The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-11
SUFFRAGE DEFEAT
CALLED ADISGRACE
Mrs. Gait Blames Small Minor
ity With Shaming America
Before thu World.
SEES REPRISALS IN 1920
Leaders in the Movement Say
100000 Women Now
Voting Will Get Even

"The United States has made a by
word Of democracy no far as the Sixty
nth Congress is concerned" Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, president OF tho National
Woman Suffrage Association. said yes
terday when news came that the Susan
p. Anthony amendment had gone down
to defeat in the Senate. Mrs. Gait. be-
ing III with influenza. was unable to go
TO Washington. She heard the news in
her home. West Eighty-s,xth street.
She took the blow standing" her friends
said-not literally, since she is in bed,
but with her spirit unbowed. and In
stantly began to make plans for the
campaign in the next Congress.
THE Sixty-sixth Congress will pass
the amendment" abe said. The OBJ
structionists OF the Sixty-nfth know that.
To secure a little delay these misrepre-
senatives are willing TO betray the
people. Too bad that small reaction
airy minority should be able to dishonor
a nation--for II isn't the women who
ara shamed: IL Ia the nation. The
whole country stands shamed before the
world, held back by little group OF
wilful men, from Americas rightful
place among the standard bearers OF
democracy.
Two More states in Line.
while the Senate is engaged in de-
feating the will of the people by failing
TO pass the suffrage amendment the
people themselves are emphasizing the
strength of that will. In the ten days
the Senate has had the measure re-
mol bod al oil fny tIs..-n tan
Indiana and Vermont. have given
women Presidential suffrage. adding an
other million women TO tho 1900 900
over voting age in States where the sex
will vote for the next President OF the
United States.
For months all over the country BY
individual petition and by resolutions Of
organizations evidence has piled up 10
show that farmers. teachers, political
parties. social and religious and civic
bodies, labor unions. business people,
housewives and mothers want this meas
IRE passed. Yet like King Canute Of old
tho Senate persists IN trying 10 push
back tho oncom!nE waves OF tire sea
Well, on the 100000 women OF the
country now entitled to vote for Presi-
dent this hasco is sure to act as a chal-
lense and q stimulus
Too Late for 1890 Vote.
The reason yesterdays defeat is such
n blow IL that no matter how the meas
ure may be rushed through both houses
OF the next Congrees--and the sufYrags st
ARE confident they have the necessary
votes in that Congress---it will be too
late to secure tho required ratinca tons
OF state Legislatures In tim. for the
women OF the country 10 cast their votes
In 1920. The women OF twenty-five States
will be unable to take what women deem
their right in helping to choose the next
President
The whole world is forging ahead Of
us Niss Roee Young, editor OF tine
WOn,dH Citizen, said. do those SEN
ators realize that women have fun SUI
frage in England. Scotland. Wales.
Sweden, Russia, Poland. Norway the
Isle OF Man. ireland. Iceland. Holland,
FINLAND. Denmark. tho Australian Fed
Grafton, Czecho- Slovakia. even Austria
and Germany? There are, approximately.
ono hundred million women voters in
the world to-day. And with the wome n
OF twenty-three States in this country
voting for President the politicians who
block the measure IN the Senate will
have short shr!ft think"