Today in Herstory: Suffragists Push On Across the Nation – and the World
(you have to read the sexist, sanctimonious drivel from cardinal gibbons of baltimore. nothing much has changed for the woman-haters)
Today in Herstory: Suffragists Push On Across the Nation – and the World
April 21, 1913: This certainly has been a newsworthy day for woman suffrage!
The main event was in Washington, D.C., where many Senators and Representatives from States in which women already vote argued in favor of the Susan B. Anthony (nationwide woman suffrage) Amendment at hearings before the Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage.
George Chamberlain, Democratic Governor of Oregon from 1903 to 1909 and a United States Senator from that State since 1909.
Senator George Chamberlain, Democrat of Oregon, where women won the vote in a Statewide referendum of the male voters on November 5th, said:
I expect to see conditions in my State bettered, if they can be bettered, now that women have a vote. I expect Oregon to teach a lesson to the ‘effete East’ in legislation for the good of her citizens. The women are instinctively on the side of moral right.
Harry Lane, Oregon’s other Democratic Senator, declared: “Woman is the full partner of man through life. I am a physician and I give my testimony to this fact. If I had it my way I would give the women of this country the ballot on a silver salver [tray] with apologies for giving it so late.” He noted that in his battle against the liquor interests, women had always given him great support. Republican Representative Burton French said that in his State of Idaho, where women have had the vote since 1896, women vote in the same numbers as men, thus showing that women do want the vote.
Meanwhile, Alva Belmont is preparing to go to the upcoming International Woman Suffrage Conference in Budapest, which opens June 15th. She said today that on her journey she will stop in Britain to see the Pankhursts and learn something of their militant methods. Though she hopes New York State will pass a suffrage referendum in 1915, Tammany Hall Democrats are unfriendly and liquor interests are very strong, so if the effort is unsuccessful, she believes it will then be time to use English-style tactics:
It is not pleasant to go out and smash windows. You wouldn’t like it and I would not like to, but it is the only thing to be done.
On a more peaceful note, Belmont said that she is collecting the statements of anti-suffragists, will put them in a book some day, “and they will not be proud of them” when equal suffrage is taken for granted as simple, basic justice.
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