Daily Kennebec journal., 1917-07-13

running expenses OF the NatloHai OF
State Associations. The National As
ISOLATION and its auxiliaries now raise
and expend about a million dollars per
year. When it Is remembered that the
National Republican Committee re-
ported the receipt and disbursement OF
about two and half millions in the
recent presidential campaign and the
Democratic Committee nearly two MIL
lions, 1t will be seen that the addition
of a million dollars to the propaganda
Of an active and growing movement is
not q vast sum. 1t is much larger
than any other beQuest than has yet
been received by suffrage. If the
money should be used as a substitute
for money which is now raised and ex-
pended through the regular channels,
the Leslie bequest would in no sense
aid the cause. It must be used to do
things which the present income of
the allied suffrage associations are un-
able to accomplish with their present
revenues. No suffragist will therefore
be excused from contributions on ac-
count of the establishment of this COM
mission.
Any contributions which it may
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will be in the form of rewards for hav-.
ing raised other stated sums for the
same purpose.
AS to what manner of woman Mrs.
Gait is she is farmers daughter.
The farmers son is an American
tradition. Mrs. Gait has shown that
the farmers daughter also can lay a
compelling hand upon her day and
generation. Her father was Lucius
Lane. farmer. who lived near Charles
City, Iowa. She came from that sec
ton of society which has furnished
nine-tenths of all it's real greatness to
the hAnan race; plain people, working
for all they have, but getting enough
for their work to live in homely com
fort and plenty, a typical family of the
old American stock
Little Miss Lane helped her mother
like any other, little country girl;
washed dishes, and fed chickens and
darned stockings. But by the time she
was ii she was teaching school. in her
own home district. She was still in
short dresses, with her hair in a braid
down her back. There were thirty
pupils, some of them older than her
self. and every one of them called her
Carrie" She saved her money, and
at the age of 16 entered Iowa College
at Grinnell. When her school money
was gone she earned more as assistant
librarian. Her four years college
course cost her father only s100.
Graduated at twenty. Miss Lane was
called almost Immediately to fill an un-
expected vacancy in the High school of
Mason City. Iowa. Two years later
she was appointed school superinten-
dent of the city. 1t was an important
position for a person so young. and of
the sex that does not commonly furn-
ish city superintendent of schools. A
successful educational career seemed
opening before her when, like many
another woman she threw it all up to
marry. Her husband was Leo Chap
man. Mason City editor. She helped
her husband run his newspaper for a
few years and then he died. Being
obliged to support herself, Mrs. Gait
secured a position as advertising
solicitor. 1t was while she was en-
gagged in the duties required of her that
she realized the obstacles that unpro-
tected women had to encounter when
thrown on their own resources. She
turned to comprehensive study of the
position of the women of her DAY. The
result was that she soon allied herself
with the suffrage cause and began to
serve it as state organizer for the Iowa
Suffrage Association. Shortly after
she became seasoned suffrage worker
helping in campaigns in Colorado,
Idaho, South Dakota, Kansas, Iowa.
/ California. New Hampshire, Montana
and Michigan. So great was the
power of her oratory and so high her
executive ability that she rose quickly
in the suffrage ranks to important
positions and succeeded Susan 3. An
thony in 1900 as president of the Ma
tional American Woman Suffrage AS
| sociation, and in 1902 founded the In
ternational Woman Suffrage Alliance
of which she has been the president
continuously and in which she has
united the women Of twenty-six coun-
tries to work for suffrage. In connec-
tion with her work for this latter So
ciety, she has Travelled round the world
speaking to great GATHERINGS of neonle