Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-12
Woman Stuff agists and Their OPP
ponents Go Before Congress.
BATTLE ROYAL EXPECTED TOMORROW
The Election of Association Off,
GERS Attracting Attention.
USINESS CONSID RED

''When Greek meets Greek, what will you
do2' questioned some one Of a square
jawed suffragiSt this morning.
IF you mean when the ants meet the
pros" was the quick response, I'VE will
do them up to use your own vernacular.
This is not q question Of woman against
woman. but of woman against society wo-
men. There are women who do not want
10 vote. We understand that, and We feel
sorry for them. The more they remon-
strate, the more they help US. for they
show the vast difference between them
selves and the bright uD-to-date women
who like to help the old world move. Why,
fifty years ago, the woman who would have
offered her services to come before Con-
gress for anything would have been consid-
cred n subject for a straight jacket. We
suffragists have made that move possible
for them. We came to Congress first, and
now. they, Just one step behind. as they
always are, come to Congress after US. We
may not win this year. but some day men
will see the justice of our cause, and we
will all stand equal before the law, because
with the ballot in our hand. and the word
male elimited from the right to the fran
chise, We WIZ be upon the same level polit-
fcally."
The foregoing Is just preliminary to the
great battle which will be fought under the
dome of the national Capitol tomorrow.
The women suffragtsts are in desperate
earnest, and nothing daunts them. The
fact that they viii be confronted by a. score
OF other women just as earnest, Just in
sistart, armed with eloauence and logic just
as irresistible, who are protesting against
the change in existing conditions. worries
them not bit. Miss Anthony looks at
them In her superior way though she
might be saying, You pore ignorant crit
tiers. you.' and Miss Shaw just smiles,
while Mrs. Gait fixes her great gray blue
eyes on the distance and talks
Miss Anthony's Policy.
But Miss Anthony isn't thinking any
thing mean. She meets her opponents
squarely and says: Now, girls, Just go
right on and demonstrate. l have broken
the path for you. and 1t is not hard to
tread. You are making 1t easier for others,
and you are learning what a power good
women can be. I'd much rather You would
demonstrate than do nothing. 1t is only
when women settle into apathy that fear
for cause"
And that simply takes the wind out of the
sails of the opposition.
The remonstrants have. already spread
their circulars around Congress. The suf-
fragistS did that some time ago. Tomor-
row morning at 10 o'clock the congressional
hearings for the Suffra sists will open. Thir-
teen women have been selected for the
symposium-thirteen Of the biggest Drained
women in the organization. The man who
plies them with questions will think he has
been hit by gatlng gun when he gets
mis- reply, for they are all prmed for the oc-
casion-
Miss Anthony will be the presiding officer
of the six speakers who will appear before
the Senate. Clara Bewick Colby will de-
liver an address on Our Work Before Con-
gress." Limited Suffrage will be looked
after by Laura NJ Johns. Mary c. C. Brad
ford from Colorado. will tell of the Re
suits Of Woman Suffrage in the Enfran-
chised States" Jessie Cassidy Saunders is
10 speak on THE Position of Women in
Foreign Countries" and Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait Of New York will speak upon
The Latest Phase of the Movement
Those who will appear in the House will
be under the guidance of Rev. Anna How
ard Shaw. The speakers will be Harriet
Stanton Blach. The Political Position of
Women in England" Lille Dcvereux Blake
The Constitutional Argument Elizabeth
Sheldon T1liinghast The Economic Basis
of Suffrage" Hala Hammond Butt, The
Changed Intellectual Qualifications of Wo-
men of This Country" Catherine Waugh
McCulloch. THE Changed Value OF the Bal
lot Rev. Anna Shaw will make the clos
ing argument.
1t is not known yet who will appear for
the remonstrants.