The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-04
AMERICAN PROPOSAL is EQUAL SUFFRAGE
REJECTED BY CARRANZA ABLY EXPOUNDED
BY Miss Carrie Chapman Gait,
National President at
Great Meeting Here.
NOTABLE ADDRESS MADE
Distinguished Visitor is Given
a Most Cordial Reception
When Introduced.

Men and women crowded the
Masonic temple Thursday night to
/ surrocation TO hear Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait. Of New York, president Of
the National Woman's Suffrage Asso-
citation. More than l,500 persons
were in attendance. The meeting
was one of the most wonderful ever
held here. Enthusiasm reIgned SUI
prcme and the great gathering was
certainly all that the most ardent
advocates of the amendment giving
the vote to women could desire,
Mrs. John l.. Ruhl presided. She
first introduced Miss Katherine D.
Blake. a New York City educator.
who made a brief sea for woman suf-
traEe and better home conditions.
Miss Eudorn Ramsay made plea
for campaign funds and was well re-
wardcd.
When Mrs. Gait was introduced tho
great audience rose to its feet and
chccred again and again. Mrs. Gait
said:
My good friends, men and women
of West Virginia: There is no power
on earth that can prevent the coming
of woman suffrage. One might Just
as well put his little weak hand
against the the tide Of Niagara in
the hope that he might keep 1t back
as to try to stay the coming Of this
great cause of human liberty. 1t Is
as certain M the sun is sure to RISE
When the women of this state ask
the men to give the vote they are
not asking West Virginia 10 try a
new experiment. wish that every
man and woman of this state might
Join in the effort to further this
great movement Miss Blake has
told you of all the states in this
great West that have already granted
the vote. But there Is something
which Is far greater in its effect than
that We think of progress, when
we think of the great West having
indorsed this great cause and march
ing eastward because 1t is right and
lust and success. There Is u mean
ing In the color of this map which
wish that every man and woman In
this whole country could understand,
1t Is across our northern border.
There in the northern country the
women have more privileges than
we do on this side. My grandfathers
on both sides OF the family were In
the Revolution, E>order that there
might be established government
OF the people, in order that they
might make good their slogan that
Taxation without representation ts
tyranny" and 1t was George the
Third. remember against Whom they
reyolted because he denied them rep
resentatiOn, and you remember that
King George was worsted in that
fight; now there Is George the
Fifth ruling over the great empire
and across our northern border Is
one Of his great colonies, Except up
here in tho West where polar bears
lIve-where people live 1t is white In
the East and grey in the West where
women have all the rights to vote
vote except for members Of parlia-
ment, territory equal to all our
territory east OF the Mississippi
river. Now, isn't it curious that we
American women with the blood Of
the Revolutionists in our veins,
should be travelling over the country
today appealing to the men to give
us the vote when it might have been
granted by Great Britain?
Women Vote Elsewhere.
Ask yourselves what kind Of an
impression 1t is going to make. Are
they going to be as loyal, are they
going to feel that they have been
fairly treated by their land? There
is one great difference between these
two countries which accounts for
this delayed privilege. In the prov
ince they grant the vote by act Of par
lament. Parliament passed the law
and gave the vote to the women.
That lis the reason that we have been
so slow on this side, while we lift
our eyes north and see that our
continental sisters have out-won us
in this race. That is not all. 1t
was my privilege to travel in Britain,
and the women in South Africa,
which was founded 100 years after
this .one was founded, have all the
suffrage rights, not only under the
British; then Australia, which was
founded 100 years later, and is near
ly as large as the United States,