Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-04-02
REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN.

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REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN.
The Internationai Cornell Bars Me,i and
Discusses Morality.
WASHINGTON, March 31.-Mrs. e. Boyn-
ton-Herbert, the eloquent advocate of the
rights of the gentler sex, from Chicago,
was president of yesterdays session. The
ladies had d symposium all to themselves
in the morning, and for the first time
since the opening of the council, the rep
r4sentatiyes of the sterner sex We're ex-
cluded. The subject of morality was un-
der discussion, and it had been thought
that the representatives of the various
moral agencies throughout the country
would prefer to discuss the question with
closed doors. The subject was intro
duced with a paper upon choral Educa-
tion,'' by Mrs. Elizabeth Lisle Saxon, of
Tennessee.
Miss Anthony introduced Madame S..
Magettson Groth, the delegate from Nor
way. Madame Groth is a beautiful wom-
an, dark eyed, and dark haired. In in
Producing her Miss Anthony said that
Nine. Groth had not confidence in her
English to read her own paper, but would
ave a part of it read by Mrs. Gustofson.
Nine. Groth in a few words spoke of her
delight at being with the council.
After Mrs. Gustofson had read a part
of Nine. Groth's paper, Clara Claghorne
Hoffman was introduced. Mrs. Hoffman
said substantially that pregnant women
should receive the same attention as cat
tie, yetninety-five times out of one hundred
she is the victim of mans lust, when she
knows 1t is wrong, and her nature re-
bells against it. All remedies will
be but partial and disappointing until
woman stands everywhere on a perfect
equality with man-until society, and
church, and law, regard marriage as q
perfect partnership, and she is an equal
partner. The horror of lustful children
being brought into the world will con
tinue until woman will be recognized as
possessing the right of saying when the
new life shall begin. Until we do this
we are talking in vain, save as agitation
brings action. When the parents them
selves are pure, they will stand on differ
ent grounds of equality with each other,
and the mar will honor and cherish his
wife, instead of loving and lust
ing after her. Then parents will
have no shame in teaching
oneii CliDiIen tie sacred mysteries
of life, instead of having theIn learned
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.n
After Mrs. Hoffman had finished speak
ing, and before the introduction of the
next speaker, Miss Anthony gave out va
riousn% notices, mi made a motion to send
cablegrams to Mrs. McLaren, and several
other notable women in the work of
woman's advancement. Mrs May
Wright Sewau made a motion to add
queen N1ctoria'S name to the number,
saying, whatever u individual opinion
OF her might be as a queen, we honor
her in the relations of wife
and mother. When the question
was put to an aye and no vote d consid-
cradle number shouted "no,n Miss An
thony then said that The matter of The
cablegrams and all things of that sort,
would have to be referred officially to the
delegates of the council before being
acted upon, but that the idea was merely
to get an expression of the opinion from
the audience. She accordingly put the
motion before the audience again in that
light, and the objectionable s'nos'' were
withdrawn "A motion was then mode
and enthusiastically carried, to add the
name OF the empress of Germany to the
list, as being a ~symyathizer and a leader
in all womanly advancement.
Francis Willard then delivered an adj
dress on dress reform, in which she de.
nounced full dress as half nudity.
The president and Mrs. Cleveland gave
a reception in the afternoon to the dele
gates to the international council, as well
nc fn alltfho wanna, anr, ,oo+al ,..+l a.
council, either as visitors or individual
members. 1t was a reception for ladies
only, but about forty men had the temer.
ity to inttude themselves into the White
House.
The evening session was devoted to adj
dresses on the political condition OF
women.
Mrss |. b. Hooker delivered a long adj
dress on the constitutional rights Of
women TO vote, insisting that the words
"posterityn and people, as used in
that instrument, included women as
well as Eaen, and that women, as we'll as
men, were citizens under the fourteenth
amendment. In closing her address. she
appealed to men to remove the barriers
OF unjust and unconstitutional legisla.
ton that stood in the way of the exercise
of he right to vote by women, and ap-
pcaled to women to claim, and, where
ever they were able, to exercise the
right.
Mrs. Harriet II. Robinson delivered an
address on the present attitude of politi-
cal parties towards woman's suffrage.
She saw little or no hope of recognition
from either of the old parties, but pre-
ferred to wait for the formation of a
third, or new party, which ''shall advo-