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Show STRUGGLE ENDS, SUFFRAGE WINS, MRS. CATT DECLARES PK'ffWfe2. H $ I'ni w'Mm ! fll l' ' $$,'&& Hli Kt , ' 'jb'iL ' 'tlK I 'l-"NtoiE'l I . "twm5 B M I New York, March IB. "Suffrage is won. The words arc Dimple but they thrill ns few words do or can." This was tho encouraging conclusion of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president pres-ident of the Nntionnl American Wo-mnn Wo-mnn Suffrage Association, in a statement state-ment issue here on receipt of news that West Virginia had ratified the federal suffrage amendment. ith West Virginia won and Washington and Deleware legislatures meeting soon in special session, the opinion expressed at headquarters tonight was that "the struggle is over." "People who have followed the course of woman suffrage from the outside with indifference or small understanding un-derstanding of what has been at stake will have no comprehension," said Mrs. Catt, "of tho real message which tho West Virginia action carries to women. To us is means that tho nation is won, that the seventy year struggle is over, that the women of America are enfranchised women. i'Andnovtwatoveicome3 of granting grant-ing the1 suffrage to women, it is safe to predict that it will never be responsible respon-sible for any offering 'to the general Welfare except those, tilings, which have been well considered and "intelligently "intel-ligently endorsed." |