| day), at 3 o'clock. 
"Feb. 11, 1916. 
EQUAL SUFFRAGE NEWS 
(From the Suffrage Committee.) 
HE Manchester Equal Suffrage 
League will hold its February 
_ meeting at the home of Mrs. Tenney, | 
on Friday afternoon (to- 
A great deal of 
special business is to be discussed, and 
Miss Stanwood will explain the new 
Bridge st., 
| Suffrage situation, local and general. 
This meeting comes as near as pos- 
sible to Lincoln’s Birthday which is 
ar 
_ rights for women. 
_ seemed revolutionary, but in his own 
zens. 
_ for a right, the men have called them 
_to a new duty with honor. 
_ Provinces of Alberta and Saskatche- 
wan are likely to follow very soon, 
‘and in Saskatchewan the men frankly 
of Iowa, the next 
_ where the temperance societies have 
- decided to concentrate their efforts on 
work for Equal Suffrage. 
Saturday. Suffragists always observe 
Lincoln’s day in’ some way, and get 
“new courage in remembering that the 
advocated equal 
Terhisetime” it 
Great American 
state of Illinois the situation has so 
_ changed that in Chicago alone, at the 
last municipal election, over 250,000 
women voted, 
men. 
on equal terms with 
- The most interesting news of the 
Suffrage world is the sweeping vic- 
_ tory in Manitoba, a great province of 
Canada, 
- of Manitoba, by a unanimous vote, 
passed the bill which enfranchises the 
~ women of that Province. 
inion of Canada is bearing her full 
* share in the great war, but this does . 
tot make her men forget the women, 
On Jan. 27, the Legislature 
The Dom- 
—on the contrary it has made them 
feel the importance of women as citt- 
The women have not struggled 
The 
say that they want the women’s votes 
to help them fight the liquor evil. The 
same thing is said in our own state 
“campaign state,” 
The Boston Equal Suff. Ass’n has 
“opened new Headquarters at 167 Tre- 
mont street, which include a lunch 
_ room where very reasonable lunch- 
- eons, also afternoon tea, may be had 
every day except Sunday. All Suf- 
fragists and friends are invited to 
me took in.” 
Civics are being held at these new 
_ rooms and this study of government 
A series of classes in 
is being taken up by groups of Suf- 
fragists in many cities and towns of 
this state. 
The most important announce- 
tment to be made is that there will be 
a meeting of Massachusetts Suffrag- 
oat Ford hall, Boston, on the even- 
q ing ot Friday, Feb. 25th, in honor of 
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the new National President, Mrs. 
Carrie Chapman Catt, who will be the 
chief speaker, on the subject of Na- 
tional and Congressional work. ‘This 
will be followed by a work-confer- 
ence, next day,—and probably all day, 
to which delegates will come from 
every part of the State. 
Suffragists should not confuse the 
new organization called “The Con- 
gressional Union” with the National 
Association, which is the older and 
larger body. The National Ass’n and 
the Mass. Ass’n do not endorse the 
policy of the Union (the anti-party 
policy, etc.), and do not work with 
them, in the strict sense of the word, 
though working to the same end, 1. ¢. 
Federal enfranchisement of American 
women. It is a healthy sign that ail 
Suffragists do not want to do exactly 
the same things, and that there are 
now so many Suffragists that they 
cannot all be contained in one organ- 
ization. New Suffragists (of whom 
there are so many) should look into 
the matter before joining the new 
organization (Congressional Union). 
PARENT-TEACHER MEETING. 
Child Welfare Day will be obser- 
ved this year by the Parent-Teacher 
association at its meeting in the Price 
School hall, Wednesday evening, Feb. 
16th, at 7.45 o’clock. 
Mrs. W. E. Rowe of Wollaston, 
first vice-president of the Massachu- 
setts Branch of the Mothers’ Con- 
gress and Parent-Teacher associa- 
tions, and a delegate to the National 
Convention at Portland, Oregon, will 
aosel on “Country- Wide Child Wel- 
fare Work,” illustrated by the radi- 
opticon. 
The three songs of the Parent- 
Teacher societies will be sung. Come 
and bring a friend. 
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