Connecticut western news., 1912-07-25
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BIG SUFFRAGE MEETING
Addresses for the Cause, by Miss
 Pinneo and Or. Culver. Y

Pinneo and Or. Culver. V
 The suffrage meeting, under the aus pices of .the Canaan Equal Suffrage League, in Town Hall, Tuesday evening, was, in point of attendance and quality, perhaps the most coassful yet held under those auspices. The attendance was unexpectedly large, fact partiou- larly notable for the reason that an ad- mission fee was charged. Not even the attractive inducement of "dead.head" admission had ever drawn a larger audi ence to a local suffrage meeting. This may be explained by the strenuous aotiv- ity of the ladies in canvassing in ad- vance for the sale of tickets, but doubt less the quality of the speakers had much to do with it. Miss Dotha Stone Pinneo, of Norwalk, is an attraction anywhere, and having appeared before the ladies' clubs of Canaan on repeated occasions, her appearance at this time naturally attracted many of her local friends to the meeting. Dr. Culver, of Albany, was favorably recommended and hls reputation as a suffrage advocate doubt less drew many others. Many who were unable to be present sent assnr- ances of good will. Mss Belle Eldridge, of Norfolk, sent to Mrs. Hitchcock, pres ident of the League, generous check as an expression of her sympathy with the cause.
 Rev. Harry Corpford, of the Canaan Methodist church, presided. On the platform besides the presiding officer and advertised speakers, were Mrs. Frank Hitchcock, president of the league, and MT. and Mrs. A. s. c. Taylor. of Nor folk.
 Mir. Cornford, in calling the meeting to order, said he had been assured that he would not be required to make a speech, and manifested his gratitude by making three of them, gratuitously, and giving his hearers something to guess at, in each one of them, throwing the sufragist camp into consternation on the wind-up by declaring that he was not a suffragist and didn't propose to sign any of their pledge cards. Never theless, he got his, to some extent, when Miss Pinneo, in the course of her talk, referred to his allusion to the militant suffragettes of London as window smash CTS and hatchet.throwers and said he was glad we don't have that kind in this country. Miss Pinneo said, in her ire sistibly humorous way, that "the only way to get ideas into John Bulls head is to knock them in" Possibly Miss Pin neo didn't know Mir. Cornford came of John Bull ancestry-and auy way, her appointed allusions to J. B. apparently tickled nobody in the house more than Cornford, himself
 In his first introductory speech MT. Oornford said there were suffraglsts and suffragettes, and he was glad the latter were not the American kind. He be- lieved in woman-he believed especially 'in the one have"
 Miss Pinneo won the. good will of her audience from the start Her winning personality, her mastery of the subject, her earnestness, her splendid diction, her perfect self-poise and especially her fine satire, clever wit and aptitude in making her humorous anecdotes fit and clinch her arguments, were conspicuous and irresistible. Her subject was. The Woman of Today" and was a forceful and telling effort, to which scant justice can be done by an abridged report. She opened by greeting her fellow suffra- gists and those about to become suffra- gists, and referred to the existing con dltions of inequality between women contrasting the recently exploited ''s45,. 100000 bride" with her other millions of securities and her bridal necklace that cost $l00,00O, and the young working girl who slaves 56 hours a week for Sl. Legal injustice, she sad, always begets social injustice. Suffrage is the next step in the elevation of the human race.
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