The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-11-06
SUFFRAGE VIEWS OF.
MRS. MACKAY
OUTLINING CAMPAIGN OF EQUAL
FRANCHISE SOCIETY, CON.
DENNIS "SHRIEKING" SISTERS.

NEW YORK, Oct 19.-Mrs. Clar-
ence II. Mackay issued d statement
today in which she outlined the cam
paign of the Equal Franchise Society
for Women's Suffrage. incidentally,
she attacked the "shrieking" methods
of suffragists in other countries. She
announced that the society had leas-,
ed the Garden Theater, where Bishop
McVickar, of Rhode Island, and prob
ably Martin w. Littleton, would bel
speakers. Her statement follows:
Most of the men I have met are
apparently willing to cooperate with
us. and have listened to what we have
said with courtesy and consideration.
1t has not seemed necessary in the
past, and l do mt think it will be nee
essary in the future, for us to go out
to the street corners and Shrek our
propaganda at the passers-by.
I'VE have but to plead our cause
without raising our voice to those
men and women who are not with us.
We can always assume that they are
not wilfully ignorant of what woman
suffrage should mean. We want them
to appreciate the fact that through
out this country the strongest suf-
fragists are those women who devote
their best energies toward the devel-
oping of their children in order to-
make them citizens worthy of our
great country.
1--WE do not think that as an organ
ization we have right to demand
an expression of opinion from the
candidates in this coming election.
We prefer to leave politics alone un
til our sex is sharing the responsible
itv with the other sex. I feel that
the main reason for suffrage is COM
munity of interest between the sexes
1t is not in any sense a fight for
rights, but the logical evolution OF
justice
"The EQUAL Franchise Society wish
es to establish a platform upon which
such speakers as Bishop McVickar'
of Rhode Island Everett Colby and
perhaps, Martin w. Littleton, will eX-
press their belief in suffrage, and for
that reason we have leased the Gar
den Theater and arranged our course
"The purpose of the Equal Fran
chise Society is to promote the well
fare of women by securing the Ma
tional State and local electoral fran
chise for women, because the Equal
Franchise Society believes in the po-
| litical and civil equality of men and
women. The electorate should repre-
sent the whole nation, and a system
of Government under which one-half
of the nation are disfranchiser is not
a truly representative national sys-
TEN.
1--WE are inviting people to become
members of our society in order to
contribute to the advancement of
public education by the promotion of
our cause. We feel that in order to
secure the enfranchisement of women
il is not necessary for us to initiate
methods which are being used in 9th
| err countries American manhood has
always treated American womanhood
in such way as to make us feel
that We shall ultimately achieve our
aim without sensationalism. I will
not indorse the militant methods.
ut has been repeatedly said to me
| by men in public life and men in
private life that when the women of
the United States unite in demanding
the vote they will get it And I think
that is perfectly true, and that there
fore what is needed to further the
suffrage cause is to give all sorts and
kinds of women the opportunity of
listening to speakers who will explain
Just what the suffrage will mean to
US all.
1--WE wish to enlist that part of the
community, regardless of sex or
creed, who will cooperate with us
because of their loyalty to their coun-
try"
Among the most recent additions
to the membership of the society Mrs.
Mackay announced the following:
Mrs. William Schieffelin, Miss Milton
Barger, Mrs. Rudolph Schirmer, Mrs
Archibald Alexander, Mrs. Everett
Colby, Mrs, Richard Stevens, Mrs.
Walter Maynard, Miss Spence, Mrs.
Paul Morton, Miss Elizabeth Bucha-
nan and Miss Dorothy Whitney.
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