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growth of the League, which was al most a secret organization for nearly a year.

Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch, president of the Union, save an account of the work of the past week in Albany, and told about the women who had stationed themselves one at either side of the door of the Senate Judiciary Committee room all day Wednesday, in perfect silence, to symbolize the patience and persistence of the women, waiting for the bill to be put out of committee. The silent militancy had proven to be successtul, for the bill came out.

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Guests of the afternoon were Mrs. Velma Swanston Howard, Mrs. Rheta Childe Dorr, Mrs. May Riley Smith, president of Sorosis, and Mr. Smith and several other gentlemen.

At the tea on the Sunday before, Miss Lavinia Dock, author of Hygiene and Morality, gave an informal talk about the first suffrage work in the down-town Italian quarter. “We distributed 5000 circulars printed in Italian," she said, “and the response was limited to those who lived within two blocks of our meeting place. About 250 came to hear what we meant by Votes for Women' posters in Italian. In addition to two splendid speakers, men who work in Italian trades, we gave them a moving-picture show illustrating labor conditions, lack of parks, and contrasted them with pictures of conditions where women vote. The Italians are always very polite, and even the saloon-keepers where we carried our circulars were most courteous. It was interesting to watch the familiar types appear, with merely slight variations. The anti was there with her contempt, which was manifest in her facial expression as she exclaimed: Me no read! Me not want know notting 'bout anyting!'—and a charming old Italian was almost princely in his manner when he said: I think the ladies have to stay in the room. Many in the audience signed parade slips, and a sixteen-year-old girl responded with enthusiasm: ‘Oh, isn't it fine! How soon do you think we'll get our rights? The Italian newspapers gave us good notices, and seemed much pleased with our work." Mrs. H. H. Knox of New Canaan, Conn., teld of the progress of suffrage work in her State; how the women organized a suffrage society in New Canaan with only enough members to fill the offices. By holding their meetings in the town hall they were able to entice women to attend, but for the town hall that was siven free for other political meetings, they had to pay five dollars for an afternoon, and twice as much for an evening. In the village of Milton a society organized only three weeks ago now has 57 members.

H. H. D.

GREAT TROLLEY TOUR

Connecticut Is Being Stirred from End to End—Another White Slave Meeting

“I hope I won't die until I see the women get the vote in Connecticut," said Mrs. Kate E. Hunt of Guilford, a woman now 92 years old, and a believer in equal suffrage for a quarter of a century, when the suffragists held one of their trolley campaign meetings in Guilford recently. “We haven't been so worked up since the Pequot War," they said in Fairfield; and so the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association continues to stir the State with its unique trolley campaign, which is already some four weeks old.

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The campaign is progressing with the most satistactory results. Hundreds of names have been added to the ever-growing list of Connecticut suffragists, and it is now estimated that in the State there are some $000 sisned bellevers in woman suffrage. During the past two weeks only the smaller towns have been visited, with the exception of New Haven, where Max Bastman addressed a large mass meeting. Mrs. willlam T. Hincks, president of the State Association, Miss E. J. Owen of London, Mrs. Rheta Childe Dorr and Miss Emily Plerson were also present and spoke. The other places visited im the past two weeks are Shelton, Ansonia, Derby, Seymour, North Haven, Cen terville, Branford, Madison, Southinston, Beriim and Meriden. Beginning

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with the week of Feb. 26, Wallinsford, New Britain, Plainville, Farminston and Newington will be visited. Miss Jean Kynoch, who is assisting Miss Pierson all through the campaign, relates an amusing incident which happened while she was arranging for the meeting at Meriden. She went into a restaurant where there were fifteen men and one woman. The woman soon finished her meal, and left the room, forgetting to close the door after her. One of the men rose ansrily and slammed the door shut, with the remark, “There's no one here but suffragettes and hogs." When Miss Kynoch was leaving the restaurant, she turned and said, “All the suffragists have gone now." “Yes," interrupted one of the men, “and there's nothing left but hogs."

The working girls of Hartford are getting up a meeting entirely on their own hook for the purpose of bringing out the connection between suffrage and the fight against white slavery. This meeting will be held on Feb. 29, with Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, former State president, and Mrs. Edward Porritt, corresponding secretary, as speakers. Much criticism, and unjust criticism at that, has been made of the recent mass meeting held in Hartford under the auspices of the Hartford Equal Franchise League against the white slave conditions existing in Hartford, and it is hoped that this meeting of the girls may tend to straighten out matters to some extent, and to vindicate the action of the Hartford League in doing just as it did. Mrs. Porritt will endeavor to explain why, instead of attacking the evil of white slavery, suffragists concentrate their energies on procuring the vote.

The picture which aroused so much criticism in Hartford, and which has already been reproduced in The Woman's Journal, together with the literature circulated at the time of the white slave meeting, will be on exhibition at the Philadelphia Horticultural Hall, Feb. 27 and 28. Helen G. Sherwood.

MINNESOTA'S WOMAN SUFFRAGE PARTY

Editor Woman's Journal:— Some misapprehension regarding the Woman Suffrage Party of Minnesota seems to exist. Will you allow a statement of facts?

The party was organized something over a year ago. Articles of incorporation were filed, and a central committee formed in Hennepin County. No work was ever attempted outside of Hennepin County. The work in said county was confined to the securing of lecturers of note for Minneapolis, and signatures to cards issued by the party. Thus far the work was a signal success. Mrs. Pankhurst's lecture was undertaken at an expense of $500, and, althougsh the weather proved very bad, we had a fine balance for the treasury, and this was true of the several lesser undertakings in this line.

Suffrage work in Minnesota so shaped itself as to make it seem best, for the advancement of the cause, to throw all effort into the work with the Minnesota State Woman Suffrage Association. Having only the good of the cause in view, the Central Committee of Hennepin County disbanded for the present. The charter and the corporate articles remain intact, so that, if at any time it is thought best, this line of work, which appeals strongly to many, can be easily taken up again. Ethel E. Hurd, M.D. Minneapolis.

NOTES AND NEWS

In Kansas, the Nemaha County Teachers' Convention has declared for equal suffrage. Mrs. Florence Kelley spoke for woman suffrage this week in Madison, Wis., and Prof. Charles Zueblin in Milwaukee. Governor McGovern of Wisconsin is being urged to appoint a woman on the State Board, of Agriculture. Mrs. Anna Perkins Jeansen of Oshkosh is a candidate.

The Minnesota W. S. A. has organized a large lecture bureau of prominent men and women in that State who are willing to speak for equal suffrage.

The Boston School Board, in answer to a letter of inquiry from Miss Mabel C. Willard, says that its recent order forbidding teachers to belong to any political organization does not apply to suffrage organizations. The Seattle Council of Women Votters is planning an entertainment to raise funds for the Wisconsin campaign. One of its members is Dr. Maybelle M. Park, formerly a practising physician in Waukesha, Wis.

The Des Moines suffragists have set out to hold 300 parlor meetings in that city. The best homes in Des Moines are being opened for these meetings, and before they are over the community will be well leavened with suffrage sentiment. The Antis are said to intend starting a national magazine, to oppose the growing progress of equal suffrage. By all means let them do so. The oftener the objections are stated, the more evident their flimsiness becomes. Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge has the new venture in charge.

Twelve hundred women of Ottawa, Kan., listened recently to an eloquent sermon in favor of equal suffrage by Rev. J. McD. Kerr, which made a deep impression. The Kerr brothers have been holding evangelistic services there. Mr. Kerr held up the heroic women of history to those who claimed that women were too weak for political duties. He gave a scathing review of the current objections, and made a powerful appeal for the granting of the ballot. The Ottawa Guardian devotes half its first page to a report.

There is the liveliest difference of opinion among English suffragists as to the sincerity of Mr. Lloyd-George. Hence the interruptions that marked his address at the great Albert Hall suffrage meeting the other day. All the non-militant societies, one of the two militant ones (the Woman's Freedom League, of which Mrs. Despard is president), and the Conciliation Committee of members of Parliament, are giving their support to his proposal to try to add a woman suffrage amendment to the government's franchise reform bill. Mrs. Pankhurst's society remains irreconcilably sceptical of his sincerity. The future will show who was right.

Mr. W. C. Reick, who has lately left the New York Times and taken charge of the Sun, has decided to discontinue the articles of Mrs. Ida Husted Harper in the Sunday edition. Strong protests from the national president, Rev. Anna H. Shaw, and from other leading suffragists, have failed to change his position. Mrs. Harper's able articles were widely copied, and many women who, like the editor of The Woman's Journal, had subscribed for the Sunday Sun for the sake of them, feel themselves almost defrauded. However, the chief loss is the Sun's. Plenty of other periodicals will welcome Mrs. Harper's contributions.

Cambridge is now added to the list of Massachusetts cities showing an unprecedented registration of women for the school election. On the last day 1,260 registered, making 6,228 in all. The question of re-electing or defeating Prof. Joseph H. Beale calls out the unusual interest. Some years ago Cambridge women registered in considerable numbers, and turned the scale at the school election by their votes. Thereupon the Republicans and Democrats united upen the same school ticket, on purpose to keep the women from being able to influence the election. Under those circumstances the women's vote naturally fell off. This year they have something to vote for, and they mean to vote.

Omaha suffragists were invited to attend a Roosevelt convention on Washington's Birthday, and to help pay the expenses. According to the Omaha Bee, Mrs. W. E. Shafer, president of the Omaha W. S. A., refused, on the ground that Roosevelt's position on suffrage was unsatisfactory. “On the other hand," she said, “La Follette is a staunch suffragist, and Mrs. La Follette is an officer of the Naticnal Suffrage Society."” Meanwhile an anti-suffrage club in Connecticut has elected Roosevelt's sister, Mrs. Cowles, as its chairman, and the press reports say that the women did this “as a slap at the Colonel," im resentment of his coming out for woman suffrage. These be the penalties of ukewarmness. The Colonel is catching it on both sides.

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