The Suffragist, vol. 5, no. 56, January 31, 1917, p. 10

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AT THE TENSHUN THE PRESIDENT o in 0 ARMS —Dullas, Tex., News, January 12

Suffragists and Patient Waiting

ATIENT waiting has other applications P than that of Uncle Sam's sitting with folded hands while Mexico works out its own destiny. The policy that has been so effective in that case may accomplish equal results in other fields. The silent sentinels who picket the White House, if they can be as patient as the President has been with Mexico, may score a victory. It may be a question of taste as to whether the Congressional Union has adopted proper or the best means for advancing its cause; but let no one underestimate the effect. Advertising pays, and if these women will undertake to hold their banners in silence before the White House and the entrance of the Capitol, it will have a pronounced effect. The mistake made by the English suffragists was in pursuing a course that led to violence. Silent, passive resistance is far more effective than force.

Comments of the Press

Criticism has been made that the women are as unfair and as absurd in adopting this course of procedure as would be the Socialists, Prohibitionists, manufacturers, trainmen, general managers, or other people with a grievance who should adopt a similar policy. One point, however, should be kept in mind. The law provides no means by which the women can express themselves in legislation. The various classes of men have the franchise. They speak to public officials as masters to agents. It is within their power to combine their political strength with kindred interests. But women have no political power, and hence must attain their end through whatever personal means prove effective. The I. W. W. people are inexcusable in resorting to violence in the hope of controlling the economic situation, because they have the ballot. If they be in a minority, force will not avail; if they be in a majority, force will not be necessary. But women, lacking the ballot, must act

The Mildly Militant Silent Sentinels

through those who have it; hence, they are morally free to resort to whatever means is most conducive to their end—The Public, Jan. 19. Putting the White House on the Map

HERE have not been as many visitors within T a given time to the White House grounds for years as there have been since the purple, white and gold bannmers in the hands of the Congressional Union women began to attract the crowds this week.—Chicago Evening Post, Januory 18. Inauguration Attractions

MONG the other interesting sights of A inauguration day in Washington will be the picket fence that the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage proposes to place around the White House.—Indianapolis News, January 13.