Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-06-25
WOMEN WHO TALK POLITICS.
An Organization I'm Which There Is Tea
and No Hair Pulling.

and No Hair Pulling.
The society for political study is n
flourishing organization of New York
women whose object is to educate the
sex in politics. 1t must not be sup
posed that the students seek to learn
the most approved manner of capturing
a caucus, or how to throw Il delegation
when the balance of power happens tC
come the right way. Nor do the teach
ers have anything to say about the rel
ative value of the ''infloocnce" of this or
that wire-pu!lcr, or the value of pulls
in political affairs.
The society, says the New York
World, has leapcd over the rudimcntS
of practical politics and plunged at
once into deeper pools of political know
ledge. 1t has been organized only 4
short time, but during its brief career it
has practically solved some OF the knot
ticSt problems over which statesmen
have become gray-haired. 1t has head
quarters at No. sos East Seventeenth
street, and meetings are held every
Tuesday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock.
During the last year papers were read
and discussions had on such subjects as
protection" and ''frec trade" Natur-
women take a great deal of interest, or
would, but for one thing. The tariff, of
course, affects the prices on ribbons,
laces, feathers, silks, satins, fans, bon
nets and gcw-gaws from the other side
generally. The one thing excepted is
that the husbands and fathers, as rule,
pay the bills.
But the women of the society for po-
litical study have gone deeper yet,
which proves that they are not inter-
eSted only in those political subjects
which concern the cost of articles i'm
ported for their adornment. They have
educated themselves thoroughly on the
work and aims of the Pan-American
congress-, reciprocity and the Monroe
doctrine. At the subsequent meetings
they are to discuss the annexation Of
Canada, the admission of Utah and the
international copyright. After these
heavy topics have been satisfactorily
disposed of they may take up the diplo-
| matte relations between Italy and the
United States, the financial situation Of
the Argentine Republic and the domes-
tic policy of Peru. .......
The discussion of such subjects as
these are the feature of the weekly
meetings. The constitution of the
| United States and the relation of the
| federal government to the states are
| standard topics, while no little time is
| devoted at each meeting to the study
and practice of parliamentary usage.
| Next winter, it is said, the relation of
parties to the welfare of the nation will
be one Of the features fol. discussion.
Miss Grace Dodge recently delivered
an address before the society on the
subject of manual training, and after
the discussion that followed tea was
served. Tea is always served before
the meetings adjourn. Tea is soothing
after political discussion, and it could
be introduced with advantage in the
Fourth and Eighth wards SO the exam.
pie set by the society is a good one.
The ignorance of American womer
concerning the politics of their owr
country has frequently been commented
upon by foreigners. In England thc
women arc thoroughly Informed on al
political questions. Political subject!
are discussed there at the tiresidc ant
around the dinner table, and the worncr
are able to hold their own in arguncn
with the ablcst statesmen. 1t is par
OF their education from childhood, anC
Englishmcn cannot understand why i
should not be so everywhere.