St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-24
WOMEN AS CITIZENS,
The One Thing They Want
Most Is Enfranchise-
ment.
Female Rights and Duties
Defined by One Of
the Sex.
The Court House Commission
Finally. Gets Down to
Business.
Suicide Of a Student--CheS-
nut May Feel the Laws
Power.
WOMEN AS CITIZENS.
The Business Educators Conven-
ton Addressed by Mrs. Sarah A.
Snencar

The Business Educators COnven-
ton Addressed by Mrs. Sarah A.
Spencer.
The morning session of the Business
Educators convention was devoted
yesterday to work in the various sec
lions, and in the afternoon the secre-
taries made full reports to the associa-
ton of the mornings work, embracing
the following subjects:
calculations" William r. Will, of Bal
tlmore, presented comparison of true
and bank discount, which was followed
by discussion as to the best methods of
finding the exact time between two
dates. Col. George Soule, of New Or
leans, presented the subject of 'Practi-
cal Measurements" illustrated by var
ious practical examples in brick work,
Spencer, of Washington, presented the
subject of Partnership Settlements"
by combination of four methods, the
analytical, to examine it; proportion. to
state it; the fractional and cancellation,
to reduce it. She will present to-mor-
row morning the interest method, and
method of finding total gains.
School of English and Correspondence
"A simple sentence containing nine
varities of complex element was de-
veloped and compared with COM
pound and complex sentence to show
the differences. Punctuation and use
of capitals were illustrated.
Prof. S. S. Packard was invited to
give the essential points of a course in
correspondence. He said they had al
given by Mrs. Spencer in her English
nnmnIpfn
should say but little on the subject.
Whoever had his ideas developed by
such course would have something to
say; would know just how to say it,
and that was the essence of letter-writ-
ing. The typewriter would do the
mechanical letter-writing of the future,
but the qui tx, ready brain and accurate
and fluent speech of the one who dictated
would be the soul of it.
Bookkeeping and Business Practice
Prof. o. F. Williams gave class drill
in jOurnaliZing the members represent
Ing class acting as beginners as we'll
as advanced students. The work is
merely supplementary to the regular
three times week. This subject
elected considerable discussion.
Prof. S. III. Goodyear, of Cedar Rap
ids. To-, introduced the subject of
Business Practice" he has given this
subject much thought, and showed him.
self to be well posted. He aroused
such an interest that the association
voted to have the subject continued this
evening.
woMAN's RIGHTS.
Mrs. Sara A. Spencer addressed the
convention on the civic capacities,
rights and duties of women.
define for me-" she said, 1.-The full
measure of the capacities, rights and
duties of women, and accept that de-
finitiOn. and that alone, as the full meas
ure of the capacities, rights and duties
of women. | ask no man living to give
me any rights. l was born under the
free folds of the American flag: have
never committed any crime against the
laws of my country, and, as daughter
of this fairest republic under the sun, l
claim as mine all of the rights, privi-
leges and immunitieS of citizenship, and
declare myself as ready and able to
perform its duties as l am to bear its
penalties, which men will exact from
one to the uttermost farthing. All of
the consequences of universal suffrage
l accept fully and freely. The ocean
is purer than the stream" But when
men diSfranchiSe three-fourthS of all
of all the teachers and all of the house
and home keepers of the land, 10000
600 of lawabiding, peace-loving, home
making citizens. and then invite the
ignorant and brutal of all lands (who
consider woman as much their property
as their harses, their dogs, their beasts
of burden), to make laws for their
wives and daughters, they well may
tremble for the safety of the republic.
Mrs. Spencer dealt wittily with the
objections of the politicians, the dys-
peptics and the dudes, and said the Re-
publican party, which accorded her
generous and enthusiastic hearing at its
national convention in 1876, and inserted
single in its platform for women,
not quite daring to make it a plank, in
1880 and 1884, lost all its courage. and
left it to third party. which now holds
the balance of power to make the square
issue of morality and justice before the
people.
Women can fight, but they will not.
They love peace and the arts of peace,
and when they make law will have no
fighting men abroad, no weeping maids
at home.
Mrs. Spencer closed her address with
a brief, clever and beautifully illus
trated lecture on 'Civil Government"
The principals of colleges declared it
the gem of the convention.
Mrs. Lizzie Askew-Davis presented
an eloquent address on the same SUBJ
Ject, and was heartily applauded.
A paper on ''Spelliug Reform" pre-
pared for the association by Francis A.
March. LII. D., L. II. D., professor of
English and comparative philology, La
fayett college, Easton, Pa, was read,
and a vote of thanks given to the writer.
1t was very able and suggestive
statement of the history and present
status of the reform, and strongly adj
vocated the adoption of some of the
rules of the Pathological association and
particularly of the spelling of debt, Diet
and debtor, deter and receipt, recet
All the sections will begin work again
this morning at o'clock, and much
solid work is again expected. The fol-
lowing is the programme of the school
of shorthand, Mrs. Packard, chairman:
''How to Secure Time for a Language
Course" G. Bayless.
"Brevity in Correspondence" A. D.
Welt.
"How to Teach Language to Short
hand Students" w. E. McCord.
"Typewriting," o. P. Judd.
"Methods of Teaching Photography,
Elias Longley.
Each of the other sections will have
full and interesting programmes.
BEGINNING THE WORK.
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