St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-24
BEAUTY AND BRAINS.
First Triennial Council Of the
Women Of the United
States.
Hiss Frances E. Willard Be-
lieves in Legislation for
Womanhood.
Gambler Has a Bill to Provide
for Colored People at Chi
cago's Fair.
Mr. Wike Proposes 1mpeaeh-
ment for lamp ering With
the Journal.

WASHINGTON, req. 20.-1 Il6 ltttulO
bf this mornings session Of the first til
ennial council of the women of the
United States was the address or Miss
Frances E. Willard, the president of the
rouncil. Albaugh's opera house was
filled in every part by highly enthu-
siastc audience, which was largely COM
posed of representative women from all
parts of the country. On the stage,
which was effectively decorated with
flowers and tropical plants, were seated
Miss Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe, Mrs. j. Ellen Foster,
Mrs May Wright Sewall, Rev.
Anna Shaw, Mrs. Zerelda Wallace and
many others who have been prominently
identified with the case of women. In
the course of her address Miss Willard
said that she held, with the president or
the previous council, that a difference
of opinion on one question must not
prevent the women of America from
working unitedly on those on which
they can agree. They were engaged in
Il heroic struggle to lift women from
mere sexhood up toward glorious wom-
anhOod. and to do this for humanity's
sake was the problem. Every atom
says to every other one, Combines"
and, doing so, they change chaos into
order. When every woman shall say to
every other and every workman Shall
say to every other, Combine" the war
dragon shall be slain,
The Poverty Viper
shall be exterminated, the gold bug
law
drowned out. and the last white slave
liberated from the woods of Wisconsin
and the bagnoS of Chicago andW ashing
ton. Miss Willard then spoke on the
details of the organization, and favored
the most complete and extensive one
possible; one that should include and
comprehend local councils in every
state, county, city, town and village III
the land. We have long met, she said,
to read essays, make speeches and
prepare petitions; let us here
meet in this great council TO
legiSlate for WOmanhOod, for
childhood and the home. She reviewed
the advance of woman and particularly
since the last council, asserting that
these three years have produced greater
results than the previous ten years. In
speaking of Parnell, she said that the
crowned estate had been but little EN-
phasized as yet in the public mind, but
to her thinking the woman question
has had no triumph so signal i'll our
generation. 1t is not many years, she
said, since any man of great gifts and
splendid public achievements in the in
tereSt of humanity was entirely sepa-
rated in the minds of the people into
two characters. AS a hero he stood
forth for what the world knew of him
in his relations to the world; but, as
man, in his relations to women, he was
altogether
A Different Personality.
with whom the public had nothing
whatever to do, and no matter how
baSely he might conduct himself, it
was no concern of theirs, because the
estimate OF woman was so much be-
meath that which is now held. On the
subject Of cooperative happiness, she
said that in the epoch in which we have
entered, labor will doubtless come to be
the only potentate, and "for value re-
ceiVed," will have the skilled toll of the
human species as its sole basis of any
''specie payment" mote of hand"
having no offset save the human hand
at work. For man added TO nature is
all the capital there is oil earth, and the
'best that any mortal hath is that
which every mortal shares" But nat
ure belongs equally to all men, hence
the only genuine capital and changeleSS
medium of exchange, always up to par
Valne,iS labor itself. and there will event
ually be no more antagonism between
capital and labor than between the right
hand and the left. Labor is the intelIi-
gent and benehcent reaction of man
upon nature. This reaction sets force
enough in motion to float in all waters
and carry him across all continents. His
daily labor, then, is the natural equiva-
lent he furnishes for food and clothing,
fuel and SHELTER and it is the supreme
interest of the state to prepare the indi-
vidual in head, hand and heart, to put
forth his highest power. Carried to its
legitimate conclusion, this is the social
ism of Christ; the Golden Rule in action;
the basis of that golden age which shall
succeed this age of gold.
Evening Session.
The general topic of discussion at the
evening session was ''Women in the
Churches" The first paper on the
special subject of "Woman's Status in
the Church To-day" was read by Rev.
Mia Frances Upper, of Grand Rapids,
Mlcn. she Salu tJlat W0manS place III
the church was being agitated in some
form all over the United States.
Woman's ministry is past the theoretic
stage and has become an established
and well-grounded fact In this coun-
try there are 72O women who have been
regularly ordained as ministers of the
gospel. There was great and
growing need of women in the
ministry. Florence Balgarnie, of
England, delegate from the British
WOmen's Temperance ASSOCIATION and
other kindred societies, was introduced.
She said for the first time in her life
she stood face to face with woman
who had been regularly ordained as a
minister. They had not advanced that
far in England. She said she bore
from societies representing 10000 Eng
lish women their congratulations and
prayers to their American sistres. They
were watching with the greatest inter
est the work of the emancipation of
women in this country.
The exercises were closed by the
pronOuncing of the benediction by Rev.
Caroline j. Bartlett, of Kalamazoo,
Mich