St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-19
REPUBLIC IN DANGER.
A Danger Which Is Threaten
ing the Free Institutions
Of This Country,
Only to Be Averted by Imme-
diately Granting the Suf-
frage to Women.
Jurors Seem to Seriously OBJ
ject to Serving on the
Kill Case.
The Indian Uprising in Da-
kota Pronounced a Sense
less Fake.

"The free institutions of this coun-
try depend upon the immediate ex-
tension of the suffrage to wom
en-" So spoke Mrs. Olympia Brown, of
Wisconsin, who, last evening. addressed
a meeting under the auspices of the
Minnesota WOmen'S Suffrage society in
the Unity church. The meeting was
one of welcome 10 the members of the
society; who to-day. at Unity church on
Nabasha street, will hold their annual
convention. Owing to the removal OF
DR.. +. Emery, of st. Paul, who
is the president of the society, the wee
president, Mrs. Stearns, wife of Judge
StearnS, of Duluth. presided. Rev. S.
Nj. Crothers delivered the opening
prayer, ana the address of welcome was
delivered by Attorney General Clapp.
The attorney general delivered a short.
pertinent address. He remarked upon
the development of the state, touched
upon its material resources. and pointed
out the institutions 1t possessed. The
present generation owed much for the
blessings enjoyed to-day to the foresight
and unselfiShneSs of the men and women
of the past generation. MIR. Clapp. in
cidentally referred to the late election,
saying:
We are undergoing a peculiar experience
| in politics. Notwithstanding all the moral
| dangers, the moral questions which underlie
| our national and individual life, we find to-
| day that political discussion is attracted
alone to tho.e matters which affect our
| financial welfare. The time is not far dis
| tant when these moral questions will not
| only come TO the front as they never did be-
| fore, but demand a speedy unC proper solu-
| ton.
Attorney General Clapp made ap-
! prOpriate reference to the question of
wOman'S suffrage. He said:
! The demands and requirements of men
have established peculiar relation between
! man ana woman, and these conditions have
| in way relocated woman TO q certain sphere
| and man 10 another sphere; and yet there is
| one sphere which both should occupy and
that is the duty of upbuilding the manhood of
| this country, rearing and educating our
young and fitting them tor the great duties
Of citizenship.
The attorney general may be said
to favor the extension of suffrage
to women. The welcome was fol
lowed by an address by Mrs. Olympia
| Brown, who spoke for an hour and a
half. Her subject was: "Where Is the
Mistaken The mistake which Mrs.
Brown took up--who. by the way, is en-
titled to the title of reverend-was that
on the part of American-born citizens,
who, she asserted, were being outvoted
by the foreign-born population. The
fOreien-born citizen was given the right
to vote, and yet he might be
the workings of our institutions.
This foreign vote was so powerful that
The leaders of the political parties did
not select men for their worth or their
ability, but merely for the strength they
had with this OF that nationality. Such q
state OF things was menace to our free
institutiOns-to the republic. The
Americans would soon be bounded Out
of the field: be an unknown quantity il
politics. The only thing that wonlC
save the country Was to extend the fran
chise to women. American-born women
equaled-nay, more than equaled-
the foreign-born men and women in
this country. Americans should recog-
nize this at once; delay was dangerous
But women themselves should agitatt
for the ballot. They need never expect
to accomplish anything until they lac
the right to vote. Once they obtained
that, their power wOuld be felt. They
would be recognized factor in the com
munity; and if the mother were to be il
position to protect her children, she
should have the power to protect then
against the gambling hells and the den!
of infamy.
The convention opens this morning
at $3.50. A social tine will be indulgeC
in until 10, when question box will bt
opened and answers given. The after
noon sessions will commence at 2:3t
with routine business. followed by til,
election of officers and the adoption O
resolutions. Mrs. Olympia Brown will
introduce discussion on methods O
Work." to be participated in by Mrs
Julia B. Wilson, Mrs. Truman Whit
ford, Rev. w. S. Vail and others.
The committees were selected las
evening, the presidents of each bein.
Mrs. Julia b. Nelson, resolutions ant
finance: Mrs. Hasingmingle, nomina
tons.