The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-03-24
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WOMAN SUFFRAGE
American Delegates VIII
Start for Switzerland
MAJ 19.

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same Party with the delegates from
the United States should wire ,mme.
dtateiy 70 Miss Clara Hyde, III Madl.
son avenue, New York. The delegates
18Th. W "ip
Switzerland will give a cordial vel.
come to the Conference OF tho Inter.
national Woman Suffrage Alliance on
June o. "Enchantee vous reccvoir
Geneye,' is the cabled reply from
Nile. Emile Gourd, president Of the
Swiss Association for Women's
Rights. Miss Chrystal Macmillan, re-
eordtng secretary of the Alliance, who
mas Just gone to Geneva to make ar
ranEements for the worldwide confer.
eLtae, has sent word 10 Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, president OF the In.
tcrnauonal, that Geneva is an ideal 10.
cation for the conference, as they are
acustomed to world conferences there
and have plenty of hotel accommoda.
lion.
Tho last country whose women have
asked for representation in tho Al.
lance is Greece. The Greek WCmen's
society has applied for utilization with
no cordial support of NJ. Venlzclos
Other new groups who expect to
send delegations to. the Wonen's Con.
gress are the women of the Ukraine,
where q womenNs society mas just Leen
.ormed Ukrainean women arc so pro.
eteasiye that they are trying to set
representatives from other states on
the border of Russia. "a
Delegations from Rumanla and ITru.
quay also represent newcomers into
iseedor. Sweden, France, Holland
iS.'fNsa5. Denmark are taken for grant.
cd. Some side-light is thrown on the
economic situation OF middle Europe
by the fact that Hungarian women are
afraid the expense will make !. impos.
side for them to GOMEZ
On the European committee for ar.
rongements in advance OF the confer.
ence are Mrs. Pethick Lawrence and
Mrs. Philip Snowden, of England, with
several representatives of the Won.
ems Freedom League and the Catho.
lie Woman Suffrage society, both Of
England, which have recently toned
The Alliance.
The last Conference OF the Interna.
fional Woman Suffrage Association
was held in 'Buda Pesth in June, 1913.
This was the seventh international
conference, the first having been hold
In Washington, D. c. In 1902. in con-
junction with the thirty.foprth annual!
convention OF the National American
Woman Suffrage Association white
SUSAN 3. Anthony was still living. Its
aeclaration OF principles was signed
Ry women of Australia, Chile, Great
Britain, Germany Norway, Sweden
and the United States.
The idea of an international nsso.
ctatton of women suffragists did not.
however, begin In tho twentieth con.
ttrN u began in the nineteenth in
1853, at the very first convention of
the National American Woman Suf-
frage ociation, and the resolution
proposing 1t was offered by French
woman, Madame Jeanne, d'Hericourt,
as follows: THAT we form a League
OF all women claiming their righte,
both In America and Europe" 1.-THE
aim of this League is to extinguish
prejudice between nations, TO create
q common interest through the influ.
ence OF woman in order to substitute
the reign of humanity for tho divI.
sions and hatred and causes of war.
and 10 give aid to the women OF all ia.
lions in securing their rights.
Every year General Assembly Of
delegates from every country shall
meet in one of the capitals by turn"
In this brief form was set forth in
1863 the gist of what the Peace Con.
ference is now trying to get.
], An executive committee of the In
ernational Woman Suffrage Alliance
met In London in July, 1914, to plan
for Its future work. The details If
this conference have only just reached
America as war broke out while the
members werc on their homeward wav
and the minutes were laid aside dur.
ing the war. Among the countries rep.
resented at that time were Austria,
Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France,
Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Hun.
gary, South Africa, Sweden and Swift.
Zerland. In, the executive sessions
notes OF this conference arc matters
Of extraordinary interest.
Six years ago this international ex.
ecutiYe committee was planning what
women should do after enfranchise.
ment, and for an, eighth conference to
be held in Berlin in juno, 1918. AL.
though Australia, New Zealand. Fin.
land and Norway were the only coun.
tries, outside of the nine full suffrage
states of the United States, where
women had full suffrage, these won.
en- were building for world wide. free.
dom.
On motion of Mrs. Fawcett 1t was
then agreed that the question of wheth.
er women after their enfranchisement
should form women's party or work
IN the other parties, be referred to the
Enfranchised Women's committee for
consideration. Since then the suffra.
gists OF Great Britain Shave resolved
themselves into the National Union OF
Societies for Equal Citizenship and
the women OF the United States into
the League Of Women Voters-neither
one separate womans party, but
both working for good, citizenship in
the existing parties.
A subject OF paramount interest dis.
cussed as long ago as 1914 was the
education OF women in citizenship.
The plan of procedure drawn up for
the Perlin Congress- which never came
on win now be greatly amplified, CIV.
ing to the rapid and enormous growth,
of suffrage. Since the last conference
in 1918, no fewer than seventeen for
eign countries have extended the fran.
cfise rights of women. In Austria,
Belgium, British East Africa, Canada,
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