New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-17
VOTES-FOR- WOMEN
WORLD TRIP ENDS
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait Re-
turns After Organizing Uni
verse for Suffrage.
WARM WELCOME IN CHINA
Men There Are Ants Because
They Don't Want Their Won
en- to Become Like Bolster
Gus American Sisters.

Gu W oCNOAhO A4HAS SNA0bN1
Gus American Sisters.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Cats greeting TO
America on her return from her votes
for.women trip around the world Is the
same as Mr. Peggotty's to David Copper
field:
How you have growed"
OF course, Mrs. Gait means as to suf-
frage. Coming across the continent from
California, where she landed, she was
perfectly surprised, she says, at the
growth in suffrage sentiment since she
went away. Western newspapers that
were bitter against 1t in 1911 had sgreea-
bic editorials about the four new stars In
the suffrage flag. Former ants were
saying: We'll, women all over this couh-
Try will be voting for President in 1915"
and she felt like q killjoy when her pas
sion for exactness compelled her to say
that constitutional barriers, II nothing
else, would prevent the coming OF SUI
frage so soon IN many OF the states
However, Mrs. Gait doesn't think 1t Will
be long delayed.
Wen have full suffrage in every part
OF this country IN twenty-five years; well
have It throughout the civilized world In
fifty years" she said yesterday morning
inst after her arrival in New York. I'm
this state, with every party pledged 70
the referendum and with the president Of
the National Association Opposed 70
Woman Suffrage, Mrs. Arthur NJ. Dodge,
declaring that there Is nothing the antis
want as they want the referendum, We
are sure to get the referendum in 1918
And we'll win. and with the Empire
State leading the way the rest OF the
country will not be long behind"
"Weleoms Home" Tuesday.
When representatives of the suffrage
organizations Of the city gather in Car
negie Hall on Tuesday night to give the
wanderer q welcome home" they will
see Just the same Mrs. Gait as the one
who sailed for Stockholm. Sweden, on
April s. 1911, except that she is thinner.
And it's no wonder she is, for she has
done what she said she would-she has
organized the world for suffrage. Sail
ing from Southampton. England. on July
%, 1911, she visited Egypt, Dutch and
British India, Burmah ana all the states
IN the Union of South Africa, as we'll as
many parts Of Darkest Africa, too; the
Holy Land. the Philippines. the Sand
witch Islands and other places there
isn't time to mention here, and from
every one of these countries there will
go, as the result of her labors, delegates
to the International suffrage convention
over which she will preside IN Budapest
next June.
But there are some of those countries
where they didn't need organizing for
suffrage, where the women had a right
to feel quite superior to a voteless fe-
male from New York." she said I'm
Rangoon, Burmah. women had been vot-
ing for thirty years. II was only mu-
nicipal suffrage, but that is all the men
have We called on the Mayor, and his
. elerk-the Mayor wasn't there-was quite
puzzled when We asked him IL the women
generally got out TO the polls.
OF course they do. Why shouldn't
theyr be demanded
Rangoon's Woman offeeseeker.
Rangoon. She was Hla Oaung, widow of
treasurer Of Burmah. She told US
that her husband had believed, and she
oeAeved, that there should be a woman
~ the City Council, and next year she
should offer herself You see. women
nave economic independence in Burmah
Girls are set up in business like boys
90 the rest comes easy"
What about Gilman" Mrs. Gait was
asked.
Wsl there aren't as many militant
sunrasists In China as the newspapers
made out, but one woman aid throw a
stone through window In the Assembly
hai Ia Canton. That was when they
reared they were going to be cheated out
u woman suffrage IN the constitution.
H. ana l met a woman who actually
went TO the President and told him quite
calmly that II he didn't give the women
Suffrage she would kill him with a bomb.
Ano he calmly told her to 90 ahead and
do H.
You know she told him, we can
tnGow bombs we did so in the war And
uey did This woman was captain Of
regiment Of six hundred women and girls
we saw the place where they camped-
Wao' when the officers wouldn't advance
tnem 10 the firing line, broke into Il; and
sumo OF them are buried In soldierS
graves However, women don't vote in
Cnina yet except in the province Of
A"antung. and the Presidents head still
remains on his body"
ths militant lady who threatened the
PRESIDENT doesn't lack energy, though,
LOT che got a thousand people together
"r reception for Mrs. Gait, and she
oio between o'clock D. m. one day and
L. m. OF the next. II was q grand
reception, Mrs. Gait says. with perfectly
eenshtfai things to eat and Chinese wom-
en making eloquent speeches.
Chinese Women Easy Speakers.
ana never" Mrs. Gait said yester-
hAr IL n.