The Detroit times., 1910-04-26
SUFFRAGE WAVE
SWEEPS COUNTRY
Women Are Sending Out Literature
From New York Headquarters
To Gather Recruits.
BY w. C. SHEPHERD.

NEW YORK. April 26--Women are
in political life 10 stay. The suffraglst,
t.t;Ease- al EaRt Fasl sEa citation
il the thing OF the hour.
The suhragists and the suffragets,
while working to get the ballot for
women differ greatly in their methods
OF procedure \ suffragist fayors
peaceful methods. while a suffraget Is
for Wrestling the vote from the men
who make the laws
Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery Mrs
Katherine Mackay and Rev Anna II.
Shaw are the leading suffrasistS.
while Mrs Sophia Loebnger editor
Of the American Suffraget and Miss
Helen Murphy. chairman OF the Ma
tional Progressive Woman's Suffrage
union. are the leaders of the sui
fragets. who favor the strenuous
methods adopted by Mrs Emmeline
Pankhurst and the English women
who have repeatedly stormed parlia-
ment
New York is the heart OF the suf-
frage agitation in this country. Here
are the Headquarters OF the sur
fragists, suffragets. aud the antEsui'
fragists. Here street meetings are
held and literature sent out from the
different headquarters TO all parts OF
the country.
The suffragists organization is the
National American Woman Suffrage
association The suffragets' organiza-
tion is the National Progressive Wo-
mans Suffrage union. There are also
numerous smaller societies
IN New YOTK are also the nGadquar
ters of the international Woman's
Suffrage Alliance. OF which Mrs. Car
RE Chapman Gait is president, and
which has branches in % countries
The anti-suffragist association Is the
National League for the Civic Educa-
ton of Women and Mrs. Richard
Watson Glider is president. Mrs. Gil
bert r.. Jones chairman. Mrs. Hum
prey Ward vice president. Mrs. An
drew Carnegie and Mrs. Grover Cleve-
land honorary vice presidents, and
Henry Clews. Rev Lyman Abbott and
Rev. c. II. Parkhurst members of the
advisory board. That the American
movement will eventually become
more like the militant English move
ment is the belief OF many women
Mrs. Belmont. who has given $4,000
10 the cause. favors the militant
movement. as does Lady Cook ten
hessee- GiaAint, who has promised a
million To the cause
The suffragists and the suffragets
conduct an active campaign all the
time. Helen Murphy says IL is not
impossible that women will be voting
by 1912.
The suffragist movement became
mixed with a dress reform movement
in 1858 Women first wanted the bal
lot to vote to free slaves. then 10
enact temperance legislation. and now
they want to obtain proper legisla-
tion for the woman who works
Woman suffrage Is steadily gaining
supporters throughout the world. In
Finland, Norway, Isle OF Man, Aus
tralia and New Zealand. women vote
I'm the national elections.
In England. Scotland, ireland,
Wales, Canada. Denmark, Sweden
Iceland and Natal, women vote in
municipal elections.
Women sit in the Finnish parlia-
ment A woman is a member of the
municipal council of Paris, woman
Is mayor Of an English city and a
of English women are alder
men.
In America women have full suf !
frage in four states. school suffrage !
in "a municipal suffrage in one. In |
Michigan women are voting for the |!
first time this year on questions OF |
ioeai taxation. In Washington, Ore. t
gon, South Dakota and Oklahoma suf 1
frage amendments to the state consti |
tuition are pending, and in California |
and Greater New York suffrage Doii- !
teal parties have been organized.