C191?“

 

OFFICIAL ORGAN

Natlonal American Woman Suffrage
Association.

 

 

 

P R0 GRE

K,

 

SUBSCRIPTION PRICE
25 Cents Per Year.

 

 

 

I Volume IX.

FAILURE I

 

DECEMBER, I909

Number 12

 

s IMPOSSIBLE—Susan B Anthony

 

 

 

 

 

PRocasss

PUBLISHED MONTLHY AT WAR-I
BEN, OHIO, BY THE

NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN I
SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION. 1
President. Rev. Anna Howard Shaw.

505 Fifth Avenue, New Y01k City.

1st Vice President Rachel Foster Avery.
Swarthmore Pa.

2nd Vice Pres, Mrs. Florence Kelley,
105 E. 22nd St., New York City.

Cor. See, Prof. Frances Squire Potter,
505 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

Recording Sec y,
Mrs. Ella S. Stewart,
5464 Jefferson Ave, Chicago, Ill.

Treasurer, Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, I
Warren, Ohio. I

Auditor, I

Miss Laura Clay, Lexington, Ky.

2nd Auditor,
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell,
6 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

Legal Advisor,
Catharine Waugh McCulloch,
Evanston, 111.

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS.
505 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

PRICE 25 CENTS PER YEAR

lst

OFFICERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL
WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE.

President, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt,
N0. 2 IV. 88th St., New York City.
First Vice President,
Millicent Fawcett, L. L. D.,
2 Gower St., London, England.
Second Vice President,
Annie Furuhjelm,
Helsingfors, Finland.
Secretaries,
-Martina Kramers, '
92 Kruiskade, Rotterdam, Holland.
Anna Lindemann,
Degerloch, Stuttgart, Germany.
Signe. Bergman,
10a Arsenalsgatan, Stockholm, Sweden.
Treasurer, Adele Stanton Coit,
L,ondon England.

 

 

Entered lass, second class matter Nov.
BU

l
LI
at the Post Office, I
I
#I

Ohio.

W arren

HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Editor.

Form of Bequest.

I hereby give and bequeath to the
National American Woman Suffrage
Association, said Association being in-
corporated under the laws of the Dis-
trict of Columbia, the sum of $. . . . . . . .
principal and interest, to be applied by
Such association for the support and
promotion of the cause of woman suf-
frage,

Signed ............. ' ............. . .

 

Me11y Clll istmas.

The national convention will be held
in Washington in April.

This is the last issue
The January number will be issued
from New York City under another

of ‘Pogress.

 

name and with Ida Husted Hal per as
editor.

In turning over the editing of Prog-
ress to Ida Husted Harper the present
editor feels it is due her to say that she
never has felt that Progress was what
it might have been in her hands if
she had had time to give to it. So
pressing has the work been always
that copy was piepared at night at
home or under great pressure and
mid confusion in the office. She
took the editing of Progress as she did
the headquarters work, because there
was no one else available or willing.
She has not done the best she could
do she has only done the best she
could unde1 the conditions She has
never believed that P1ogress should
be used for propaganda alone, be-
cause it circulated among suffragists
but should contain news of the doings
of suffragists and suggestions for
work. Hosts of fiiends have contrib-
uted geneiously to the columns and
many have given the edit01 kind and
app1eciative w01ds. To all r'eadeis
the editor says a kind good-bye.

Send all orders for subscriptions to
Progress to National Headquarters,
505 Fifth aenue, New Y01k City, N. Y.

I

 

And whose face shall be used to il-I
lustrate the last number of P10g1ess?I
Who, of all the faithful, shall be lasti
as well as first? Who else but sheI
who never sought self- comfort, self-I
aggrandizement, self lov she whoI
remembered the humblest worker and
told her of that remembrance. .She.
who never criticized the frailties of
her followers, she who stood fast
when others maligned, she who sacri-

MRS. LA FOLLETTE
AND MRS. HOWE

At a recent meeting in Madison
called by progiessive women, Mrs. La
Follette, wife of the United States
Senator, said: “While I do not in the
least approve of the militant English
method of securing the right to vote,
nor wish it to be transplanted to
American soil, I think an aggressive
campaign is justifiable in suffrage as
well as in other causes. I feel that
we may with propriety use all moral
and honest methods of appeal and
that the women of the United States
should avail themselves of all such
procedu1es to secure enfranchise
ment.”

She deplored the sensational prac-
tices in England, but expressed sym-
pathy for the workers. “England,”
said the gracious champion, “has es-
tablished a precedent for violence in
other causes, and it seemingly re-
quires sensation there to arouse at—
tention. But in Ame1ica, more sane
me thods should be followed.”

Marie Jenny Howe, the
speaker, gave the result of her
search and study of the woman
frage question in Colorado.
quote one paragraph.

other

re-
suf-
We

 

“As to raising the moral status of

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

ficed, toiled and worked smilingly and
lovingly as she jouineyed on. She
upon whom we rested when we were
tired, who wept with us as we wept
and dried our eyes with her comfort-
ing words. She, the figure of her cen-
tury, the embodiment of honesty, the
saviour of her sex, but more than all
else, the friend, the real, true, stead-
fast friend, not swayed by hearsay nor
falsehoods; just a firm, true friend.

 

.. rIINInJconnn. .11.

Here was she greatest. Blessed
be her mem01y, blessed be the day
when her path crossed ours. Faith-
ful let us try to be as she was
faithful, forgiving as she was for-
giving, fair as she was fair, fearless
as she was fearless. ‘ It is her face
one most often sees as one works, her
voice one most often hears her spirit
one most often feels, and it is well it
is so.

 

 

 

 

candidates for office, the women of
Colmado have achieved distinct suc-
cess along that line.” She cited the
well known case of a certain senator
whose election was opposed by the
women of the state. He was twice
defeated. After such experiences the
campaign bosses are reluctant in
bringing out candidates whose morals
are such as to call forth strenuous op-
position from the feminine voting ele—
ment. ' '

“There is a lack of leadership
among women,” declared Mis. Howe,
“in the western states, where there is
no so-called leisure class. Woman
suffrage had its birth in a place ham-
pered by natural conditions. In the
eastern states, IVIassachusetts for ex-
ample, where there is every advantage
of birth, education, 1efinement and
leisure, the cause would receive every
impetus, were it not for the old con-
servatism.”

“In China,” she said, “the women
are responsible for the custom of
binding the girls’ feet to make them
smaller; they cling with idolatrous
persistency to the tradition. The
Tinkish women still honor the an-
cient practice of completely veiling
their faces. Our conservatism,” Mrs.

Howe decla1ed, “is none the less pli-
able. In Ameiica we hug oui restlic-
tions.’ I

l

 

SUSAN B. ANTHONY
MEMORIAL FUND

It is impossible to urge too strongly
upon Suffragists throughout the Na—
tion the plan devised for securing the
Fund by Miss Kate M. Gordon, 1800
Prytania street, New Orleans,
Chairman of the Committee.

Upon application to Miss Goulon
full information will be given to allI

who will assist in the w01k of collect-I

ing the Fund.

Loyal suffragists must now bend
every energy and honor themselves in
honoring our great Leader, who gave
herself and all she had to the cause of
women.

It has been delayed too long—we

must do it now. Each one can help,
and by following Miss Gordon‘s admir-
able plan, it can be accomplished be-
fore the next National Convention.

If it succeeds, remember you will have .

If it fails, it may be be-
W‘hat is your
A. H. S.

a part of it.

cause you have failed.
answer?

____________.____

Take stock in the South

campaign. The shales are sold at a

low price and the dividends we expect.
' State Treasurers to begin the gather-

will be great—not however,

but to human kind.

to you,

La., I

Dakota '

NATIONAL SUF-

FRAGE MEETING IN
NEW YORK CITY

The Carnegie Hall meeting, Novem—
17, was one of the greatest tri-
umphs for Suffrage in its history, and
can claim the largest paid audience for
,a purely suffrage meeting. After all
expenses have been paid, there will
be at least seven hundred dollars to be
placed in the treasury of the National
Association for the benefit of the
South Dakota campaign. This is re-
markable, since most suffrage meet-
ings heretofore have been free. The
boxes sold at ten and fifteen dollars
each, seats at fifty cents and a dollar,
while the balcony and gallery were
free. Boxes occupied by persons of
‘note and members of organizations
were gay with banners and colors.
There were about three thousand
piesent.

Mis O. H. P Belmont presided and
the speakers were Rev. Anna H-
Shaw, National President; Prof. Fran-
ces Squire Potter, National Corres—
ponding Secretary; George Foster
Peabody, President of the Men‘s
League for Woman Suffrage; Harriot
Stanton Blatch,~ President League for
Self-Supporting Women, and Mr. B. O.
Aylesworth of Colorado. It is to be
regretted that no report of the
speeches was made. An extract from
Mrs. Potter’s is given elsewhere. As
we all know, Miss Shaw always speaks
without notes.

One hundred and fifty prominent
men and women accepted invitations
to sit on the platform. Mr. and Mrs.

'IV'.’ ) «flan-aw. .nb-om‘. ‘fl :{sowmw‘d’

V

091‘

the boxes. "0r? f“
Telegrams and messages were re-
ceived from friends throughout' the
United States, none more important
than that from Governor R. S. Ves-
sey of South Dakota in which he said:
“I believe that with an earnest, defi-
nite, well organized energetic cam-
paign this state can be cariied for
equal suffrage, and I hope nothing will
be left undone to bring this. about.”

SIGNIFICANT.

At the annual meeting of the Na-
tional Association of Collegiate Alum—
nae in California, a resolution was of-
fered that neither the National Asso-
ciation nor the branches which ex-
ist in 47 cities should work in connec-
tion with woman suffrage. This 1eso-
lution was brought forward by the
Executive Committee, was much dis—
approved of by the California dele-
gates and the decision of the matter
was left for the meeting which has
been held in Cincinnati recently. The
resolution was defeated and great in—
Iterest in the suffrage question was
shown by the delegates.

 

 

MRS. MACKAY.
l\»‘[rs. Mackay, President of the Equal
1Franchise Society, and her associates
have secured the Garden Theater for
a series of nine suffrage lectures.
Governor Shafroth spoke there Decem—
ber 3; December 16 Hon. Everett Col—
by will speak on “The Relation of
Woman Suffrage to Social and Eco-
nomic Progiess; December 30 Rev.
Henry S. Nash will be the speaker;

' January 13 the time will be divided be-

tween Miss Shaw, Mrs. Catt, and Mrs.
Blatch. Other speakers will be an—
nounced later.

LISTENII
State Associations, whose dues are
not paid by January 1, 1010, will not
have representation in the following.

 

convention. It is none too early for

ing of dues.