The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-04-14
''VOTES FOR
WOMEN


children will be as much of a disgrace
as being a confirmed drunkard is at
the present time" last night declared
Mrs. Loreiene Helen Baker. of Spo-
kane, suffragette. who will be heard
at the convention of the National
American Woman's Suffragette Asso-
citation, which opened in this city to
day. Her studies of children all over
the world, she said, had convinced
her that mot more than ten per cent
were the children of love and the 9TH
er ninety per cent were not wanted.
Roosevelt, poor ignorant man." she
continued, urges large families, but
tell you 1t is in quality We want
children. 'Tis the mental or the phys
ical that rules the progressive action
of today and teaches us that the
creates. crime of the ages is too
many children"
Washington, April 14.-Ol the one
neutral spot for the national disfran-
chised. the District of Columbia,
where the ballot is denied men and
women alike. tae National American
Suffrage Association today began its
forty-seco1d annual convention. The
session was devoted to an address of
welcome and the reading of number
of reports.
Warrington. April 14.-Exebutive'
sessions and preliminary discussion
of the program and plans occupied
the first days of the forty-second an
nmal convention of the National Am
erican Woman Suffrage Association
Tais evening President Taft will de-
liver an address before the suffragists.
He accepted the invitation with the
distinct understanding that he is not
TO be represented as favoring votes
for the women.
The present convention is notable
for the large number of society wo-
men and women of wealth who are
in attendance.
Never before have women of such
wealth and social position journeyed
to the National Capitol to press their
cause. Many of the women who are
attending the convention from New
York represent today the proudest
names of the Manhattan Four Humid
red. Their presence will be cele-
brated by Washington society with
round of social functions. Many of the
society delegates will wear tneir most
fetching toilettes to the convention
and they hope to convert many states
men by showing them that it is not
only the masculine type of woman
who wants the ballet.
There is another and more potent
reason for the fair suffragists wearing
their most elaborate costumes. For
the first time the five hundred dele
gates will appear in person before the
Senate. They will present to the up
per house in Congress the giant peti
tom for which names have been gath
cred for several years from every
State in the Union. The petition
praying for the universal suffrage
contains over one million names. Its
presentation will mark an epoch in
the suffrage movement in this coun-
try.
The following statement was issued
setting forth the growth of the suf-
frage movement throughout the world
"women born i'm England, Scotland
.Ireland, Wales. Canada, Denmark,
and Iceland are voting in municipal
elections. We ask all American wo-
movement for equal suffrage. to rec
ognize what IT means that the women
OF Turkey are throwing of their wells
the women of China awakening from
their iznmemorial lethargy, the wo-
men of England in rebellion, the wo-
men OF Germany, France, Italy. Bel
giua, the Netherlands, Austria, Hun
gary, Bulgaria, Russia, Switzerland,
Natal, and Cape Colony organized and
using the engine of the press to infiu.
cace public opinion and enforce their
claim to the ballot.
Turning our eyes homeward from
the spectacle of the federated wo
men of the civilized world demanding
a voice in government. we must ac
knowledge that in no country is the
vote for women more imperative foI
race prSserya:ion, national protec-
ttol and national honor than in the
United States. This year a woman
has been nominated as a member oi
the Municipal Cornell of Paris: a wo
man is filling the ofice of Mayor in
an English city, and a number serv
ing as aldermen.
I'm our own country, women ar
voting for the first time in the Stats
of Michigan ON questions of local tax
alton. while in Washington, Oregon
South Dakota and Oklahoma. suffraet
amendments to the State Constitu
tions are pending. In California. OF
the Pacific Coast, and i'm Greater New
York. on the Atlantic. women sui
lrage parties mark the second epocl
I'm the history OF tae suffrage move