New-York tribune., 1909-11-06
SUFFRAGE SETBACK
Hrs. SRO7odcR Tells U1hy Eng
hsk Haze Lost Ground

The race for womaH suffrage between
Ncw York state and EnEland has rov,
been declared a. hc oven. neck ana mol
and whoever gets There first i~ 10 helm tra
o1 Her. This compact was made vcsterda,
afternoon ~ the monthly meeting 80 a..
Nrv ; orb Equal Suffrage League. Al IN.
Hrfrl Astor. Mrs PHILIP Snowden of
Irg aud tod the leaguers tb.t sl.. U-,sp-,
Eurc ~ speedy settlement Of the o,,os-
f'r0 ir Grea- Britain a. she had beoff
en she was here last wear She is quite
su~c nov That English women viii not get
votes froul Tho present government. nor
'ei from th~ nest. but hopes that the third
NAV capifulate. The setback iu England
-f"r 30 Mrs.. Snowden considers it's due
r-r stated. 90 tho character 80 John Bull
N1er asked 20 move in "a particular Iii
us-tieu. D." has a constitutional tendency
'o move in Tho oPPosite enc. Iie las now
been asked q moye tu = way that he
coesnt spprole oG and eiadlv makes this
OH sACuse for no. moving AT all Mrs
S1ovdsH alluded 20 the militant section
~ trc suffrssettcs. OF which che doesn't
e3r-ore, either. m Jh-ir later Developments
-I have not altered she explained, .sn
fHv adruirstiou Tor NrS Paukhurst. hut
SO has let loose Franksnsteiu's monster.
s-i TIE tine vii come. n it has not a.
fasdv come. when sr, viii wish she had
aar done frr
Another setback. according o. Mrs snow
oeu. is The arrirudc of "a certain section 81
mo working women ANA treir friends 70
f.e present movement
"a reprcseutatiyr of this class. Miss
Na~r Macarthur. was recently iu Ameri-
&C.,. ssil the speaker some earnest and
~rn~-sfEhted people IKE Miss Macarthur are
I0rsuaL ding trr working women that the
Rnre or ths suruc terms that men have IL
v-H o. rhem no good. because of the prop
e-rr an. irratiou that would he demanded
They vllI De- content with nothing but fuIl
ldJlr suffrage. whereas We hold that IT.
40 vsre 10 ASK Tor fnis tho men would
- ir and the women would Dc sa~rihed
se tbev have herT un similar occasions We
-hi0k . bs-ter o. geuoNo the sex disluali-
noaJieu nr~t and attend 10 tho other things
a-rsrWerd
All rhess things Mrs. SnoWdeu thinks,
give the American woman su oven chance
ro get ahead OF her Erglisn sister iu the
-aee Tor tle suffrage. bur Size doesn think
~ matters who sets iu nrsl-
Bu, lI We 81 the vote f-s'." she con
5ed 1--WE vii como over and help YOU 20
Nrs Carrie Chapman Carr declared that
fr1s was p bargain. she knew. she said
'Hat American women w.I0 ready a. help
-re English. if they Won their nEht frs-.
end size appealed $50 th. audience r. devote
rlsfr. energies trou now on to getting tire
Rate athc- than 70 tolliUs people why they
ought 10 have IT,
The time Tor talking has passed Mrs
latt continued I'VE must act NOW. We
I-lst % q the voter. because We cau never
- Tie vote JU the majority ~ Ihc voters
want u - have ir- Meetings IN the Hotel
AstCr and Carnegie Hal have their uses.
..f ir Va want 10 reach the masses ~ the
f~opl, v-s u-~r % % fh@lu ln fletr own
Assemble and election districts. We now
lare a chairman in every Assembly dis
tri-t. We must g. Oh Ju We have one IN
...rrv election district. and until every man
and woman fu those districts rs under sUf-
lra-c sg-E eillauce.
PrepIous - s1o address. the league voted
ou the motion ~ Mrs William n lvins
70 write q letter TO tho Mayor thanking
n for the appointment ot women o. the
school Board aud expressing tie hope tAat
10 would continue iu welllolnS-