Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-11
HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL EFFORT FOR
WOMAN SUFFRAGE SHOWS RAPID GROWTH

( subject of women's acknowledgements
the delighted Dutch suffragists not only
! submerged him with pamphlets, bu;
prepared a bound volume, study Ma
terial for Woman Suffrage" which had
a wide circulation in parliament and
through the press. 1t is an interesting
| fact that the parliamentary clubs of al
| the parties in Holland welcome women
suffrage speakers to their meetings
thinking that 1T helps to attract an
audience of voters.
The earnest workers of Sweden &C
complish in just the opposite way get
ting the legislators to attend the SUI
frage parlor meetings, in which they
are quite successful. The Swedish suf-
fragjsts hold mimic sessions of parlia-
ment and of town councils; send out
small circulating Libraries on woman
! suffrage for the use of local branches
| hold lectures on sociology through
which women learn about political work
and duties, and seek for membership If
mems party organizations.
In Norway and Denmark
House-to house canvassing is popu-
| lar plan in Norway when petitions and
appeals are to be presented to parlia-
ment, and in the past decade there mas
been q wonderful change of front, the
people now welcoming such visitors and
| SldulJ ol5llAiiS PSNAtiOAAN'
| fore were antagonistic
Danish women welcome women suf-
frage speakers from other lands, III
order that the Danish men may realize
the breadth and Importance of the SUP
! ject The taxpaying women OF Den
| mark have secured the vote throusn
petition and agitation.
In the Antipodes
They have a shrewd method in TAR
off Australia of packing the meetings
of candidates known to be opposed TO
suffrage with women suffraglsts. Ihere,
| as in many other countries, college ana
| school suffrage debates are popular
| features.
In Finland. where all the approved
methods were employed, the suffragists
say they would not have gotten the
| ballot and the equal political status
which they now enjoy if the women
had not shown that they understood
the public questions and taken an ac-
tive part in resistance to an unlawful
| regime. and shown their Willingness tc
sacrifice personal interests to the pubic
| good. ~.
The wearing of the badge and the
use of stamps are plans in vogue III
Hungary, where, as in Bohemla, they
decry the use of undignjfed methods
The study of the election laws is a
plan in Bohemia where the eligibility
! Of women to the Bohemian diet was
discovered in this way, and recent
vigorous campaign for political recog-
milton has been carried on.
The British Radicals
The most suggestive and striking
methods are carried on in Great
Britain such as trying to approach ana
enter the house of parliament, holding
meetings near the house, hacking gov
eminent candidates, refusing to pay
taxes. doing service as sandwich
women, using cartoon posters, chalk
| ing pavements, holding bazaars with
novel attractions (such as a reproduc-
| tion of a cell in Holloway jail with in
mattel. asking questions in meetings
distributing literature from an airship
sending human letters to the premier
etc.
The British suffragists of the old re,
gime. while admiring the energy and
| shirt of the modern ,4IIragistS, stlll
! adhere to the tine-nonored methods OF
organization and education, believing
with the uneducated woman that 1t is
"unloidylike to chine yourself to ril-
ings:" they hold great public parades
and mass meetings, circulate literature
| enlist authors, artists, actresses, phy-
| sicians and other professional women
| in suffrage leagues, and do not omit
! in the stress and strain of the forceful
| campaign. to hold a great impressive
prayer service in Westminster Abbey,
| calling on divine aid to melt the hard
hearts of the British legislators and
to crown with success their righteous
! cause.