Newark post., 1920-11-24
w O NJ A MS
THANKSGIVING
PROCLAMATION
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The Delaware League of Women Voters is in
receipt of the following proclamation issued by the
National Woman Suffrage Associations
Three hundred years ago in November 1870, the
Pilgrim Fathers founded what they called free
nation. The following year they proclaimed day of
Thanksgiving because their plans had come safe to
port after many storms.
The political freedom the Pilgrims sought did not
come to until 800 years later. Now the women
of America have after long voyage and many
storms, arrived at their port of freedom.
Their Day of Thanksgiving is therefore due.
For this reason the National American Woman
Suffrage Association the direct heir of the long line
of brave women, who, in the persons OF Abigail
Adams Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony Lucy Stone,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anna Howard Shaw and
thousands more paused in their work for
liberty, urges that the women of the United
States Thanksgi giving Day day for the especial
expression of their gratitude for the blessings OF
political emancipation.
We, the members of the Executive Board of the
National American Woman Suffrage Association offer
our own thanks first to Almighty God who has led
the unfaltering efforts of three generations to this
hour; second, to the noble company of men in the
fifteen full suffrage states, who have in the last fifty
years braved opposition at the polls in order to en-
franchise the women of their several states
We thank again the 65th and 66th Congresses of
the United States which stood saunch against fierce
opposition and finally brought the barque of liberty
to port We thank the President of the United States
for his unprecedented act in personally bringing the
Amendment before Congress. We thank those states
which cleared the way for the amendment by prompt
ratification. We thank the Governors who called
special sessions, the hundreds of legislators who re-
sponded tothese calls, who endured journeys resisted
opposition repudiated bribery, defeated corruption
for the sake of justice to the of the country
We thank all the political parties for their final
acceptance of the principle that just government rests
upon the consent of the governed. We thank the
minor parties for their adoption of this principle be-
fore the major parties had awakened to it's appca
tion. But also thank the two major parties which
have since 1915 increasingly accepted woman suffrage
as a political issue to be maintained, and who
furthered the of ratification in spite of re-
dictionary elements in their midst
Finally we give thanks that in spite of all
obsacles the of the United States November
End were invested with full political liberty. With
new sefrespect and new hope for the future millions
of them went to the polls and participated in the
great presidential election. Reverently they dedicate
themselves to the service of their country that gov
ernment of the people, by the people and for the
people shall not perish from the earth"
NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE
ASSOCIATION
Carrie Chapman Gait, President
Mary Garret Hay, Second Vice-President,
Gertrude Foster Brown, Fourth Vice-President
Emma Winner Rogers, Treasurer,
Nettie Rogers Shuler, Corresponding Secy,
Justna Leavitt Wilson, Recording Secy,
Jane M. Brooks, Director,
Esther G.. Ogden Director,
Florence L. Perso, Director,
Rose Young, Press Director.
In response to this message the women of Della
ware will include in their Thanksgiving of 1920 an
expression of gratitude to Almighty God for the gift
of citizenship and prayer for His goodness in the
exercise of the suffrage.