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Volume VII.

JULY, 1908

Number 7

 

 

n. I L UREIS 1 MPO s s l B L 1:: — s u s a n B.

Anthony

 

 

PROGRESS

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Warren, Ohio.

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Miss Laura Clay, Lexington. Ky.

2nd Auditor,
Mrs. Mary S. Sperry,
2100 Pacific Ave., San Francisco, Cal.

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OFFICERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL
WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE.

President, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt.
No. 2 W. 86th St.. New York City.
First Vice President,
Dr. Anita Augsburg,
Hamburg. Germany.

Second Vice President,
Mrs. Millicent Garrett Fawcett,
London, England.
Secretary, Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery.
Swarthmor‘e, Pa.
First Ass‘t Secretary,
Dr. Kathe Schirmacher,
Paris. France.
Second Ass't Secretary,
Martina Kramers.
Rotterdam. Holland.
Treasurer, Miss Rodger Cunliffe,
ondon. England.

 

 

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ISL, 1906, at the Post Office.
Warren. Ohio.

HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON. Editor.

 

 

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Association, said Association being in-
corporated under the laws of the Dis-
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such association for the support and
promotion of the cause of woman suf-
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Convention Dates 1908.
National—Buffalo;
15th-21st (inclusive).
Georgia—Atlanta, July 9 and 10.

Indiana—Winona Lake, August 28th
Friends’ Equal Rights Association.

Vermont—September.

Ohio—Columbus, Sept. 30th,, Oct. 1.

New York—Buffalo, Oct. 13 to 15.
Wisconsin—4Madison, September.

 

“ ‘It is a generation too soon’. Who
knows that? I suppose there were
those who thought John the Baptist
was baptizing too soon; that Luther
preached too soon; that Savonarola
was in too great a hurry, and all be-
cause he met his death and his enemies
triumphed; that Galileo and Hampden
and Cromwell and John Howard were
all too soon.” '

Never mind, would you not rather
be thought too soon by this generation
than too late by the next? There is
something refreshing about breathing
the invigorating air at the head of the
procession.

 

Several columns of valuable matter
were crowded out of this number. If
interest in suffrage continues we will
have to enlarge our columns or become
semi—monthly.

 

We have so many inquiries for the
addresses of our suffrage officers who
are in Europe that we state here that
anyone wishing to write them can do
so by sending letters; care of Dr. Alet?

, .

N. Y., October

 

ta H. Jacobs, Tesselschade Str., 15,
Amsterdam, Holland. Dr, Jacobs will
forward mail.

 

Sufiragists seem to be more active
in hot weather than other people.
The work in Headquarters of most
associations slows down in summer,
while ours seems to increase. Mails
are very heavy and all desks are piled
high with work although all clerks
are on duty. May this summer rush
bear autumn fruit.

 

Miss Bertha Coover, of London, 0.,
Corresponding Secretary of the State
Association, is temporarily at National
Headquarters assisting in the work.
She has already proved herself an ef-
ficient helper and a most delightful
acquisition to our office force. She is
of a studious turn of mind, is an able
and ready writer, as well as a devoted
suffragist. Several of the interesting
items in this paper are from her pen,
and we hope to publish her contribu—
tions from time to time in the future.
Truly, another optimist we have with
us! National Headquarters has no
pessimists.

 

WOMEN IN NATIONAL

REPUBLICAN POLITICS.

'It is a suggestive fact that women
have been more prominent this year
in national politics than ever before.

and that the newspapers of. the coun—
try have kept this point more persist-
ently before the people than at any
previous time. All of this special no-
tice indicates that the compass of
our Ship of State is pointed more and
more in the direction of equal rights
for both sexes,

Mrs. Lucy A. Rice Clark, of Utah,
was the only woman delegate to the
recent Republican Convention. It is
somewhat puzzling to many of the
women of this country that in men—
tioning her all of the newspapers con—
sider it necessary to state that she
was 58 years old and the mother of
eleven children. Of not one of the
men delegates has the record of his
age been given, and the number of
children that call him father. Mrs.
Susa Young Gates, an alternate from
Utah, is the mother of thirteen chil-
dren. Of none of the other alternates

 

mittee with the resolution, both mak—
ing excellent pleas. One of the com—
mittee remarked: “The two women
said their say better than did any of
the men who had planks to advocate.’
The resolution presented by the
women was as follows:

“Resolved, That we favor the ex-
tension of the elective franchise to
the women of the United States, by
the States, upon the same qualifica—
tions upon which it is now accorded
to men.”

Though the resolution was not
adopted, the woman suffragists have
the gratification of knowing that many
newspapers commented favorably
upon it, and more public citizens than
ever before.

Samuel Gompers, the labor advo-
cate, in appearing before the com»
mittee, urged that the Republican
Party pledge itself to the enactment
of a law to submit a constitutional
amendment for ratification to the

States for the absolute suffrage of

women, co—equal with men.

A committee of one hundred and
twenty progressive Chicago women,
including Mrs. Charles Deneen, wife

 

 

Progress is indebted to The Crowell Publishing Co. of Springfield, 0.,
for the use of the above cut of Miss Jane Addams, one of our life

members.

This cut appeared in .the April number of the Woman’s Home

Companion in connection with Miss Addams’ article on “The Working
Woman and the Ballot.”

 

The editor of Progress calls atten-
tion of Club Presidents to exceptional
program on Women in the Ministry,
by Rev. Annistord Eastman of El—
mira, New York. Few, if any, of our
programs equal this and it’ it is too
heavy for warm weather, advise your
members to do the reading for it and
be ready for 'the fall.

 

Mrs. Mary McHenry Keith, of Berke-
ley, California, has sent $500 to the
Susan B. Anthony Memorial Fund,
whichhas been saved through‘ self-
denial in many directions. She says
that instead of celebrating their 25th
anniversary in any Other way, they
are sending this amount to us.

Mrs. Keith is one of the people who
never ceases in their work for suffrage,
and it‘ seems that she has more di-
versity of action than any of us. One
Sunday evening a few weeks ago she
spoke in the Bethany Congregational
Church, her subject being “The Ethics
of Woman Suffrage; What have the
people, the church, religion, to do with
Woman Suffrage?”

 

have we been told the number of his
children. _

Both Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Young
declare that woman suffrage has been
a success in Utah, and that they wish
all their sisters, everywhere, to have
the same privileges 1_)olitica.lly.

Mrs, Clark is not the first woman
to enjoy the
delegate to a. national political con-
vention. In 1900 Mrs. W. H..Jones
was sent as delegate to the National
Republican Convention in Philadel-
phia, and Mrs. Elizabeth Cohen to the
National Democratic Convention in
Kansas City. Both were from Utah.
and served through the sessions, This
is the first instance of the kind on
record, although women was sent as
alternates from \Vyomiug to the Na-
tional Republican Convention at Min-
neapolis in 1888.

The Committee on Resolutions at
the Recent Republican Convention
was asked to insert a woman suffrage
plank. Mrs. Charles M. Henrotin and
Miss Jane Addams were the speak-
ers for the. delegation of well»known
Women, and appeared before the com-

distinction of being a,
' functions

is over and'thc next is Buffalo.

 

of the Governor of Illinois, Miss
Jane Addams, Mrs. Ellen M. l-Ienro-
tin, Mrs. Gertrude Blackwelder, Mrs.
F. I{.v'l‘racey, Miss Ellen E. Foster,
Mrs. Iva Wooden, Dr. Anna Blount,
and others arranged for elaborate en—

‘ tertainments for the visitors and dele—

roorns of the Chicago
Woman's Club. One of these social
were in special honor of
Mrs. Clark, the woman delegate.
Altogether, the question of equal
suffrage is assuming such proportions
that the great political parties will be
compelled to realize that they cannot
afford'longcr to ignore it.
. B. C.

gates in the

 

The program for one evening of the
Buffalo Convention will be arranged
and carried out by college women.
We remember with pride our college
night at Baltimore when professors
from the great colleges of women paid
homage to Miss Anthony and her
work.

 

 

The International Suffrage Alliance
It is
none too early to make your plans to
attend.

 

 

 

INTERNATIONAL WOMAN
SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE.

The great congress of the Interna-
tional Woman Suffrage Alliance open-
ed in Amsterdam, Holland, June 15,
the first session being given over to
the appointment of interpreters and
committees. Delegates from 23 na- .
tions were present.

At the afternoon a session a cantata
composed by a woman, Catharine van
Rennes, was sung under her direction
by a chorus of three hundred women
and eighty children.

Addresses of welcome were given
by Dr. Aletta Jacobs, President of
the National Dutch Woman. Suffrage
Association, and others, with responses
by prominent women of fourteen na-
tions, Rev. Anna H. Shaw representing
the United States. Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Catt, President of the Internation-
al Woman Suffrage Alliance, delivered
an opening address that is pronounced
logical, eloquent and profound.

Among the reports of officers we
note that of Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery,
U. S. A., as first secretary, and Mrs.
Stanton Coit, London, Eng, as treas-
urer. Mrs. Coit’s husband was former—
ly a resident of Columbus, Ohio.

At one of-the evening sessions the
topic was “Woman Suffrage in Prac-
tice,” addresses being made by noted
women from Australia, New Zealand‘,
Finland and Norway, Mrs. Helen
Grenfell, oflicial delegate from Colo-
rado, and Mrs. Harriet L. Shieir: from
Wyoming.

At a meeting for young chpxe, Mrs.
Ella S. Stewart, of Chicago, was one,
of the speakers.

“Woman Suffrage from a.-._Chri‘sian

‘ ' 'rfumvor'VIGWannjet, ("ifait

address by Mrs. Catharine WaughMc-
Culloch, from Illinois, and Rev. Anna,
H. Shaw.

Miss Elizabeth Hauser, U. S. A.,
Spoke one evening on “Why Should
Representative Governments Enfrano
chise W’omen?” On this same subject
addresses were made by women from
Denmark, Germany, Great Britain,
Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Swe-
den and Switzerland.

Three days before. the opening of
the conference one thousand seats had
been sold, at 5 fiorins apiece.

Dinners, receptions, excursions in
and about the city, visits to the mu-
seum, etc., added interest to the stay
in Amsterdam. ' -

When the International Woman Suf-
frage Alliance was organized at Ber-
lin in 1904, six countries were repre—
sented. At its first biennial held in.
Copenhagen in 1906, there were dele-
gates from 13; and at the international
meeting which has just closed in Am-
sterdam, delegates were present from
23 countries. I

It is not possible to give a detailed

account of this splendid congress, the
largest yet held, in this number of
Progress. Thefconvention is just clos-
ing as this issue goes to press, and
we have not yet received full official
reports. B. C.

 

We are taking orders at National
Headquarters for Volume III. of the
Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony.
Price $2.50.

 

General Federation of Women’s Clubs.

The Ninth Biennial Convention of
the General Federation of Women‘s
Clubs has been recently held in Boston.
Several thousand cultured, earnest
women were present representing five
thousand clubs with a membership of
over eight hundred thousand women.

Some of the measures discussed, all
bearing on the progiess of our nation,
were: “Child Labor," "Mortality
Among Children." “Public Health and
Sanitation," “Education,“ "Civics,"
“Parks and Playgrounds," "Protection
and Help of Imi’nigrants," "Conserva-
.ion of the Nation‘s Resources and Nat- .
iral Curiosities and Prehistoric
Places.”