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...full meeting of the Alliance was given four reasons by its officers for refusing admission to the National Woman's Party: 1) That the League of Women Voters had objected to it; 2) That Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the Alliance, had objected; 3) That if admission were granted there would be a conflict of opinion in the American group; 4) That the Woman's Party had given news directly to the press in Paris without sending it through the official press bureau. The last objection was stressed, and the Woman's Party merely answered that...
...Catt, with the great fortune left her by Mrs. Leslie, is by far the largest financial supporter of the International Alliance. I took Mrs. Catt out of obscurity and brought the suffrage movement to the front in the United States, but I finally had to leave Mrs. Catt nine years ago in the interest of the suffrage cause...
...admire either the methods, advice or influence of Mrs. Catt. I think we should all work together and try to make the best of each other's views, but after working with Mrs. Catt for nine years I finally left her, believing it in the best interest of the movement...
...This is the first time since 1909 I have had anything to say about Mrs. Catt, but I see only her influence in the present situation. "Mrs. Catt, I am told, gave 50,000 francs to the present congress on condition that they raise another 50,000. This is very difficult for French women, because of their losses in recent years and I offered to give the other 50,000 francs. However, now they don't want us I cannot, of course, give the money...
Federation refused to endorse suffrage until 1913. Mrs. Catt could point women's way to world peace, because she is statesmanlike and clearheaded, but she lacks imagination and the magnetism that all really great leaders must have. Her appeal is to the mind and not to the heart and the mind is slow to work when the heart is cold. Jane Addams sees a century ahead, and she sees a clear path to the light for which we are groping-but she sees but one path. If we won't take that path, she walks on alone...