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James, Ada Lois, 1876-1952 / Ada James papers, correspondence, 1912, Dec. 24-31, [1912]
Wis Mss OP, Box 17, Folder 4 ([unpublished])
[Press release surrounding the National American Woman Suffrage Association]
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Press Bureau Released on Receipt. N. A. W. S. A. 505 FIFTH AVE. NEW YORK CITY. New York, November --. The full text of the resolution given out by the National Board of the National American Woman Suffrage Association regarding the much discussed question of reintroducing the Shafroth resolution in the Sixty-fourth Congress reads as follows: "The National Board of the National American Woman Suff- rage Association, following its custom of forty-five years, has instructed the National Congressional Committee to re- introduce the Susan B. Anthony Amendment in the Sixty-fourth Consreos. The last annual convention of the National Associa- tion instructel the Board and the Congressional Committee to pursue work on the Shafroth resolution, but owing to the mis- conceptions of an-T opposition to the Shafroth amendment on the part of many affiliated organizations, the National Board is unw,,Jilling to take the responsibility of reintroducing the Shafroth amendment in the Sixty-fourth Congress and considers it advisable to lea-e to the annual convention the decision as to whether or not the S hafroth amnendment shall be continued as a subsiduary measure of legislation." The Board also gave out the following letter from liMlrs. Medill McCormick, chairman of the Congressional Committee, reviewing the National's experience with the Shafroth resolution: "For forty-five years, the National American Woman Suffrage Asso- ciaton has beern fightP.go for the Fedleral Amendment which would give the women of the whole country the right to vote and put an end to the long and weariome state campaigns. Oing to solitical and social conditions that ameninent has progvressed but slowly. Two years ago the Congressional Committee of the Iational Aossociatlon evolved the Shafroth amendment as a 'pathbrearer' for the Susan P. A11,hovy amendrnent. The Shafroth was in- tendeJ - to giý!e uýc aia- m s-k and thus cnable us more quickly to secure the broad P d-i ...ra. .'Itenb.lnent which we all want anid for which we are all working.' 117 71 Sa ,-Il T-h ýz Ant ci 1 it -&-.fiki y d ' interested constitut~~io. la;yers ani prblic racn mnuh more keenly than it has in- terestel t>e. woren. Among wur on people it has won intellectual con- verts but ery 2e~w emotional con-ertc. It is much easier to silence the critic in debate th an it Js to inspire real allegiance to it. This is because tbe. ShaCy'oth resolution is an intricate ri-cl-c of legislation. After all, you" know, wo en are not very different from men in their relish for siiolse issues an1 simmre slogans. Trying to enthuse our
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