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Show IB'SfllTOf SEW YEARS 1! MB. CfiTT DECISIS Ratification by West Virginia Means Victory for Suffrage Association Believes NEW YORK, March 11. "Suffrage is won. The words are simple but they thrill as few words do or can." This was the encouraging conclusion conclu-sion of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman Suffrage association, in a i statement issued here on receipt or jnews lhat West Vir.i'nia had ratified I the fedoral suffrage amendment. With West Virginia won and the Washington Washing-ton and Delewarc legislatures meeting soon in special session, the opinion , expressed at headquarters was that "Tho 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" said Mrs. Call, "will have no comprehension of tho real message which the West Virginia victory carries car-ries to women. To us it means that (the nation is won, that the seventy-;year seventy-;year struggle is over, that the women iof America are enfranchised women. "And now whatever comes of grant-; grant-; ing Iho suffrage to women, It is safe to predict that it will never be responsible respons-ible for any offering to the general welfare except these things which have been well considered and intelligently intelli-gently endorsed." !' CHARLESTON, W. Va., March 11. jWest Virginia ratified the suffrage (constitution amendment late yesler-day. yesler-day. The vote of Senator Jesse Bloch. jwho hurried here from California, 'broke the senate deadlock. Tho house previously had adopted tho resolution. |