Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-05
ENGLISH WOMAN
ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE:
Mrs Philip snoWden, Wife Of a
Member Of Parliament, Speaks
In Carnegie Hall.
SOCIETY LEADERS PRESENT.
Speaker Declared il Was No Fun TO
Spend Three Months in q
lonely Cold Cell.

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| New York, Dee. Am audience of
| women that filled Carnegie hall to the
| topmost gallery paid enthusiastic tri-
| butte to Mrs. Philip Snowden. wife of a
| member OF the British parliament. and
a leader of woman suffrage in England
as she told tonight Of the suffragists in
her native country. Mrs. Snowden was
the principal speaker at the mass meet
ing, which was presided over hy Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait, chairman of the
interurban woman suffrage council. and
at which Rev, Or. Charles r. Aked,
pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist
church, and Rabbi Stephen were the
other speakers.
Mrs. Snowdcn made her plea with
youthful energy and earnestness. In
telling of the picture the newspapers
would draw of the doings of the suf-
fragettes in England she displayed a
keen sense of humor.
Rev. DR.. Alied in the course Of his
address scored both OF the leaders in
American political parties and declared
he did not know which was the worst
He pointed this comment with the
story of a man, who, being worsted in
debate with a woman, exclaimed as
a last resort: well, no man ever had
seven devils cast out of him.
No replied the woman "the devils
are still in the man"
The devils have not been cast out
of one of the political parties" de-
clared DR.. Aked, land they are still
in the other. One is different only in
its attempts TO be worse than the
other What sort Of condition can II he
that brings Justices of your supreme
court and your district attorney to
groveI before a retired rum seller and
chief of the Tammany wigwam .,
DR. Akcd's reference to the recent
dinner to Richard Croker and his dec
laration that the birth of a. new i'm
pulse is noted in American politics.
won applause.
Prominent women leaders of Nov
York society occupied the boxes To-
night, Mrs Clarence Mackay beinr
one Of the organizers of the meeting
Mrs Snowden told tho story Of the
suffrage movement in Great Britain.
She declared that despite tho fact
that some of the papers would nicturo
the suffragettes as altogether and
ihopelessly disreputable," they wero
asking for nothing new in Great Brit
ain.
at was only in 1892 that British
women were legally DISQUALIFIED from
full exercise of the right OF suffrage.
Even now they may vote for every gov
erninr and administrative body in the
Kingdom, with the exception or the
parliament. 1t is the right to vote for
parliament that they seek. Three
fourths of the members of the present
parliament are pledged to support
woman suffrage, and the suffrage bill
recently passed its second reading by
a vote of 8 to l. But even if ali the
members of parliament were in favor
OF suffrage, we cannot gain the desired
legislation so long as the cabinet re-
mains divided. IT is with the cabinet
ministers in England that our fight
lies. They are all-powerfuI.''
Mrs. Snowden explained the differ
ence between the old suffrage society
in Great Britain and the new suffra-
gette organization. One Of the chief
functions of the new society, she de-
cIared, is to advertise tho movement.
we nave got TO. Keep the subject
awe. she SAID. 1t is IN adVertis-
Ing me movement that you people have
heard the most of. hut don't trDHYir1n