The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-04-03

OF a labor organization can be PLACED
upon the labor commission. Womei
may work on farms, in blacksmith
shops and foundries, may do the
heaviest work there Is, but laws, ane
Investigations on which laws are te
be based, must be made by men alone
Il womens Press Association.
The first semi-annual convention oi
the Pacific Coast Women's Press as.
sociation met in San Francisco March
16. The morning and afternoon were
occupied in private sessions. In the
evening the hall was thrown open to
friends of the members.
The salutatory was delivered by
John SWEET. Mr.. SWEET said he was
glad of the growing taste for litera-
ture. 70 meet the demands of the
times great host of young women
writer's had come into existence, whose
influence could notbe eunderestimated.
Mrs. Nellie B. Eyster followed with
a graceful address of welcome. She
thanked God for such grand women
as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B.
Anthony and Lucy Stone Blackwell,
who had made this convention pos
sible. Mrs. Eyster ended with a pane
gyrie on the good newspaper, hoping
that the day would come when we
might regard our newspapers as we
do our bibles and prayer books.
Mrs. Emily 7. Y. Parkhurst traced
the development of the women's
Press association from the American
Economic association. She also paid
high tribute to the newspaper, de-
scribing the truly successful editor as
one aetuated chiefly by his duty TO
the people.
Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper then read a
fine essay on THE Press as PhiIan-
thropic Agent . ssThere can be no
greater treasure to any community
said Mrs. Cooper, than good news
paper. 1t is greater than the giant
Hercules. The newspaper rules the
world. Mrs. cooper went ON to say
that the newspaper elevated the
masses, controlled public influence,
kept-clean the moral atmosphere and
acted as the greatest agent of philan-
trophy. "The daily press, she con-
tinued, lis the omniscient, omnipres-
ent schoolmaster. An editor has more
power than preacher, judge or legis-
lator. y
Mrs. Cooper thanked God that in |
these days he was calling women to |
places of responsibility as journalists. |
She closed by reviewing the noble |
work done By newspapers in deveIop-l
ing the kindergarten idea.
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stetson /
traced the upward development of |
woman from barbarism to her present |
plane, where she is just beginning to
reach toward her full status as a
human being.
The officers of the association are
Mrs. Nellie B. Eyster, Mrs. Jeanne C.
Carr, Mrs Kate D. wiggin, Mrs.
Sarah b. Cooper, Mrs. E. T. Y. Park
hurst. Mrs. Sam Davis, Mrs. Emily
Brown Powell, Mrs S. E. Reamer.
Mrs. Mary o. Stanton and Mrs. Isa-
BELLA Raymond.
On Tuesday, the 18th, Miss Sarah
VI. Severance, state superintendent of
he franchise department of the
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, read an able paper, ssMetis
md Pallis Athene.'' Miss Severance
'eviewed the myth of Zeus swallowing
detis, and Athene springfng full
grown from her fathers head: con-
rasted Metis, the victim, with Athene.
he heroine, and asked which of the
wo types of womanhood was the
'etter. Athene is the true, noble
sisterhood is increasing |
o-day. Vulcan assists her, Zeus re-
poets her, while both despise Metis. |
Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin then
rave fine essay, The Kindergarten | i
s Preventive of Crime.'' Mrs.
Viggin believed that if the little ones |
Tere taken in time and their whole
atures developed according to the
avs of order, beauty and harmony, +.
here would be no need for jails.
Mrs. Francis Edgerton ridiculed |
opular caricatures of woman's
ights, but made an eloquent plea
Or the ballot in woman's hands for '
urifylng politics and aiding higher
-omanly development. S
Mrs. Mary o. Stanton read an in 8
paper ON "Physiognomy."
Two gentlemen were talking about
business enterprise in which, though q
involved some peeuniary risk, they :
ere strongly inclined to embark. :
ays the Florida Dispatch. Finally I !
ne OF them remarked: 81 must con- :
alt my wife before decide - .sWhy?', E
zclaimed the other, els she boss? +"
No" was the reply, "neither am I. Q
fe are a well matched team: and we
ont drive tandem. MY wife is as I.
luch interested in the welfare of our |,
lmily as I, and she has right to .
ave voice in the investment of our Il
tile property" There was nothing =
ore than justice in this view of mat .
monial obligation, especially in the q
Use of poor or only moderately we'll
'-do families-and these comprise an
large proportion of Il
le families in this country-where a S
light increase or diminution in the ii
1nual earnings would be felt alike o
Z every member. The wife has II
bored at home to earn or to save. 81
hile her husband has labored in the b.
cid, the shop or the counting-room. d
justly a partner in his earnings and
wings, and should share in all plans :,
7 disposing of their small accumuIa- o.
ons go as to make them more pro- r
1ntiVa If all frcaG xuan | Ol