The Truth is that women were fighting progressive Woodrow Wilson. In 1917 they saw through his hypocrisy. So why do women today think they are suppose to be progressive? They have not been taught the facts !
This is the story of our Mothers, Grandmothers and Great Grandmothers who lived only 90 years ago. Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.
The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote. And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden ' s blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of ' obstructing sidewalk traffic. ' They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air.
(Lucy Burns)
They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.
Thus unfolded the ' Night of Terror ' on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson ' s White House for the right to vote. For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms. When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.
(Dora Lewis)
It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse. Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy. The doctor admonished the men: 'Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.'
Please, if you are so inclined, pass this on to all the women you know. We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so hard for by these very courageous women.
(Alice Paul)
We honor the courage of these women by standing today in the face of this progressive agenda, voicing our opinions, getting other women involved and VOTING. They fought for US.
(Mrs. Pauline Adams in the prison garb she wore while serving a sixty-day sentence.)
(Miss Edith Ainge, of Jamestown, New York) right (Helena Hill Weed, Norwalk, Conn. Serving 3 day sentence in D.C. prison for carrying banner, 'Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.')
(Berthe Arnold, CSU graduate-burning Wilson speeches)
(Conferring over ratification [of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution] at National Woman's Party headquarters, Jackson Place Washington, D.C. L-R Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, Mrs. Abby Scott Baker, Anita Pollitzer, Alice Paul, Florence Boeckel, Mabel Vernon (standing, right))
IT TOOK THEM ALMOST THREE YEARS !!!!
Tell your mother, your daughter, your wife, your aunt, your niece, your girlfriends, your neighbors ALL the women in your life about the hard fought women's right to vote.
Don't let them miss their opportunity to honor these woman by voting in November!
