ffrage and the
discussion which took place in the House afterwards, together
with the fact that an amendment to include woman suffrage
received more votes than any other moved, has given the whole
question such an importance that it is no longer a matter of
discussion as to whether our claims are justified or not, but
only when shall they be granted?
The work accomplished by us since the Stockholm Congress has been
in the main, as before, educational; propaganda by meetings,
lectures at all seasons and in all places; the distribution of an
immense quantity of leaflets and other printed matter and
lectures by famous foreign suffragists. The most valuable and
effective part of our work was that we took advantage of the
meetings arranged by the coalition opposition parties, which
include the Social Democratic and the Bourgeois-Radicals. They
held hundreds in all parts of Hungary, many attended by six or
eight thousand people, and in one in Budapest gathered an
audience of 15,000. We tried to get a speaker of ours on every
program. In spite of the militant opposition of the Social
Democratic party and Radical leaders, we succeeded nearly every
time in getting the floor, where we presented amendments to their
resolutions, which, when the chairman was honest enough to put
them to be voted on, were always enthusiastically carried....
About sixty societies for various purposes have declared their
position by taking part officially in several of our public
demonstrations.
A list was given of distinguished men who had become converted to
woman suffrage. Men took a more prominent part in this convention than
in any which had preceded, due principally to the very active
Hungarian Men's League for Woman Suffrage, which included a number
well known in political and intellectual life. The International
Alliance of Men's Leagues conducted an afternoon session in the Pester
Lloyd hall with the Hon. Georg de Lukacs of Hungary, its president, in
the chair. What can Men Do to Help the Movement for Woman Suffrage?
was discussed by Dr. C. V. Drysdale, Great Britain; Major C. V.
Mansfeldt, Netherlands, and Dr. Andre de Maday, Hungary. On Thursday
evening this International League held a mass meeting in the Academy
of Music with rousing speeches for woman suffrage by Hermann Bahr,
Austria; M. Du Breuil de St. Germai
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