Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-16
WOMAN'S LIBERTY
BELL ON TOUR SOON
VIII Start From Sayre, Bradford
County, and Will Zig-zag
Across the State
BUT IT WILL GIVE NO SOUND
Bronze Chains Bind Clapper Until
Women Get Vote; Nearly Like
Nations Relic

The Woman's Liberty Bell, which
Will proclaim the acknowledgements OF
the women of Pennsylvania when the
vote on the suffrage amendment has
been counted on November 2, will
start on a tour of the state, mounted
upon a motor truck, on "Wednesday,
June %. 1t will start from Sayre'
Bradford county. after appropriate
ceremonies and will zig-Zag back and
forth across the state, passing through
every county and visiting ,practicaily
every town before 1t finally arrives
in Independence Square, Philadelphia
on election night.
1t has been planned to start the
bell on It's tour about May D but IL
was found that a special truck had to
be ordered for it and this delayed
matters.
From Sayre the route will be west
through all the Northern counties,
Bradford, Tioga, Potter, Mexican and
Warren, then down through the West
ern tier, Crawford, Mercer, Law
renee, Beaver and Allegheny, spend
ing a day in each and resting on sun
days, so that the bell will be in Pitts
burgh for the great Fourth OF july
suffrage demonstration.
Greeting the Bell.
The route will be from county seat
to county seat, taking in as many or
the smaller towns as possible. The To-
cal suffrage organizations all alons
the line will welcome the bell with
mass meetings and demonstrations. 1t
will be met at each county line by an
escort of automobilists. They Will
form a guard of honor for the bell
while 1t is in their county ana VIII
then turn it over to suffragists from
the next county at the county line.
The schedule up to the Fourth or
July is as follows: June 2S' Sayre TO
oF,tn
boro; June 20, Welllsboro to Couders-
port; June 26, Coudersport to Brad
ford; June 81, Sunday, rest in Brad
ford; June 28, Bradford to Warren;
June 20, Warren to Union City; June
80, Union City to Meadville; July l.,
Meadville to Sharon; July 2, Sharon to
Newcastle; July 8, Newcastle to Pitts
burg; July 4, Sunday, rest; July .,
Fourth of July demonstration at
Every citizen of Pennsylvania will
have a chance to see the bell on its
tour but 1t will not be heard until the
ballot has been granted to the wo-
men of the state. Massive bronze
chains will bind it's clapper so that 1T
cannot sound single stroke until the
women are freed. The mute appeal
of the chained and silent bell will be
supplemented at every stop on the
tour by the speeches of the able corps
of suffragists who will accompany 1t.
Their theme will be the motto on the
bell, Establish Justice" Their mis-
sion will be to make the voters of
PENNSYLVANIA realize that to establish
justice for their women they must en-
franchise them and permit them to
proclaim with their bell in 1915 the
message which the original liberty bell
proclaimed for men in 1776.
Because the message is the same,
the women had their bell made as an
exact duplicate of the original bell.
It is made of 1000 pounds of the finest
bronze and is exactly the same size
and shape as the old bell. 1t bears
the same inscription, proclaim Lib
erty Throughout the Land to All the
Inhabitants Thereof. The absence OF
the crack and the addition of its own
motto Establish Justice" are the
only two things by which it can be
distinguished from the national relic.