New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-18
500 at Dedication of Room
as Memorial to Susan
B. Anthony
DIR. SHAW LAUDS
WOMEN OF WEST
End Battle by 1922, She
Urges at Exercises in
New Headquarters
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ence o. more than 500 admirers and
workers for the national suffrage
amendment 20 which Susan B. Anthony
gave her name the Anthony memorial
room In the new Washington suffrage
headquarters. 1926 Rhode Island Ave
rue. was dedicated to-day. DR.. Anna
Howard Shaw. honorary president OF
the National American Woman Suffrage
Association, who delivered the memo
rial address, urged her hearers to con-
centrate their efforts on bringing TO a
successful elimination the lifelong
dream Of Susan B. Anthony by the date
prophesied by Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait 1922.
at depends entirely on us whether
We Jog along for sixty more years or
whether we get the ballot for all the
women of the land by 1922" she de-
clared.
Mrs. Gait presided over the meeting
introducing Or. Shaw, Mrs. Ella Flaee
Young, until lately superintendent OF
schools in Chicago, and Representative
Dan r. Anthony. Of Kansas, only sur
viving nephew Of Susan b. Anthony.
Mrs. Young read the original "Dec-
larstion of Sentiments" modelled after
the Declaration of INDEPENDENCE, which
was drafted by a band Of devoted
women. including Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton and Mary Ann McClintock, at
Waterloo, y. Y, in 1s4S. The table on
which this declaration was drafted
served as the speakers table for to-
days meeting, and was placed after
the speaking in the Susan b. Anthony
memorial room.
Nephew of Pioneer Speaks
Regret that Miss Anthony did not
| live TO see the recent election in Kan
sas was expressed by Representative
Anthony. lie told of her patient de-
termination and her lack of bitterness
after defeats, and then said how pleased
she would have been 10 have walked
with him 10 the polling place last
month and seen the women election Of
icials supervising the casting of bal
lots by both men and women
DR.. Shaw pointed out that the opening
of the big house, now the Washington
headquarters of the national associa-
ton, was carrying out one of the things
which Miss Anthony had always wanted
ia Washington, and for that reason it
was particularly fitting that room
should be dedicated to her memory.
For the first time in history, Dr.
Shaw told her auditors, Congress and
the East appreciate that there is a
West. and that the people of twelve
states want the ballot granted TO women
in the remaining thirtv-six. The senti-
ment of the people OF the thirty-six
cannot be cscersained. she explained,
much TO the delight of the audience
since they permit only q portion of
their citizens 10 vote. Thus the demand
for the Federal amendment has at last
achieved position where il cannot be
ignored by Congress.
Both Battles Linked
Dr. Shaw laid special emphasis on
S,he coordination of the fight, on the
one hand. for suffrage in the several
states and, on the other. for the Fed
cral amendment. She declared that one
fight could not be made without aiding
the other, and pointed out that even
when Congress submits the amendment
10 the states 10 will be necessary 20
begin the fight state by state TO get the
amendment ratified.
"Our chief difficulty" Dr. Shaw de-
clared, "lies in the utter unconscious
ness Of the women of this country 10
their political degradation No other
nation in the history of the world has
ever placed its women on the same
plane of political subsection as has
this government OF ours. We are the
only body Of women under the sun who
are controlled by every kind and con-
dtion and race and color Of men that
the sun shines on.
"That il should continue in this
wear of our Lord 1916. after the strug-
cusable, for there is now no excuse
for people being ignorant OF these con-
ditlors To-day there can be no ex-
cuse except on the part of certain
groups OF women who are the result
o. enslaved mental development
Tribute TO Miss Anthony
1--WE are here to-day TO dedicate this
house 10 the service to which Miss
Anthony more than any other person
devoted herself. and seemingly alone.
Year after year Miss Anthony used
TO come down here and stay the whole
winter through, vghting a lonely and
vet magnificent fight.
IN carrying on her work we must
remember in the furthermore, per
haps. than we have been able TO re-
member IN the past-that each step
must be carefully considered Organ
ized brains are what We need to-day.
not organized emotions. Every act of
our organization must be planned with
a regard 10 the effect it will have upon
the movement itself.
This year we have been able to
bring such a pressure on Congress az
lever before. because Congress. like
he East was never aware OF the eX
stence of the West until this year. But
here is West, and in the West the
women are a mighty power; and the
one thing we women ought 20 be proud
o. is the independence Of the vote OF
the women Of the West.
Now that the political parties have
recognized that our cause is political
..use-it has always been one, but they
ever knew it beforehand now that
here are planks in every platform, and
every one of us has realized that we
sre AZ last in politics. we believe that
!, will not be long until we will be in
he Constitution OF the United States"
Mrs. Gait told OF her first campaign
With Susan B. Anthony, out in South
dakota. and Of the deep impression
do upon her by the fact that the
,roc,sn suffrage amendment was lost
.hoye through the vote Of immigrants,
- ~ whom were openly paid for
49, votes Had IL not been for them
80 tbeir being herded 20 the polls by
az lo,yaos she declared women