The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18

TIE National Woman Suffrage Association
VII meet az Washington this week.
4 disfranchised taxpayer rises 70 INQUIRE
Why members oil the Legislature are allowed
mileage at the rate OF twenty cents Der mile
while railroad fare is but four cents.
The Cleveland Leader siyos highly com.
mandatory repor. of Mrs Mary Z. Hsggsrts
recent address in that city On woman SAT
irsge. The meeting was held under the
auspices OF the Western Reserve Club, and
was attended by about two thousand per
sonE.
SenstOT Thom pson has introduced BIZ
for the better education and instruction Of
coRvicts- II provides that the moral III
strlctor." now appointed By the wardens
and directors shall render service daily in
norant conyicts sbal, be given secular edu-
cation ss well as spiritual instruction, and
that the instructor may be a woman. The
senator 10 anxious that woman should be
appointed in at least one Of the prisons, for
the reason that "the softening
in better than scourging The back
with cat o. nine tails"
Doubtless this is ell true, bat there's
difficulty n the way. VIII not this woman
moral instructor" who comes in daily con-
trct with penitentiary full OF convicts be
in almost ss great danger Of being subjected
10 unpleasant associations end of becoming
contaminated IS il she should 60 to the polls
and vote or as if she should sit in tie Legis-
lature and help make the laws by which she
Ia governed?
In Q report OF the work in the voman's
department. OF the Exposition, the New Or
leans Picayunc says:
Mrs. Merrick, Southern Vice President,
s1d Mrs. Josephine Nichols. of Indianapolis,
were experimenting the arrangement of the
Wonan's Chrietlan Temperance Union
square IN the center OF the department yes
terdsy morning. Mrs. Nichols, lovely and
cultured woman, is prominent member of
the National Temperance Union, be-
ing President Of the department of State
and county fairs, hundreds of which she has
attended and arranged temperance exhibits.
Mrs. Nichols says that the chief feature of
TIE temperance exhibit in the Exposition
will necessarily be literature, and that
thousa nds Of pounds Of temre -ancs Iitera-
ture, leaflets, etc., viii be give away.
Coolers Of ice water will also be provided
for the refreshment of these who pass. In
thle connection Mrs. Nichols is making eff
fort to have drinking fountains established
a the buildings. At present there sze none,
and the temperance women will not surely
even If they have to pat up drinking fonn-
tains themselves.
AS public lecturer. Mary A. Livermore
has served her day and generation well. She
has served it well in other capacities. but by
her platform work she will probably be best
remembered. Every winter, except the
year spent abroad, for nearly twenty years,
ths has travelled far and wide and filed long
series OF lecture gagements-s severe test
of physical endurance as we'll % OF mental
breadth. Her themes have been many, her
words a. helpful as they were eloquent.
Eer voice has been lifted up in behalf of
every good cause.-The advancement of
women, of temperance, OF education, of
every humanitarian enterprise. She has
taught mothers how to teach their sons and
daughters, inspired girls to higher standards
of womanhood and to wider fields of useful
Ness. and encouraged tired housekeepers and
told them of happier end more simple modes
of Hvir z. In the helpfulness and suggesti ye-
nefs Of her lectures, in her wonderful aud
ever.ready resources OF learning.
s s.E R and S SSssf7'S0 ana in
may be found the secret of her perennial
success and interest.
When last year, Mrs. Livermore came be-.
fore the public with her new lecture con-
corning the evidences of Immortality out
side Of revelation-the evidences afforded by
W ".
the longings and aspirations of the human
soul in all its grades of development, and
by the whispers reaching listening strain
ing ears from the invisible beyond-it
seemed as though this, the most thoughtful,
subtle and introsrective of all her lyceu n
atterances, might prove her browning effort.
While the public hoped to greet her on num-
ereus occasions, it scarcely expected another
entirely new theme-it were fitting that
the series should be completed with . ser.
mon.
But in telling the story OF Wendell Phil
fps and his times, in becoming the platform
historian Of one Of the bitterest struggles
and one of the grandest characters of the
age, in paying tender tribute to an honored.
beloved co-worker, Mrs. Livermoze 10 prob
ably rendering her best service to her day
and generation.
Young America needs to be told and old
America reminded of the anti-slavery battle
and CT its heroes. 1t is we'll to bury Sec
tional animosities, to clasp hands across
the bloody chasm," to forgive, but it n not
well to forget the horrors and cruelties, the
intolerance and prosecutions Of the old slav-
cry DAYS, or the courage and sacrifices of the
aoolitionists. 1t Is not wise that Birney and
Lovejoy, Garrison aud Phillips should be-
come rs myths; yet our school children are
better acquainted with Cassius and Caesar.
with Cromwell and Bonapart. An under
stsnGiDg OF the origin, growth and do wnfall
OIL a mcllCoa ntovciy iuspifc5 i6ttn IL tllo
vitality of the Republic. The worst abused
reformer of to-day will take courage when
he compares his lot with that of Garrison,
and the philsnthropist who considers the
man bought and sold quarter of . century
ago. but recognized rs citizen and q peer
to-day, may have hope even for the elevation
Of the vicious, the criminal, the tramps, the
offscourings of every race and nationality.
In her delineation of the life and chsrsc-
Ter Of Wendell Phillips, Mrs. Livermore
iucuIcates other lessons still more
soreiy needed, Manhood more than woman
hood to-day needs to be educated to high
standard. inspired to lofty endeavor. Toe
''glrl of the period" with all her follies and
weaknesses, promises better as rule IN ey-
cry grade from news girl to college graduate
than the boy of the period in correspond
ing grade. There doubtless Is some truth In
the cutlery about the moral deterioration OF
girls Of certain classes, il il exists 1t Is not
to be wondered at The sins OF the fathers
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