Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-23

~~R 1IILE the fight for the ballot
has been waged in the United
AAx States during the last twelve
wv month and one state after
another has been added to
the list of those already enfranchised,
crusade unique of it's kind has been con-
Quoted In the far corners of the earth by
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, president OF
the International Woman Suffrage AL
lance. chairman of the woman suffrage
party and one of the foremost votes for
women workers in the world.
Even il q woman has ever before at
tempted a round the-word tour in the in
terest of a special cause as has Mrs.
Gait. certainly no one outside the mis-
sionaries of the gospel has conducted
such a vigorous campaign or carried the
word to such remote parts of the world
as she has done, or-last, but not least
expended such a large sum OF money-all
her own-for the furtherance of cause
as has Mrs. Gait.
BY the time Mrs. Gait arrives in New
York next October she will have covered
in a year and half thousands of miles
visited dozen or more countries, spoken
at 1000 meetings. organized hundreds oil
suffrage clubs and organizations. and she
will have expended more than $4,000 of
her own personal income to carry the
votes for women message around the
world.
In her letters ncme Mrs Gait has de-
scribed her trip In glowing terms. 1t has
been a triumphal tour from the time she
landed in Southampton On route to the
convention OF the International Suffrage
Alliance at Stockholm. Sweden. Few
American women have been the recfpi-
ents of more attention or greater hospi
tally. From kings and queens down to
the mayors and "mayoresses" OF South
African towns. all have feted, dined and
entertained her.
All who sought 10 learn the A B c of
suffrage from her lips have found no i'm
pediment TO their efforts IN reaching her
So eager were they to speak with the
suffrage leader that SOM women in the
South African towns spent one. two.
three and even four weeks in travel from
the interior Just to get to a port where
Mrs. Cats boat was to land for mo-
ment. that they might have Il word with
her.
Nor were women the only ones who
paid her homage. Politicians and Giplo-
mats in nearly every country visited
called on received her. or entertained her
socially. The magic word suffrage" was
the leaven which banished all class and
al
became the slogan that supplanted per-
sonal feeling and drew friend and for
alike 10 common ground.
From IIondons aristocracy 10 that of
the kongo Free States Is a far cry. vet
the desire OF the women IN each country
has been the samoa common sympathy
has drawn them together and with one
accord they agreed 10 fight for a com
mon cause. This was especially notice
able In SorAh Africa whore suspicion and
distrust of the Boer for the Briton and
the Briton for the Boer still exist New
ertheless they met together and organized
for suffrage
Mrs. Gait sailed from New York April
g. 1911 and during the first three months
continent she was accompanied by her
friend, Miss Mary Garrett Hay Of New
York On her South African tour three
women were of the party-Dr. Aietta ia
cobs. president of the Suffrage Alliance
OF the Netherlands, who speaks bo.h
Dutch and English; Mrs. Bertha OF The
Hague and Miss a. r. Cameron Of New
York.
IL was at q dinner given by prominent
rufsragists of Copenhagen that Mrs. Gait
made her first suffrage speech, but ii was
mt Stockholm. Sweden, on the occasion of
the convention OF the International Suf
frage Alliance that she made her most
telling address. Tbs has since been trans
lated into twenty-four tongues and dis
tributed broadcast throughout the civil
wed world. and il one of the pieces of
suffrage literature most in demand.
In DenmaA Mrs. Gait visited parlia-