The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-04-18
WOMEN ASK
FOR VOTES


today and presented a monster peti-
tion with the signatures of half a
million signers. praying congress for
! votes for women.
The petitioners rode in fiag-decked
autos, a long string of them. that
reached almost from the MOTEL where
the convention has been in session,
down Pennsylvania avenue to the
/ Capitol.
There was no special demon stration
from the procession itself. Occasion
ally there would be a fiutter of hand
kerchiefs from a group of women on
the sidewalk and man or two cneer-
| ed
| The long line moved along in a dig
nified way and when the petitioners
reached the Capito! they carried in
their petition.
Washington, April 15.-Alice Pa1l
speaking on Woman Suffrage in
Great Britain, presented an exnaus-
tive review of the situation in Eng
land. She declared that the cause has
been misrepresente1 ard distorted by
the press of England and compared
the criticism of the suffragists there
to that of the abolitiolists in the
United States. She said in part
THE essence of the campaign of
the Suffragettes is opposition to the
government. The country seems will
ling shat the vote be extended to wo-
,hen. This last parliament mas shown
It's willingness by passing their fran
chise bill through it's second reading
by three to one majority. But the
gover-lme that little grolp which
controls Legislation, would not let it
men against men, for the men are
helping Loyalty, but a war OF men
and women together against the poll
ticians at the head who. because of
their own political interests, seem
afraid TO enfranchise women.
Tne suffragists have gone with peti-
tions to the head of the government
as our representatives will go in a few
days to the authorities in Washington.
IN Washington they will be received
with courtesy. But Mr.. Asquith has
never since ne has been Prime Min
ister received depItation of women
on this question of their suffrage.
zach time he curtly refuses to see
them and orders the police to drive
them away or arrest them. Thirteen
times the deputations of one society
alone have been arrested.
"Waen the women found they could
not approach the government in the
usual way at the House of Commons
they tried to voice their grievances
at the public meetings of the mem
bers of the Cabinet exactly as men
"A he:
wered They were hung out with vio-
lence and finally were excluded alto
gether. For protesting against this
exclusion they were again imprison
ed
But. you say. the women have
Teen violent too-they have broken
windows Three and a half yYrs
they endured this insulting treatment
of their sex and offered no resistance
Then after months of deliberation.
they realized that it was absolutely
necessary for the success of their
cause, that stronger measures be TAX
en-. Denied a hearing in the press de-
MED n nearing at the House of Com
mons and denied a hearing at the
public meetings they adopted that
time honored measure of protest.
the breaking of few windows. 1t
was a symbolic act of rebellion. a
sign to the government of the great
spirit of defiance in the hearts of its
subject women-just as our Fathers
held the Boston teaparty as an act
of protest against the British govern
-nent of that day. AS that defiant
deed on the part of the women"
Washington. April 15.-How a so
cialist views the woman suffrage
movement was expressed to the con
vention by Mrs. Meta L. Stern. She
declared that anyone could be a suf
fragist witnout being socialist. but
declared il impossible to be a social
list without becoming a suffragist So
cialism she declared an mtried theory
but suffrage she said had been sue
| cessfully tried in many places. In
nart Mrs. Stern said:
Mothers need a voice in educa-
| tional matters. The arguments ad-
vanced against woman suffrage are
never directed against that which is
| but only that watch is to be. At
present the Anti-Suffragists favor
higher education for women and other
things that are achievements Of the
woman's movement, and that were as
bitterly condemned when trey were
'Intried as woman suffrage Is today.
Every proposed reform was greeted
with the oatcry: YOU will destroy the
home and the family.
Yet none of the prophesied disas-
ters ever occurred Socialism, like
woman suffrage has been accused of
lseeking 10 destroy the home and the