New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-28
Congress and Hawaii.

Many other examples might be given Of
the hostility Of Congress to woman suf-
frage and one II the most fragrant may
be seen in the case OF Hawaii When Il
was to be organized into a territory in
1899 its President, Sanford y. Dole. and
Supreme Court Justice w. +. Frear came
TO the United States a. members OF a
commission % draft a constitution, and
they We're most DESTROYS that II should
give the new Legislature power to grant
the suffrage to women. Congress not only
refused this right which had been granted
To every other territory. but went stil
further and put into this constitution an
explicit provision that only male citizens
should vote for any official or measure or
MI any office, restriction never I'M
posed on any other territory, and this II
did against the expressed wishes Of the
Hawaiian representatives. Now they are
making another effort to secure the suf-
frage for the women. many OF whom are
Of American or English birth or par
entage, but they viii never get 1t as long
az the Congress Of the United States has
power TO prevent IT,
American women are constantly i'm
plored not 10 adopt militant methods
and are assured that the only way TO win
the ballot from American men is by
peaceable. dignifed, constitutional means
They have employed these and no others
for fifty years and Congress has never
lost an opportunity to Illustrate and de-
feat them. The ablest women that this
country has produced have gone before
committees Of the Senate and the House
forty-three years asking for the submis-
sion Of an amendment TO the national
Constitution, and for the last twenty
years no. committee has paid even so
much attention 10 them as to make q
report Of any kind. They are told to
carry their case 10 the states, and this
they have done about twenty-five times
They have Just finished a campaign in
Ohio, many Of them working for a whole
year hundreds OF them for six months,
without pay raising the money as they
went along, and women all over the
country have been giving bazaars and
strawberry festivals and doing all sorts
OF truly feminine stunts TO get money
they didn't break a law. they didn't 80
much as "heckle" speaker-and how did
the men OF Ohio repay them? BY defeat
ing their amendment by an immense ma
jority. In five other states the women
are making the same clean, dignihed cam
paign. no personalities no deals OF any
kind. nothing that the most captious
could crltcise, and certainly in some OF
these the men will show the same kind OF
appreciation as in Ohio. II is a peculiar
way to discourage militancy IN the United
Statesl
The English Situation.
Mr.. and Mrs Pethick Lawrence, who
have been spending a few days In New
York, are on their way home from Can
ada, where they went 10 recuperate after
being released from prison. Both are
university graduates. and Mr.. Lawrence
is a barrister. lie is a man OF large
means. and has given his life to public
service. as has his wife. and they first
met when laboring among the poor OF
London After they joined with Mrs.
Pankhurst In the militant suffrage move
ment they concentrated on this all their
time, effort and money. Mr.. Lawrence
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