The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-11-12
SUFFRACETTES VETO
VIOLENT AGITATION
Members Of Pennsylvania Association
Favor, Instead, Tacifll Educa'
tion to Further Cause.

Success of the cause of the suf-
fragettes lies in tactful education
rather than violent demonstration,
according to Mrs Rudolph Blanken-
burg, president of the Pennsylvania
Woman Suffrage Association, deliver
ed at the fortieth annual convention
of the association. which was held
in the Y. M. G. A building, at Nor
ristown.
In writing to a clergyman, send
him Bible citations in support of
suffrage; in writing o business men,
show them its economic side, and
when enlisting I. aid of teachers,
show its educaticr. advantages,
she cautioned in response to the
address of velco' Z made on behalf
of the borough ! Burgess Samuel
Roberts. Addresses of welcome on
behalf of the Montgomery County
Woman's Suffrage Association by
Miss Ellen L. Thomas, and on be-
half of the Norristown Women's
Christian Temperance Union by Mrs.
Sarah Simpson, were also delivered.
Other responses were made by Mrs.
Elizabeth B. Passmore and Mrs.
Minora F. Phillips.
Also Work For Mans Rights.
1--WE are not working to secure
woman's rights alone, but to pre-
serve mans rights as WE'LL" declared
Mrs. Passmore. Miss Thomas stated
that the purpose of the movement
is that men and women should stand
together in the State as they do in
the home" Mrs Simpson observed
that "suffragettes do not identify
then selves for enfranchisement as a
means of popularity, but to work
out faithfully and humbly a noble
end"
Mrs. Olive Pond-Aimes encouraged
the Delegates by a contrast of the
present with the former attitude If
the w. C. T. U. toward the cause.
She said:
Thine was when to mention the
enfranchisement of woman at q w.
c. T. U. meeting was to cast shad-
ow over the proceedings. Now that
subject is discussed at every w. c..
T. U. meeting with relish"
The address of the day was de-
livered by Mrs. Lucy Hobart Day,
State organizer, on "The Value of
Organization" In answer to the
question. "Is there any relation be-
tween the women who go into the
business world and the increase in
crime?" Miss Day said: where
women vote there is less crime than
where they do not posses the fran
chise."
The association recently sent let
ters asking an expression of opinion
on woman's rights to sixty-two can
didates for Congress. c. F.. Barclay,
of Sinnamehoning Pa, replied:
81 handed your letter to my wife
and asked her to give me her views
on the subject. After considering
the matter she told me that at the
present time she has no desire tc
vote. AS she has this view of the
matter, l think / have nothing tc
say until she changes her views"
C. C. Pratt, of New Milford, Pa.
answered:
II have no objection to woman
voting from the mans standpoint
but / have a most decided objection
from the woman's standpoint. In
my estimation, business has within
the past twenty-four years taken
! away about, so per cent. of all the
| qualities that go to make woman
lovable, and l would most earnestly
| plead that the other so per cent
might not be destroyed by politics
Let woman vote If she wants to, but
| protect me from the woman who
wants to-"
The convention resented bitterly
the published statement of Mrs
Humphrey Ward that "woman's suf
frage in this, country is dying out
AS an effective answer to any suct
insinuation, the Pennsylvania Asso
citation will join with other associa
tons in getting up a monster peti
tion, which shall be sent first to Con
| gress and then abroad