The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-14
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Crossett. president of the State Fedora
ton of WOmen's clubs, several hundred
women occupied seats on the stage. A
partial poll of these women showed that
seventy-nine were teachers, fifty-stven
doctors, six dentists, forty-nine social
workers, thirty-eight trained nurses, 120
trade uniOnists, ten musicians, one ex-
plOrer and mountain climber Miss An
ma Peck), four civil engineers, twenty
two architects, 140 business women, six
teen authoresses, two sculptors, four
teen journalists, sixty civil service wO-
men and twenty-five lawyers. 1t can
readily be seen that the wave of suf
frage has invaded every field of endeav
or adopted by woman. Among the most
interested spectators were hundreds of
boxmakers, bookbinders, cigarmakers,
decorators, gOld-leaf workers, hat trim
mers, illuminators, librarians, potters,
printers, stenographers, clerks, textile
workers, telegraphers and mattresses.
Here they met in a common cause, the
most exalted and petted women of So
ciety rubbing elbows with the horny
handed daughters of toll" For enthusi-
asm this gathering of women made an
ordinary political mass meeting look
like a Quaker meeting. Their enthuSi-
asm passed all bounds, and had Mrs.
Pankhurst seized her opportunity and
suggested the starting of a subscription
list, it is safe to assert that the funds
would have mounted into the hundreds
of thousands.
New York and the country at large
has thousands upon thousands of suf-
fragists. There are few women now
adays allied with clubs, such as the
Civic Federation, who are not pro-
are thousands of suffragettes also, but
the latter is a militant in every particu-
lar and goes to greater lengths toward
carrying her point than her more mod
est and retiring sister, the suffragi
But women are born fighters, and real
izing that nearly every step forward
that the cause of suffrage has made
has been accomplished by dint of grit
and indOmitable courage, they are
more prone to overlook what they once
called 1.-The vulgar fOrwardness'' of the
suffragette. The militant Suffragette is
in the ascendency. In her onward
march she has thousands of women in
her train who less than a year ago
openly avowed that they had no sym
pathy with the movement. In many of
the states throughout the Union women
dominate the school and educational
and as time wears on it will be found
that not only will they win their fight
for suffrage, but that they will occupy
seats in legislative halls, state and ma
tiOnal. The first to take a step in this
direction is Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt,
daughter Of the many times candidate
for the presidency, who seeks a seat in
congress.
To return to Mrs. Pankhurst, ii might
be well to tell what she accomplished
in England. As the mother of the mill
tant movement in that country, this in
trepid leader succeeded in having a wo-
man nominated for and elected mayor
of one of it's cities. This woman, she
declares, has given the city the best
government in it's history, and she pre-
diets that within the next decade there
will be a hundred mayoresses in Amer
lea. Mrs. Pankhurst referred to that
fashionable colony in the suburbs of
Richmond, Va, where women have been
given a voice in its government. She
asserts that the enfranchisement of
women must of a necessity follow, and
this done, it will be but an easy step to