The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-16
hers Plowed in Field, With
Cow as a Yoke
fellow.
BEAR TERRIBLE DRuDeERY
Miss Glasgow Tells Why siffra-
gist Movement Is Calculat-
ed to Help Them.

AT the meeting yesterday OF the
Equal Suffrage League of Virginia 1t
was decided to appoint q committee
with view to organizing leagues
throughout the state. the object OF
such leagues being union and afIllla-
ton with the national association. The
reports of the treasurer and OF various
| committees4 on membership and the
| distribution of literature closed the
routine business.
/ Afterward came the interesting fea,-
! ture of the afternoon In an expressions
i of opinion from Miss Ellen Glasgow,
Miss Mary Johnston and Mrs. Bosher
as to why they were sufragists.
Miss Glasgow said that, among other
things. she was greatly influenced
by what she had read and learned OF
the sliirtwaist girls strike. which had
proved so engrossing that 1t was said
to be fashionable at present to belong
to a ahirtwaist union or be a suffra-
gist
Miss Glasgow cited the fact OF u
seeker after information who asked a,
reporter why the shirtwaist girls were
treated SO differently from men strik-
ers. and was told: 20. these girls
haven't got a vote, you know"
Worked Like slaves.
1t was absurd, Miss Glasgow
thought, at this late day for 1T to be
said that women ought not to work,
since they had been the drugdes Of the
world since the day of creation, and
SO Injured to hardship and self-sacrfioe
lNthat they accepted 1t as their meter.
dragging canal boats. as she had seen
them do. harnessed alongside of horse,
in Holland. or .plowlng in the field,
with a COW for a yoke-fellow
But" said Miss Glasgow. ut seems
to me that. leaving all else out of the
| question. the great good that has come
out of woman movement encirclinc
the earth. is that women will come to
know and to synpathize with each
other as never before: to realize each
| others needs and dependencies. Out OF
this Will be horn q sex loyalty which
women have hitherto never felt, but
| which. more than anything else in
future. will contribute their develop
ment and growth in right direction
| Refers to Local storm.
| Mrs Bosher referred humorously to
the storm witch the announcement OF
a suffragist organization aroused in
Richmond. She said that about the same
time the Equal Suffrage League of
| Virginia came into existence Society
| of Sisters was formed among the
Chinese women, and the feminine sex
| In Japan concluded to make some
modest assertion of its rights. She
thought that there was something sig
1 nifcant in such a coincidence. She
i was a suffragist because all her life
she had desired to have opinions and
! give expression to Them. Such opin-
ions and such expression Were value
less under existing conditions.
/ Miss Johnston said that there was
! little for her to add to what had gone
before. But she believed that women
| could at need easily master the science
of government and prove themselves
| brilliant politicians. History proved
the truth of this. She looked forward
to a time when good men and good
women. working together. shall make
clean issues In politics and use power
for the common welfare of humanity.
Announcement was made of an adj
/, dress to be given by DR.. Anna Shaw
| In the auditorium OF the Jefferson
Hotel on the evening OF January 20.
The meeting was a very full one.
and number of new members were
received.