New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-24
Memorial by Suffragists
To Be Held To-day in
the Capitol
GOLD BANNER OF 1910
TO HEAD PROCESSION
Flowers to Fill Statuary
Hall as a Tribute to the
Dead Leader

When Incz MHholland led the first
suffrage parade in New York, in 1910
she carried a great golden banner and
she walked with a triumphant. easy
stride. which made people think Of the
winged victory.
That banner will lead another process
sion to-morrow-the procession Of SUI
fragists marching 10 mourn the pass
inr Of that leader. Faded and tar
nished now, 1t will have the position
Of honor among the bright new ban
ners of to-day and will stand beside
the platform when the women finally
gather in Statusry Hell, under the
dome of the Capitol at Washington.
This il the first time that a service
Of this sort has ever been held IN the
Capitol for one who was not member
Of the United States government. Ne
mortal services for Lincoln were held
there, and for Garfield, and around the
hall stand the statues OF other great
men.
the state where she died, will pay the
tribute Of tho government 70 one Of
It's most earnest citizens, and Miss
Maud Younger, who worked with Mrs
Boisseyain in her Last campaign, VIII
make the address for the sutfrsgists.
A boys choir end the suffrage chorus
Of one hundred will sing the musical
service.
Banner 70 Head Procession
The bare white statuary Hall will be
transformed into a background for a
sinCularly beautiful picture. Led b.
Miss Alice Paul and Miss Lucy Burns,
carrying the lnez Milholland banner,
the procession will move, great
thread Of purple AMI gold, across the
Plaza from the Congressional Library.
Behind the banner wi1 march the color
bearers Of tho Congressional Union,
carrying their standards Of purple. gold
and white. In Statuary Hall these will
stand in a great circle against the
walls. At one end a purple curtain
has been hung, and before IT plat
form Of stands covered with flowers,
the tribute from women all over the
country Who loved Mrs. Boisseyain.
A resolution voicing the sorrow and
the devotion Of the Union, will be read,
as follows.
I'VE, members Of the Congressional
Union for Woman Suffrage, wish 70
express our sorrow for the loss Of
Inez Milholland Bossevain, a beloved
and honored comrade.
This loss is measureless. Her
place cannot be filled. 1t is not only
that lnez Milholland had prophetic
un lerstanding of women; she had
courage and vision and laughter. She
was brave and blithe beyond most
leaders-bithe and valiant and un-
afraid 70 be herself even though she
knew that self, marching in advance.
with eyes on tomorrow, would not be
understood by the many with eyes on
to-day.
"She lived in what women will be.
in what human beings will be. but she
realized that this day is without its
dawn until women are free.
To Keep Her Memory Green
at is imperative that women under
stand her. II is not TO be borne that
she should pass. and that those for
whom she worked should miss the
luminous spectacle Of her as she
worked for fuller freedom. Tomorrow
must not remember her better than
to-day loves her.
"She splenddly believed in women;
she increasingly asked that they enter
into their kingdom. She met her death
preaching the solidarity of women.
She gave herself to many causes, but
she put no cause before the cause OF
women.
"Inez Milhollend stood for women.
She lived for women. She died for
women. She is in the heart of every
woman whose heart beats for to-mor-
row. That tomorrow is clearer and
nearer because lnez Milholland lived.
We, her comrades and friends, acknowl-
edge the great debt we owe her. In
the name of all women, we accept her
gilt and proudly honor her triumphant
death. May We have the courage and
the devotion TO follow where she has