New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-26
Hundreds of Women At
tend Services in Statuary
Hall at the Capitol
PRESIDENTS AID
FOR CAUSE ASKED
Open Doors on Which We
Are Exhausting Lives.
Say Resolutions
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Hall, the former meeting place OF the
House Of Representatives in the Capt.
tol. 10 pay p final tribute 20 lncz NIL
holland Boissevain, the young leadlr
Who died in California last fall while
campaigning for Hughes. Inc service
were the first IN honor o. sun rags
which have been held in the Capitol.
Members of the Congressional Union,
in which Mrs. Boisseyain was leader
made up the ma ority of the sttsn9ants'
many of them coming from diNant
parts of the country, and such crowd
tried to ioin them that the police had
70 bar the entrances. The hall and its
galleries were packed before the pro-
gremme began.
Three wears before Mrs. Boisscvain
rode TO the Capitol steps on great
white horse. leader Of a suffrage parade.
TODAY in hcr name the womans cause
marched within the walls and the SUI
fraee colors draped the seats where 80
many statesmen had assembled.
The meeting passed resolutions ad-
dressed to President Wilson and 20
Congress protesting against the waste
of human life and effort occasloncd b.
denying women political equality.
president Wilson, chosen chief Of
this Republic. we ask that you open the
great doors before which our women
are exhausting their lives IN waiting
and appeal" the resolutions read. w III
you not be moved 20 act so that BY her
death Inez Mlholland Boissevain shall
have delivered her countrvwomen from
the sacrifice Of life?'
This feeling that the young leader
had not died in vain made the key
note of the whole meeting.
Hundreds Of women and young girls,
in robes Of purple and gold and white,
marched In the procession from the Of
fee building Of the House Of Repre-
sentatives to Statuary Hall. AZ their
head was borne the furnished and torn
banner that lnez Milhollsnd had carried
in 1910 when she marched up Fifth
avenue in New York at the head of the
first great suffrage parade Of the United
States. To-day u was borne b. Miss
Mary Morgan. OF Washington.
Greater love hath no man than this,
that he give up his life for his friends y
read another banner. carried by Miss
Burns. of New York. "Not for nothing
have the indomisahe heads Of the earth
been always ready to fall for liberty,
said a third.
The banner bearers we're followed By
a line of supplied boy choristers and
a hundred girls bearing flags.
Forward be our watchword." sang
the boys as the long procession passed
IN the approach to the Capitol and
through the throngs that had been
turned away from the hall. The boy
singers passed on to the nower-covered
dais where Mrs. Boissevsin's picture
rested, while the girls with their
standards were stationed about the
walls.
"Inez Milhollsnd died not only for the
women OF the nation. but for the
nation itself and for all women" be-
gan Miss Anne Martin, national chair
man of the Womsn's Party. who pre-
sided. At is altogether fitting that
this service in her m,mory should take
place in the hall Of the nations Capitol
sacred 10 the nations heroes. whore so
many Of Americas illustrious dead
have been commemorated.
"Heartened by her courage, we dedi-
cate ourselves anew TO winning liberty
for the women OF America"
Senator Sutherland, of Utah. made
a short address, in which he declared
that what Mrs Boissevain had been
and what she did would forever con-
stitute an inspiration 20 other women
to go on with the work which she had
laid down. "a work which will not close
till il ends in victory as wide as the
country she loved and as broad as the
faith she never allowed 10 falter."
As the "evangel of the woman
cause" and the beautiful. tall angel
Of their crusade" tribute was paid her
by Rowland b. Mahany, former mem
Der Of Congress from New York.
"She did not palter or falter in what
she believed" he said. "She struck for
the truth as she saw It. II it be asked
what, after all, she accomplished, this
is the answer: She made the whole
round world pause and look and listen
and applaud She fought that lsrger
measure Of freedom might come 10
vomsnkind."
The memorial address was made by
Miss Maud Younger. OF California, who
had worked with Mrs. Boissevain. She
told how Mrs. Boissevsin had struggle ed
on through the West, i'll. but unwillins
to give up her work.
AS lnez Mlhollsnd lived. loving lib
erty, fighting for liberty, so 1t was with
liberty on her lips that she fell said
.UlhS m III nc sue ~ a. NHf
symbol of the woman's cause, so ~
death she is the symbol Of its sscri-
flee the pouring out Of life and
strength that is the toll OF woman
prolonged struggle for freedom"
There were tears on many face as
Miss Younger finished. Love divine,
all love excelling." sang the Mendels-
sohn Quartet. Then Mrs. William
Kent. Of California. came forward 10
read the resolutions, which made a
significant part OF the service. The
frat was one OF thanks for her devO-
ton and unselAshness. Through II the
women vowed 4 renewed determination
10 finish the work she had begun.
The second resolution turned TO the
President Of this democracy with the
plea that he intercede TO stop such
waste Of human life and effort"
"For By her death there has Deen
made clear the constant, unnoticed
tragedy Of this prolonged effort for a
freedom that is acknowledged Just,
out still denied" the resolution de
elarcd. and added the plea that Presi-
dent Wilson might let the nation.
through her example, win yet anoihe.
victory for liberty throughout the
world"
Senator and Representative from
anti-sufrage states as well a. from the
suffrage ones helped pass the resolp-
tons.
Among others who helped pay irib
ute 10 Mrs. BoissevAin were Represent
alive Baker, Of California. who intro
dueed the Federal suffrage amend
ment: Senator Jones, OF Washington;
Mrs. Francis +. Warren. wife Of Sens-
tor Warren. OF Wyoming; Mrs. Will
IAN Kent. wife OF Representative Kent,
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