New-York tribune., 1910-11-23
sUFFt .GISTS NEED MONEY
Better Keep It Here than Send It
Abroad. Dr.. Anna Shaw SAYS.

We American suffragists had better keep
our money at home till We have paid our
bills" is what DR.. Anna Shaw. president
Of the National Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton. thinks of the fund that is being raised
to send 10 Mrs Pankhurst, the English
suffrage leader, this week
we need every cent we can get for the
work in this country she said Yesterday
at her Office. at No. 5o5 Fifth avenue.
The national association is head over
heels in debt What Mrs. Belmont has done
for us. though If is splendid, has lowered
o,1r traasur- These headquarters, for
which she pays the rent. increase our ex-
penses by making it necessary for US to
hire more help. etc. Our wealth is our
poverty
And II costs money 10 campaign as we
have been campaigning in South Dakota
Oklahoma and Washington. We borrowed
the cash to do 1t With Money doesn't come
in from outlying districts as it once did
THESE districts keen their money to work
with at home instead of sending it TO the
central organization. and here we are, stag
-ering under the burdens Mrs, Belmonts
generosity has imposed on Us, like people in
y hip house without cash TO keep it UP.
And all over America the suffrage cause
needs every dollar it can scrape. Anyhow,
what have the English Suffragists done for
MS that we should send money to them?"
Then DR.. Shaw said some things about
the Craspfngness of the English leaders
VINO had visited these shores and the
sno,rishnass of American women who bow
down to them
Il don't know OF an American suf
fragist." she said, who ever got a cent
for speakfng in England. When 7 trav-
elled from Wales to London to speak in
HYDE Park last summer they didn't so
much as offer me dinner But every Eng
Iish suffragist vino has come here to talk
has been paid and paid well, with the
exception Of Mrs. Borrmann Wells. They
come over here to get helped out, and vet
we are such snobs in this country that
o,,r women fall over themselves to get up
meetings for them
IT get rather tired hearing about what
the English women do. Their work is
small compared TO ours. Why. you could
nut their whole country inside one OF the
various states where were working for
suffrage and have plenty OF room left"
DR.. Shaw said she did some strenuous
campaigning out West with the borrowed
money that is not yet paid
But the sentiment is changed since
twenty years ago, when Miss Anthony and
I talked woman suffrage through that part
of the country she said. Il remember
in q town called Hermosa. in the Black
Wills we had a desperate time one Sunday
IN get a place for a meeting. because a
CLERGYMAN told the women it would be
wicked to talk suffrage on Sunday. Last
month. twenty years after almost to a
dav I held a Sunday meeting in Pierre
( Oak. and every church closed; the
ministers took part, the choirs sang for
nc and the Governor of the State came
and made a speech
.rrhe fight that downed us in South
nalota was not a fight on woman suf-
frage. our amendment was bracketed
.,i+b amendments too objectionable TO the
,.afIroads and the liquor dealers, and these
..,.arests deemed il safer and siulpIer IA
send out a general order to their cohorts
- q.ill the whole bunch"
MSS Kate NJ. Gordon. vice-president of
-. national organization, said Yesterday
-. she campaigned five weeks in OKLA
and considered the State honefuI
..,rta American Federation of Tabor
-,,ad us immensely" she said .'It came
-. ont and worked for us. I'm not a,a
f,'rag gea although the amendment is lost
,,deed | don't admit yet that II - |
an for the last news l got said tbara |
TO- tbirty-three counties stIll to be heard |
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