The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-02
SUFFRAGISlS MEET
Connecticut Association Spends Day in Thirty ninth Annual
 Convention.
REV. ANNA SHAW SPEAKS
Delivers Addresses on Her Work at Afternoon and Evening Scssions---.
 Mrs. Bloor Also Speaks.

The thirty-niuth annual convention of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage as- socation was held with great success in the Church of the Messiah on Or ange street last night, yesterday after- noon and yesterday morning, The evening was mostly given up to the ad- dress of the Rev Anna Fl Shaw, She spoke at length on the situation the world over as to the right of women to vote. She told of the thousands who had marched in London to show their sympathy with the movement.
 Her talk last evening was filled with scathing rebukes of mans way of neg lecting the power to vote, and she said that she would guarantee that there would be full polls If women could vote.
 The following Is the substance of her talk last evening. "The votes are now in the hands of the rum sellers and the politicians. The state of affairs would not exist if the class who did the voting were the class who did the praying. It does not pay to have one class do the voting and the other class dc the praying
 T always pay my taxes under pro- test, write on the checks, Paid un- der protest to a government that thinks itself just to rob Its friends.
 Why do you want to vote? Is among the questions l am asked Women ought and need to vote as well as men as women have the same position m der the government They should vote as this Is claimed to be a republic where all men are born free and equal.
 T have asked two candidates for high offices whether women are part of the people they speak of one of the men answered that the people were men where only men voted, and men and women where the school elections were open to women In other words, the women of Connecticut are only fraction of the people as they vote on school questions here"
 The same officers who held their posi- | tons last year were reelected They are; Elizabeth D Bacon, president, l Annie c S Fenner vice -presldent-at- large T. Ellen Burr, recording fecre tary; Ella R. Kendrick corresponding secretary, and Mary J Rogers, treas urer
 The afternoon address by the Rev Anna Shaw was lp part: "1'he move ment abroad Is extending, especially in Great Britain In the London demon stratIon it was shown There we ex- pectod that It would be an object ot tldlcule, but l. did not prove so. IL was very dlgnlned The spectacle of women walking three miles was very imposing. The enthusiasm that the movement has awakened abroad could well be taken mp here"
 Mrs Ella Reeves Bloor, the woman who went on the Roosevelt committee to investigate the conditions of tha beef trust in Chicago, made an ad- l dress in the afternoon, saying. My subject is How the Ballot Will Affect Women In Industry Men are the ! power of influence with their right to vote while women suffer. The ovolu- ton in machinery has brought great changes in the occupation of women They dlsplace the men and are paid less
 If women would organize and be- come better educated and more intel lgent. they will be able to attain higher helds in political lines The tendency of these clubs is not to or ganize, but 10 talk over the same thing year after year They should reach out, but not In a patronl2ng way, They must help women how to got better education for this work. Only then can the ballot be a benefit and not a banc.
 "A quotation from Herbert Spencer covers the thought. IL is, "The time will coh1e when one woman will not be suffered to enjoy without working that which another earns without en- l toying"
 ITO show what a place women aold in industry there is a place in Con- nectlcut where they have a factory that is regulated go that the married women have a later hour for arrival so that they can stay to get the chil- dren off to school
 Prior to tho calling together of the --------------------------------