Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-17
urging THE CAUSE
Speakers Argue for Woman
Suffrage.
REASONS IN VARIED FORM
Last Nights Session at the Airing
ton Hotel.
FUND RAISED FOR EXPENSES
Huge Petition to Be Borne to the
Capitol Tomorrow for Presenta-
ton to Congress.
FUND RAISED FOR EXPENSES

Arguments in favor of woman sur
frage were advanced at last nights ses-
sion of the forty-second annual conven-
ton of the National American Woman
| Suffrage Association at the Arlington
! Hotel There was only standing room IN
the large assembly hall. and the doors
| of the anteroom were crowded with at
tentive auditors.
Women suffragsts, suffragettes and
| "sufrrangents' presented the creed OF the
| cause to an audience the members oi
| which We'd with one another In encouras-
ing applause. All was harmony ana ell
thusiasm Womans reasons Tor woman
| suffrage were advanced in varied lori's
| frum the humorous arguments OF Doro..
INV DIX clothed in the dialect or an
| old colored nanny, to the pniiosophicd'
discussion of Education and Social fros-
ress'' by Miss Juliet Stuart POINTS; WI. Mno .
| reinforced her arguments oy So.oLa
| from every philosopher from Nie'sc"e
back. o,cIocx nm.
| ~ IO.a0 did the interest lag. Inc spear
ers were presented by Kate NJ; Goi o Al
(suffragists apparently take pr; ;. 1 1m ~
Ginning to announce whether IL 10 1n' y.
Mrs). who acted as chairman
Sneakers of the Evening.
The first speaker of the evening was
u.rrv Wilbur of the Friends Equa'
Ripbts Association, who aroused much
enthusiasm by his unqualified 1ndorse-
want IF "votes for women" and MS pre-
a.t;or that their ambitions would soon
be realized. ,or
Harriet E. Grim spoke on the can i1, OF
the New Age to College Women. ~
want to quit begging" she sa1o' we
want to demand things Gotta,
In speaking on Education ana soci sa
PROGRESS" Juliet Stuart Points OF the
College Equal Suffrage League deciars -,
1--WE don't believe in the Limitation OF
suffrage: we stand for an intellectual
democracy"
To Defray Expenses.
The proceedings were interrupted
one time to take up donation WHICH
the presiding officer announced meant
more than a collection. just now
much was received was not stated, but
for an hour or more after the baskets
were returned young women were
counting the bills and coin that mao
been contributed TO meet the oApN"
This fund was added to about s11.Wo
which was pledged In the meetine ia.e
yesterday afternoon: or THIS amour.
81 ,9OO, at the rate Oh $UOV d hi"''''' 49,
pledged by Mrs. Belmont.
II was announced that the meeting To-
morrow would be held at the Belasco
Theater. beginning at 3 O'Clock ana tnat
every one would be welcome. Inere WI
be no, charge for admission. but every
one Who attends is expected to be good
listener.
Petition to Congress.
Members of the Congress were remind
ed that the automobile bearing the mon
ster petition to the Capitol would start
from the Arlington tomorrow morning AT
II 40 o'clock The petition, which Is SAID
To hear hundreds Of thousands OF sigma
tures. is worded: I'VE, the undersigned
cltizens Of the United States, over TWEEN
ty-one years of age. hereby pett1on your
honorable body to submit to the leglsia-
ture of the several states Tor ratlncatioh
an amendment to the national Constitu-
ton which shall enable women 10 vote:
The petition is addressed TO the senate
and House of Representatives OF the
United States.
Against Large Navy.
Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead. who will pre-
sent the cause Of international peace Tor
the first time at the biennial meeting OF
womens clubs in Cincinnati in May. pre-
sented a report on peace and aroitra-
ton.
while all women hate war" she said,
"many are hoodwinked by the clamor of
vested interests and the naval and mill
tary classes into supporting the war sys-
tenn When they read war scares they do
not suspect as Representative TaWney
declares that these are due to the snip
combine Suffragsts should be alert and
informed of the greatest obstacle to their
efforts.
Given a republic that never has been
attacked that began every foreign war
it ever had, and has never lost but 1900
men by foreign bullets. all told; given a
country that has not an enemy, and with
which probably no country'would refuse
to arbftrate why should it be allowed to
spend one-third of all its natural revenue
on preparation for war?
women are conservative naturally.
They should set their faces against the
policy that would delude us into thinking
our huge and costly navy is national
police Policemen never fight one an
other; they take men to court Navies
fight one another and never aim to Sc
cure a judicial decision. An international
police must replace rival navies. The
American School Peace League will help
the rising generation to see through the
sophistries which are letting us permit
our pockets to be picked under the pre-
text that it is for national defense against
real danger Before the third Hague
conference in 1915 the women of the
| education"
Ballot as a Developer.
Democracy and Women" was the ii.
tie of the address o. Max Eastman of the