Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-05
ASSERTING THEIR RIGHTS.
Sacramento Women in Council-A societ
for Mutual Protection.


Last evening a large number of ladies
met at an uptown residence and organized
a ''Women's Council" They elected full
list of officers and have appointed COM
miltee 10 canvass for members. AS an
outline of the work they propose to do, the
following is stated:
Miss Frances E. Willard of Evanston,
ILL.,, President. and Mrs. May Wright
Sewell OF Indianapolis, Ind, Correspond
ing Secretary of the National Council that
was organized in Washington, d. c., as the
outcome of the great council Of women
held there last spring, are laying the foun-
dations Of a new and mighty work. Its
purpose is to secure in eye.y leading city
and town Of the United States 'Women's
Council" made up of the Presidents OF all
societies OF women having a headquarters
of its own, with an Office Secretary, and
entering unitedly upon such lines of work
as all the women can agree upon. 1t is be-
lieyed that such plan of interaction COM
bined with the organic independence of
each society, will do away with the over
tapping of plans that now lead TO much
waste of time and energy.
Also that it will broaden the horizon of
every woman who belongs to an organized
society of women, and tend to larger mu-
tual liberation between guilds heretofore
separate and to great degree non sympa-
thetic. AS an illustration of the practical
working of the plan it may be stated that
such council of women could readily ar
range for petitions from all societies of
women IN any given town or city, asking
that women should be placed upon the
School Board, upon the different Boards
intrusted with the care of the defective, de-
linquent and dependent classes: asking for
the admission of women 10 local, county,
State and national organization, such as
press associations medical associations,
ecclesiastical associations, etc; asking that
the doors of such schools and colleges as
are not yet open TO women might be
thrown wide open for their admission; ask
ing for better protection for the home and
heavier penalties for all crimes against
women and girls.
Women could use their influence to
secure for girls in the public schools better
opportunities for physical culture. and the
enforcement of the new laws for instruc-
ton in hygiene. They could also help to
epgraft the kindergarten system on the
public schools. They could do much for
the protection of shopgirls, in furnishing
them better conditions of living by securing
local ordinances requiring the best sanitary
conditions limiting the number in one
room, and in every way ameliorating the
present situation while using their utmost
influence to increase the wages of this class
of workers.
1t will be readily seen that greatly added
force will come from any such movement,
whether local, State or national, when il is
backed up by the united societies of the
locality, State nation, and that with a
small expenditure of money and time all
these societies, while carrying on sepa.
rately their own separate work for which
they were organized, may yet do all i'm
| mense work for womanhood at large along
| the lines on which all can agree to unite in
sympathy, influence and effort. To carry
out such plans and on so large scale viii
require time, but there is every reason tC
| believe from the experience and success O
the women who have taken up this WORK
! that they will persist in quiet but intelli
/ gent endeavor, having in view the end:
herein stated, until success shall crown
their grest but altogether practicable move
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