Jan. 12, 1917. 
NORTHESH ORE?) BREEZE 
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EQUAL SUFFRAGE NOTES 
The New Year, 1917, opens very 
hopefully for the cause of Woman 
Suffrage. There have been more 
gains and victories for the cause in 
the last seven years than in the 
seventy years before. (See the new 
Suffrage map of North America.) 
Even in Europe the woman move- 
ment is advancing, in spite of the 
great war,—or because the war is so 
vividly revealing the importance of 
women to the state. And in Canada 
four great provinces have recently 
granted full suffrage to the women. 
In this connection, an interesting item 
is that when the women of British 
Columbia were enfranchised the Can- 
adian soldiers at the front were al- 
lowed to vote. In the ruins of the 
French villages, amid “shot and 
shell,’; a majority of the “brave Can- 
adians”’ voted for the women. We 
know. that the women of England are 
very near their full enfranchisement 
now, and the foremost man_ in 
Europe, Premier Lloyd George of 
England, has long been a Suffragist. 
In our own country, the “Susan B. 
Anthony amendment” for national, or 
federal, Suffrage is now before both 
houses of Congress, and the hope and 
interest in national equal suffrage is 
greatly increased. So is the work of 
the National Congressional commit- 
tee. Maud Wood Park of Boston, 
who is well remembered on_ the 
North Shore as a Suffrage speak- 
er, has been appointed chairman of 
that section of the National commit- 
tee which is called “the Front Door 
Lobby,” and her work will now be 
chiefly in Washington. Mrs. Park 
has spoken at the homes of Mrs. Ran- 
dolph Tucker and Mrs. H. E. Russell, 
on the Shore, also in Manchester 
Town hall. 
Two events very strikingly mark 
the new position of women in this 
country today. On Christmas Day, 
in the Capitol building at Washing- 
ton, in the famous Statuary hall, 
there was held a memorial service 
for Inez Milholland Boissevain, the 
beautiful and brilliant woman who 
recently died in the West in the midst 
of a strenuous campaign for the 
Woman’s Cause. This ceremony was 
under the auspices of the Congres- 
sional union and was very impres- 
sive. Mrs. Boissevain is the list 
woman of this country to be honored 
thus. She is a great loss to the 
Cause and to the country. The other 
event is that a woman has been elect- 
ed to the new Congress,—Miss Jean- 
ette Rankin, Representative from 
Montana. Miss Rankin is a very 
fine type of American woman, and 
when she sits with the new Congress 
who know how. 
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ascend = 
it will mark the beginning of a new 
age. 
The Mass. Suffrage association 1s 
opening a campaign to obtain for 
women the right to vote on the arti- 
cles of the new state constitution, 
which will be submitted by the Con- 
stitutional convention next June. ‘The 
claim will be made that women are 
“people,” and attention is called to 
the fact that several of the proposed 
amendants to the constitution are of 
vital concern to women and children. 
The Massachusetts association also 
announces a school for Suffrage 
workers, to be held at the headquar- 
ters during the month of February. 
Suffragists will come from all over 
the state for training in history, argu- 
ment, parliamentary law and public 
speaking. Similar Suffrage schools 
are to be conducted in all the non- 
Suffrage states. 
The midwinter convention of the 
Mass. Suffrage association will be 
held at Springfield, in the Auditorium, 
on Tuesday, Jan. 23, with morning 
and afternoon business sessions and 
a public meeting in the evening at 
which Beatrice | Forbes-Robertson 
Hale will be the chief speaker. This 
gathering at Springfield is by invita- 
tion of the Mayor and the Board of 
Trade. 
The Woman’s Journal (the Na- 
tional Suffrage organ, published in 
Boston) appears in a new and digni- 
fied form, with a new business man- 
ager and publisher, which also marks 
a new day for Equal Suffrage in this 
country. 
“Don’t worry about what the world 
thinks of you. The world has sev- 
eral billions of people to think about.” 
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