Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1920-08-19

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The National cannot stop. With q
new purpose, the purpose of making
the vote register for an improved
citizenship, the women of the Nation
: al are already lined up under new
name, the League of Women Voters. ~
| History of Movement
! Washington, Aug. 1Y.-Rati1ca-
tion OF the suffrage amendment to
the constitution ends struggle
which began in this country before
the Colonies declared their independ-
ence. 1t will eventually enfranchise
25,O0O,O00 women.
Woman suffrage first raised it's
voice in America in Maryland in
1647, when Mistress Margaret Brent.
heir of Lord Calvert, demanded q
place in the legislature of the col
ony as a property holder of wide ex-
tent. And in the days of the Revo-
luton Abigail Adams wrote her hus-
band, John Adams, at the Continental
congress which was framing the laws
of the infant nation that, "if-in the
new laws-particular care and at
tention are not paid to the ladies, We
are determined to foment rebellion
and will not hold ourselves bound to
obey any laws in which we have no
voice."
Organized work for woman suf-
frage began in the United States with
the Woman's Rights convention in
Seneca Falls, N. Y, 1848 which
was called by Lucretia Mott and Eliz-
abeth Cady Stanton, early leaders OF
Massachusetts, and New York, in re-
|sponse to the Indignation aroused by
the refusal to permit women to take
part in the anti-slavery convention
Of 1910. From the date of that con-
vention the suffrage movement in the
United States began the fight that
lasted seventy years and ended with
victory. Another convention followed
in 1852 at Syracuse, N. Y, at which
delegates from Canada were present
and it was there that Susan b. Anth-
ony assumed leadership of the cause
to which she devoted her life.
Association Formed n1869.
In 1869 the National Woman's suf-
frage association, with Miss Anthony
and Mrs. Stanton at it's head, was
year the American Woman Suffrage
dSSOCldIlOu Wd6 VI 6dAiACu III oAOvO-
land with Lucy Stone and Julia Ward
Howe as it's leaders. At first differ
ing widely in policy, the national as
sociation worked to put suffrage
amendment through the federal con-
gress and it's sister organization bend
ing it's efforts to convert the country
state by state, the two associations
later united under the name of the
C,,HP
ton. The associations drive for the
vote was led in turn by Mrs. Stanton,
Miss Anthony, DR.. Anna Howard
Shaw and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait.
the latter of whom is now it's presf--
dent .........,
The nineteenth amendment, which
bears her name, was drafted by Miss
Anthony in 1875 and was first intro
duced in congress in 1876 by Senator
A. A. Sargent of California; and it is
in the same language that the new
principle of the national law reads:
"Article ..-., Section 1. The
right of citizens of the United
States to vote shall not be de-
MED or abridged by the United
States or by any other state on
account Of sex.
"Section 2. Congress shall
have power, by appropriate leg
islation, to enforce the provis-
ions of this article"
The amendment holds the record
of being before the country longer
than any other successful amendment
to the constitution. 1t was introduce
ed aa the 10th amendment and has
been successfully the 18th, 18th and
18th and has been before every ses-
sion of congress since it's initial ap-
pearance.
During the first thirty-five years
after it's introduction into congress
the amendment made practically no
progress and until seven years ago
it had not been debated on the floor
for thirty years. But the campaign
for the movement was slowly but
steadily gaining ground in the states.
Meanwhile Miss Anthony made
test of the right of women to cast the
ballot by going to the polls and vot-
ing. She was arrested and convicted
and, though she refused to pay her
fine, was never Jailed. She became,
however, the forerunner of the mill
tants" who adopted the forceful tao
tics Of The latter days of the CAM
pafgn.
stat. after state gradually enfran-
chised it's women citizens. Begin
ming with Wyoming in 1869, by 1913
sixteen states had given women the
right to vote, and fourteen states had
presidential suffrage previous TO rati9.
lcat:on Of the amendments.
Nl:litancy Appeared In 1 1913.
Mi!,tapcys in the fight for suffrage
in America made its appearan vita
the formation OF the National Wcni-
ans party In 1919. On tho eve Of:
President Wilson's inauguration, S.-.s
OGc women led by Alice Paul J. nov
the Chairman Of the party, attempted
to march from toe Cap:tOl: to- Tho
White l!ouse. They were hnrrasseds
" a hcsiile crowd which oye.ranE IN
police and thaScApi1AI
of the United States had tts 0rst sGx-
perience with suffrage rt0ts q
Continuing their demonstfat5one.
over = period Of seven syeAts snaIat
|of the woman's party pick kste
white House Nth banner lls:
hands and served terl ~
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