El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-04-14

| NUAA4 dSS ASSOCIATION meets TO-DAY
in Washington in its And annual
convention. Next Tuesday morning at
10 o'clock the American suffra gists will
| move ON congress and will present pc
t1tion sigued by more than half a mill
lion American citizens, men and women
praying for the submission of an amend
nlent to the constitution giving women
the right TO vote.
When the English suffragettes rush
ed the house of commons the police
became very active, many women were
injured, and many were sent to Jail.
Inc house of commons has not yet act
ed on the question of votes for wo-
men,
The American congress will be much
more polite and courteous and the
American suffragists viii be much more
gentle and wOmanly. Americans have
much better political manners than
EnSllshmen, anyhow, and this superb
orlty will be demonstrated in Wash
lngton during this week and next
Committee Oh Suffrage.
Congress has made a habit of being
polite and courteous to advocates of
""man's suffrage For more than 80
years the senate has maintained a com
mlttee on WOman's Suffrage. The mem
pers OF this committee are regularly
erected with as much gravity as are those
OF the finance committee.
The Craftsmanship. by one of the up
written laws of the senate, is given al
ways to minority member Every
senator on the ma jOrity side is chairman
OF some committee gaining thereby the
use OF more or less palatial committee
room and the services of a clerk and
messenger paid by the government
only few of the older minority sena-
tors have chairmanships.
One of these is senator Alexander s.
Clay at Georgia. chairman of the COM
mittee on Woman Suffrage His com
niptee Will awake from a liberation of
several years next Tuesday and will !
near the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw. pres
ldent of the NatiOnal-American Woman /
Suffrage association plead for another /
amendment to the constitution giving /
the ballot to women.
Then the committee will go to sleep /
again and pay no further attention 70 |
the subject. On the same day. the iu- /
dietary committee of the house of rap-
resentatlVes will give the suffra gists a I
nearing, and will listen 20 arguments
presented by representa- tives Of working
women The judiciary committee will
listen, and then do nothing else
Cause Is Advancing
Probably the good women who are at
the head of the suffrage associations
DO not expect anything to be done by
congress. The suffrage fight in Amer
lea must be waged in the states first,
but the agitation for a constitutional
amendment and the storming of con-
gress VIII have an excellent effect in
stirring up enthusiasm in the several
states. The cause OF Woman Suffrage is
adTancing@it is impossible to deny
that fact. And IN the United States
the women will get the vote lust as
soon as even half of the women of the
country seriously demand it. And that
Without throwing bricks through the
skyught fthe house to hit speaker
cannon on the head. or without any
woman going to jail and being fed with
| pump through her nose
The National Woman's Suffrage as
ISOLATION, having for its sole object the
amendment of the federal constitution
o permit women to vote, was organized
n 1859 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Su-
'an B. Anthony, and other women who
llready were famous for their victories
n the cause of wOmen's rights in other
spheres Of activity. There was some
ilvlsion of sentiment a the time and an I
timer organization, The American Wo-
nan Suffrage association was organ 3
zed in 1870, with Julia Ward Howe Z
nd Lucy Stone as moving spirits
his organization sought 10 obtain its
nd by amendments to state constitu- ,
ions.
Organizations Merged :
Both associations held annual meet / 9
ngs regularly. but as time passed by
he bitterness of the original difference
'as diluted and. in 1890 the two or J
.anlzations merged under the present 9
ltie National-American Woman Suf- I
rage association, !
EilzaDeth Cady Stanton was elected l
resident, Susan B. Anthony vice-pres- 7
and Lucy Stone was y
iade chairman Of the executive commit 2
ee. Since that time the association has !,
ursued its work along both lines. :
lighting for both federal and state con
titutfonai action
In 1892 Mrs. Stanton retired from 7
lie presidency because of advancing 7
ears and was succeeded by Miss An p
1ony- She resigned in 1900 and was .
1cceeded by Carrie Chapman Gait. \
rs Gait retired in 1904 and was fol. .
WED by Anna Howard Shaw, the in +
lmoent Rachel Foster Avery of =,
ennsylvania is first vice president. h
ne convention now meeting in Wash