Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-31

forth today with whole skins and hearts
, She preferred 70 speak TO mixed meetings
} Men and women are equally responsible 70
the commission OF sin. She said the dress
ing for our children should be moral a
well as a phys steal covering. Her addres
was enthusiastically received by the audi
ence. She represents in the council tn,
Edinburgh National Society for woman suf
frage. Mrs. Caroline VI. 5. Frazier of ths
National Moral and Educati onal Society. ans
Dr. Caroline b. Winslow, delegate from the
District of Columbia Moral and Educationa
Society, spoke upon 1.-THE starting point.
Harriet R. Shattuck said that wrong To one
was wrong to all. No woman had righ
TO forgive man who had done wrong TO
another woman. She also discussed briefly
the question of marriage and divorce. Mar.
riage, she declared, was not contract bur
an institution of God. Madame 5. Magels.
son Groth, delegate from Norway, delivered
short address, followed by Clara Clay borne
Hoffman, who said in substance that preg-
nant women should receive the same atten-
ton attention cattle, yet 80 times out of
100 she Is the victim OF mans lust, and
knows il is wrong and her nature ebels.
All remedies would be but partial and disap-
pointing until women stand everywhere on
la perfect equality with men, and until soce-
ty, church and the law regards marriage As a
perfect partnership, and she as an equal part
ner. The horror of lustful children being
brought into the world will continne until
woman is recognized as having il right to say
when the new life shall begin. When the
parents themselves are pure, whey will stand
on different grounds of equality with each
other, and man will honor and cherish his
wife instead of loving aud lusting after her
,t.
shame in teaching children the sacred mys-
teres of life instead of having them
learn them from ignorant servants
When this era arrives children will be born
who can say, my strength is as the strength
of ten because my heart is pure" Frances
Willard, the next speaker, as preface, read
a petition to be signed by the women of the
| council, urging Congress to pass bill To
raise the age of consent, wherever it has alb
soiute control, to eighteen. She attacked
low cut dresses, and said those wearing them
borrowed the idea from women whom they
would be ashamed to touch. She also said
that in the new the half nude pictures of
women used as advertisements by cigar deal
ers, should not stay in the windows over night.
She also touched upon the impurity of dress
| ing on the stage and the evils of round dances.
Arabs love to say of pure man ''he is the
brother of girls, as typlfying their best and
greatest idea of purity. When women are
not dolls nor toys, but duchesses crowned
with hearts of love and brains of fire, a new
day would come. Professors in German uni
versities, she said, impress upon the young
men the necessity of chastity, if they wish 10
have magnificent brain. The opera house
has a seating capacity of twenty-five hun
dred.
AT least three thousand women at
tended the morning session. Standing room
was at a premium when the evening session
began. The theme was political conditions
and womans right to the ballot Addresses
were made by Mrs Isabella Beecher Hooker
of Connecticut, and Mrs. Harriet II Robin
son, who said our only hope seems to be in
the formation of new party which
shall advocate our own with other
leading reforms aud old parties slowly dying
out and the young men Of today or many Of
them are Interested in something besides
discussing what the Sc. o. L" has done, or
what the wicked democrats did before the
last war. They are thinking of temperance
legislation, labor reform, free trae and the
women question, and will tiud field i'll
which to work for these issues. There was
ii reception at the White House at $50, Z.
NJ. ., in honor of the International Women's
Council.
Mrs. Martha A. Eve rett. Laura NJ Johns
of Kansas, Mrs. Marble of Minneapolis,
Rev. Annie Shaw of Massachusetts, address
ed the meeting. Frances +. willard the
last speaker said When women went in
to politics they would take dust brooms and
pans and have a clearing out of brother Jon
athan's kitchen, which of late has not
been kept in good order. (Laughter)
The President has sent letter to the
Civil Service Commission recommending an
extension OF llie limits of classified service.
He calls special attentio 10 the subdivision
of general rule | II OF the amended civil ser
vice rules promulgated Feb. ., loSS. 1t
provides for the promotion of any employe
IN the department who is below or outside
the classified service. To place within said
classified service in the same department
upon request of the appointing officer, upon
recommendation of the Commission and the
approval of the President, after non com
petIye examination in case such person has
been in the service continuously for two
years in the pla ce from which il is proposed
to promote HIM and because of his faithful
ness and efficiency IN the position occupied by
hlm, and because of has qualifications tor the
place to which the appointing officer desires
his promotion. The President thinks this
provision must be executed with caution to
avoid its application to cases not intended
and under relaxation of the general purposes
and restrictions of the civil service law. He
says the sole purpose of the provision is to
ben, tit public service and 1t should never be
permitted to operate as the evasion of the
main feature of the law, which is a compe-
tive examination, as these cases will first be
presented TO the Commission for recommen-
Al.
formulate plan by which their merits can
be tested. He says this and other difficulties
which now embarass the execution of the
civil service law would be abated if
there was better uniform classification of the
employees in the different department de-
partments. He reviews the present imper-
feet classification, hastily male and appar-
entity with but little care for uniformity. and
promulgated after the last presidential elec-
ton and prior to the installation of the pres
ent administration, and says that they should
not have been permitted to c0ntinue until
this time. He requests the Commission To
revise the ciassihcatlons aud submit to him
the plan which Will as far as possible make
them uniform aud which will especially rem
edy the present condition which permit per-
sous To enter grade in the service in one
department without any examination which
in another department can only be entered
after passing such examination One Of the
Commissioners said today that his views on
the Commission are i'll full accord with those
of the Pre- sident, The Commission would
advise uniform classification, wuich shall
include and bring within the jurisdiction of
the Commission of every person in depart
mental service of the government except
such as are appointed by the President, with
the advice and consent of the Senate and
persons employed merely as lahorers and
workmen. Under the new rules, however,
there will be excepted from examination,
" hich this classification implies, certain pri-
vate secretaries, custod.ans of money, dis
bursting officers, secret service employees,
chief clerks and chiefs of divisions.
ADJOURNED