The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-01
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Ms. I. May Wheeler addressed thu Chi
cspo Philosophical Society last evening on
81 lie Condition of Woman M der the Fall.p
The selection of Miss Lizzie Calls as State
Librarian for another term is in the line of
Owl Ssrvfce reform. She has been an eff.
CT. mt officer and her experience viii enable
hfr 10 render still better service
The old spirit OF religious intolerance and
persecution which has been manifested in
New England . number of times in its his
tory, IL yet alive In the Massachusetts, House
Of Representatives, which has declined to
grant the petition of the officers of the First
Congregational Church of Nantucket that its
minister, Louise n. Baker, might perform
the marriage ceremony.
Under resolution offered by Represents.
beTs OF the Houte were en- last Tuesday an
Deli ted on the joint con mittee on womens
CLAIMS: Messrs. Staley, Toner Jameson.
Linsday and Brownlee. This COMMITTEES is
now complete ard ready to consider the
matters which Indiana women may desire
70 bring before the Legislature.
The meeting of the Indianapolis Equal
Suffrage Society to morrow afternoon prom
ises to be unusually interesting. The SUBJ
ject for discussion will be why do women
wish the ballot" and number of promi.
nent ladies have promised to answer from
their respective standpoints the question
s'Why do want to Vote" The meeting
y III g held in the club room at Plymouth
Chuith at O'Clock.
In the hands of Mrr. Elizabeth Boynton
Barbert, Our Herald has been metamor-
ybosed into the New Era, . monthly of
~ wi re
January Iksue, Vol. /, No. l. contains a
ss efch of Lucretia Mott by the editor and
variety of original and selected matter re-
lsting to the interests of women in the world
srd in the tome-an admirable piece of
thoughtful, refined magazine woak. The
Harbert should be addressed at Evanston,
Illinois.
At the recent Washington Convention pf
the National Woman Suffrage Association
RESOLUTIONS were adopted requesting Con-
grsss TO pass the bill for the submission of
the Sixteenth Amendment to the Legisla-
lures Of the several States and declaring that
to make sex qualification for the exercise
Of the right OF suffrage is to degrade one
half of our people by disfranchise ment and
to deprive the other half of the very power
necessary to their success as builders of q
oIution Iegretting the death of Hon. Henry
Fawcett; Wendell Phillips, Senator An.
thonv, Madame Mathiids Anneke, Frances
ID Gage, Sarah Pogh. Elizabeth T. Schenck,
Rate Newell Doggett, Laura Giddings Julian,
Judge Folger, Bishop Simpson and William
Henry Charming as an irrsparable loss to
with their families and friends and graft
tude for their life long services tor the ele-
walton of woman. The last resolution we
quote in full, THAT We note with great sat
tsfaction the growth of sentiment favorable
to woman suffrage in the w. @, T. u, and
that We thank them heartily for the recent
memorial to Congressn in benslf of the
10th amendment
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton presided over
The public sessions. and despite her al
vanced age exhibited no loss of mental Wig
or. She opened and closed the convention
With forci BILE speeches. made strong argu.
ment on the thee logical resolution and gave
m able address on the Limitation
and disabilities Of SEX
The religious resolution which after spir-
tied discussion sliciting variety ofopinien,
was laid over for further thought and inves-
tigatiou, and which has exci5 Ted considerable
comment, reads as follows:
Whereas, the dogmas inculcated in relig.
ious cieeds derived from Judaism, teach
that woman was an afterthought in creation,
of subordination and maternity curse are
contrary to the Law Of God a. revealed in
nature and the precepts of Christ and
Whereas, these dogmas are an insidious
poison, sapping The vitality Of our civiliza-
tiIon, blightjng women and laying their pal
sying hand upon humanity; therefore
Resolved, That We denounce these dogmas
wherever they are enunciated, and We will
withdraw our personal support from any
organization or person 20 holding and teach
ing; and
Al - o.o ~.xA
enforce the fundamental idea OF creation,
that man was made in the image OF God,
male and female and given equal dominion
over the earth, but not over each other.
And further We invite their cooperation in
securing the recognition OF the cardinal
point of our creed that tn true religion, there
10 neither male nor female, neither bond nor
free, but all are one.'
MraStanton explain ed that this resolution
10 not an expression Of sntsgonism to relig-
ION but protest against false teachings and
an enumeration of the doctrine of equality.
She objected to theologians who persisted in
quoting texts which seem to give men
authority over women instead of consulting
Gen. 1. Il, Is. 1t Is important, she said, that
women ehould study the position assigned
them In creeds and canonical law, and
should understand the danger of ecclesiasti.
cal control.
Mics Frances E. Burr of Hartford, Connec-
fiCut was the stenographic reporter OF the
convention, and the proceedings will be
Published in the New Era for February
The convention Was not as largely at
tended by western women ~ heretofore. In
diana having no representative and Illi-
nois but one, DR.. Alice B. Stock ham. Mrs.
MAY Wright Sewsll was re elected chairman
of the executive COMMITTEES.
A private letter from Mrs. Matilda Jcslyn
Gage says: "Tke convention was as usual
quite q success in moving thought. Our
n m nro
clearly the causes of woman's degradation.
The resolution for a sixteenth amendment
will be brought mp by the Senate commit
Zee having ii in charge sometime soon, and
will be pressed to . vote. We hope ct least
&c compel the 4sth Congress to pat itself on
record. III the Republican party is wise and
hopes1for q resurrection in IS ii must
submit the amendment, but ! doubt its
wisdom. Should it not do so, the Democrats
viii bave . splendid opportunity for retain