Bisbee daily review., 1917-01-19
DUTCH SUFFRACISTS
 VANISH FROM HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT THERE
Holland Sufragists Abandon Plan to Picket the Dutch Parliament Until the Vote Is Granted.

! THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Jan. IS. l-The suffragist picket, with its score of mOtto-bearing and yellow beribbon- ed women has vanished from the entrance to the Dutch Parliament For long weeks they had stuck to their posts, rain or shine. Holland is apt to be wet at all times; mostly so in the fall, but the women kept their vigil standing, drawn up ill line, on deal blanks land on the edge Of the arcaded sidewalk. They came from different parts of the country ro take their turn on sentry duty, sometimes travelling long distances for the pur- pose. The guard had become a fami- liar sight to the Hague public, and more particularly to ministers and | parliamentary deputies.
 Inside the building their president, ! Dr. Aletta Jacobs, accompanied by one of her followers, had kept faith ful watch occupying a box placed at her disposal by the chairman of the chamber himself. Each morning she drove up to the chamber in her auto ' the company of the saluting guard. One day she petitioned the astonished chairman of the chamber to be ap- pointed government commiSsary, charged to assist the prime minister in dealing with the suffrage article of ' the constitution during che delibera- 1 tons of the chamber.
 i When the suffragists withdrew, they | fired last shot at parliament in the shape of an address protesting, 'in the name of thousands and thousands in the country, against the fact that the popular chamber should have finally passed this portion of the revised con stitution without acknowledging wo- mems rights.
 We feel deeply indignant" de- clares the Woman Suffrage Associa- ton, that the interests of all women have been sacrificed to those Of a small percentage of men. The stream oi fine words in which the importance ! of women's suffrage from the State was demonstrated by the prime min ister and by many deputies, has turned out to be but empty sounds. It has been acknowledged that women's sui rage lies in the spirit of our times, that it must and will speedily come also in this country, and it is incom- prehensible that courage should have been lacking to grant the vote to wo- men in this constitution revision. This inconseQuence of the second chamber compels women to resume the struggle in the country, struggle which will be harded and bitterer than ever" | However, the women are not entire ly disappointed, for under the revised constitution just passed members of their sex will be eligible for parlia- ment, for the provincial councils and for the Council of States. Moreover, l the constitutional bolt has been re- | moved from the door that bars the way to actual women's suffrage: if the bills in question finally reach the Statute hood, women will be able to get the coveted vote by an ordinary legislative measure, that is, bare par liamentary majority, which was before 
 impossible.
 Opposition was offered by various members of the Right even to these concessions. Votes for women were objected to as in conflict with the call ing of women as wife and mother. by the orthodox. old-fashioned, conserva- tive Dutcsmen.
 The prime minister. Mir. Cort van der Linden, who is himself in favor of women's suffrage in principle, had the parliamentary wisdom to take what he could get and he refuset at present to embody votes for women in the con. stitution, on the ground that womens suffrage would have to be universal if placed there at all. so that all women, even those who did not desire it or were opposed thereto, would be called upon t0 go to the polling booth.