Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-06-16 | Page 2 | Women's Suffrage Congress Opened

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE CONGRESS OPENED BUDAPKST. June 15. Tho Women's Suffrage congress formally was opened In tho Academy of Music this afternoon. Tho minister of education, in behalf of the government, the burgomaster 0f Budapest and Countess Iskn. Tclekl, president of tho Hungarian organizing committee, delivered de-livered addresses of welcome. airs.- Carrie Chapman Catt, of New York, in her presidential address, devoted her attention to the phenomenal growth of women's movements, saying that there are only a few countries now without an organized movement. Mrs. Catt denounced the "white slave" bondage of brown and yellow women by western men living In the east aH one of the saddest and most tragic of all western Influences. Tho Rev. Anna Shaw preached In tho j Protestant church In tho morning before a large congregation. She spoko from the front, some of the church presbyters objecting to her occupying the pulpit.