The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-10-26
RECRUITS
To the Woman Suffrage
Cause Are Coming Rap
idly at Present
SAYS DR.. ANNA SHAW
Who Delivers An Address at
the Annual National
Convention.

'tOhaI AlueTlcd0 Woman
Suffrage Association, declared the
; last eighteen months had been one
OF progress for women and in re.
viewing the recent vote in Califor.
MIA, contrasted the sections in which
the vote on womens suffrage had
been strongest and weakest. She
said in part:
The eighteen months which have
elapsed since our last convention
have been permeated with suffrage
activity Never in an equal length
Of time has there been such rapid
progress in the enlistment of re-
cruits and in the development of
active service, and in all the years
OF our movement there has never
been such an army of alert, ener-
eetic young women to do and to
endure whatever the best interests
of the cause demands of them.
Thus by the aggressive out-of-
door campaign the message has been
carried to not unwilling people.
We. congratulate ourselves for tho
triumphant yindication of the women
of Washington Never was there a
more signal example OF manly 10y
atty to womanhood than in the
three to one vote for woman suffrage
in Washington in 1910.
Following close upon it comes
the signal victory of California.
Here as never before were the
friends and foes OF woman's free
dom more equally lined up.
Wherever vice, corruption and
cupidity held sway, there the vote
for woman suffrage was weak.
Wherever refinement, education, in
dustry and self-respecting manhood
and womanhood dwelt, there the
vote in favor of woman suffrage was
strong. The lines were clearly
drawn. 1t was a contest between
the home-bu!lding, home-workins
forces of society and the home-de.
stroying, lifc-blasting forces. And
industry and the home won.
These are the battles in this war
for justice which have been victor
ious. Others have been and are be-
ing fought at the present tome with
equal courage and against greater
odds, and yet the foe is always the
same. Oregon, Kansas, Wisconsin,
Nevada. Ohio and New Hampshire,
all have their campaigns well in
hand, and within another twelve
months further victories will be
heralded from sea to sea and from
nation to nation. The struggle for
Acknowledgement has bound the
women of the world together as no
other cause could. This will hasten
the peace of the world as no Hague
conference or, battIe-clad navey ever
can.
New occasions teach new duties.
These victories and the influx OF
grown women, trained thinkers AMI
trained workers. women eductaed in
the colleges and universities, and
women educated in the schools of
practical experience and in diversity,
al these come to us with the advan-
tage OF accumulated wisdom OF tho
ages, impatient of restraint. They
cannot realize the vast labor re.
quired to change the outlook of a race
or nation They demand results; nd
they demand them now. This desire
viii doubtless lead to many mistakes,
but In the long run knowledge anl
zela will combine and, together Wi
complete the victory.
"The awakening of the civic con-
science in women, largely through
the inefficiency of present methods 30
overcome the obstacles with which an
incompetent or corrupt government
nullifes so much Of the work cf
women, with the higher ideals of pa
triotism which are impelling MANY
of our best citizens to recognize their
responsibility to their government.
added to the oncoming tide of do
mocracy which is stirring the nations
Of the world, all these forces are com
bining to call women forth to large
service and completcr life.
THE cry is no longer keep us ig.
norant That we may not know tie
evils which surround us; let US rest
in peace and feel no responsibility,
but rather, give us knowledge and
power that we may stay the forces ii
evil and transform our seeming SAT-.
ty into actual sectrity. These are
the things which call for changes in
our models of work and in the con
struction of our reorganization.