Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-05-10

| by leading men and women of those
| countries that after the war women
would be enfranchised She asserted
that Sweden, a country on the brink
of the European conflict, had last year
enfranchised It's women and that three
| provinces in Canada had taken similar
action since the war opened These IL
Illustrations were given to prove the
argument of the members of congress
was groundless that the federal amend
| ment had to be shelved while the ma
ton dealt with more important ques-
| tons
Mrs. Blatch Is an entertaining speak
! err, and held the attention of her audi
| ence, as she made a plea, first to the
Republican men, second to the Re-
publican women, and third to the Dem
ocratic men and women present for
support from Idaho for the constitu-
tional amendment.
| However much state in itself may
do, it is part of the whole nation and,
| therefore, while Idaho men, being pro
| tected under the federal constitution,
are enfranchised citizens in whatever
state they settle, Idaho women, since
| their sex is not protected under the ma
| tional constitution, are political pariahs
If they go to Nebraska, Massachusetts
or New York to live"
5orah Criticism Cody Received.
Mrs. Blatch then paid her respects to
| Senator Borah, declaring his attitude
was inconsistent. 1t was very appar-
/ emit when she turned her attention to
| Idaho's senior senator that her audi
ence was not at all in sympathy with
her argument. Similar persistent at
lacks on the part of eastern suf-
fragettes on Idaho's leading stateman
have met with the same frigid re-
| ception. She said Senator Borah ar
| gued that because the 18th amendment
had not been enforced for colored men,
a federal amendment for woman suf-
| frage would be but fraud upon the
negro women. She claimed that it was
| the duty of the senior senator of Idaho,
If he was of the opinion the 18TH
| amendment was not being enforced, to
see that it was. Sh said Senator
Borah's party put male" in the ma
| tional constitution and that as a be-
lever in woman suffrage, he ought to
work to get male" out Of the consti-
tuition. She appealed to Idaho women
to assist in the passage of the amend
ment. 1t was her claim that under the
present federal constitution an Amer
lean woman who marries foreigner
becomes an alien, loses her citizenship,
even though prior to her marriage she
may have been a voter, and cannot take
advantage of the provisions of women's
pension laws or other rights she had
prior to her marriage.
Resolutions Adopted.
The meeting closed with an address
by Miss Lucy Burns, who briefly cx-
planned the object of the Congressional
Union in sending its representatives
to the western suffrage states was to
get, first, their united support behind
the federal amendment, and to so or
ganize these states that this would be
accomplished. She said the suffrage
amendment had been definitely post
poned with Is other amendments by
the report of the judiciary committee
of the house. and all the union asked
was that the amendment be placed
squarely before congress for a record
vote; that it be passed and that 1t be
submitted to the states for ratification,
SO of them being required to ratify il
and incorporate it into the constitu7
ton.
Mrs. Jennie D. Nichols read a resolu-
ton petttioning congress to pass the
suffrage amendment and instructing
that copies of the resolution be read
in the senate by Senator Borah and in
the house by Congressman McGracken,
and that it be incorporated in the con-
gressional record. An informal recep-
ton was held after the meeting on the
stage floor.
The special left at noon today for
Pocatello, where toniEht a mass meet
ing will be held 1t then goes on to salt
Lake, where a convention of represent
atives of the western suffrage states
will be held and Il representative from
each state will accompany the special
to Washington to petition congress to
act on the suffrage amendment. In
June representatives from all states
will meet in Chicago and organize the
Womeh's party to fight for the amend
ment.