The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-08-10
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AID SUFFRAGE
Lady Astor Appeals to Southern
Chivalry to Aid Cause
In Tennessee.
WAS BORN IN VIRGINIA
Member of British Parliament
Was Nancy LanghOrne of
Famous Southern Family.
BY GEORGE II. MANNING.

Washington, Aug. 9-Lady Astor,
formerly Nancy Langhorne of Virginia,
now Great Britain's first NJ. p, has sent
an urgent appeal to the men of the
south to bring about the ratification Of
the woman suffrage amendment in Ten
neSsee.
The message comes to the men Of
the south, particularly those in Ten
nessee, through Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait, president of the National Amer
lean Woman Suffrage Association. 1t
reads as follows:
Il want to send a message to the men
of the south, because | come from the
south, and feel that / know and under
stand it, as one only can understand
the place of ones birth and childhood.
/ know the strong sense of justice and
honor that lives in the hearts of the
people. / know their chiyalry, too, and
it is just because ] appreciate that
chivalry that !, as a woman. am anxious
that it should be representative of the
present and not only Of the past-that
1t should be a progressive chivalry,
equal to the needs and aspirations Of
the women of today, not content to
give merely what was demanded OF 1t
in the old days.
81 am writing to you from the coun-
try of my adoption country which
has taken the great step and given
political responsibility to its women
As it happens, am one of the women
to whom the new opportunity for SER
vice has come most directly, and it is
partly on that account that | am ap-
pealing to you of the south.
81 am at present entrusted by the
neople OF the Sutton division of Ply
mouth. to represent them, men and
women alike. in narliament Thee are
something like II. 100 women vote in
my constituency, and over 23,00O men.
who include a large number OF men
in the royal navy. 1t would indeed,
he hard to feel that one could MT have
the same trust from the men OF my
homeland which has been givcl to me
so generously in the land OF r1y a1op-
ton. But the responsibility they have
laid on me is only the outcome 81 The
responsibility which they have already
placed on all women, by giving them
the vote. Trusting woman in parlia-
ment cannot be done till you have
trusted women at the ballot box A
democracy which only trusts as men
cannot help being a lop-sided demo-
cracy. ! know the south too well TO
believe that they will interpret their
own constitution CT popular govern
meut less democratiodlly than this coun-
Try, from which I write, has inter
preted its constitution Of limited
monarchy.
1.-The cause Of women's political free
dom has been won in America. w7ere
one OF the first shots in the campaign
was fired. But the forces working
against justice and progress are st:!l
strong enough to raise technical OBJ
structions and to delay the full reSliz7-
ton of the citory.
ION August 6tts the governor Of Ten
nessee will call that legislature into
special session, to consider the 'atifi-
cation OF the federal amendment for
womens suffrage Thirty-five states
have given their hand and seal. but
one is lacking-will not the south give
that one9 So strong is my faith in
the south that I feel II almost IN i'm
pertinence to ask them such ques-
ton. Remember, we are making A now
world and women-mothers-l TO
have a share in the sort OF world in
which their children must live We
have moral courage and spiritual vision.
Give us the chance TO help you. We
don't want to be little men. but we
do want to be big mothers
(Signed) Nancy Astor."