The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-07-07

have been submitted to the electors,
and already campaigns have been
begun i'm these states"
She referred to the recent gathering
of women in London at the great In
ternational Woman Suffrage Alliance,
at which delegates and representatives
from twenty-one nations were present,
representing the suffrage movement in
this country. in every one of which
greater gains had been made during
the past than in any preceding year.
She reviewed the relation of women
to the charitable work of the country.
saying that there had been an enor-
nous waste of energy by which wo-
men were seeking to repair the dam
ages of society through indirect meth
DDS rather than in the progressive
and direct manner in which the gov
eminent should deal with them.
Dcnounccs New Tariff.
In reviewing the question of the new
tariff regulation she said:
THE duty on women's wearing APP
parel is greatly increased. adding
more and more burdens upon women.
who have no power to prevent it and
no voice in regulating the tariff or
in the expenditure of the money which
is thus wrested from them. The in
consistency of the government, whose
very existence is the result of a pro-
test against unjust tax regulations,
imposing much more grevious burdens
upon either the common sense or the
justice of American manhood"
She referred the recent beatifica-
ton of Joan of Arc as an evidence of
the fanatical and emotional character
of men. both in their condemnation
and in their exaltation of women, say
ing that neither logic nor reason con-
trolls the present government by men:
and that the fear of women's emotion
al natures was as unfounded as the
boast that the logic and reason of
the human race are lodged in the
masculine mind.
She referred to the recent beatifica-
that woman suffrage was not only de-
sirable, but that the hope of the per-
petuity of the republic depended on it.
She claimed that the home should be
the school for political education; that
the time had come when the home
maker and the child-rearer should
TURN lHt ltISuGe NIilt1i tlidllStu tN'-
nomic conditions had given her to-
ward training and educating the flu
ture citizens.
"Particularly is this education de-
manded in the home" said Miss
Shaw, of the motherhood of the flu
ture is to promote broad-minded citi-
zens. In fact, it seems as if the at
tempt to build up republican gov
eminent upon q monarchial home is
Just as disastrous as it would be TO
try to build up a democratic COM
monwealth upon monarchial prlncl-
pies and before we can have a purely
democratic government we must have
a democratic home, in which the very
atmosphere one breathes is spirit
of democracy. This can never be done
until women are encouraged and ed
ucated in an intelligent and active
sym pathy toward the problems which
confront JUS today, and which are
more far-reaching than merely finan-
cial questions which have to deal with
the material problems of life, but
involve the ethical and spiritual flu
ture of the race"
No NickcIs i'm he West.
"As everyone has been talking about
their husbands tonight" said Mrs.
Harriet Taylor Upton, national treas
urer, 'I think that l will tell a story
about mine. Twenty-Five years ago
I remember the first time my husband
and 1 went to church after we were
married, | could see after the service
that something had very much dis
turbed him, and for some time !
sought to learn what it was. My
husband is from the west and he had
never attended a church service in the
east before. and when I asked him
what had disturbed him in the SER
vice he said it was the collection.
What was wrong with the collec-
ton 2" l asked.
Nothing particular said he, but
| never before saw a nickel in con-
tribution plate. They do not have
nickels in the west"
Mrs. Upton had not finished her
story when the clinking of coins was
heard and half a score of fair suf-
fragists were passing the collection
plates among a western audience.
During the event a lnnet flew into
the church through an open window,
and after flying about the room as
though it would become acquainted
with the delegates, it found a perch
on the edge of the blue field of a four
starred suffrage flag which formed a
prominent part of the decorations.
Chipping loudly from its perch. the
bird called attention to the banner,
and placing itself on the blue field it
formed a fifth star. The incident re-
called the story of the bird that
perched on the flag of Themistocles, a
messenger from the oracle auguring
A deafening applause was occasion
ed by the appearance of two little boys
in the choir loft carrying a banner
between them, upon which was paint
ed: 81 wish that mother could vote"