The Dickinson press., 1909-07-31
COLUMN DEVOTED TO
WOMAN SUFFRAGE

Latest and perhaps most significant
of all developments of the present
suffrage wave is the rise of the
Voters Woman Suffrage League. com
posed entirely of men, in New York
City. The organization has not yet been
formally effected. A public meeting
will be held for that purpose in New
York in the fall, George Foster Peabody,
the eminent philanthropist, has con-
sented to act as president of the new
league, and Max Eastman, a fellow of
philosophy at Columbia, and a contribu-
tor to the Atlantic Monthly and the
North American Review, is acting as
secretary, and doing all the preliminary
correspondence incidental to the 0rgani-
cation of the league.
Letters and copies of the proposed con-
stitution are being sent to many promi-
nent men and it is likely that the
charter membership will form an inn
posing list. Among those who have
already joined are John Dewey, Vladi-
mir S~imkhovitch, w. P. Trent, James
Shotwell, James H. Robinson, Dicken-
son S. Miller, w. P. Montague and
Charles Beard. all professors at Column
bia University William Dean Howells,
novelist and veteran editor; Edward
T. Devine, secretary of the New York
Charity Organization, and editor of the
Survey Oswald Garrison Willard, owner
and editor of the New York Evening
Post, and grandson of William Lloyd
Garrison DR.. Simon Flexner, head of
Rockefeller institute George F. Kunz,
Tiffany's famous diamond expert. the
leading authority on precious stones in
America !; Col. George Harvey, editor of
the North American Review; Edwin
| Markham, author of 1.-THE Man With
the Hoe civilian Jay Schieffelin. presi-
dent of the New York Citizens Union ;
Edward Lauterbach. Edmond Kelly and
Charles H. Strong. leading members of
the bar; William M. Wins, republican
candidate for governor of New York a
few years since Samuel McCune Lind
say,I formerly of fthe Universith of
Pennsylvania. now director of the@@New
York school Of Philanthropy HAMILTON
Holt, managing editor of the lndepsn-
dent: Rev. Thomas C. Hall, Rev. J.
Howard Mellish. Rabbi Stephen S.
Wise, well known clergymen of the
metropolis; Charles SpraGue Smith,
director of the Peoples institute ;
Charles c. Birmingham. Dr.. Samuel j.
Barrows, Nels S. Spencer. Louis r..
Enrich, Charles B. Reed. Charles RaWn
Kennedy.
The league has no intention of hold
ing meetings. circulating literature. or
doing any active work of that kind at
first. It simply desires to announce
publicly that its members stand for the
Acknowledgement of women. Those in
terested in the movement believe that
this will have an effect upon two
classes: those who regard woman suff-
rage as a cause for mirth, and those
who are moved only by opinions which
have ballots behind them. Members
will also hold themselves ready to give
advisory aid to the women's suffrage
association when, it is desired, and to
appear at legislative hearings and other
occasions when their presence is desir-
able. One task, however, the League
contemplates when it shall be thorouhly
organized: the republication. of the
writings of John Stuart Mill on the rights
of women, a peculiarly suitable task
for q mems suffrage league.
MINNIE j. REYNOLDS.