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Show CAN SUFFRAGETTES. 0TES Sifcl FOR O fctS-Kv A? i 1 p'! ION WITHOUT LJ V j2rf ATI0 15 TYRAKV 1 I r J -i ( FOUR IDOLS OF AMER1 I o TAXA7 : but his promise was eventually to u&e It on his next letter to Mrs. Taft. ' The second stamp was presented to Senator La Follette and the third to Justice Brewer of the supreme court. With this auspicious Inauguration the ladies will now put their suffrage stamps on sale In every state In the Union. The new American suffragettes' stamp, together with the three public servants who were presented with the first three btamps Issued. President Taft at left, Senator LaFollette at right and Justico Brewer below. Washington, April 22. Tho suffragettes suffra-gettes have Invaded the White House. They have Invaded the senate. They have Invaded the supreme court. In other words, they have done what English suffragettes couldn't do to save their souls. Mrs Harold Dudley Greeley and Mrs. Rheta Chllde Door, president and vice president respectively of tho' Cooperative Equal Suffrage league, were the ones who turned tho trick. Mrs. Greeley and Mrs. Dorr have i designed a suffrage stamp which the 1 Co-operative Equal Suffrage leaguo proposes to sell through out the Union as a means of raising funds for the eoual suffrage cause. The stamp is printed In blue. In center are the historic scales of Justice In equilibrium equili-brium and at the too la the fighting slogan, "Votes for Women." Below If the quotation which the suffragettes suffra-gettes call the historic principle of democracy, "Taxation without representation repre-sentation is tyranny." The border Is formed of the names of Idaho, Wyoming, Wyom-ing, Utah' and Colorado, the four states which have conferred full suffrage suf-frage upon women. Each corner bears a five pointed star. Armed with the first suffragette stamp ever offered for sale in America, Ameri-ca, the ladles invaded the sanctum of the President President Taft immediately imme-diately said he would be glad to buy, and asked the price. "Oh." said Mrs. Greeley, "they're a penny apiece, but we wouldn't have you pay for this for the world. It's the first one that has gone out nf our hands." i "Your stamp Is Intended to make money for woman suffrage." replied the President. f.mlllng. "and it would be a bad beginning to give the first one away " And he divod down Into his pocket, brought forth a new penny and gave It to Mrs. Greeley. The ladles then requested that the President use the stamp on the first letter he sent to Roosevelt in Africa, |
