The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-09-09
SUFFRAG|STS GIVE
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America, in anything like the same
proportions that they exist now.
And as our life has unfoided and
accumulated as the contacts of II have
become hot, as the populations have
assembled in the cities and the cool
spaces of the country have been sup
plemented by the feverish urban
areas. the whole nature of our poll
tial questions has been altered. They
have ceased to be legal questions
They have more and more become
social questions. questions with re-
gard to the relations of human beings
TO one another. not their legal rela-
tons. but their moral and spiritual
relations to one another.
And this has been most character
istic to American life in the last few
decades, and as these questions have
assumed greater and greater promi-
hence, the movement which this asso-
citation represents has gathered cumu-
lative force. So that. If anybody asks
himself what does this gathering
force mean II he knows anything
about tGe history of the country, ne
knows that 1t means something that
has not only come to stay. but has
come with conquering power.
Visions of Duty
II get a little impatient sometimes
about the discussion of the channels
and methods by which It Is to pre-
vail. 1t Is going to prevail as that is
very superficial and ignorant view
of 1t which attributes 1t to mere social
unrest. 1t is rot merely because the
women are discontented 1t is because
the women have seen visions of duty
and that Is something which we not
only cannot resist. but If we be true
Americans we do not wish to resist |
SO that what we have to realize !
In dealing with forces Of this sort
is that we are dealing with the sub |
stance of life itself. have felt as
sat here tonight the wholesome con-
tagion of the occasion. Almost every |
other time that / ever visited Atlantic |
City 1 came to fight somebody. I |
hardly know how to conduct myself !
when I have not come to night against |
anybody, but with somebody, have |
come TO suggest among other things |
mat when the forces of nature are |
steadily working and the tide is ris- !
ing to meet the moon, you need not !
be afraid that 1t will not come to its |
aood. We feel the tide: we rejoice
in the strength of 1T and we shall not
quarrel IN the long run as TO the
method OF 1t. Because, when you are
gained bodies of opinion. you have
got to carry the organized body along. |
s. Moving Muses. Not individuals.
The whole art in practice of gov
eminent consists. not in moving in
dividuals. but in moving masses. II |
is all very well to run ahead and
beckon but after all. you have got
TO wait for the body to follow / have
not come to ask you to be patient
because you have been. but l have |
como to congratulate you that there |
was n force behind you that will be- |
yond any peradventure be triumphant
and for which you can afford little |
while to wait"
Mrs. Raymond Robins, of Chicago. !
opened the session with rousing
story of the injustice and hardship |
endured by workers In this season OF !
our peace and prosperity and received |
a splendid ovation.
After listening with marked inter-
est to Mrs. Robins. Miss Julia Lathrop. |
Of the Childrens' Bureau, and Mrs. |
owen Lovejoy. of the National Child |
Labor Committee President Wilson
arose and compllmenting the speak
ers began his address
Mrs. Raymond Robins offered this
morning resolution which proved To
be the sensation of the suffrage con-
ventton Mrs. Robins resolution pro-
posed that In the pending national
campaign we urge all suffragists to
support only those national candidates
who are in favor OF the Susan 3. An. |
thony amendment"
The resolution was voted down on |
the ground that It was departure
from the associations tradition of nom
ma ttSap