The Evening critic., 1883-01-26
GOING FOR THE SCALPS
of sam EaudaII and other SO.calIed
| statesmen-Tbe Aggressive Women

OF sam RaudaII and other SO.calIed
statesmen-Tbe Aggressive Women
Lcnguers.
The Woman's National Labor League
convened at the usual hour last evening
for their regular business meeting, and
lively Mrs. Smiths gavel had scarcely
fallen when the league got TO work to dis
pose of the matters that had accumulated
upon their busy hands since the previous
meeting.
Letters were read by the secretary, which
referred to various matters in which the
members were interested Among these
were letters from several prominent people,
expressing their sympathy with and inter
est in the movements of the league, and os-
pecially of the proposed sending of female
delegates and making an exhibit of in
ventions by women at the international Ex-
hibition at Amsterdam in May next.
A letter from Sarah johnson, the we'll
known woman suifragist and reformer of
Chicago, was read in which she urges the
establishment by Congressional appropria-
tion of q mechanical institute for women
in this city, ut which women could be
taught the moro difficult branches of needle
work. millinery hairdressing, paper-box
making, and all industries in which there
is q market for skilled female labor.
Mrs. Smith called attention to n quota
tion from speech by the Hon Thompson
II. Murch, in Baltimore, in which he said:
1--WE have in Washington a womau's
league and had the honor of addressing
that organization and they mean business.
They have president who is the most
aggressive female | have ever seen. She
goes right to Senator or Representative
and says: L want you to do so and so, and
ifhe don't do so she says she will publish him
in all tho newspapers throughout the
country, for she is an editor herself, and
l tell you she has got brains and pluck and
muscle too
Mrs Smith said that she was sorry that
she had so cruelty bulldozed the gal
liant statesmen and regretted that she was
unconsciously so aggressive and muscular,
and would suggest that the league should
adopt resolutions of sympathy and condo
lence for the unhappy legislators who had
been so cruelty and despotically oppressed
by the irrepressiblc lcaguers.
The following preamble and resolutions
were then introduced and unanimously
adopted:
Whereas the women who are employed In
tho Agricultural Department are generally
those who have not the political influence
necessary to secure them positions in the
other Departments Of the Government. aud
are poor and impecunious; therefore,
BE IL TeSolred, That the Woman's Ma
tlonal Industrial League earnestly protests
bers with the female employees of the Agri-
cultural Department, especially In the minor
departments of the bureau, whero the employ.
mont is temporary and furloughs are granted
for nine months OF the year. The grasping
greed Of the politician is denounced
ReSOtCed, That q copy OF this resolution be
sent to the agricultural papers Of the country.
Mrs. Smith stated by way of explanation
that Commissioner Lorng had been very
considerate and Just in dealing out the
p1arl. ehins unIar his ntrnl and had mt
many deserving, but not influential, women
into Office, but now certain able Senators were
bringing influence to bear to remove these
poor women and place their proteges in the
offices which the present incumbents filled
so well and appreciated so highly.
Mrs. Smith said that the leagues little
hatchet was off getting sharpened for the
| benefit of Sam Randall and other WORTHLESS.
| The tried and trusty weapon had been
dplled little by chopping away at Jay
Hubbell, Senator Vest Ben Brewster ct al,
and would soon be ready for better exccu-
tion than ever before. The leagues little
broom stick and hatchet made and unmade
| politicians and their power was being uni
versally recognized and appreciated
| Mrs. Chandler, delegate to the agri-
cultural conventions now in session, and o
correspondent of the Prairie Farmer and
other agricultural journals, addressed the
league at some length upon the prospect
| for women as agriculturalists, practical
| farmers and fruit-growers in the Western
| and Middle States. The speaker knew of
| several hundred women in Illinois who
were engaged in the practical, manual work
on farms, and she was convinced that
women performed the outdoor work with
out suffering in health, beauty or intellect
Lengthy discussions followed, in which
several members of the league participated