WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 19, 22 January 1921, Page 10

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE

AMERICAN LEADER JN LONDON,

Mrs. Carrie.- Chapman Catt, who, as president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, is the leader of millions of women, is now in London. She has come from Now York' for a meeting to devise means to seourefthe vot© for European women still not enfranchised. Other lenders from France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, and Austria are here to meet her and to plan their European, campaign. ' "The suffrage movement in England," said Mrs. Catt, at a mass rneetingiof women's organisations in London, "has travelled on parellel lines'with ours in America. In 1918 you gained a great victory, but we have Caught you up, and in the question of the age limit we have just passed you—l hope only by a short length. ' Women who have already obtained the vote, are generally making the most of their opportunities. They are voting intelligently and splendidly in\ the United States. Ten million -women voted at- our, last Presidential elections. France will, we believe, be the next, country to give women the vote." - LADY ASTOR. . . "I have only just come from that abode of love yonder," said Lady Astor, at the same' meeting, with a wave of her hand towards, Westminster. "I feel like » :b»ll ahot from a.great cannon, the combined force that won tho vote for women here and in America, and the are sitting on the platform!" Speaking of the Puritan Sunday movement in Amerioa, Mrs. Catt'naid: "Although tho Anti-Saloon League is one of the most powerful agents of ;the United States Government, I hardly think that it will help to enforce a Puritan Sunday in the United States. Prohibition of all Sunday recreations and business, which -forms a part of the Puritan Sunday programme, it is feared, would overthrow the 'Drys,' and the.Unitetlj States -would go 'wet' again." -.'.,'.