New-York tribune., 1907-12-13
DEMAND THE FRANCHISE
Women Pass Resolutions after
Hearing Mrs. Cobden-Sanderson.

I, you want to do anything in Eng1and-that is.
anything radical like getting into the House Of
Commons with petticoat on-just go and get ar
rested and you'll accomplish what you after
maybe. AT any rate, that is the plan adopted oy
Mrs Cobden-San nderson, the English sufragette.
and outlined last night by her to an audience that
filed Cooper Union to the doors and beyond
The meeting place for men with tender
feelings II was a stand up the scratch and hit
out from the shoulder. and the men went down.
took the count and then crept ANONYMOUSLY out
under the ropes
This came on a vote a resolution which
several women had spoken. When the resolution
was put there was of ayes" Then Mrs
Stanton -Blatch, who presided in place of William
NJ WINS who should have been there, but was
detained away smilingly called for the noes ana
turned around to take her seat But she was
halted. There was a small chorus-a sort OF weak
anvil chorus-of noes
.~y,rbatt. calculated Mrs. BIatch, and then she
cried every one favor of the motion for free
dom and against the crushing OF women into the
dirt rise!''
Apparentiy every one in the audience arose. but
not
..Novy' said the executfoner every one opposed
rise" Some fifty men and boys half arose on their
trembling limbs. controlled their quaking knees
for moment and collapsed. But they had voted
for their convictions
The resolution said that the meeting noted
with profound solictude that the majority Of the
Charter Revision Commission appreciates so little
the service women have rendered where they en-
| foy liberty, and holds in such low esteem the
women of city. that it refuses to recommend
that the public schools should in any way reflect
the ripened judgment OF the mothers of New
York.
And also while it noted that the Governor
of the state declared in a message the Legis-
lature that women suffer gross injustice, he de-
cIned to receive a delegation Of representative
women desiring to lay before him suggestions as 70
how to obviate the gross inequalities. Since. then.
the men of New York seem ignorant of the services
rendered by women in other countries, We
Resolve. That the time has come when all in
teufgent citizens OF the Empire State should rise
and demand that the good of their homes and
of their children, for the protection Of the woman
who tolls and for the maintenance of democracy
itself women must, and shall be, enfranchised.'
The reception of Mrs. sandersOn, compared with
that of the American women who spoke. notably
the Rev Anna Howard Shaw, of Philadelphia,
was rather cold The audience appeared to be much
interested however. in her account Of the ex-
periences of the woman suffragists in England
Mrs Sanderson said that while in Boston she
was awakened by her telephone in the middle of
the night reporter wanted TO know if it was
true that she was to be deported. At first, she
said she thought she was in Russia, and then she
remembered she woman Where the hold
ing up came in the meeting last night not in
formed.
Il spoke in Philadelphia a few days ago" she
continued. Such a complacent people never
before met She told of the child labor system
in the glass factories in Pennsylvania Il talked
to Mrs. Carnegie about it, said Mrs. SandersOn.
1--WE have abolished that evil in England The
woman suffrage movement has accomplished that
She explained that the English lawmakers We're
frightened into giving women their demands
Miss LeOnOra OReiliey, president of the Hat and
Cap Makers Union, spoke representative Of
the working women. and her appeal was punct-
uated by frequent bursts of applause. Mrs Shaws
mention of Susan b. Anthony caused the biggest
outbreak of enthusiasm of the evening. Mrs. Shaw
told about women's efforts for the purifcation of
Philadelphia There was a wOmen's organization
there which believed in praying in politics
but not voting. She said she believed in praying,
but when she got up from her knees after asking
for the success of the city party when Philadel-
phia overthrow graft she knew that if she had
the ballot with which to clinch her prayer she
would have been of more service TO the city.
Mrs Golden Sanderson will speak for the Suf-
fraSe League at Memorial Hail. Flatbush avenue
and Scherrnerhorn street. Brooklyn on Saturday
night.