New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-05

Mrs Tlatch. but now she lives near New
York and her heart Is with tho struggles
of the women OF the Empire State"
Where do l come from" echoed Miss
Blackwell. jumping up to talk for herself.
IL live In New York State. but my father
was Yankee and so was my mother"
and she said 1t with such an air that every
one laughed.
A Suffragist for Forty three Years.
The Rev. Anna Garlin Spencer. who fol.
lowed Mrs. Blatch. said that she was Q
youngster OF seventeen years forty-three
years ago when she first marched in a suf-
frage parade That was in Rhode Island.
Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe was grand
marshal and Colonel Thomas wentworth
Higginson marched with the little band Of
women. unmindful of the jeers from the
side lines. The speaker exulted in the
magnitude and success OF yesterdays dem.
onstration.
Now women can no longer play the
baby act" she said. They must stand
upon their feet and do their work and live
and breathe as full human beings. ] be-
lieve the demonstration to-day will make
It easier for every woman to march UP to
And It will make It easier for the men -
stand by them. because they marched
too"
The audience showed its greatest emo<
| ton at those points OF the different adj
dresses when the speakers touched on ths
white slave" problem, as every one OF
mem did and more than once. Miss Spencer
called forth great applause when she cried:
THE time has come to wipe out that
browning infamy, that travesty on mar
riage prostitution. We never can cleanse
the government OF our cities from graft and
corruption until We stop absolutely COM
mercialized vice and the prostitution OF
| womanhood."
| II can't say, We that are about 70 de
salute you,'" she went on. because woman
sunragsts do not die until they are ninety
years old. But 1 can invite you TO coms
and grow old along with u.s.
The Rev. Anna Howard Shaw delivered
the benedction, in the course Of which she
said in her ringing voice:
| I'VE have laws enough. What we need
are officials who will enforce the laws.
II you want the white slave traffic stopped
in New York give Us a woman Police Com
missioner"
Miss Shaw predicted that next Novem-
Der Ohio, Illinois. Kansas. Michigan, Ar
kansas and New Hampshire would be add
ed TO the list of states giving votes to
women.
Before she spoke the business OF collect
hing pledges and cash proceeded on the floor
and in the galleries and boxes, while Miss
| Caroline Lexow read the names Of the
! pledgers from the stage. Among the latter
| she read the names OF Mrs. Frederick Haz-
ard, $50 General Stewart l.. Woodford, SIS;
"A friend, with hearty congratulate TONS"
500; Mrs. Robert Erskine Ely, s.; Mrs.
| Catherine r. Wells. for two amounts of $50
and $40, respectively; Miss Julia Wells. $50;
Mrs. William Floyd, $50 Miss B. W. Ray.
$50; Mrs. II. w. Cannon. ss3; BOX No. l59."
! S125: Mrs. John Henry Hammond. So: Miss
Lucy S. Eastman. $50; Mrs. William y. Boil
ton, $40, and Mrs. William T. Wellington.
500
The number of smaller pledges vas le-
| gon.
| Then Mrs Batch presented two resolu-
lions, one calling upon their more fortu-
nate sisters OF the "emancipated" Western
states to help the women of New York to
Winters Brannan. and the other. read by
Miss Lexow. urging Lieutenant Governor
Conway. in the Governors absence, to cali
an extra session OF the legislature to pass
the equal suffrage bill The chairman de-
clared these resolutions adopted when SIZE
had heard the volume Of ayes without
waiting for the noes" and there was no
protest.
Among the boxholders for the Carnegie
Hall meeting were Mrs Belmont. Miss Con-
stance Curtis. Miss Elizabeth curtis. Mrs.
Sidney Borg Mrs. William Floyd. Mrs. ".
Tiffany Dyer Mrs. ". F. Alexander Mrs.
r. f. Schirmer. Mrs Winston Churchill.
Mrs. John Winters Brannsn. Mrs. Cyrus
/ W. Field and all the suffrage societies.
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