The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-12
MRS. CRANE TALKS
UNEQUAL SUFFRAGE
Hopes Alabama Will Join
Suffrage Ranks
DUTY IS IN HOME
Mrs. Crane Is Going to Montgomery
TO Inspect Civic Conditions. Amer
lean Cities Are Far Behind
the European Cities

I'VE hope everyone of you will go
away tonight convinced that the well
fare of the nation will be best con-
served by bestowing on women the
privilege of the ballot said Mrs H.
Il. Smell last night in concluding her
brief introduction of Mrs Caroline
BARTLETT Crane. Mrs. Crane, municipal
expert and minister of the gospel, came
10 Birmingham under the Auspices Of
the Equal Suffrage league. She is en-
route to Montgomery, where she will
inspect sanitation, sewage water sup
ply and other items of municipal well
fare under the auspices of the Civic
League.
Mrs. Crane lectured in the Chamber
OF Commerce auditorium The officers
of the Equal Suffrage league officiated
as reception committee. Miss Ethel
Armes, vice president Of the organiza-
ton, in the absence of the president,
drs. Scion Jacobs. accompanied Mrs
Crane on the rostrum; she was also an
usher Others assisting in this ca
paeity were Mrs. Jack BoWron. Mrs.
lore c. King, Mrs. w. d. Nesbitt, Miss
Helen Benners, Mrs. Sidney Ullman,
Miss Mona Hitler
Mrs. Smell in presenting the speaker,
gave a brief outline of her work,
speaking with graceful apprecia ton
Ct her municipal housekeeping, which,
she stated had been productive of good
in many cities. she has inspected many
cities, north and south, said Mrs. Smell;
IT in Minnesota in one year, three ia
tennessee, IL in Kentucky, one in
Florida and two in Maryland. She is
now en- route to Montgomery, which
will be fifty fourth in the total num-
her Mrs. Cranes duty is to study at
arst hand the water supplies, sewer
systems, street and alley sanitation,
garbage collection and disposal smoke
nuisance. milk supply, meat supply, mar
ket and school sanitation and such
conditions in almshouses, jails and po-
lice stations" She then gave the sub
ject upon which Mrs. Crane would ad-
dress her Birmingham audience
Woman Suffrage and Home Rule"
In her address Mrs. Crane said Ala
bdma is in the black belt of suffrage"
She gave a general resume of the sur
trage movement and stated that 1t be-
gan, as far as the United States was
concerned, in 1888, when school suf-
frage was granted to women in Ken
lucky.
This was the first political recog-
nition of women in the United States, .
said Mrs. Crane. Suffrage was granted
years. When Wyoming became a state
the constitution went to Washington
with the suffrage clause in 1t. The
Washington people telegraphed back
that the suffrage clause would have 20
be removed. but the women said 1t
= would not. and Wyoming was admitted
10 statehood with the suffrage clause
intact
In 1898 suffrage was granted IN
Colorado and in 1896 in Idaho and
Utah
by the time Wyoming had gone into
the union 16 countries, nations and
municipalities were in favor of suf-
frage for women. Sixty-one countries,
nations and municipalities had partially
franchised women The French gov
eminent had advised that women be
franchised.r Mrs Crane told of for
cigners in Michigan who were for SUI
frage and told the story of Finnish
woman who, upon seeing the staue Of
Liberty in New York said, This is my
Liberty
In zoos Washington, in 1911 Cali
fornia granted suffrage, while Mich
isan was the first state east of the
Mississippi river to grant suffrage TO
women. Michigan placed the first stat
fer guidance in the east and we need
such star in the south We hope