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

NEW YORK, April 26.--Women are
In political life to stay. The suffragist.
suffraget and anti-suffragist agitation
l. The thing OF the hour.
The suffragists and the suffragets.
while working to get the ballot for
women differ greatly I'm their methods
I'll Feeaavfe-A-su ffragist- 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 H..
Shaw arc the leading suffragists.
while Mrs. Sophia Loebinger, editor
OF the American Suffraget. and Miss
Helen Murphy, chairman OF the Ma
toual Progressive Womans Suffrage
union. are the leaders OF the suf-
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-
-fFaee- agitation in this country Here
are the Headquarters of the suf
frugists. suffragets. and the anti-suf-
fragists Here street meetings are
held and literature sent out from the
different headquarters to all parts or
the cuntry.
The suffragists organization is the
National American Woman Suffrage
association. The suffragets organiza-
ton Is the National Progressive Wo-
mans Suffrage union. There are also
numerous smaller societies.
In New York are also the headquar-
ters of the International Womans
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 T.. 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. G. r. 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
To the cause, favors the militant
movement. as does Lady Cook (Ten-
nessee Clanin), who has promised
million TO the cause.
The suffragists and the suffragets
conduct an active campaign all the
time. Helen Murphy says II 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 90 free slaves. then to
enact temperance legislation. and now
they want to obtain proper legisla-
ton for the woman who works
Woman suffrage is steadily gaining
supporters throughout the world. In
Finland. Norway, Isle of Man. Aus
ralia and New Zealand. women vote
In 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. a woman
Is mayor Of an English city and a
number of English women are alder
men.
In America women have full suf-
frnGe 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
local taxation. In Washington, Ore
gon. South Dakota and Oklahoma suf-
frage amendments to the state consti-
tuition are pending. and in California
and Greater New York suffrage poll
teal parties have been organized.