Arizona republican., 1910-04-17
WILL MOVE ON CONGRESS
Monster Petitions Will Be Presented On Monday. Day Largely Given Over to Addresses By Leaders of the Movement

Washington, April l6.-A graceful. courteous reply from President Taft flatly declaring thai he entertained no personal feeling in connection with the hissing episode in the suffragist con- vention Thursday night and mingling his regret over the incident with sor- row for the delegates because he might have been led in an unfair way to embarrass the leaders of the women's movement for suffrage. is the latest event in the chronology of the sensa- tional feature of the forty-secend an nual convention of the National Ameri- can Woman Suffrage association.
 The presidents response to the as sociation's official expressions Of re- gret was enthusiastically received by the delegates today.
 Arrangement for presentation to con- gress on Monday of mammoth peti- tions from every state and territory were completed today, advocating an amendment to the federal constitution enfranchising women. This is regard ed as the most important feature of the convention.
 The convention received numerous
 
 cause, prominent among them being the contribution of Mrs. O. H. P. Bel mont of 5000 per month until the an- nlIal convention of 1911. Clarence Mac kay subscribed s100 month
 Addresses were delivered by Rachel Foster Avery. Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead. Alice Duer Miller and Max Eastman.
 Dorothy Dix, in the language and gestures of an old negro nanny, eN- plained the needs of suffrage as she saw them to the convention. The lack of backbone is the reason for woman not having the ballot, she declared. She spoke as follows:
 'I ain't never been one dat run off after ev'ry new belief dat comes along. an dats de reason dat I ain't never took up wid dis heah doctrine about things not bein' made at de start, but just hayin' growed. Cose everybody to dere taste but hit seems lak to me dat dem folks what laks to claim monkey for dere grandpaw has got mighty lit- tie pride an mighty little call to brag on dere family tree.
 But I ain't ever had no trouble in believin' dat woman was made out or mans rib What worries me- is why de I.awd's choice fell on de rib. which ain't nothin' but a sort of rafter to hold up a mans chist an swell hit out, an make him look proud, but dat ain't nowise important in hitself, an hit is about de easiest thing dat a man can spare widout missin' hit.
 ''Cose I ain't a presumin' to criticise d<Good Master. but hit does look lax to me dat when he was creatin' wo- man. an had de whole man to cut from. dat he could have saved us lot of trouble ef he had made Eve out Of Adams backbone insted of his rib
 "Yassum. dat's de trouble wid women down to dis very day Dey amt got no backbone. Of rib dey was made, an a rib dey has stayed an nobody ain't got no right to expect nothin' else from 'em.
 "Hit's becaze woman was made out of mans rib-an' from de way she acts hit looks lak she was made out of floatin' rib at dat-an' man was lett wid all of his backbone dat he has got de comeuppanee oyer woman. Dats de reason wat we women sits down an cries when we ought to git up an heave brickbats.
 
 can't vote, an ain't got ro say so bout maxim de laws dat bosses us? Amt we got de right on our side? Yas ST. we'se got de right on our side but we ain't got de backbone in us to just retch out an grab dat ballot
 "Dere ain't nobody 'sputin' cat wese got to scrape up de money to pay de tax collector even ef we does have to 20 down into skirt pocket for hit instead of pants pockets. an our be- longin' to de angel sect ain't gwine 10 keen us out of de jail if we gifts in a fight wid annoder lady, or we swipes a ruffled petticote off de clothes line next do. Furdermo' when de meat tr,ist puts up de price of po'k chops' hits de women dat has got to squeeze de eagle on de dollar ontel hit hollers a little louder, an pare de potatoe peel in's a little thinner. an dat makes us women jest a achin' to have {. ringer in dat government pie an see 1T we can't put in q little mo sweetin' in hit. an. make hit little lighter, so dat hit won't get so heavy an ondigestible on da stomachs of dem what ain't million aires.
 ..Yassir, we'se just hoanin for de franchise an we might have hit any time desc last forty years ef wed han enough backbone to rig up an fit one good fight for hit. but instead of dat we set around q holdin' our hands, an