Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-05-08

1t was in this year that Miss Alice PAU ana
Miss Lucy Burns identified themselves with the
national association Miss Paul was made chalr-
man of the congressional committee ana MISS
Burns her chief assistant. The former young
pale faced girl. third woman suffrage fighter
of American Quaker stock, had served a term
In Holloway Jail for her militant activities under
the guidance of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, then
the head of the Womens Social and Political
union of Great Britain.
Miss Paul and Miss Burns did not long re-
main with the national association. They organ
lied the Congressional union lines similar to
those on which the Pankhurst organization was
formed In 1916 this became known as the Ma
tonal Woman's party.
The Womans party leaders, the "picketing suf-
fragists' as they were often called, began to
work for the passage of the eighteenth amend
ment but they followed entirely different
course They adopted militant tactics, they staged
the spectacular. Their success lay in psyche
logical analysis of mems character hitherto not
considered in the suffrage campaign. They UNI
derstood the dislike almost fear that men have
of being rdicued. And the Woman's party lead
ers played that fear They caused senator's
and representatives to be laughed at and ridi-
culed whenever they could, and they did not
draw the line at the president.
The Womans party organizers went to prison.
and Miss Paul was forcibly fed Her followers
were ready and willing to submit to the same
where they treated like ordinary prisoners.
They told Of their treatment in detail after they
were released, and later they organized the "Prs-
on Special train which toured the country
and carried most of the women who had been inn
prisoned for having picketed the White House.
Both organizations have had representatives
in each Of the states where the eighteenth amend
melt was to come before the state legislature,
whether In regular or special session.
The League OF Women Voters has been criti-
cized as tending to keep women out of the par
ties. AT the Chicago convention Mrs. Gait said
in reply:
"For go years have been appealing to the
parties for the vote. Is it possible for us now to
remain outside of those parties and obtain the
things we wish without petitioning them?
IF we are still to be petitioners what the
idea of getting the vote?
more and more the parties are becoming the
powers in this country, Instead of appealing to
them, it is better to get the inside and get the
things you desire
You'll discover that your Illusions will be
shattered and, If you are not careful, you'll be
lulled into the satisfaction of having reached the
political penumbra' where most of the men are
But If you keep going you'll find little denser
thing farther on. That is the 'numbra. In that
you'll find the men who doing things form
ing the platform, directing the policies. You will
not be so welcome there, but that is the place 70
GO You'll find the real thing in the center with
the door locked tight. You will have to open it."
OF the long. hard struggle for woman suffrage
Mrs. Gait said in part
I'VE should be glad and grateful today but
more we should be proud-proud that the years
of organized endeavor have been clean construc-
tive, conscientious.
I'm every corner it sowed the seeds of Justice
and trusted to time to bring the harvest II has
aided boys in high schools with their ESSAYS in
debates and later heard their confident votes of
yes in legislatures. Reporters assigned TO our
washington conventions went the first day
with contempt and ridicule in their hearts but
went out the last day to our cause and later
became editors of newspapers and spoke TO thon
sands in our behalf through influential editorial
columns Little girls came to our meetings lis
tened and accepted and later as mature women
became intrepid leaders
During these years 1t has rarely had n sal,
AIRED officer and even then she has been paid less
than her earning capacity elsewhere IT has
been an army of volunteers who have estimated
no sacrifice too great no service too difficult
ut has had great peerless women in its ron,,s
all down the decades. Brave Abigail Adams with
her gentle threats of rebellion Ernestine posa
striving for property rights for women Abbv
Kelly fighting for free speech against moh
armed with rotten eggs. The Grlmke sisters nro
testing against taxation without representation
Silver-voiced Lucy Stone lacking Nm ber o,n
handouts for meetings of her own arrangement
DIR. Elizabeth Blackwell pretending not to ,are
although the women of Geneva scorned hor a.
first woman medical student
very gentle and winsome AntoInete Brown
standing unmoved before the convention of o,a
gymen transformed into disorderly mol bo.,nso
woman had been duly elected a delegate 4,
their temperance convention :"
"Elizabeth Cady Stanton, with her motch,ess
state papers Glorious Susan B. ANTHONY whose
indom'table VIII Kept things stirring for 10 wears
and more. And greatest Of them aII win no.
transcendent gifts Anna Inward ch.,. - oA