St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-29
The COUNCIL OF WOMEN.
KNIGHTS CT Labor Championed by the
Ladies.
DEFENSE OF WORKING GIRLS
Women as Farmers, Journalists, Doc
tors, Lawyers and Minister'S
Other Subjects.

WASHINGTON, March 28.-The morn
ing session of the international council
of women was devoted to the general
subject of industries. Laura Nj. johns,
president of the Kansas Equal Suffrage
association, presided. The first paper
of the session was read by Mrs. Mary A.
Livermore, on "WOman's Industrial
Gains During the Last Half Century"
Mrs. A. NJ. Worden and Hulda B. Loud
also read papers. Mrs. Loud said that
woman's great influence in the hnlghts
of Labor is being felt wherever women
Of character have Joined the order. Her
work in the order is manifest i'll the
hanishment of tobacco and rum from
the assembly rooms and in the greater
effect upon herself in the development
of a stronger character. She is begin
ming to question if it is right to vote.
sneak and hold office in these assem-
bIies- why 1t is wrong for her to do so
in the state. Her official recognition IS
slow because of mans sellshneSS ana
HER OWN TIMIDITY
and dissemination TO push ner claliiiS;
And then office has not and never VIII
have the attraction for woman tnaI III
has for man. The Knights OF LABOR
is the grand educational force among
the masses, the barrier that protects
capitol and monopoly from the results
of their folly and CRIME. we snoula
foster labor organizations 10 plege;5ll en-
revolution. The next speaker was Ida
Rarnev Sales. corresponding secretary
If the Sociological society OF America.
Her naner described the work OF the So
rietyl Mrs. Leonora NJ. Barry, organ,
izer of the Knights of Labor, next read
a naner upon "What the Knights OF
Tahor are Doing for Women" Mrs.
Parry smoke with ease and effect. Her
address created something like senSa-
tion and she was recalled twice. she
said. 1--WE are building around our
working girls wall to
DEFEND AND PROTECT THEM
from fine humiliations which heretofore
they have been subjected to. Ihere
are no better law supporters, no more
Ioval citizens. true to the law OF
the country and their country's nag,
than the organized worklngmen ana
women of to-day. They do not teem
and revolutioniZe, but they 40 demand
reform; they do not ask IL py the
power of physical or brute force or
strength, they do not ask IL by the
destruction of life and property, they
simply ask it at the hands OF the law
making bodies of their nation: only
four years ago l became a knlghG OF
Labor. Seven wears ago L was left
without knowledge of business without
knowledge of what the world was, with
three fatherlesS children looking to me
for bread. To support these children
it became myduty to 60 out in the army
of the enjoyed, and in one OF the largest
factories in Central New York. went
and for four wears became a factory
woman. Four years ago L became
Knight of Labor. | became member
of an assembly of 1900 women. And
let me say that although there was
NOT ONE AMONGST THEM
that could boast of more than minor
part OF common school education, yet
in that body of women there was more
executive ability, more tact, more keen
calculating power than could be found
in twice that number of any body OF
men. The Knights of Labor are taking
the little girls from the factory, the
workshop and the mine, and educating
them, because we know that the little
child of to-day is the mother OF the tu-
ture. We know that the tireslde,. the
city, the state, council and nation are
moulded by the hand of the wives and
mothers of our children. AS these are
the children of to-day, and as these shall
be the working women of the future, we
demand that they shall be taken from
the workshop, factory and the mine and
put into the school to develop them"
The session closed with well-recelved
address on ''Women as Farmers" by
Esther l.. Warner. At the evening
session Prof. Rena A. Michaels spoke OF
"Women as Educators" and cOntrasted
the modes of training educators fifty
years ago with those pursued to-day.
She said that the Michigan university
by opening its doors to women gave
new history to women as educators,
openining to them the door Of every
profession. Laura G. Holloway spoke
on
''WOMEN IN JOURNALISM"
Twenty-Five years ago only fifteen
women were employed in the whole
country as editors, while at present
there are 200 employed in active jour
nalistic work in New York city alone.
In conclusion, she paid a tribute to the
newspaper editors and proprletors OF
the United States, and said that news
paper that attempted to get along with
OuG a WOlldll VII lLo oIulI NOuiNt W Jain
rupt in five years. DR.. Sarah Hackett
Stevenson spoke of ''Women in Medi-
cine" and said that the women who
went to all quarters of the globe as
physicians did more missionary work
than the church missionaries, because
the doctor appealed to nature. She
advocated the putting of women physi-
clans in charge of the unfortunate poor
and the criminals of her own sex. Mrs.
Ada Bittenbender, national superinten-
dent of legislation in the W. c. T. o.,
read paper on Women in Law" Mrs.
Bittenbcnder practices law with her
husband. Rev. Ada BOwles spoke of
"Women in the Ministry and said that
women should be allowed to share the
pulpit equally with men. Other adj
dresses were made by Mrs. Martha r.
Fields Catherine Cole, of the New
Orleans Picayune. representing the
Woman's International Press assOcia-
ton; Mrs. Amelia Hadley Mohl, of
Washington, d. c., representing the
National Press association; and Matilda
Horco uubn cnolya of xuhat four