Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-13
SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT OF THE
COUNTRY HAS A GREAT
AWAKENING.
ACTIVE BRITISH SISTERS
PROVE AN INSPIRATION
Like the Poor, Suffrage Is Always
With Congress, But in Greater Guam
tity at Present-suffrasists Declared
to Have Learned Wisdom From Tenn
perance Advocates.
Especial Correspondence

Washington, April 13.-There's no
denying that the woman suffrage
movement is waking up again in this
country. There is no better gauge OF
such movements than the study OF
the petitions which come to congress
and get mentioned in the Record. And
the woman suffrage movement is gain
ing ground again.
This woman suffrage movement, like
the poor, is always with congress.
There are women suffrage petitions in
every congress. But in the last few
months, as a result it is supposed Of
the activity and sensational methods
of the suffragettes in England, the
number of petitions has been greatly
on the increase.
The movement seems to be strong
est out in the west where all the radi-
cal ideas start The men who have
watched such things say they can de-
tect evidence that this crusade is tax
| ing on a new and more businesslike
form. 1t seems to have organization,
and to have discovered something
about business methods. They compare
it to the change in form of the anti
liquor movement.
Time was. not SO many years ago,
when the temperance people were out
witted at every turn in their efforts to
circumvent the liquor interest. But
latterly they have learned wisdom, and
now they are set down as the best
organizers and cleverest politicians in
the country They have learned how.
And it is declared that the suf-
fragists are doing the same thing.
They get more names Of men on their
petitions. They are going about their
work in more direct, effective and
/ impressive way. Nobody suspects that
woman suffrage will be national is
sue in many years, but it is seriously
| suspected that in a number of states
where it has never before been SER
iously considered, it will soon make it,
/ self felt as a real issue. The suffragists
say that the English women are going
to win their fight in the near future.
and predict that after they do, the
American movement will have a boom
such as nobody now dreams.
The catacombs of old Rome weren't
a circumstance to the honeycombing
! that Capitol Hill is getting They do
say that Senator Hale, who has served
in the senate longer than any other
present member, got lost in the lower
regions of the huge pile the other day,
and that since then he has positively
refused to take the subway to the SEN
ate office building.
The house office building is about
40 yards from the southeast corner
of the Capitol; and the senate office
building is like distance northeast OF
the northeast corner of the Capitol
Each building is connected with the
Capitol by a subway; and report is
that adventurous persons have discov-
cred a subterranean route, under the
Capitol itself, from one subway en-
trance to the other. This is not con-
firmed, and it is known that numbe!
of people who have set out on the voy-
age have got lost. A perfect labyrinth
of interesting passages and blind al
leys and misleading corridors cut W
the lower levels of the building. Wis.
itors are constantly losing themselve:
and having to be shown the way out
One of the numerous. performances tina
the Capitol guides do is to contract e
lose people. They start them in at ont
of the office buildings, show then
thru it, and finally down to its subcel
lar, where there is great Independent
system of corridors, all leading to ane
centering in the subway rotundas, from
which the subways lead to the Capitol
Having got delightfully."- mixed up, thu
guests are led thru the subway; thel
around thru the mazes of the under
world of the Capitol and finally on
to the other subway. Three out of fou
times they swear they are back at thu
first subway.
Besides the Chinese puzzle of TIL
CapitoFs and the two office buildings
underground works, there is a big un