The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-30
When Leader Of the Movement Pass
ed Away Interest Also Ceased
and tho Cause 10
Forgotten.
NATHAN IS STUBBORN
Mayor Of Rome Had Palaces Hitchsds
Together and Refuses Now
to Cut Them
Apart.
by Henry Wood. Rome correspond
emit OF the United Press

ent Of the United Press.1
ROME. March 29.-eThe feminirt
movement in italy for national wom-
ans suffrage is dead. It ceased to
exist with the untimely death Just a
year ago of Lady Giacinta Martini
Marescotti, its founder and leader,
and 1t will only come back into beinx
again when another leader equally az
great and equally as devoted as She
was Is found"
This was the declaration TODAY to
the United Press correspondent OF
Baroness Irene de Bonis de Nebil,
former secretary of the national COM
mittee for the votes for women which
Lady Marescotti founded and which
under the leadership of the latter had
all but wrested the coveted consent
from parliament when the death OF
Lady Marescptti ended all. Since
then although the committee still ex-
lists In name, all effort has ceased and
the movement Is temporarily at least,
at an end
i Conditions in Italy are SUCH de-
clared Baroness Nobili today, chat
only the birth of another great leader
like Lady Marescotti can make pos
sible the rehabilitation of the nation
al feminist movement and the carry
ing it through to success. With the
great bulk of the Italian women more
or less Indifferent, the victory can
only be won by q central committee
that will carry the entire burden Of
the work that Is necessary. On the
other hand, this in Italy is also the
easiest and the best way for 1t will
only be through the most skillfuI and
diplomatic work on the part of the
most intellectual women Of the nation
| brought to bear upon the ministers
and parliament that we can ever hope
to succeed.
This is what Lady Marescotti all
but succeeded In doing with only the
help of the very limited membership
of the national committee for votes
for women, she brought such skill and
diplomacy into play with the highest
men in the government that In 1909
parliament passed a vote of approba-
ton of the principle of woman's suf-
frage. Had she lived but few months
longer 1t is practically certain that
the bill itself granting limited suf-
frage, which went down in defeat
May is. 1912, by vote of 4s to 200.
would have passed.
i "As have said before, the move
ment must now lie dormant until an
other great leader is born for In no
other way can action be secured from
the national parliament. However,
we are still able to work by the meth
DDS adopted in other countries for the
securing of municipal and local suf-
frage and in this respect we are keep
ing fully apace with the countries of
the north
I'VE are not practically certain OF
winning suffrage in Rome on all i'm
portant municipal questions. The
moment it is granted, the campaign
will be carried to the other Italian
cities and when eventually, as | am
convinced will be the case, a second,
great leader is born to renew the
fight for national suffrage. enough
ground will have been gained IN nun
icipal and local rights to make victory
certain
ROME, March Firmly en-.
trenched on the historical Capitoline
Hill. one Of the famous original seven
knobs of Rome, Mayor Nathan is put
ting up just as valiant a one-handed
fight against architects, artists, arch
t eoligists and citizens generally as
Horatio ever put up at the bridge
when the guys on the other side want
led to get across. While there seems
little chance that Nathan's deed viii
\ be celebrated in poetry, he is draw
/. ing out a library of newspaper COM
k ment that would make Horatio squirm
S in his grave.