St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-25


equal educational, industrial, profess
sional and political rights for women
was made in a convention held at Seneca
Falls, n. Y, in 1913. To celebrate the
fortieth anniversary of this event an in
ternational council OF women will be
convened under the auspices of the Ma
tional Woman'S Suffrage association IN
Albaugh's opera house, Washington, ID.
C.. March 25, 1888"
''It is impossible to over estimate the
far-reaching influence of such council.
An interchange of opinions on the great
questions now agitating the world will
rouse women to new thought, will in
tensify their love of liberty, and will
give them a realizing sense of the power
of combination.
This is harmless enOugh-apparently.
To the innocent and unsuspectlng, 1t is
nothing but movement to snap the
fingers of all the progressive women on
earth, with an awful snap as of
one hand, right in the face of
the congress of the United States,
to de-pedestal the present Goddess Of
Liberty and raise Elizabeth Cady STAN
ton in her place, to call the American
eagle off his perch and let Susan B. An
thOny climb up and flop her wings in
his stead. All this seems, but oh! much
III seeming lies. Heed this well: can
Interchange Of opinions on the great
questions now agitating the world will
rouse women to new thought, will in
intensity their love of liberty,
and will give them a realizing
sense Of the power of combination"
Now do you begin to smell it-not mice,
but dynamite? Could anything be
palmer, more prophetic? "Will inten-
Sify their love of liberty and will give
them realizing sense of the power of
combination There's murder in the
air, as eventually you will discover.
This council of women is gigantic
scheme to free the down-trodden with
one fell blow from the CALLING chains men
have bound around them. Threats. coax
ing, arguments, fattery, sandwiches and
coffee at the polls, bouquets at the state
house. AL these have failed to accom-
pliSh the emancipation OF women, and
now the time has come when they be-
lieve repeated defeats justify desperate
measures.
Consider the circular further: SIN
an international council women may
hope to devise new and more effectual
methods of securing in the church. state
md home the equality and justice which
they have so earnestly sought. Much
Is said of universal brotherhood, but
for veal or woe, more subtitle
and more binding, is universal
BiSterhOOd." You see the aim of the
council is to organize one vast anti-man
BiSterhood-a Sisterhood as iron-bound
rs the ancient order of RoSicrucianS,
and even more secret in its operations.
Auxiliary organizations have been qui-
city instituted in every locality, and for
months past have been forwarding the
scheme of independence which the
council is intended to perfect. Two of
these auxiliary organizations exist right
in our midst-one in st. Paul, the other
III Minneapolis. Last winter there was a
club of women established here, which
was named the Nineteenth Century
club. Nothing much was thought about
il. for Woman'S clubs have become one
of societys common chronic disorders.
But this particular club differed from
Others of its kind in thiS-it not only did
not court not0riety, but it stunned it.
When member WAS approached by re-
porterS with requests for particulars of
the last meeting. the members face
blanched, her hands trembled, and
n husky tones she refused the
desired information, assigning as her
reason that it was bylaw of the So
cltlA lIlll lis movements SIlUtlU IlUU NC
discussed in public. Small wonder that
this provision was made by the trainers
of its constitution. Did Louis Lingg sit
Oh the steps of the Chicago postoffice
while engaged in the manufacture of
bombs? Did his associates invite the
press to witness their military drill in
ther safe retreat on the North side?
Without opposition, without insisting
on knowing the reason why, we have
been permitting body of women to sit
with closed doors in our midst, and if
now our homes and the lives of our hus-
bands and fathers are in danger, we
have ourselves to blame.
At the last meeting of this Ostensibly
literary, society Pauline-no matter how
was present. There was nothing un-
usual about The sight OF women enter
ing by twos and threeS the front door of
all hOspitable house; butcould you have
seen these same women passing through
the house with fleet footsteps, out the
back door, skurrying down the alley,
sllulking across lighted streets, hurrying
along darker ones, keeping well in the
shadow, and finally congregated in an
attic chamber OF dilApidated house in
the outskirts Of the city, what would
you have thought then? When all were
assembled, the door was locked and
heavily barred. On either side stood O.