The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-04
women outline
SUFFRAGE fight
New York Meeting Opposes
the Shafroth-P almer
Amendment.
"ANTI-SOCLAL CONGRESS
Say 1t Failed to Pass Many Law.
People DesiredHWill Form State
Bodies for Measure.

feople DeSlred-Wlil rom State
; Bodies for Measure.
> Tho New York meeting Of the advisory
council Of the Congressional Union fol-
Woman Suffrage this week was q de-
Hghtful success. The attendance wa
large and the enthusiasm great The
concensus OF opinion was that the Susan
b. Anthony amendment should be press.
ed and that an organization Of the union
should be perfected In every State.
Miss Lucy Burns, vice chairman Of the
union says she was delighted with the
warm interest taken by New York sur
frasists in the success OF the Susan z.
Anthony amendment at Washington.
I Praises Interest Manifest.
when such determination to push
Federal woman suffrage is felt by New
York women, even IN the heat Of a
State campaign" Miss Burns said, 'it Is
a strong indication of the interest felt
throughout the country in national wom-
an suffrage"
Mrs. Marie Jenney Howe, one Of the
most prominent suffragists in New York
City. and the wife of Frederick c. Howe,
said at the luncheon which opened the
| conference, "the work for the national
suffrage amendment 10 the work of the
future. I am with the Conversational
union with all my heart because 1t Is
blazing the trail for tn suffrage move
ment in America"
"Au Radical work has the great adj
vantage of establishing q new middle
ground for people OF the conservative
type. who form at any time the great
bulk OF the population. Tho militant
movement in England. by its fighting
spirit, made belief in constitutional work
for woman suffrage highly respectable
middle ground, and thus brought forward
thousands of women who previously were
content to believe in education and
women's right to social and philanthropic
activity. In the same way, the Congress
sional Union, by demanding the right to
self-government instead Of pleading and
throughout the entire rank and file In
America"
can Anti-social CsBsress.''
Mrs. Marian Cothreu. vice president Of
the Woman Suffrage Party In Brooklyn,
said that the women in every State now
fully realized the necessity Of obtaining
Federal political power. The Sixty third
Congress- Mrs. Cothren said. was an
anti-social Congress. II was occupied
only with commercial problems and neg
lected altogether the human questions
WHICH "ere pTOuBnt DerOfe IL. II mao
failed to act on child labor, on the en-
franchisement of woman, on national
prohibition. and on the problem Of I'M
employment. = The only piece of social
legislation which it passed was the sea-
mems bill, and that in a manned and
mutilated fashion. The women of Now |
York will never be content with political |
power in New York State, but will not |
rest until the women Of tho United States |
frA~ So ,tt -. H.
lection OF the lives Of the American |
people.
Mrs. Helen Hoy Greeley, prominent
New York lawyer. said: I'VE have 1
reason to believe that New York Will |
win in 1915. but whether 1t wins or |
loses New York will throw its whole
strength after November. 1915. into
Federal suffrage work. II We win, the |
power gained in New York will |
We lose. We Will never again so i
through the laborious and wasteful
method Of winning the suffrage by an
amendment to tho State constitution"
Oppose Initiative Measure.
convention II went on record as being |
opposed to the Federal suffrage amend
ment introduced in the Sixty-third |
Congress by Senator Shafroth, Of Col
orado, and Mitchell Palmer. Of Penn
sylvania. This measure proposes an
to the United States Con-
establishing an initiative
and referendum on woman suffrage in
the several States.
the afternoon session on which
Amendment Shall We Support?" de-
clared that it was ridiculous to amend
the Constitution for the mere purpose
OF obtaining woman suffrage State by
State. when almost every State had
adequate machinery Of it's own for
that purpose, and that the Shafroth-
Palmer amendment was not only use
less. but absolutely harmful to suf-
frage work, because 1t would write
into the United States Constitution
the State-bystate method of winning
woman suffrage, and make 1t extreme
~ difficult to apply Immediately after
ward for direct Federal action en-
women.
To Organise Many Conventions. II
The convention was unanimously in
favor Of supporting the Federal
drafted by Susan b. An
thony. This amendment forbids the
of women because of
lex.
The convention" Miss Burns de-
clared, was OF very great practical
value. Plans were adopted holding q
In every State to organize a
branch OF the Congressional Union there
The work Of organizing conventions in
New York. Ohio. Maryland, Delaware,
md Pennsyivania was started. Mrs.
Florence Kelley, general secretary of
he National Consumer League. prom
sed to organize a convention Of the Con- l
yressional Union in New York. Mrs. AMI
lie Porritt, press chairman of the Con- :
,ecticut Woman Suffrage Association. IN
lertook the work Of organising the Con-
lecticut convention. Mrs. o. F. Dawson. '
PRESIDENT Of the board Of directors Of a
he Woman's Suffrage Association Of l.
Dayton and Montgomery counties. Ohio.
aid she would be responsible for the
ame work in Ohio. Mrs. Donald r. .
Hooker and Mrs. Edna 8. Latimer will
rganize a convention In Maryland. Miss
label Vernon and Miss Anna NcCue win =
10 the same work In Delaware. and Mrs. y
lawrence Lewis. member Of the board of .
he Equal Franchise Association. Of Phil
delphia, and member OF the executive D.
ommittee Of the Congressional Union.
rill organise q convention for the Con- !.