New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-09

It's preparation are all surrageres, uhdeT
the leadership OF Mrs. Ralston Brown.
daughter Of the late Colonel Robert Inger.
soil. Next autumn a similar exhibit will be
shown at White Plains embracing the
whole country of Westchester. They arc
great political propaganda"
I am also ignorant of budget exhibits, the
kind undoubtedly referred to by Mrs.
Batch, but never was greater patience dis
played by a leader looking for a constt.
uent.
The women show in these what the au-
thorities pay for certain articles and what
the housekeeper pays. For instance, In the
Dobbs Ferry exhibit, there was one item
proving that, instead OF 20 cents. 81 had
been paid for a certain article. II required
considerable more courage to step on John
Jones's toes in place where every one
knows every one else, than IL does In
city where one is unacquainted with the
next door neighbor Women have a keen
sense of values, and they all have the
mother instinct looking 10 the future sood
OF their own children, or some one else's,
and they are perfectly indifferent 10 the
consequences OF unwilling dishonesty
II was sixteen when / made my firss
speech for woman suffrage. the same age
as was President Taft when he made his,
she says in response to request for some
of her early biography.
A daughter of the late Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, her youth spent in an environ
ment where the pioneers Of the suffrage
for women foregathered just as soon as
she was old enough TO shape her own ex-
istence, Harriet Stanton took up the Same
work. inheritance and training naturally
suggesting It to her as career. BY mo
laws OF the country In which she was born
and educated, owing TO the fact that she
married an Englishman-Wiliam Henry
Rlatch-she has been obliged 10 make ap-
nlication for citizenship, and pending me
recent of naturalization papers she Is an
] "alien" but. notwithstanding this handi-
can Mrs. Batch is president OF the
Women's Political Union. numbering many
| thousands. is a director and officer In sew
eral other leagues and societies. Vassar
If. A.. a lecturer and author on sociologl-
cal and economic topics. The prophecy she
| makes IS, therefore, douoly ihteresuhe'
The prophecy is in answer to the question:
When will this state grant woman SUN
rage?"
~ have witnessed two important en-
| Embellishments in my hfe,' says Srs'
Blatch. oh. so seriously. the nrst was
that of the negro. granted by the nacon'
instead OF state by state, as | oelleVe "ou'u
he done to-day. The second was that OF
the British farm laborer, who was so en-
tirely under the influence OF the lanoeo
gentry that Gladstone could not get any
votes in the country. They were poth IN
teresting political events, not so interest
ing. however, as will be that or the
| The dressmaker has returned with
hasted pattern in her hand. Pins, tape
, measure, yards Of soft stuff speak her IN
dustry She stands solemnly at attention.
the look of the coming voter In her eyes.
l sit up very erect
| Third" continues Mrs. Blatch as II ad-
dressing an invisible assembly. Il expect
! the bill for the enfranchisement OF women
in this state will be passed by the Legis-
| lature and 20 10 the people In 1915, unless
| we have an extra session Of the Senate ana
get It in 1913, which is barely possible.
believe we will get our freedom before tho
women Of England get theirs"
NY lips spell "Tammany"
Mrs Blatch does not appear either to be
looking or listening. Her rapt gaze Is look.
ing into a far-off future.
| But she answers.
| we shall come down TO the Harlem
| River with such a constituency that Mr..
Charles Murphy will be swept rieht into
| cannot remember whether she said But
! ,ern1ilk Channel or the Narrows, but I
would advise Mr. Murphy TO get a lie pre-
server and be prepared for either emer-
| gency
| Mrs Harriet Stanton Batch knows what
! she is talking about.