Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-31
WOMEN AND POLITICS,
The Cauucil OF Women Listens TO Some
Sensational Addresses By
Female Orators.
OF Gonsenr-.ocial Evils In Amer
lea and Abroad.
woMAN's sUFrsAeB AssoCIATIoy,


lea and Abroad.
woMAN's SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION,
WASHINGTON, March 3o.-"Social
Purity" the subject chosen BY Mrs EI's,-
beth Leslie s,xton, v ce-president of the
National Woman's Suffrage Association
Of Tennessee, created decided sensation
in the Womau's Sunrsge convention this
morning. She spoke very plainly Of So
cial evil, and the imprudsncs of women
in not confding 10 their children the
great secrets and truths Of life, instead OF
learning them from children
snd servants. Sons and daughters
alike should be taught the awful
power Of sex, FOR the building of
character begins IN the very hour of con-
ception. Iatempersnce in desire has
married the happiness Of thousands OF
families. Toung girls should be taught
he sacredness Of marriage, and to hold
control Of her person against her hus-
bands lust. Christ preached the first
sermon of equal rights in purity &C.: man
aud wcman,- but societv condemns the
woman and condopes the man. Only
through womsn's own effort she can be
free in CONT oil of her person. Men per-
petually blame women for the sins OF
the world because eff the Bibles story OF
Adams fall through Eve. Mrs. SaxtoD
oss talked and preached freely on this
suoj ct for twelve years before audiences
n sume cases composed entirely OF men.
Mrs. S,xton spoke of herself IS the cham
c'on for those who have never yet had q
champion,
THE IMPURE WOMAN
made so not nv faults OF her o Wn, but by
mans lust. Slavery caused the indiffer-
eDce OF man 10 the purity OF women, and
the colored man above all was the
most blest in being Indifferent 10
the purity Of even his own house
hold, but since the emsncipa-
ton ne has begun to look upon iBpuIity
in his own household as does his white
brother.
AurIo Rice Powell, of the new commits
sion for the prevention Of state regulation
Of vice, introduced her subject by saying
that it has been asserted that the history
Of prostitution is the history Of women,
ous she has always been it's victim. There
nave always been certain women set apsrl
| aud it bias been stated that the virtue Of
| he favored women is SAFE only at the
expense of these psrishs. The result Of
such state of affairs has been an efforl
to license this vice oy legalized immortality
81 as to ev.de It's natural Consequence,
| loatbsome disease. But this has proved
failure in sanitary sense and is NOR.
ally most deplorabie, because 1t does not
check licenti pusne.s, but only gives msn
no fnin or for
gives ia a woman. 1 nCcent girls by the
lice nse systt m II ough necessary medical
luspec ion are liable to be su1iec ed to
this awful degradation merely on suspi-
ci0n. Sle then spoke of
THE AGE OF PROTECTION
in various states ahu peid 8 tribute 10
Kansas IS having made that age eighteen
v. ars while in one state 1t was as low as
seven years.
Mrs Admission Chant was then intro
duced. she has heen engaged ia this
work for twenty five years. Sac Youch.e
for the trulhfulness OF Mr.. s esd's
charges 10 the Pal Mall G., Lette, saying
tina she would stake her life on The IL
Correctness. she spoke principally OF
the work of social purity societies IN
Great BIitain. Since the beginning oil
Mrs Chants work she has seen marvel
Gus results. she has gwen meetings Il
women alone as well ao mixed meetings
Ia her meetings for women they
came at first heavily yelled,
but the wells we're thrown aside
Soc denounced the British government
Glue book as containing stories of wroOg.
doing Of peers Of Great Britain even WORSE
| than those published In the Pail Nal
G,z=tte. OIe member OF Parliament
~nen the question Of Increasing the age
at watch consent could be given was
| being sgiteted said that for his part he
wished IL was ten years. The ladies OF
| mis- borough got together and made it &c
! not for him tnst he had TO get out.
Girls, before there was any Legislation
Ia the matter, were taken in droves by
PROGRESSES to the continent to I'll houses
of i'll fame, under pretense CT getting
| them places at service. Now
| LADIES OF HIGH CT RACTRR
| and stsnIIng are TO De fund ST all sea
port towns and railroad s atoms to guart
unsus2ecting girls who may be tnus de
luded oy false Advertisements. Some 0
the women OF England who might ha
done, and are don g excellent work IL
al philenthropic branches, AK -, "Wha
hive women to d with polite ?" Thi
question Mrs. Chant answered o.
saying IL has been \ splendid education
for women. Sac intima;ed wom,l
should d, eide when and how often coii
oren should be born to heI, especially 3
sh.- is he molder Of their minds an
souls, as well as OF their bodily frames
Sne was the trst TO put the Grimm,
amendment bill into force II any on
says it is dangerous for women 10 en-
gsge in work Of this kind tn
ans yer is that women who hav
oeen engaged in 1t stand forth to-da
with whole skins and hearts. She pre-
fired to speak to mixed meetings be
csusr men and women are equally re
,ponsi1le for the commission of sin. Sn
also said the dressing Of our childre
sh, uld be moral rs we'll as physics
GOV. ring. Mrs. Chants address was en-
Enthusiastically received by The audience
she represents In the council the Enir
bureh National Society for Woman Sui
trsge.
H.rriet B Shattuck said that wron
to one was 8 wrong to all, and that n
woman bad right to forgive man wh
had done wrong to another woman
She also discussed briefly the question {
marriage and divorce. Marriage, Oh
declared, is not contract but an instilr