The Washington times., 1916-12-09
They Have .Bandage Parties In.
stead Of Stumplng for
Their Cause.
sUFFRAGIsTs ARE ACTIVE
Believe Woman's Humanitarian
Vote viii Be Needed
After the War.

Anti-suffrase spirit doesn't lift It's
voice In Canada.
It drinks tea In the psriors OF It's
(eminentiy respectabie) members.
II has bandage parties.
IL takes kettles OF porridEe TO the
poor, dear soldiers In the mobilisetion
camps.
enough of It to furnish any excite
ment.'
Meanwhile the suffragists are
wheediins and stumping their way to
victory by the simple meays OF con.
verting the party that happens 70 pc
in power and getting 4 bill introduced.
The rest 10 easy.
outlined By Miss Hughes.
That IL the Canadian Suffrage situa-
tion, az outlined by Miss Laura
Hughss, delegate TO the Womans
Peace party, and born brain.fightcr.
Miss Hughes 10 tall and slight. with
criukIy brown hair. warm brown EYES
and q jolly mouth that ,,,,rh a1,rfii wn sn
American person, esssu.s ,,o,Sss sss es,ns esms
from the United States.
When a friend of hers was telling
OF some OF the things she had oone,
IL appeared that her life haa pssn ssn
was the "oniy" Canadian to reach the
Woman's Conference at The Hague.
She was the First" Canadian sur
fragist.
WORK. In Gevernneat Plant
She has worked in q factory thar
fills government contracts to study
the conditions that were rumored. aud
10 organize the girls into unions Tor
their protection. she. has tried TO get
the government to take over tne
/ nickel mines and smelters OF ontsr,o
| believes that the vote of women 10
/ needed now a. never before.
"We OF Ontario always boasted that
we were ahead In everything, put We
have had 20 follow the lead OF o,her
| suffrsEe." she began, speaking easily.
| k.tehswan followed. We are hoping
| that . bill will be introduced In the
yn yanuspy. hnti'sufsrase opposltion' :
| No, indeed. We only know OF ons
small organization In Ontario, ana
that 10 In Toronto.
K.sinestiy Rsspeetsbie.
"The members meet TO have after
noon tea. They are women OF the
| older families. Indeed, some ono
asked q friend OF mine TO Join not
because they were working with any
| purpose, but because they were the
| sort Of people one wants to know.
They have held oAndsGe pafues,
everyone does-and carried kettles OF
porrldge out TO the soldiers In ths
| camps outside Toronto because they
/ believed the poor dears weren't being
fed enough. That is scarcely anti
"one poor little anti wrote to on,
Of the papers saying that this was z
time. above all others, for women q
stand together-and she doesn't obe,
her own advice.
Hope To Pass Bin Sees.
"In Canada, when we want . bill
passed we simply induce the side thai
10 In power TO Introduce II In parlia
ment, and the thing is safe. We hav'
great hopes OF getting our bill
through the parliament that convonei
IN January. IL NETS when u jolly wei
pieases, you know. The bill will b.
Introduced the latter part OF th'
I'VE women feel that this 10 IN,
time 20 get tho vote II II To- TO 3.
granted TO us. Mans vote 10 larger,
commercial. A woman's vote 10 hu
manItarisn. When our men com.
/
body OF inteiligentiy trained voter
who will be able to vote Humanitarian
legislation. II we get the vote now WI
viii have realized It's power by then.
Converted 20 Usisnisn-
81 heard that some OF the factorie
nllinE government contracts were ru'
under horrible conditions-the womel
! working, at times. from 7 In the morn
ing TO s at night In poorly ventilate'
shops. To find out II this were 30
'"I had not been Working at n. one {, Q
fore / realised something was wrons
The monotony OF one repeated m9uol
was unbearabie. II there had beel
twenty motions II might have been a
least endursbie. I came out OF IN
Ism. II the women can vote for then
selves they can vote away such coma
tions.
, America Rsfinss Ore.
"The Canadian nickel mines suppl
at least 80 per cent OF the worlds out
nut. The ore is smelted In Canad
, but shipped down to the United state
for refining. Canada could Ipracticall
: put an end to the war by holding u
this nickel supply, which 10 ,,,,,;Ss, = Nee,
/. refined, and the Ontario smeiteris
? themselves do not pay moro than
fraction OF the tax fixed by the so'
: ernment.
!. II have argued this out. with var
Y Gus authorities who are inclined
Y shift responsibility. II the nickel
!. shipped here, to be sent TO Europe o
;. leonyerted into munitions in the Unite
Q States, II can, In the end, turn againi
: duced. / believe that the women ca
Z realize the humanitarian side OF thi
y and vote to stop IL.
"The anti.suffragists think us vi
lpatriotic when we make statement
iike this, but they are 80 few this
d thev do not represent the spirit q
{ canada's women. They aren't eve
d putting up a good night. They jui
A drink tea"