Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-08-20
THE DEMOCRACY OF EQUALITY
Women From All Walks Gather at
Newport to Plan Suffrage
Campaigns.

Newport, Il. I.-(Special.) Newport
has long been known as a center of
snobbery and %frivolity, especially
among its women and the few men
known to fame through their ability
as cotillion leaders or monkey own
ers. A new regime seems to have
been i%naugurated by the meeting at
Marble House, the beautiful palace Of
Mrs. Oliver II. p. Belmont, in honor
of her daughter, the Duches Of MARI
borough. Instead Of the gilded wives
Of plutocrats seeking to while away
boredom, those present at a meeting
held there on July 5 came from as
many walks Of life as they represent.
ed different parts of the country. The
speakers on the occasion were all we'll
known suffragists-Miss Rose Scheid-
erman, vice-president Women's Trade
Union league; Miss Mary N. Bartelme,
assistant Judge Chicago juvenile
court; Mrs. Maud Darlington Booth.
Volunteers of America; Miss Cath
crime d. Davis, commissioner Of cor.
rections, New York City; Mrs. Ella
Flagg Young, superintendent Of pub
lie schools, Chicago; Miss Julia c.
Lathrop, chief federal children's bu,
reau, Washington; Miss Florence Kel'
ley, secretary National Consumers
league; Mrs. Helen Ring Robinson,
Colorado state senator, and Miss Kate
NJ. Gordon, president Southern States
Woman Suffrage conference.
In opening the meeting Mrs. Bel.
mont eulogized her guests in an ad'
dress which not only paid high tribute
to them but shows what "woman's
work. has come to mean. She said,
in part:
1.-The women who have Travelled
from the four corners of the United
State have not gone to the front
to shoot to death their oppo'
nents. They have not created wars
between nations. They have moi
formed trusts to increase the diff
Guilty of maintaining existence. They
have not been summoned before in
vestigating committees at their coun
try's capital. They have not caused
bank failures through their genius fol
high finance. They have not beer
proclaimed the champion prize fight
ers Of the world. In none Of these en-
terprising fields have they sought OIL
won distinction.
But some of them have stimulated
into life a sense Of self-respect lyint
dormant In what the world chooses tt
call the fallen woman Some or then
have devoted many years Of service
to the little child laborers who ART
being done to death In the mills ant
factories and mines Of our country
Some OF them r subduing the evil
of the sweat shop system Of the citiei
and towns. Some Of them have don'
picket duty and gone on strike In be
half of the underpaid and overworket
women in industry. Some OF then
preside over juvenile courts and bent
their efforts toward retaining thu
hayward boy and girl. Some OF then
have raised funds and organized re
forms which have proved 80 great
public benefactor that they have beer
taken wei by the state, whose law
then declared that none but voters
could be members Of the governing
committees. Some Of them have gon'
into the highways and byways and be
hind prison doors in their efforts t.
give the outcast the chance OF begin
ming again.
Some Of them N leaders in thu
educational world. Some OF them oc
cupy seats of the mighty in legisla
tive halls, and are credited with pro
noting the best laws on the statute
books OF their commonwealth. Som
of them pursue the gentle art Of de
handing political rights on equa
terms with men, commonly known Al
Votes for Women
Therefore, in the conflict and strif'
and struggle of life they have enlisted
for the fight. In the worlds battle
field they stand firmly on the ftrinl
line, fearlessly graphing with exist
ing problems and deplorable condi
lions. And with answering loyalt!
to principle and sublimA devotion :