Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-23

that she wished to remove all idea Of women's
organization being an smalgamation Of mslcon-
tents in rebellion against the stronger sex.
Combination is . game that two can play az
and the labor TORTOISE Is rapidly overtaking the
Capitalist hare. Women have long understood
this secret, and the fact that they have come
forth ~ they have 10 due TO the
use they have made Of this secret
she held with the president of the previous
council that - difference Of opinion one
Question must not prevent us from working
nnitedly In those on which we can agree"
To lift woman mp from sexhood into human
hood and TO do this for hunanitys sake is our
prooiem- But IL has taken women Of brains
ana purpose more than forty years to find out
this simpie fact-to learn that they must agree
70 disagree on many things in order that the
Greatest numbers. greatest good might be at
tained- She distinctly disavowed any banding
together OF women as malcontents or hostiles
toward the correlated other half Of the human
race and said brute force, 10 my mind, means
custom as opposed to reason, prejudice as tie
antagonist Of fair play. and precedent as the
zoe OF common sense. This classification blots
out the sex line altogether; for, alas what
horde of well-meaning women il arrays against
the Ideas FOR which this council stands and
huzza for the army Of great hearts il sets in
array among men as our valiant allies in the
thick Of the fight!
NOTHING ooSrRARY TO LOVE
II WAS beautiful saying of the earlier Meth
odists when they avowed holy life: 81 feel
nothing contrary to love" Blu; the widening
march OF Christianity has given q wonderfully
Practical sense to such words and we actually
mean here today that whatever in custom or
law Is contrary 20 that love Of ones neighbor
winch would give to him or her all the rights
ana privileges that ones self enjoys is but O
relic OF brute force and is to be cast out az
evil
And because woman in some of our American
eommonwealths is still so related TO the law
that the father can will away an unborn child.
ana tnst glri OF seven or ten years old is held
TO be the equal partner in n crime where an
other and a stronger is the principal; because
she Is In 50 many ways hampered and harmed
by laws and customs pertaining 20 the past We
reach out hands Of help especially to her that
abe may overtake the swift-marching procession
OF progress. for its sake that it may not slacken
Its speed on her account as much as for hers
that she be not left behind. We thus represent
the human rather than the woman question,
and our voices unite to do that which the presi-
dent OF our New York Sorosis so beautifully
said in q late letter to the Sorosis Of Bombay:
THE WORLD WAS MADE FOR WOMAN, TOO.
'Tell them the world was made for woman,
toor
Every atom says to every other one, "Com-
oine, and, doing 50, they change chaos into
order When every woman shall say TO every
other, and every workman shall say to every
oeAeI, SOulDlut. Tie War-urugOD snail DE
slain, the poverty-viper shall be enterminated,
the gold-bug transfixed by a silver pin, the
saloon drowned out, and the last white slave
liberated from the woods Of WISCONSIN and the
bagnios Of Chicago and Washington.
ORGANIZE EVERYWHERE.
Let me then frankly say that believe we
should organize q miniature council in every
town and city, confederating these in every
state and instructing the state council to send
Tea Ia pasrn Nha ~.
would be to let these delegates form a lower
and the heads Of national societies an upper
house. whose concurrent vote should be es-
sential to the enunciation Of any principle or
the adoption OF any plan. The president Of this
society should be (as has already been wisely
ordained by this counciD eligible for but one
term and should have power to choose her own
cabinet from the seven ablest women of the
country, representing the industries, educa-
ton, professions, philanthropiss, reforms and
| the religious ana political work Of women We
should thus have within the national govern
ment. AS carried on by men, . republic OF
women, duly organized and of6cered, not
in any wise antagonists to men, but
own and tending toward such mutual fellow
ship among women. such breadth Of knowledge
and sympathy as should establish solidarity OF
sentiment and purpose throughout the nation
OF women workers, put premium upon organ
lied against isolated ed orts for human better
that Of otherhood training and tntorine wo,ma;,
for the next great stem in The evolntioo ~ h.
manity. when men and women shsll sit s,aa he
eide in government and the nations shali lsarn
war no more.
0ooNc~
Inc upper council, 20 1t might be called
would, by this plsn, consist Of two delegstes
national in scope or value. one beins the nres;-
dent of that society, the other chosen by ballot
at its last annual meeting preceding tbe ses.;o,
of the council. which vould Laye Convened
bienpially. This upper council wouId answer
to the Senate of the United ststes and fha
lower council. made uu of deleoa,es chass, hs
the forty-four state councils from their anxiG,
sr;as vonld ha analooons 90 a. ua,,S = D
resentatives. We should thus have an organize
ton that would include all the various groups
OF women ni.nerto lsoiaIed ana as conse-
fuen., Sfs,u ,.Is ~ ione h S.se pfosinci WINE its
20 ~ 81, ;.S 49, - ave s INN ~ 10. ,reacn-
Ins n,le,. oeriS p,s;Ss, -. wa. no otner so
49, ~ 49, eo'e' A~ 'e"'la Az my VASE Gu
N'o"N ~Po
THE LOCAL COUNCIL
The same democratic basis of organization
sbonld extend IN the local connect; . ..,h
,ho,,Id h. ,,aas nv, ., g. a.,aa.... 60.
In.ai ~ =. , wv =; rom escn
..;n~ eoe ~ =. Inen ., IN we eiy, to"n or
I sn,ase' one G pens ane p1eslaen. or saia LOCAL
i! soee! ~nr .he o.nel cnosen oy panot OF tnat
soe.e's' ING s'e counsu suouIo pe maoe up
OF two oeiega'es eacn, cnosen IN hke manner
ifoin tnt toSeA COUNCILS, taese 70 torm q lower