The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-02
FOrty-First Annual Meeting of
Those Who Stand for WO-
mans Rights.
MANY PROMINENT LEADERS
OF MOVEMENT ATTENDING
international Phase of the Great
Question Reviewed in Off
ciaI Report.

oPShcu lio seSoiouS III flylHOubH CHuICu
this afternoon with all of the general
officers present and nearly all of the
famous leaders Of the movement.
Mrs. Emaa Smith Devoe, president of
the Washington association, welcomed
the delegates, aud Mrs. Mary S. Sperry
president Of the California association
made the national response. In the alb
sence of the international president, Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait, National Presi-
dent Anna Shaw read the annual report
on international suffrage work. Mrs
Shaw said:
Text of Report.
do not wish TO take more credit for
the international woman suffrage alli-
ance than 1t deserves, but in the past five
years this organization has urged contin-
uously the formation OF new national
associations with such good effect that
our roll call has stretched from eight TO
eighteen. 1t has stimulated the growth
been a spur TO increased activity all along
the line, Our alliance has been
able TO correct many OF the malicious
falsehoods which are so continuously and
mysteriously circulated in the. press OF
all lands. concerning the operation of wo-
man suffrage in New Zealand. Australia
We have been able 10 find platform
upon which all suffragists can stand to-
gether, II is the freedom which we give
TO the workers OF every country 10 secure
the suffrage for the women OF that land
upon the same terms on which the sur
frage Is now or may be granted to men.
In our eighteen affiliated nations
we must add Iceland and Austria, Just
two months ago Sweden's house OF com
mons passed unanimously bill for uni
versal suffrage for women. But alas,
:, lz. <Nfl lords md
walt little longer. When we take into
consideration the achievements Of Nor
way, Sweden; Finland: Denmark in, anG
honor and the first place 10 the Scan
dinavian race
The papers of Australia are saying that
no power on earth that can prevent
the early adoption OF equal pay for equa
work.
Making her report as corresponding
secretary. Miss Kate M. Gordon OF
Louisiana said that she could not accept
a reelection as secretary, but would
give all her time to the presidency OF
the state league.
Report OF Secretary.
The report Of the headquarters secre.
tary, Miss Elizabeth Hauser, was read
by Mrs, Harriet Taylor Upton. The
report said:
The year 1905 brought opportunities for
president OF the United States through the
medium of the high priest OF the anti
woman suffragists issue maniiesto on
paper interviewer put TO every possipie
parsonage. politician or preacher. writer
or speaker inventor or explorer, captain
of industry. social worker, actor, prize
fighter. maid, matron or widow, the burn
Ing query, What about votes ior WON
en-"
The American Federation Of Labor, at
ing its long established custom. passed a
woman suffrage resolution. The FEEDER
alton is the strongest ally we have repre-
sentinC as it does. two million members,
Other important organizations endorsing
are the National Council OF Women. the
Socialist party, the International Brick
Women's National Trade Union league.
the Johns Hopkins Alumni association
and the International Cotton Spinners
union.
Welcomed TO City.
Mrs. Rachael Foster Avery presided
at the evening session, and Official well
come to the city was spoken by Mayor
John D. Miller.
Mrs. Henry Willard. who has been the
recipient of many attentions on account
Of her connection with the history OF
Puget Sound, responded on behalf OF
the national association. She described
her visit to Seattle twenty-six years ago
when her husband. the builder Of the
Northern Pacific. celebrated the com
pletion of the road and brought a great
company of distinguished people from
all over the world TO see his work
Rev, Anna II. Shaw delivered her an
nual address as president
Growth of the Movement.
Rev. Anna II. Shaw delivered her an
nual address rs president. She reviewed
the unprecedentcd impetus that the suf-
frape cause had received in the United
States, in common with the countries
of Europe, as the result of the great
democratic wave that is sweeping over
the nations -
Miss Shaw took up the house tariff
bill. in which tho duty on woman 8
wearing apparel is greatly increased,
though women have no voice III regulat,
ing the tariff or in the expenditure OF
the money. (Which is thus wrested
from them. - The Inconsistency of the
government. whose very existence is the
result Of protest against UNJUST tax
regulations imposing much more
grieyous burden upon It's own citizens,
is serious commentary upon the COM
mon sense or justice of American man
hood, she SAID
Miss Shaw referred 10 the recent can
oniZatiou Of Joan OF Arc as an evidence
of the fanatical and emotional charac
ter OF men, both In their condemnation
and in their eXaltation of women. She
spoke of the great loss that had come
to the women in the death Of George
Meredith, who alone among men writers
of fiction had been able TO depict Ia
tional and progressive, self-poiScd
The Spokane delegation, unseated yes
terday by the Washington state conycn"
ton, appealed today to the national ex-
ecutive committee, which is anxious to
reunite the warning factions of suffra
gists in this state and VIII consider the
matter tomorrow. !