Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-02
in
ANNUAL SESSION
NATIONAL PRESIDENT TELLS
OF DEVEL0 L0PMENT
sPoKANE's DELEGATES ARE YET
DENIED SEATS
Women from Northeastern Section of
State Appeal to Executive Conn
mlttee for Recognitlon-Fac-
tions May Unite
tBy Associated Press.)

SEATTLE, July 1.-The forty-first
annual convention of the Natlonai
| Woman Suffrage association opened
it's sessions in Plymouth church TINS
afternoon with all of the general Of
! fcers present, and nearly all of the
! famous leaders of the movement.
| In the absence of the international
president, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait
| National President Anna Shaw del1V-
cred the annual report of Suffrage
work. Mrs. Shaw said:
Il do not wish to take more credit
! for the International Woman Suffrage
| Alliance than it deserves, but in the
! past five years this organization has
urged continuously 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 of other
associations, and 1 believe it has been
! spur to increased activity all along
| the line.
"Our alliance has been able to cor
rect many of the malicious falsehoods
which are so continuously and mys-
| teriously circulated in the press of all
lands, concerning the operation of
woman suffrage in New Zealand, Aus
tralia and the United States.
Find a Platform
we nave De6ll dDlS u lillu Il pAeiN-
! form on which all suffragists can
stand together; it is the freedom
which we give to the workers of every
country to secure the suffrage for the
women of that land upon the same
terms on which the suffrage is now or
may be granted to men.
'In our eighteen affiliated nations
we must add Iceland and Australia.
| Just two months ago SWeden's house
! n pOInDaOnS ma SSp6 11OpnirT1OuS1v q hill
! for universal suffrage for women.
But. alas, there was the house of
| lords. And so they ust wait a lit
| tie longer. When We take into con-
| sideration the achievements of Nor
way, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and
| Iceland l think we must give especial
honor and the first place to the Scan
dinavian race.
THE papers of Australia are saying
that since women have the suffrage
there is no power on earth that can
prevent the early adoption of equal
pay for equal work."
Miss Gordons Report
In making her report as correspond
| ing secretary, Miss Kate M. Gordon of
| Louisiana said that she could not ac-
cept reelection as secretary but
would give all her time to the presi-
dency of the Louisiana State league.
The report Of the headquarters secre-
! tary, Miss Elizabeth Hauser, was read
by Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton. The re-
! port said:
1.-The year 1908 brought opportunities
| for special propaganda. Never before
did a president of the United States,
through the medium of the high priest
Of the anti-woman suffragis issue
manifesto on the question. Never be-
fore did the newspaper interviewer put
to every possible parsonage, politician
| or preacher, writer or speaker inventor
| or explorer, captain of industry, social
workers, actor, prize fighter, maid,
matron or widow the burning query:
What about votes for women ?"
THE American Federation of Labor,
at it's annual convention in Denver,
following its established custom,
passed a woman suffrage resolution.
The federation is the strongest ally we
have, representing as 1t does 100000
members.
"Other important organizations in
dorsing are the National Council of
Women, the Socialist party, the Inter
national Bricklayers and Stonemasons'
union, the Women's National Trade
Union league, the Johns Hopkins
Alumnae association and the Interna-
tional Cotton Spinners' union"
Evening Session
Mrs. Rachael Foster Avery presided
at the evening session, and the Of
fetal welcome to the city was spoken
by Mayor John f. Miller.
Mrs. Henry Willard, who has been
the recipient of many attentions on
account of her connection with the
history of Puget Sound, responded to
the mayor 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 his completion of
the Northern Pacific by bringing
from all over the world to see his work.
Rev. Anna H. Shaw delivered her
annual address as president, in which
she reviewed the impetus which the
suffrage cause had received in the
United States i'm common with the
countries of europe. Miss Shaw took
up the house tariff bill In which the
duty on women's wearing apparel is
greatly increased, though women have
no voice in regulating the tariff.
Serious Commentary
The inconsistency of the government,
whose very existence is the result of
a protest against unjust taxation, i'm
posing unjust and grievous burdens on
its own citizens, is a serious COM
mentary on either the common sense
or the justice of American manhood,
she said.
Miss Shaw referred to the recent
canonization of Joan Of Arc as an
evidence of the fanatical and emotional
character Of men, both in their con-
demnation and in their exaltation of
women.
She spoke of the great loss that had
come to women in the death of George
Meredith, who alone, she said, among
men writer's of fiction, had been able
to depict a rational and progressive
self-poised woman.
The Spokane delegation, unseated
yesterday by the Washington state
convention, appealed today to the ma
tional executive committee, which is
anxious to reunite the warning suffrage
factions in this state, and will con-
slider the matter tomorrow.