The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-29
THE oouNoI1. OF WOMEN.
Mrs. Barry Lauds the Work Now Being
Done by the knights of Labor.

Mrs. Barry Lauds the Work Now Being
Done by the knights of Labor.
WAsHINGToN, March 2s.-The morning session
of the International Council of Women was de-
voted to the general subject of industries.
Laura II. Johns, president OF the Kansas Equal
Suffrage Association, presided. The Rrat paper
of the session was read by Mrs. Mary A. Tlver-
more, on ''Woman's Industrial Gains During
the Last Half Century" Mrs. A. NJ. Worden
and Hulda a. Loud also read papers.
Mrs. Loud said that wcnan's great
influence in the Knights Of Labor
is being felt wherever women of character have
joined the order. Her work in the
order is manifest in the banishmsnt of to-
bacco and rum from the assembly rooms and in
the greater effect upon herself u the develop
ment of stronger character. She is beginning
to question, if it is right to VOTE speak AMI hold
Office in these assemblies. why is it wrong for
her to do so in the stated Her official recog :
milton is slow because of mans selfshness and
her own timidity and disinclination to push her
claims. And then, Office has and never will
have the attraction for a woman that it has for
a The Knights OF Labor is the grand edn-
cational force among the masses, the barrier
that protects capital and monopoly from the
suits of their folly and crime. We should foster
The next speaker was Ida Barney Sales,
responding secretary of the Sociological Society
of America Her paper described the work OF
the society.
Mrs. Lsonora NJ. Barry, organizer of the
Knights of Labor, next read paper upon
What the Knights of Labor Are Doing for
Women" Mrs Barry spoke with ease and ef'
feet Her address created something like sens
sation, and she was recalled twice She said:
1--WE building around working girls q
wall to defend and protect them from the hu-
jected to. There are no better law supporters.
more loyal citizens, true to the laws of their
country and their country's flag. than the organ
iZed workingmen and women of to-day They
do not demand revolution, but they do demand
reform; they do not ask it by the power OF phys
ical or brute force or strength; they don't ask ID
by the destruction of life property: they sirn&
ply ask it at the hands of the law aking bodies
of their Nation. Only four years ago became
a Knight of Labor. Seven years ago was left
without knowledge OF business, without knowl-
edge of what the world was, with three father
less children looking to me for bread. To sup-
port these children it became my duty 10 60 out
in the army of the employed, and in one of the
largest factories In central New York went,
and for four years became q factory woman.
Four years ago became a Knight of Labor. l
became member of assembly of l,500
women, and let me say that although
there Was not one AMONGST them
that could boast of more than minor part
of common-schooi education. yet 10 that body
of women there was more executive ability
more tact, moro keen, calculating power thaa
could be found in twice that number Of AMI
body of men. The knights Of Labor are taking
the little girls from the factories. the work shoK
and the mine, and educating them, because VIZ
know that the little child TO-DAY is the mother
of the future. We know that the freside. the
Stat council and the nation is mold@d by the
hands of the wives and mothers of our children.
AS these are the children of to-day, and as these
shall be the working of the future.
demand that they shall be taken from the work.
shop, the factory and the mine, and put into ths
school to develop Them"
The session closed with wel-received ad.
dress on women as Farmers" by Esther l.
Warner.
The evening session devoted to talks
'Women in Professions" Prof. Reua A.
miehaels. Laura c. Holloway and DIR. Sarah II.
Stevenson delivered addresses