Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-26
Woman Leaders of Movement
and Members of Congress
Before Committee.
DR.. ANNA HOWARD SHAW
GETS HEARTY APPLAUSE
Representative Bryan, Clifford Pin
chot and Mrs. La Toilette Among
the Speakers.

i<cdueFS OF the woman SunraCe move
ment and members OF Congress favorfng
it urged congressional action for equal
suffrage at hearing today before the
Senate woman suffrage committee in
room of the Senate office building crowd
ed to its utmost capacity. Their shafts.
hurled against the ages old contention
that women are not framed for politics.
were loudly applauded. some of the men,
bers of the Senate committee themselves
joining in the applause.
None was more loudly applauded than
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw. president OF
the National American Woman Suffrage
Association. who closed the hearing.
"We shall keep coming back to you
in Congress with the demand for wom-
an suffrage" she said. Our children
and our childrens children. will come
to you, until this country shall have
become, not a democracy in name. but
democracy in fact.
I'VE are not afraid Of the band
Of women who are going up and
down the land fighting our cause The
pity of 1t is that there are just enough
OF these good women who by holding
out their skirts act as screen for the
proprietors of dens of vice, of gambling
houses and other evil men who are
the real opponents of woman suffrage.
Never has there been bad man in
favor of woman suffrage.
Takes Wilson and Bryan to Task
DIR. Shaw asked why it was that Presi-
dent Wilson and Secretary OF State
Bryan, who have spoken and written so
eloquently Of the principle Of democracy.
have never announced themselves in IA
vor of woman suffrage.
81 doubt il President Wilson or Secre-
s.,1x; <.<
| all when they made their statements re-
garding the right of the people to rule
| themselves" said DIR. Shaw. 1T is a
bad thing to belong to a class Of people
whom men can forget when they are
thinking OF fundamental principles OF
government But men do not think OF
us in legislation. Their attitude is that
of sex guardianship. not sex antagonism,
IT would be in favor of woman suf
| frage II IL did nothing but harm, because
| It is better for the government to know
the actual conditions OF the people than
to be Ia ignorance of them.
There has been much talk Of the num-
ber OF flliterate votes which would be
added to the already large illiterate vote
OF men II woman suffrage were granted
| But there are 24.000O00 possible woman
voters in this country, and only 3O00.Ov
Of them are flliterate. which fs a far bet
ter percentage than the men can show"
Others Who Spoke.
| DIR. Shaw, president of the associa-
ton, presented the speakers to the
committee. The speakers were Mrs.
Helen H. Gardener Miss Helen Varrick
Boswell president Of the Woman's Ma
ton Republican Association; Mrs. Will
liam Kent. wife of Representative
Kent of California: Senator Shafroth
OF Colorado, Representative Bryan OF
Washington, Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley.
Clifford Pinchot Mrs. p. p. Claxton.
Senator Brady of Idaho and Mrs. Rob-
ert M. La Toilette. wife of Senator La
| Toilette of Wisconsin. magazine ar
| ticle in favor of suffrage, written by
Mrs Sutherland. wife of Senator Suth-
erland of Utah, was read to the COM
mittee.
| Dr. Mary Walker was to have been
heard, but the entire time of the hear
| ing was used up by the members of
the National Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation and their speakers.
Wants Women Considered People"