The sun., 1910-01-09

second crucial difference between English
and American suffra gism.
thought this was a suffrage nesting
said an English guest at the Hotel Astor
lunch which launched Mrs. Clarence
II. Mackay into the limehght OF the
cause.
$50 il is." replied clubwoman.
The keen, farseeing eyes OF the for
eigner scanned the brilliant assembly
Three hundred tables were surrounded
there was a man. distinguished in art
letters or finance Two dollars plate
was the price. Twice the number seated
clamored without for admission. Rest
lessness, expectancy was the keynote.
To the majority equal suffrage was an
undiscovered country.
The eyes Of the English woman came
back at length to the chief figure.
Everybody, she remarked. Seems less
interested in suffrage than in the woman
In brown velvet and sables.
Naturally Why. that's Mrs. Mackay!'
And what has she done2"
"Oh, it's not what she has done, it'R
what she is-Very rich. very smart, you
know, Why, she's opened her house 10
suffrage. Think of i'll You can get into
lackey in gold lace. It's great. went.
First money ever squandered on suffrage
in my life"
oh" sighed the English woman.
Mrs Maekay pays a yearly rental OF
Suffrage League in the tower OF the Metro
politan Life Building. There, like Hilda,
she feeds her doves. directs their mi
grations. 1t Is her money that defrays the
expense OF the meetings in the Garden
Theatre and the distinguished speakers
who ere advocating this winter once a
week the cause of votes for women, In
the popular mind the Equal Suffrage
League is inseparable from its founder.
In short IL is Mrs. Mackay's league.
This is no fault of Mrs. Mackay; IL is the
result OF one way of looking at things. It
is a new development also. In the pioneer
days OF American suffrage the national and
State associations were not confounded
with Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton or Miss
Susan b. Anthony. Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait and DIR. Anna Howard Shaw have
preserved the suffrage movement upon
that imPersonal basis upon which'it was
founded.
ton similar to that of Mrs. Macksy.
! Never in its history has American suf-
frage had such imposing quarters as she
provides Five thousand dollars a year
| Is the rent Mrs. Belmont pays for the
seventeenth floor OF sos Fifth avenue.
where are the Offices of the State associa-
tons. the Political Equality Association,
! founded by Mrs. Belmont. and the press
bureau OF the movement. financed by Mrs
! Belmont.
! This emphasis OF the personal element
10 largely absent in the suffrage move
ment in England. There are some also who
think that in England there Is more CO.
| operation than here among the various
bodies working for woman suffrage.
In Oxford last summer there was a
suffrage meeting presided over by a son
OF an Archbishop OF C3nterbury, DIR.
William Temple. 1t was a joint meeting
| Of conservatives and militants. Both
spoke from a common platform, each
side explaining and defending it's methods
For days both had placarded the streets
OF the dreamy city with its smiling spires
and sold papers and pamphlets at uni
versity doors. Two women college deans
were among the speakers. One of the
deans, a conservative, kept bachelor
maid quarters with Oxford's militant
leaderl Differing in method. all were
united on the objective issue-votes FOR
women.
Not approving of militant methods, Mrs
Maokay did not attend the PankhufBi
meeting. Mrs. Belmont occupied box.