Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-13
IAsE OF MISS NEz MnHoLLAND
vassar Graduate Fighting for the
Striking Shirt Waist Makers.
MRS. o. H. P. BELMoNT's CRUSADE
Mrs. Clarence Mackay Also an Active
Worker in Cause.
ELIZABETH FLYNN, THE SOCIALIST
woman worker Now I'm Jail In spO-
kane Becaus She Offended the
Powers Dat There by
Speaking.

NEW YORK. Feb. 12.-The new woman
It is a phrase that has been used a long
time, but who can define II? Who can
define the new woman herself? Today she
is different from what she was yesterday
and what she may be tomorrowAno ono
can guess.
Probably no one specific movement
could more distinctly show the present
day type OF the new woman in her varied
aspects and multitudinous sides than has
the strike of the shirtwaist makers, No
class seems TO be lacking in representa-
ton, and each vies with the others In
showing what it can do.
The college girl-and time was, not so
long ago, that even the college girl was
considered a wofuiiy advanced person
has not found absorption in her books to
the exclusion of all else; she tinsles to
mingle I'm affairs. Vassar may be envied
by her sister colleges, for she is tho alma
mater of Inez Milholland.
Miss Miholland Is avowedly for woman's
rights, but a glance at her doing picket
duty in the strike precincts would no doubt
surprise the cartoonist of a decade ago.
She does not bear the then popularity con-
ceived lineaments; all things strident and
aggressive and masculine-no, that last Is
a mistake in one sense-are at the opposite
pole from her.
Attractive and Courageous.
She is an attractive, well dressed and
pleasant hammered girl as.she does her
assigned picketins. And this does not pre-
vent her from being just as attractive, we'll
dressed and pleasant hammered when full
filling her obligations In a more restricted
social sphere. She wears no earmarks of
her newness.
Miss Milholland, who is a Vassar gradu-
ate and whose father is abundantly able
TO furnish bail, braved arrest and got ar
rested. Waverley place was filled with
strikers to the number of about a thou
sand. At least 200 of them, moving in a
circle four and five abreast, walked up
and down in front of the place where
Miss Mllholland was stationed.
II spoke to Miss Milholland and told her
to go away" said the arresting policeman
at her examination. 'She crossed the
street, but came right back again. /
could see that She was a prime mover in
the affair"
Miss MIlholland went right back again
across the street and she is Of the tenn
perament to go right back again t, her
picketing as soon as this storm is breasted.
She has a right TO do so under The law,
she asserts, and this pretty college girl
is strong for her rights. She is an .r-
dent suffragist as well as being actil civ
Interested in the strike, the strikers and
their rights.
College Girls Not the Only.
But the college girl type is oy 10 means
the most prominent in the new recrdits
for public activity, Here is to be seen,
and in such steadily increasing numbers
! that yba 10 u, lnnga,. a "a, ,,p,,u,,aI .noot,oI,
. the woman Of the fashionable world, who
: formerly had no spare time over and be-
/, yond her round Of special and dress-fitting
. engagements.
The society woman in public affairs has
no more indefatigable exponent than Mrs.
o.. II. +, Belmont has lately proved her
self to be. Mrs. Belmont had already
shown herself a capable business woman
before she espoused suffrage. Personally
experimenting the care Of her property,
she had passed well out of the leisure class
when she opened up her offices a. 56
Fifth avenue and assumed the duties CT
= president OF the Political Equality steo-
3 citation. The force that she has rapidly
come to be in the suffrage movement is
! nearly everywhere recognized.
. MRS. Belmont will undoubtedly be a
! power in this cause" said the other day
a uioNlubhlSiiNh PNiSON Wv was " NJ
means inclined to partiality toward the
wealthy suffragist leader. For she has
j ability-remarkable executive ability. Com
h ing into this work with a varied expert
5 ence back of her, it seems impossible that
t she can fail to become enthused at the
{ opportunities before her. / doubt whether
e she will ever give It up. She can see her
+ self steadily accomplishing something, and
+ nothing is more fascinating than that"
. Mrs. ~BeImOnt's Strategy.
Mrs. Belmont, now an avowed and active
suffragists, has also figured prominently
in the troubles Of the shirtwaist makers.
Her Hippodrome meeting-for so was gem
orally called the conference of interested
persons In the strike for which she pro-
yided the Hi-ppodrome-has been the occa-
sion OF much discussion as to her inner
most motives.
1T was a first frank step to capture
the working woman for suffrage" says the
socialist woman. "She knows that the time
has come When the suffrage movement, II
il wishes to grow instead OF decay, must
get hold Of the working woman"
If indeed this may have been her motive
II does credit to Mrs. Belmonts sagacity
that she recognized the opportunity for ac'
ton and by what avenue the approach
must be made NOT ola she stop VIII
planning conference meetings-under the
~vlgilant suffragistic eye-and hiring halls
in which 10 hold them. She went TO the
night court the night before and waited
and waited there until the hearing OF the
cases Of some arrested striking girls were
called in order that she might bail then
out.
II inqy not be an extraordinary thing tc
go TO a night court and furnish ball but n
was rather an innovation for "A woman IL
Mrs, Belmonts position to do IL and undcl
the circumstances-all for "A cause. The
affair brought nOtoriety--but nutoriety doe
not seem a thing TO be Stunned by the new
lNna Of woman from MhnLeNor claaa III.