The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-03-21

| ing, having learned much from their
military tactics.
Miss Ensle paid fine tribute to the
pioneers of the suffrage movement.
and spoke of the work the women ,
clubs have done, all over the country,
which has in a way. prepared the way
for the suffra gists.
She spoke of the work OF DR.. Anna
B. Shaw, at the head Of che National
Equal Suffrage Association, and of the
other leaders who have done such
splendid and such notable work
especially Jane Adams, whom all the
world reveres.
Miss Engle explained at some
length the purposes of the local or
ganization, pointing out that ten mem
bers only are necessary to affiliate with
the state organization, which in turn
Is affiliated with the National Asso-
citation. The membership dues are only
twenty live cents a year. part Of which
goes to the state association and part
to the national association. The local
dues are usually one dollar per year.
Through its state aff1liation, the To-
cal organization comes In touch with
the national, and Is represented in
the national organization, which in
turn is represented internationally.
Miss Engle pointed out that suffrage
is gaining throughout the United
States. and that if 1t is retarded. this
may possibly come through the
Southern states She impressed upon
her hearers the fact that what is need
ed now is not so much congressional
epresentaiion-this, she said, win
come later, but a campaign of educaI
ton. The spread of the propaganda of
the association. is one of the import
ant things that should be taken up
now, by women who are interested in
suffrage.
Miss Engie pointed to different
things which make it apparent that
suffrage is almost inevitable-a part Of
that evolution OF which every reform
movement Is a part. and urged the i'm
portance OF southern women doing
their share in educating not only
others, but themselves, in regard to the
movement.
Miss Engle said that the recent vote
on the amendment to the national con-
stitution. In nowise showed any defeat
for the suffr agists. While the vote
stood 80 to "A against the amendment
it must be remembered that many of
amendment, were in favor Of suffrage
as a state measure.
The meeting being of an informal
character. the speaker was interrupted
number of times with questions or
suggestions from those present
T The Vardaman amendment was dis
cussed, and the question raised as to
why the issue OF woman suffrage
should in any way have bearing on
the negro vote.
Miss Engle pointed out that there
are 100000 more women than there
are negroes-men, women and chill
dren-in the southern states Miss
Engle referred. as she has frequently
in her addresses in Pensacola to the
fact that tho liquor interests are solid
ly opposed to woman suffrage, and ex-
pressed it as her opinion that with
suffrage will come the settlement OF
this question.
The militant movement In England
was touched upon, and Miss Engle said,
in part.
There is one thing that cannot be
too strongly impressed, and that is the
fact that there is no militancy in
America. The American women will
not countenance such methods and do
not need hem. The American men are
unlike the E:glishmen in many ways,
but in this especially, that they are
and when they find that
the women want the vote. they are
going to give it to them. II will not
come at once. perhaps, but in the next
ten years 1t will, / believe. be national.
In England" said Miss Engle, ct be-
lieve they will have suffrage in less
than two years. The Englishmen can
not afford longer to refuse their wo-
men the ballot"
The article. with photographs, ap-
pearing il. the April number of the
Woman's Home Companion, showing
what the militant movement really is
in England, was remarked upon, and
Miss Engle said:
1.-THE conditions in England have
been greatly exaggerated by the news
papers, and, while the American wo-
men cannot sympathize with the mill
tant suffragette, when one has talked
to one, it Is more easily understood
how the condition in England has
come about"
Miss Enyle repeated part Of a con-
versation she had had with a militant
suffragette, whom she described as
fragile, feminine little woman, whom
no one would ever have taken to be a
leader in any militant movement. Miss
Engle said that this gentlewoman told
her that in England the women were
forced to have recourse to these meas
ures, because this was the only way
left open to them.
In England, as is well known women
play an impC rtant part in politics. The
fact was brought out. in the general
discussion of the question of militancy
in England, that for many years the
women have 2lectioneered for the men,
That even as far back as William
Blacks novels. reference is continually
made to women electioneering for their
husbands, ard that in more recent
novels, those by Mrs. Humphrey Ward.
for instance, women's influence in pol
itics in England is brought out very
strongly.
Miss Engle said that the explana-