Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-09-08
Arkansas Suffrage Leader
Says Slogan Should Not
Mean Merely Defense.
FILIPINOS PLACED
ABOVE u. S. WOMEN
Mrs. r. I. Gotham of Little Rock Tells
National Convention of Suffragettes
TribeSmen Get Rights Withheld
from American Women.

Atlantic City, N. j., Sept. 7.-Aftel
a long debate, which started at the
afternoon session of the convention
and extended we'll into the evening
the National American Woman Suf-
frage association adopted a platform
outlining its campaign for securing
the submission of the federal suffrage
state legislation for ratification.
1t was decided that the next annual
convention, in 1917, be held in March,
or 'thereabout;" that a lobby be con-
tinued at Washington, and the asso-
citation conduct nationwide campaign
of education, agitation, organization
and publicity in support of the fed
eral amendment
| A million dollar campaign fund is
to be raised between October this year
and October 1917.
| 1t was further agreed that no state
association shall ask the legislature
of it's state for the submission of an
amendment or referendum to the peo-
ple until the national association Is
given opportunity to investigate and
give its consent. Any state organi-
zation which proceeds to such state
campaign without consent must be
prepared to finance and conduct it's
campaign without the help of the ma
tional body.
President Wilson, who will address
the delegates tomorrow night, Will
have guard of honor of yellow be-
ribbcned delegates, who will meet the
president at the door, and salute as he
passes between the two lines to be
formed of delegates from every state.
Atlantic City, N. j., Sept. 7.-"Amer
icanism," the slogan that is on every
ones lips today, should not be inter
preted merely as slogan of prepar
edness for defense, tut it should
stand "for the recognition of the
equality of men and women before the
law of man as they are equal before
the law of Cod" declared Mrs. T. =.
Gotham, vice president of the Arkan-
sas Woman Suffrage association, in
an address at the Dixie session of the
National American Woman Suffrage
association here tonight.
"The basic idea of Americanism is
freedom for the individual, and we
will never realize the hopes of the
founders of this republic until it is
put into practice" she said.
Fifteen years ago we acquired the
Philippine islands. They are, as
everyone knows, inhabited largely by a
barbaric people of low order OF civil
izatioa, with crude habits and print
tive ideas Of living. In some instances
by tribes whose prestige depends upon
the number of human scalps hanging
from their belts. Last winter a bill
was introduced into the United States
congress proposing to give these peo-
pie complete freedom within four
years, and to recognize them as capa-
BILE of governing themselves.
Nineteen years of American tute-
lage is all that is necessary to make
of savages a self-governing people.
and yet lao years has not been enough
to euuip the woman of America foY
the same thing.
political leaders say America Is
the waymark Of all people seeking
liberty and yet oae-half of the Amer
lean people have never known liberty.
They promise justice to the oppressed
of every land who are seeking refuge,
and practice injustice with one-half o.
those whose homes have always been
here.
$50 MANY inconsistencies are thrust
into our faces day by day that we
are forced to the conclusion that the
character of a political party is not
based on it's open declarations or out
spoken policies but upon certain men
! tai reservations, and no man or woman
can tell what they are.
aft is with amazement that we READ
the arraignment Of one party by the
other and note that in no instance
have they taken each other to TASK
for Injustice to American women
which violates the fundamental prlh-
ciple of Democracy, Equal rights 1or
ali. special privileges to none. For II
at times each party has in some meas
ure failed to stand for true american.
ism. the reason is that neltner Cal
successfully father an ideal wnlle uh-
true to the idea that gave 1t plrth.
Mrs Guilford Dudley, president ol
tho tennessee Equal Suffrage associa'
tion delivered an address on Inc
Southern Temperament as Related "
Woman Suffrage" S..uo,.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt' IN nea
address before the annual convention
here today pictured the sulIraG :
movement as having reached CRISIS
which means that "The Women's
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