The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-16

cur constitutional amendment giving
suffrage to women. The first of the dem
monstrations agreed upon will be held
in Washington the last day of this month
when 100 working women from various
states will wait upon President Wilson
and urge him to support the suffra ge
amendment. Following this there will be
a national mass meeting and parade in
Washington May and meetings held si-
mGltaneously through the country May ?.
The votes of the women of the west, in
those states where suffrage for women is
now an actual fact, is to be held as
cudeel over the heads Of politicians and
members of Congress il the National
Womans Suffrage association has its
way. They admit, however, that since
obtaining the vote, the women of the
west are showing an Indifference to the
fate of their eastern sisters that makes
tins threat slightly less dreadful than
otherwise it might be.
The SOUTH where the movement for
woman suffrage seems to have been slow
in taking root is coming to the front
re- pidly. At least this is the claim of the
ne etional association officers. Georgia and
Alabama particularly, they declare, are
awakening to the call, and the assertion
IL now made that a great majority of the
women of both these states are in favor
of suffrage, and are displaying unusual
enthusiasm in aiding the cause
Will Force the Question
1t is doubtful whether much headway is
made with the present administration by
the national organization for woman sur
frage, but it is quite evident that the or
ganfzati tion is going TO force the question,
and If possible make it a national issue
between the great political parties and in
1eet 1t vigorously into the campaign of
l9so. For the purposes of prosecuting their
efforts during the past two or three weeks
III the District of Columbia alone the
women have raised nearly $4,000. They
propose to raise in the district this year
100000. If they raise money all over the
country in proportion they will have a
campaign fund that will excite the envy
ard admiration of both the old parties.
The women of the United States-de-
clare the leaders of the national organ
ization-will never adopt the methods of
their English sisters, but they will en-
ploy the more effective means used so
successfully in California and in other
states which have granted the suffrage
to women. They are playing the political
game, and in some instances playing it
will rare judgment One thing is sure
lneN Know now TO raise money, and they
realize its value, and the value of adver-
tisiDg, and they are getting their full
share of both.
1t is proposed to push matters in the
south. Special committees have been
named for each state TO see that as much
publicity is obtained in that state as pos
s,hle. The chairman of the Alabama press
committee is Mrs. Russell M. MacClennan,
the wife of a newspaper correspondent in
Washington, and she is now making
study of the programme she will adopt to
get before the people of Alabama all
about the fight now oeing made for SUI
fri.ge.
It is an issue In American politics. and
there seems to be no way to avoid it, and
these determined women have made up
their minds that the politicians must face
il, and make their decision one way or
the other.