope nothing will
be left undone to bring this. about.”

SIGNIFICANT.

At the annual meeting of the Na-
tional Association of Collegiate Alum—
nae in California, a resolution was of-
fered that neither the National Asso-
ciation nor the branches which ex-
ist in 47 cities should work in connec-
tion with woman suffrage. This 1eso-
lution was brought forward by the
Executive Committee, was much dis—
approved of by the California dele-
gates and the decision of the matter
was left for the meeting which has
been held in Cincinnati recently. The
resolution was defeated and great in—
Iterest in the suffrage question was
shown by the delegates.

 

 

MRS. MACKAY.
l\»‘[rs. Mackay, President of the Equal
1Franchise Society, and her associates
have secured the Garden Theater for
a series of nine suffrage lectures.
Governor Shafroth spoke there Decem—
ber 3; December 16 Hon. Everett Col—
by will speak on “The Relation of
Woman Suffrage to Social and Eco-
nomic Progiess; December 30 Rev.
Henry S. Nash will be the speaker;

' January 13 the time will be divided be-

tween Miss Shaw, Mrs. Catt, and Mrs.
Blatch. Other speakers will be an—
nounced later.

LISTENII
State Associations, whose dues are
not paid by January 1, 1010, will not
have representation in the following.

 

convention. It is none too early for

ing of dues.

 

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’policy which can justify democracy.

PROGRESS

 

 

American
Educators and
Democracy

Prof. Frances Squire Potter, in
speaking on the above subject at the
National Carnegie Hall meeting in
New York, said:

“There have been three great Suf-
frage Mass Meetings in this hall with-
in a month. The first, packed to the
doors, demonstrated the interest of
America in M18. Pankhurst, the leader
of the rebellion of the women of Eng-
land. The second was deliberate,
structural, historic. It marked the
assumption by women of the use of
political machinery hitherto controlled
by men. The relation of these two
meetings is significant, for the first
was filled with impassioned will,
without which no world reform con-
quers, and the second was planned
by that cold logic which must organ-
ize the machinery through which mor-
al power in a democratic nation is
destined to act.

The meeting tonight is not domi-
nated by the genius of a foreign coun-
try, nor does it represent alone the
concentrated energy of one great mu-

 

nicipality. It is National, our nation,
the United States.

A National movement must be ori-
ginal, not imitative. We may be in-
spired by and we may assimilate the1
proud spirit of another count1y, but
we will never work out 0111 own sal-
vation by anything imported f1om
without or above. We must look to,

1struggle for economic justice.
1Suffrage organization in this nation
1ought to swing in and enforce their

of the High School period cannot with-
stand the vigor of this country rising
today through both sexes. Contempo-
raneously with the awakening citizen
ship of American womanhood comes
the awakening citizenship of Ameri-
can manh‘ood, and we demand that as
our men and women have come up
through our schools together, so, for
economy of energy, mutual help, and
national survival, they go on into our
struggle of democracy together,—
thoroughly together, not partially as
Englishmen and women have done.
It is upon this profound National pol-
icy rather than upon any sentiment of
chivalry on the part of one sex or the
other, that we base our conviction
that militant methods will never be
more than sporadic, even if that, in
our beloved land.

Democracy is struggling to exist. I
believe its burden is in the hands of
the educators. There are two para-
mount responsibilities, then, upon all
good citizens, men and women. First,
choose well these educators, and see
that they are placed so that they can
survive. Second, expand education
beyond the schools into the State and
unify the educational methods of the
school and the State. These are the
permanent methods, the synamic
methods, indigenous to America. The
New York teachers are making a
Every

claims. Every teacher in this or any
other State ought to swing in and en-
force Votes for Women. Without it
they never permanently can hold eco-
nomic independence.

our own roots to send up out of our . .

own soil the vigor that shall nourishI
our National growth. No mastery of
external machinery alone will savei
this State. Those who say that giving1
the ballot to women will not betterI
our menacing conditions possibly a1'e1
right, if the give-all were the end- all.
Votes for Women we advocate as

the first necessity to a long education-
that, kind of— 5'“. educational]

In England, politics has had a
la1ge share of social life. Women,
therefore have had an education in
practical politics which they share
only as helpers and servers. Since?
politics is so generally a part of the
life of the British, the professional pol-
itician, as we understand the term,
hardly exists over there. The dicta-
torship of a political boss, so familiar
to this country, does not oppress them. 1
The ground on which Englishmen and
women come together generally ini
active co- opeiation is political. Mili-1
tant politics in England is a natural
evolution taken over within these last1
few years by the women who natuia1-1
ly are employing methods which for
centuries have been successful when1
employed by men. On all othe11
grounds except political, men and
women in England are kept apart.
The latter are a governed class. So
fan as polities is conce1ned,England1
is mo1e of a democracy than Ame1ica.1
She often speaks of this. But when itI
comes to 1eal democratic spirit, theie
is no comparison between the two
countries, and it is to this American
democratic spirit which never yet has
exp1essed itself through our political
machinery that we look with hope.

The children of England are edu-
cated to class and sex distinction.
The children of America are educated
for equal citizenship. The
School is the nursery and the great-
est hope of triumphant democracy. In
these nurseries our boys and girls are
educated together for
where the English boys and girls are
kept apart. But suddenly, at gradu-
ation, our young men and women
confusedly are separated, the men go-
ing into business, the women into bus-

iness or domestic life, and at the same.1

point, the professional politician takes
11p the tale of American citizenship.
The strongest manifestation of pow-
er in this universe is growth,—normal
growth from within, not excrescense.
Now where is the growth in this
country?
schools, and the arbitrary fiat which
interferes with that growth at the end

1 and 23.

:interspersed by two piano solos,

Public 1

citizenship

 

Our growth is found in our;

‘1 ton,

STATE NEWS

MARYLAND.

The State Convention of the Mary-
land Woman Suffiage Association was
held in the Auditorium of the Balti—
more Business College,..Nnvemer.92
There was an executive ses-
sion at 2:30 o’clock. The Convention
was opened at 3 o’clock by the singing
of the Fraternity Song, composed by
the late Elizabeth Yo1k Case, and ded-
icated to the Maccabees.

The usual routine business followed,
by
Miss Dena M. Kingsley. The year
1909 will go upon record as an epoch
as to increase in membership. The
Balimore City \Voman Suffrage Club
reported for 527 members. The Equal
Suffrage League of Baltimore, 456;
Montgomery County, 65; Baltimore
County, 23; Hartford County, 2; Ju-
nior Woman Suffrage Club (newly 01'-
1ganized), 12; one state member, mak-
ing a total of 1086 members. There

were in the convention, one club and1
never before,

one county (Somerset),
1 epresented.

A paper on Henry B. Blackwell, by
Mrs. Geo. A. Chickering, and one from
Mrs. Pauline W. Holme on the Seattle
1Convention closed the afternoon pro-
gram. Two' violin solos,

John Roach Straton, subject, “The
Destiny of the Lost Rib” made the
evening’s program. The lecture was
a strong plea for Woman Suffrage, and

was listened to with great pleaSure by i

a very good audience.
Tuesday afternoon’s session was de-

1voted to business and the following

May a Woman belong
How shall we push the

discussions:
to two Clubs;

petition work, and the Susan B. An-'

thony Fund.

Maigaret Mullen Brown was made:
chairman of this fund.

The following officers were elected
to serve for 1910.

President, Mrs. Emma Maddox
Funck,1631 Eutaw Place, Baltimore.

Vice- President, Miss Julia F101ence.
Abbott, Govans, Baltim01e County.

Corlesponding Secr'etaIy, Miss Etta
H \Iaddox, 1631 Eutaw Place, Balti-
more.

Recording Secretary, Mrs. Anna H.
Hoskins,‘ 1420 Druid Hill avenue,
Baltimore.

Treasurer, Mrs. Mary Badders Hol-
1626 Harlem avenue, Baltimore.

Auditors, Mis. B. F. Starr, Mrs. Ger-

Fraternal 1'
Greetings, and an address by the Rev. 1

 

timor.e

State Member of National Execu-
tive Committee, MlS.
Holton, 1626 Harlem avenue.

SOUTH DAKOTA.

Dakota was attended by Rev. Anna H.

Penfield. Most of the time of the con-
vention, except of course the even-
ings, was spent in planning for the1
campaign.

with powers to add to its members,
was created.
as State President, is chairman.

A Finance Committee to suggest
ways and means for raising funds
was also created. Mrs. Florence Je-
fries, former State Treasurer, is one
of the members of this commitee.
Men are members of both of these
committees.

A sub-committee of five was created
to look after detail work and Mrs. E.
D. Tinsley, Corresponding Secretary
and Secretary of the Campaign Com-
mittee, is Chairman of this sub-com-
mittee, the other members being Mrs.
Hendricks, Mrs. Zetlitz, Mrs.
banks (State Treasurer) and Mrs.
Smart.
expenditures and is composed of Mrs.
McCrossen, Mrs.
Fairbanks.

Headquarters have been opened on
Phillips avenue at $25.00 per month.
The Minnehaha Co. Society, practic-
ally Sioux Falls, agrees to pay the
rental and $5.00 for telephone as its
contribution to the campaign. This
clubdoubled its membership in a few
days. Now with a strong pull and a
long pull and a pull all together if we
are to have a fifth star.

NEBRASKA.

Rev. Mary G. Andrews having mov-
ed to Minneapolis and Amanda J. Mar-
ble not being well, Dr. Inez C. Phil-
brick of Lincoln presided at the state

convention held lately in Lincoln.

It was decided in convention and
executive committee meeting which
followed to secure a field worker, pre
ferably Mary N. Chase, for three
months. Also that press work be ex-
tended. That during the coming year
chief effortsgbe directed toward secur-
ing the election to the legislature of
men pledged to work and vote for
woman suffrage measures.

It was also decided to establish an
annual prize of $25 to be paid to a stu-
dent of a college or university of the
grade granting a degree of A. B. for
the best essay on woman suffiage. It
was voted to use the union label 011
stationery.

Miss Mary Williams, the correspond-
ing secretary, says, “Mrs. Snowden’s
lecture was a great success both in in-
terest and in numbeis. We could have
had nothing better than it for the oc-
casion. Our plospects are very e11-
couraging.

Officers

President, Dr.
coln.

Vice President—Mrs.
Marble, Table Rock.

Recording Secretary—Mrs. Mary P.
Jay, Lincoln.

Corresponding Secretary, Miss Mary
Williams, Kenesaw.

Treasurer — Emma
Roca.

First Auditor—Mrs.
Carns, Lincoln.

were elected as follows:
Inez C. Philbrick, Lin-

Amanda J.

\V. Demaree,

Margaret

Exeter.

WEST VIRGINIA.

The annual convention of the \Vest
Virginia Equal Suffrage Association
was lately held at the Board of Trade,
Wheeling, Mls. B. B. Ritchie, of Fair-
mont, the Vice-President, presiding.

The following officeis we1e elected

President, Mrs. T C Hornbrook of
\Vheeling.

Vice— President, Mrs. B. B. Ritchie, of
Fairmont.

Recording Secretary,
Powell, of Fai11nont.

Corresponding Secretary, Miss E. l.
1011mmins, of Wheeling.

Mrs. C. E. Hawker,

Mrs. J. E.

 

1 T',1easuie1 of
Fair.mont
1 Auditors, Mrs George E. Boyd, Jes-
sie G. Manley.

National Executive Committee, M.
Anna. Hall.

The following
I adopted:
1 RESOLVED, That the West v:-
1ginia Equal Suffrage Association has,
111 the death of \Irs. No1a D. Fulton,
1forn1er Recording SeCIetar,y lost an
1efficient worl',