The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-25
SUFFRAGETTES OPEN
CHICAGO HEADQUARTERS

CHICAGO, Illinois, December IL
Headquarters for the woman suffragists
of Illinois have been opened in Chicago.
A permanent and aggressive campaign
is to be carried on. If hard effort and
money will do it the purpose is to make
this city the head base for the cause
throughout the country. Heneeforth it
is not to be the placid fight of the old
DAYS. Suffragists home from London
have come to the conclusion that to
wrest the franchise from male leglsla-
tors it is absolutely necessary to employ
something more forceful than womanly
grace, pleading, cajolery and gentle
argument. TO map out new lines which
will be effective the best thought OF.
the suffrage leaders will be put to the
test.
The screaming, biting noise and gen
eraI trough house, business which has
been a feature of the movement abroad
is decried. That system viii not be
resorted to here. But the leaders be-
i lieve they have learned something from
| London methods. They are persuaded
| that the men must be confronted on
! every possible occasion with a demand
| for equal suffrage. keep the thing
constantly in the minds of the legisla.
| tors and would be legislators is the
motto. Drive it into them, not with
sledgehammers, but with the gentle but
cumulative force of dropping water
that is the idea.
With this program in view the Hi
nois Equal Suffrage Association expects
to hold one thousand parlor meetings to
engage the interest of the largest pos
sible number of women. Then there
will be five hundred hall meetings of
both sexes, to be followed by as many
more propaganda meetings in front of
| factories. A hundred gatherings are
| planned for labor unions, polite inroad
| is to be made upon the churches and
| there will be countless number of
open air and street rallying places
| where enthusiasm within womanly
bounds will be exploited.
When the psychological day.
comes there is to be .'the biggest street
parade ever held in America in the
interest of suffrage for the fair ones
The leaders will not attempt this dem
onstration until they are reasonably as
sured that fifty thousand to one hun
dred thousand women will take part in
it. Then it viii be advertised as the
one great rally for the cause. The ac
tive workers will organize ward anC
county clubs, and every effort will be
pointed to the procuring of three hun
dred thousand signatures demanding
that the Illinois Legislature allow the
women to vote for everything fol-
which men have the ballot
Newspaper advertising space will bt
taken literally if sufficient funds are
raised. Street cars will be used fer elo
quent posters, billboards will tell the
tale. balloons and kites viii fly banner.
with appropriate inscriptions. Office
buildings win be showed under will
circulars, and the suburbanite whit
leaves his train at seven oelocl
in the morning to repair to his offic,
viii be confronted with the ubiquitou.
demand. Important in one way, bu
quite incidental when measured up to tn
full scope of the ambitious planning
is the fact that Mrs. Pankhurst ant
Mrs. Snowden. of England. are SEIZED
uled for reverberating suffrage volley
| in the near future.