The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-12

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majority were wives and mothers.
Here h the leason % the parade.
Into the suffrage movement within a few
years have come Thousands Of young
women filed with vigor, enthusiasm. self
assertion. cOnhdsncs in their own powers.
n the high schools and colleges they
have matched intsllscta with the boys
and young men and even more than held
their own.
In the varioum vocations. working side
by aide with these same men, they still
have found themselves equally capable
and yet everywhere Disseminated against
in pay. in hours. In the best positions;
They have discovered az last that the
discrimination against them by the Cow
eminent IL AZ the root Of Il all and nov
they demand their political rights.
They listen with AnAzsment and scOrn
20 the hackneyed objections; they have
not been drilled in the subsection Of
women. a. were their mothers. whose
conservative Efforts for the ballot they
SCOT a. and reject. your methods are
ell wrong they say. ard the older women
answer: They seemed all right. but
they haven't won. and We are ready for
new methods' Thus the old workers,
with patience exhausted and fOrbsarance
struck from the list OF virtues. Join forces
with the young courageous, independent.
aggressive and the militant movement
IL uahsred inl
Thousands % men stood for three hours
in Union Square and listened to argument
for woman suffrage who never did and
never would 60 into hall TO hear them.
Thousands Of people who lined the side
walks a. the procession passed by realized
for the first tins that this was a vital.
tangible question and began 10 think
about il. scores of women inspired by
the sight fell into line and thus identified
themselves with the movement.
Politicians who saw the parade or read
q Il in the afty columns devoted IN IL
by the New York papers understood a.
never before that the women meant bust
ness and that woman suffrage was hence-
forth 10 be a political issue. The i'm
mediate result was the action % the
senate at Albany FIVE days later 20 call
the suffrage hill out Of committee after
this had been persistently refused all
winter Those aEty-three automobiles
emphasized a. words could not do that
every member from New York would
face a political organization Of women
on his return home 90 whom he must ac-
=. L. -
The church militant has done a mighty
woEG. The campaign militant for woman
suhrage has a mighty work % do. New
York has ct the pace and from various
CITIES come reports 81 projected street
parades.
A procession many times the sire Of the
last will take place in this city next fall
Outdoor meetings in the parks and on the
street corners will bs held throughout the
summer The rufragists will tour this
and other States Ia motors. trolley cars
and caravans. IL this publicity 90 be con
dsmned9 Let men never forget for
moment that they have driven women
20 IL.
To what extremes this militant move
ment may 60 cannot he foretold Proba-
bly, the good sense u American woman
will keep them within constitutional
Imits, but when for generations a quail
fed class Of citizens have been persist
entity refused a voice IN their own govern
ment they are fully justified in exceeding
these limits. 4 stock obiection 20 giving
women the suffrage IL that Il would take
them into politics II they were already
not one in thousands would
do more than 20 quietly on slsction day
and cas-, her vote. but now In order 20 get
the vote thousands ara compelled % do
every kind u political work. circulate
petitions. interview officials. 60 n legis-
lative hearings, make public addresses
and hold meetings
Many cities are now being organized
for suffrage in each district along the
sarae lines ~ the political parties AMI the
women will have the hmiliating task Of
every voter The splendid
abilities of women which are w much
needed in the great social work u every
are more and more becoming
absorbed in the struggle for the suffrage
This II especially true Of the young
college women. who ara equipped beyond
All others 20 help in the solution 81 NUM-
cipal problems but are going by thousands
into the contest for the franchise They
are nov regularly organized in the
colleges u twenty -eight States and
federated in a national association with
NiiAs Thomas. the president u Bryn Mawr
College At its head.
Il this the way men would have ~
They alone are responsible for the situa-
iion. They have issued TO women the
20 show that majority want
the suffrage. and the women will never
stop tall they have proved il
They realize a. never haf0re the power
n vote and the injustice II heing do
prived Of H. 4 spirit Of deep resentment
Is developing toward the men who compel
them 10 make such sacrifices 10 obtain
what II a. much the moral right ~
woman a. ~ man. This spirit will
intensity NJ women are driven 10 stronger
and is effects will he grave and +
lar reaching
Il - time for men 10 face this question /
seriously. FOR Il il unmistakahly ap-
preaching a crisis. Women intend 10
have the suffrage " rests with men 10 I
Say how much longer the struggle for il .
must continue: whether this parade on /
he public streets shall indicate the near
approach u the end or only he beginning
" a militant campaign which has been {
Iorced upon American women /
lDA Hustled HARPER