The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-23

office secretary, and hold meetings quar-
lerly. This council would naturally enter
unitedly upon such lines OF work as all the
could agree upon. The State
Council would naturally hold meetings
II is believed that such a plan
Of interaction, combined with the organic
OF each society, will broaden
the outlook of individual members and
lead to larger mutual liberation between
organizations heretofore separate, and to q
great degree non.sympathetic; th = 1t viii
do away with the overlapping oil plans that
now leads 10 much waste Of time and en-
crgy, and that its influence would be sui
ficicnt 10 secure almost any local reform
either small or great.
AS an illustration Of the practical work
ing OF the plan, II may be stated that such
q council OF women might, II II were tie
general desire, arrange for petitions rom
all societies OF women in any given town
or city asking that women should boplaced
on the school board; on the different
boards intrusted with the caro- OF public
institutions for the detective, delinquent
and dependent classes; asking Tor the adj
mission of women 20 membership, and TO
an official standing, also, IN local, county
aud state organizations, such as
press associations medical associations,
Sunday-school and ecclesiastical associa-
tons, etc; asking that the doors OF such
schools and colleges as arc not yet open TO
women may be thrown open Tor their adj
mission asking for qymnastic and indus
trial training for girls In the public schools
asking for the better protection OF home,
and moro judicial penalties for crimes
against girls and women. In short, local
aud State Councils might take the Same
action in local aud State Affairs that the
National Council will take regarding insti'
tutions and movements OF national charac-
ter and scope. IL will be readily seen that
greatly added force will come IRON
any such movement, whether local
State or National, when II Is
backed by the united societies OF the
locality, state or nation, and that with
small expenditure Of time and money, all
these societies, while carrying on sepa'
rntely their own individual work Tor which
they were organized, may also do an nm
mcnso work for womanhood ut large along
the lines on which all can agree to unite
in sympathy, influence and effort. To
carry out such plans on 30 large scale
will require time, but there Is every reasoi
10 believe that the women OF the nation
will persist in quiet but intelligent en-
dcayor, having IN view the ends herolI
stated, until success shall crown their groa
but altogether practicable movement.
Already tho organizations Of women II
Chicago have formed u local council, anC
n similar movement has been innuguratcC
in Philadelphia, Detroit and Providence
Ohio and Kansas have organized STATE
| Councils.
Such uni6calion Of all local and Stat,
organizations will at once illustrate on
small scale what on large scale the Ma
titnal Council is expected TO accomplish
for the welfare Of humanity. But IL is {,
DO distinctly understood that under th'
constitution OF tho National Council onll
national societies Of women are eligible I,
membership therein.
A form OF constitution for local and Stat
councils, and other hints aud helps for or
ganizing, will bo furnished on application
10 Mrs. May Wright Scwnll, indianapolis
Ind, corresponding secretary Of the Wo
mans National Council.
Editors, writer's and speakers are all car
noslly requested 20 further with their re
spcclivc facilities the plans herein stated
hut we here address ourselves especially
! 10 lilf ltAilAFN NlllNllN MNih'Nlf NNklNA hlNA
their prayorful thought the possibilities o
blessing bound up in the organized wo
manhood OF our countrys-a country which
surpasscs all others IN It's bowildcring dan
ger aud inciiablo hope.
| Women have never yet united In larg'
numbers save for good purposes; II IL SAT
10 predict that they never will. Their $50
lation one from another IL in tho intofos
OF brulo forco: their combination moan
the dominance OF peace and spirit
ual power, the publication, proicc
ton and coronation Of the home; an,
homo Is the shrine for whose sacred SAX
all that Is good and true on earth exists
Happy are We who 1.-Two tc-scc the da
when the women Of or native land mr.
clasping haab Siih a purpose 10 high an
unity 20 holy, which may God bless.
FnASCrs T.. WILLARD,
Evanston, ILL.,, President VI the Woman
National Council.
SUSAN II. ANTHONY,
: Rochester, n. v, Nico-prcsdont at Iarg
NJ louisE ruoNNs,
3 No $50 Lexington avenue, New York Cit!
4 Treasurer.
q MARY T. EASTMAN,
i Towksbury, Mass, Recording Sccrctar
o MAY Wmanr SEwALI,
!, No. $40 ". Pennsylvania Street, Indiana
Il oils, Ind, Corresponding Secretary.