The Washington herald., 1913-12-01

purposes. He made one exception. While
he was reporting the legislature OF New
Jersey, he said, a woman delegation ap-
peared to protest against woman suffrage
DR.. Shaw took issue with Mr.. New
man. She said that women did not en-
Joy equality with the men in Washing
ton, as men here hold all the of1ces.
However" and she faced Commission
er Newman, ''if the District is controlleo
by such gentlemen as the one who mas
just addressed us. we women VIII say
Amen"
Senator Helen Ring Robinson made the
principal address. She spoke OF woman
place in legislation, and her talk was re-
plete with witticisms-
Part Played by Women.
She began her address upon the sup
position that women, and not men, as
these men popularity suppose, were trsi
to make for modern civilization and cul-
ture. Had it not been for the maternal
instinct of womankind, she explained, we
would, in all probability, sul be an
thropoid apes. She indorsed the supposi-
ton that man and woman both spranG
from monkeys, but woman sprang the
farther, she said. The woman's move
ment she defined as a movement toward
social utility.
at is this strong movement of the
women toward social service" she said,
''that is giving the strength to the woman
suffrage cause. The women are hopeful
because thay see that the ballot Is
powerful instrument toward helping along
necessary social and economic changes.
Senator Robinson made clear that
women want much more than the ballot,
and said that they would be unworthy
If contented with the ballot alone. The
women want full opportunity for social
service, she explained, and in order to
realize this opportunity they must sit In
equal numbers in the legislatures OF the
States, and in the national Congress.
when this point is reached" she said,
I'VE shall hear no more about the
woman's movement; it will have been
merged into the human movement.
IF women. whether as voters or legis-
Iators, could, indeed. reform human ma
ture in a moment" she continued. Il
should not be here talking to you. i
should be back in my little Denver home
starting a movement to disfranchise the
men, SO as to give the women of Colo
rado a fair chance at the great achieve
ment"
Work as a Senator.
The speaker told of her work as Sen
ator, the one subject, she said, upon
which she is the greatest living authority.
The State, she concluded, is now TAX
ing over the three Cs-children, cooking,
and the church. The government ar
ranges for the care of dependents, de-
fectives, and delinquents. And in all of
this class of work she said, women are
especially interested and especially fitted
TO help. Only by cooperation between
men and women, she said, can the prob
lens that weigh upon us at present be
successfully solved.
Jane Adams, of Hull House. Chicago,
stated that in moments of revolution the
women are called upon to bear the bur-
dens equally with men. Such a time of
revolution. she said. now has come in
this country, and the women are being
called upon to solve the problems of
this revolution involving the ordering of
things. Therefore, she said, the time
is propitious to ask for enfranchisement.
Plea for the Workers.
Mary Anderson, organizer for the Ma
tional Woman's Trade Union League,
spoke on 1.-The Woman Worker and the
Ballot" Margaret Hinchey, a New York
laundry worker. made a dramatic ap-
peal for the ballot, from the point Of
view of the New York working woman,
and Miss Rose Winslow rebuked the
charity that opened. homes for working
girls SO that Their employers might
reconcile it with their consciences to give
them lower wages, and supplied them with
gymnasIic exercises for their tired bodies
and papers on EIizabethan drama for
their tired minds instead of giving them
the power through the ballot, to strive
to make life more bearable.
Oficers of the national association
held a reception at the Bellevue Hotel
last night for the delegates and Wis
itors to the convention. Throughout
the evening the rooms of the hotel
were thronged by thousands of women.
The convention opens with an execu-
tive session of delegates at the new
Masonic Temple at 10 o'clock this
morning.