Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-07-18

o. present organization by attempting
to conduct campaigns, either national or
state.
1t will under no circumstances con-
tribute to the overhead or necessary
running expenses of the National or
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 report
ed the receipt and disbursement OF
about two and a half millions in the re-
cent presidential campaign and the
Democratic committee nearly two mil
| lions, it will be seen that the addition
of million dollars to the propaganda
of an active and growing movement is
not a vast sum. 1t is much larger than
any other bequest than has yet been re-
ceived by suffrage. If the money should
be used as substitute for money which
us now raised and expended through the
regular channels. the Leslie Request
would in no sense aid the cause. 1t
must be used to do things which the
present income of the allied suffrage as
sociations are unable to accomplish with
will therefore be excused from contribu-
lions on account of the establishment of
tbs Commission.
! Any contributions which it may make
to national or state campaigns will be
in the form of rewards for having raised
other stated sums for the same pur-
pose.
AS to what manner of woman Mrs.
Gait is-she is farmers daughter.
/ The farmers son is an American ira
dition. Mrs. Gait has shown that the
farmers daughter also can lay a COM
polling hand upon her day and genera
ton. Her father was Lucius Lane
farmer. who lived near Charles City,
Iowa She came from that section of
society which has furnished nine-tenths
of all it's real greatness to the human
race; plain people working for all they
have, but getting enough for their work
| to live in homely comfort 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 IA
district She was still in short dresses
with her hair in a braid down her back
There We're 80 pupils, some of them older
than herself, and every one of them called
her Carrie She saved her money and
at the age of 16 entered Iowa College at
/ Grinnel. When her school money was
gone she earned more as assistant libra
rian. Her four years college course cost
her father only 500
/ Graduated at %, Miss Lane was called
almost Immediately to fill an unexpected
vacancy in the High school of Mason City.
Iowa. Two years later she was appointed
school superintendent of the city It was
an important position for a person so
young and Of the sex which does not
commonly furnish city superintendent Of
schools. 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. a Mason City editor She helned
her husband run his newsna per for few
wears and then he died. Being Obliged to
support herself, Mrs. Gait secured a po-
sition as advertising solicitor It was
while she was enga ged in the duties re-
duired Of her that she realized the OBJ
stacles that unprotected women had to
encounter when thrown upon their own
resources. She turned to a comprehensive
study Of the position Of the woman of her
day. The result was that she soon allied
herself with the suffrage cause and be-
gan to serve II as state organizer for the
Iowa Suffrage Association. Shortly after
she became a seasoned suffrage worker
helping in camnaiens in Colorado. Idaho
South Dakota. Kansas. Iowa. California
New Hampshire. Montana and Michigan.
So great was the power Of her oratorv
and so high her executive ability that she
rose quickly in the suffrage ranks to i'm
nortant positions and succeeded Susan r.
Anthony in 1oon as president If the Ma
. tional American Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation. and IN 1902 founded the Tnterna-
tional Woman Suffrage Alliance Of which
she has heen the president continuously
and In which she has united the women
Of oe countries to work for suffrage In
connection with her work for this latter
society she has travelled around the WORK.
speaking to great gatherings Of people II
various countries.
Mrs Gait will speak At AUGUSTA. at the
mass meeting Iulv "a n correction with
the suffrage session Of JUL "a and .