New-York tribune., 1910-07-21
REAL OPTIMISM. THIS
Mrs. Philip Snowden Still Thinks
Parliament Is for Suffrare.

MIS- itiilb SiipNutiis WHO OeEi1TeS TO De
! called Mrs Ethel Snowden, because. just as
/ if she were a mere woman and not suffra-
! gist. she likes her husbands name better
than her own, thinks that the Cancellation
bill is not going to be shelved by the House
| OF Commons. Mrs. Snowden, who arrived
/ on the Carmania yesterday, and is staying
/ at the home of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait
No West s6th street, left London the day
the bill came TO the vote.
1T was hard TO leave before knowing its
| fate" she said. but duty called me to
preach suffrage TO the Chautauquans in the
United States, and I came. But that bill,
such as it is, has a. good chance of pass
ing the House at the third reading. and as
for the Lords-well, the Lords won't turn
il down If it passes the Commons by a
good ma jority- We can easily get a two to
one vote for it in the House of Commons.
The ;antis' mustered every man they could
when it came up last week. and some of
ours were not there, and even so, you see.
we got a ma iority of 1G9.
The Laborites who want woman suffrage
aren't very enthusiastic about the bill. be
cause il is 50 limited in its scope and based
on property qualifications. They want more
suffrage for everybody, men and women
"But do you know what the National
United Woman Suffrage Organization
that's my party-is going 10 do if the bill
is smothered2 For every Liberal candi-
date that is named. in any election, we
shall put forward another. and so divide
the vote. We can get the money, and
we'n 90 it
Mrs. Snowden didn't say as much
against the militant suffragists as she did
on her last visit TO America In fact, she
didn't say anything at all against them.
Parliament has fiddled so with woman
suffrage that the more conservative suffra-
gists are getting out of patience and feel
that something has got to be done" she
confessed. IF this conciliation bill fails
well, Why. think of it. We sufragists
have England. all but a handful in Parlia
ment. More than a million women in
various organizations are openly for suf-
frage. and that's more than this bill would
enfranchise- Men are coming out for
woman suffrage all the time.
I've been surprised lately to see the
numbers of men who are taking part in
our meetings. and good men-lawyers,
doctors labor men. Parliamentarians.
army men-though not many of the last,
1 must admit.
LAS to what political party will finally
give us what we want 1 don't know Mr..
Asquith says it never can be a party
measure. There will always be some for
1t and some against it in every party"
Mr.. Snowden's business on this her
third visit TO America is to talk before
Chautauqua assemblies. but her darling
desire is to meet Lyman Abbott.
L hear he is to he at Chautauqua Do
you suppose" she asked anxfousIy, that
he'll be there when I'm there? l should
just love" and her eyes grew ominous,
Ito encounter Mr.. Abbott l don't know
much about your 'antis' over here, but I
can tell you one thing about the English
antis'-they are thoroughly. completely,
Gtshonorable in their methods They
don't know what truth is And they're
getting awfully peevish lately by the
way" she added