Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-06
Crowd at Carnegie Hall Meet
Pledges from 81 to $1,000
for Cause.
SOME AGREE TO PAY EACH
MONTH TILL FIGHT is WON
Movement Greater, Says Sui
frage Leader, Than Enfran-
chisement of Blacks.

That women and some men are pre-
pared no. only to talk for the bale,
but to contribute generously to a fund
to carry on the work, was proVed last
night by pledges exceeding $4,000, whlch
were taken at the close of the areWell
meeting to Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst,
held in Cafhegie Hall, New York city,
under auspice3 of the Woman's
Political Union of New York. The
amounts were from 81 to $1,000, and
some pledged themselves to give a GER
tain amount a month until suffrage is
won in Now York.
Mrs. -a""iet Stanton Batch's state
ment that money sent to help the Wom-
en- in the West will be returned two
fold was borne out by a large contri-
button from Mrs. Kent, of California.
who was at the meeting. With part
of the eund an active campaign will be
started this month to organize leagues
throughout New York State.
ITO me it is q wonderful omen that
this is the first great suffrage meeting
of the new year." began Mrs. Pank-
hurst, who was enthusiastically re-
ceived by a large audience. 81 am glad
that it is in New York, which to US
English is the metropolis of the United
States.
1.-The conclusion / draw from my visit
here is that if the s~uffragists of Amer
lea keep up their work and give their
time to it / am sure that all he States
can win the Acknowledgement of women
in a few years, but you must set aside
all other movements and devote your
selves to this one, which justifies and
dignifies every other effort.
Opponents Helped Movement.
Whether or not people approve of
our militant measures they must adj
NIT that they have been most instru-
mental in bringing the movement be-
fore the world at large. To the critics
of the stone-throwing | would explain
that each stone bore a message which
we would have been delighted to de-
liver in person had We not been de-
barred from attending the meetings.
In discussing the woman's suffrage
Cancellation bill Mrs. Pankhurst said
that some people had explained 1t as q
bill to conciliate the women ~suffragists
and to show them what they really
want, but that the women know what
they want, and that is the remove OF
the disability of sex.
I'm politics Legislators voice the senti-
ments of the people who have elected
them, for they know that if they fail
to do this they will not be reelected.
When it comes to the woman question,
however, it isn't what the women want
but what the legislators want them to
have and think they ought to have
Mrs. PanlIhurst said that the Asquith
~man-suffrage bill is a trick sprung
upon the country to defeat the certain
chance women had of getting the vote,
and that Mr.. Lloyd George had re-
marked that 1t would torpedo the con-
Citation bill out of existence. The
women s~uffragists will not pin their
faith to an amendment to that bill.
1T is an insult to ask women to creep
in through the back door when men
who have shown nc desire for the vote
are welcomed at the front door. If
there is a reform bill it must be one
that public opinion demands and the
one for which the women nave sur
fered. It is a civil war. Remember
that When considering our militant
measures.
we women are fighting our battle
for representative institutions in a gov
eminent where those institutions are
supposed to exist. You say our methods
have been terrible. I wonder if it is
because We have destroyed an infin-
itessimal piece of property or because
we haven't done enough.
Responsibility Rests on Men.
ITO the men who criticise this be-
lated movement l would say hat the
responsibility is yours and your an
c%estors, who in winning your own free
dom, left out the women. If you won't
help, at least stand aside and let us
fight our own battle.
Men fought to free an alien race
from slavery. The women of today
are bought and sold into a worse slav-
cry than any race ever born. IF no
other reform were needed in this world