New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-25
EQUAL SUFFRAGE WARS
CURE--M|SS LATHROP
Armament Would Disappear
Before Votes for Women, Says
Chief of ChiIdren'S Bureau.
CELEBRATE WITH PRAYER
Led by Bishop, Hundreds Of
Delegates Bow Heads in
Thanks for Ballot Vic
tories in the West.

Philadelphia, Nov 24.-With bowed
heads and led in prayer by Bishop Rhine
lander Of the Protestant Episcopal do
cese OF Pennsylvania, more than five hun
dred delegates TO the national American
woman suffrage convention and thousands
OF their friends gave thanks to-day TO
the Almighty for their recent victory in
the states Of Arizona, Kansas, Michigan
and oregon.
The meeting, held in the Metropolitan
Opera House. was in the nature OF a
jubilee. Every seat in the big auditorium
was occupied, and thousands being unable
20 gain admittance, overflow meetings
were held in tho streets Prominent suf-
fragists addressed the crowds.
After the audience had joined those on
the stage in singing MY Country, It's OF
Thee" Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, who pre-
sided, introduced as the first speaker MISS
Julia Lathrop, chief of the Federal Chill
dren's Bureau.
Aids Welfare of Child.
"NTv purpose" declared Miss Lathrop'
sis 10 show that woman suffrage IS a
natural and inevitable step in the march
OF society forward; that, instead OF being
incompatible with child welfare, it leads
toward IL and is, indeed, the next great
service to be rendered for the welfare and
ennoblement Of the home"
She said there are in this country more
than twenty-nlne million children under
the age Of fifteen, and that 1t is essential
that the adult population judge and pro-
pose change in our social fabric by It's
probable effect upon children, for whose
succession Il is the work or TINS genera
tion 70 prepare What We propose IS TO
give women universal suffrage. MISS
Lathrop added;
The greatest possible industrial and eco
& romical change would be universal as
arnament-the beginning OF an era OF
peaceful agreement between nations. Even
the great war lords wrest their arma-
ments from their subjects on the preteNt
that IL IS necessary to preserve peace; Il
has been said from the beginning tnaI
women should not vote because they can
not fight That Is the sOundest reason
I'm the world why they should vote FOR
here IS a great element, which, from the
tbe weishted honor OF war, Would not
thev. il they could, vote for universal DIS
armament? Here, indeed. would be a
revolution, and there is no one IN I4e
world so bold as to assert that thiS j.
not a revolution devOutly TO be hoped.
Suffrage for woman is not the final word
in human freedom. but II is the next step
in the onward march OF equaIzing me
rights and balancing the duties OF the
two types of individuals who make up
the human race.
This has been called "the century Of
the child" We may well believe that the
Justice toward the child, a new standard
raised for his welfare. The century OF
the woman has made possible the century
T& L. F1,V,f 4oV al
in the Western world that the state OF
woman connotes the state Of civilization.
Jane Adams Hits Politicians.
In speaking on THE Communion Of the
Ballot Miss Jane Adams, Of Chicago.
charged that the self-seeKing politician
was usually the first 20 win the gratitude
of immigrants who come to this country
mot for the city which they intend
making their home. not for America, but
for the politician himself"
Among the problems that have come
under the government to-day, said she.
are the management Of Fairgrounds and
dance halls for young people. She main
tanned that the women should take
hand In these affairs and provide clean
and moral places Of amusement.
Shall we, the women, concluded MISS
Adams. leave the laws solely in the
hands OF the men, who, after their days
work, come home tired and UNFIT TO con-
slider the seriousness Of life?"
Or. W. z. b. Dubois. who spoke in be-
half OF the colored race, declared that
the two great movements toward democ-
racy are the one which would break
down the political disabilities OF women
and the one that refuses 10 recognize
'fnere racial difference as a sufficient rea
son for political Acknowledgement 81 am
not here" he said, ito ask that the wom-
ans suffrage movement attempt specih-
cany 10 fight for the cause Of negro suf-
frage. but to insist that 1t fight for all
women. rich and poor, black and white"
The officers OF the association held a
reception for members of the convention
and friends at their headquarters Tonight