The critic., 1891-02-25
WOMEN AT WORK.
THIS MORNING THE PoLITICALsTATUs
OF WOMEN WAS DISCUSSED.

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Woman's National Council at Albaugh's
Opera House this morning, and the inter-
est appears to be increasing instead of
lessenin0.
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CIV, ueau',iui sons, Niis' "a. W inoipe
onered atouching and appropriate prayer.
Miss Willard advanced to the front and
exhibited a number of articles, including
handkerchief fans breastn;pa GLASSES etc
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after the female discipie OF blackstone
and the Farmers Alliance had succeeded
in developing cyclone. These articles
were promptly claimed and then Miss
Susan b. Anthony read an entertaining
paper, THE Matriorchate, or Mother
Age" an address OF Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Staunton before the National Council OF
Women.
women sat in the councils of war and
peace and their opinions had equal weight
on all questions, the lady came up 10 the
present day and said that the sense of
obligation to offspring men possess but
feebly. The world must act as well as
talk II motherhood is important
and sacred. "When the work of race
building is left wholly to women, we
may loOk IOr Detter results, IOr tnen tne
ambition Of the best mothers will find
congenial field for action in their So
called sphere. Financial independence
should be given to women. What the
final relation of man and woman may
be Is difficult to prophesy, but, II there Is
an ideal relation, it is to be reached by
honesty and not pretense.p
After reading the paper Miss Anthony
made an address talking of the suffrage
movement and how II was working. She
rejoiced to feel that equality of rights for
The two great steps of progress were not
brought about by love for classes. 1t was
abolished, i was va a a military W necessity. y was
The Government must benotiiied that it
cannot get along without women.
Women should be enfranchised; justice
to women must come.
Miss Anthony was frequently ap-
plauded.
Mrs. Mary Seymour Howell was next
on the programme, and made an address
on "Gains of the Last Three Years" Mrs.
Howell is an active worker in woman s
suffrage, and has lectured extensively.
The lady said women should be given
voice in making laws. They are seeking
the same political status and great things
are looked for. The right to hold
office should not be abridged on
account of sex. Mrs. Howell spoke at
some length, and was frequently APP
plauded. She believed the better day
would come if the women perseyered
There would be freedom which knew no
creed, no color, no sex.
war1 rS'iguos Mno nPPrause greeted i,onn Mrs una
Mrs. Howe read 4 paper on ~Tbe Rela.
ton of the Woman Suffrage Movement
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spoke of the political and moral functions
OF women, and said women were wanted
in every good reform movement; women
were wanted to stand for public
virtue ut the polls, and they
should go. Sources OF reform lie deep
and could not be reached at step. She
did not believe that the advent of women
in the political arena would right ali
wrongs, but would do much in doing SO.
Coming Lord" was sung by the entire
audience at the conclusion of Mrs. Howe's
address, and then that lady repeated the
last verse of her battle song.
Goods Women was the subject upon
which Rev Anna II. Shaw made most
excellent address. She said it had always
been remarkable to her how clearly men
could define woman's positions.
Mrs. Shaw made a strong argument, and
was iouuiy oPpiauucu. see,
The exercises tonight will begin at 7:15,
and the general subject for discussion is
1.-The Organized Work and Life OF
Women"
Last Nights Session.
The Kansas woman LAWYER. Mrs. Mary
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apie SENSATION at last hights session. AS
was announced in yesterdays CRrTIc the
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the evening session to conclude her ad.
dress begun at the morning session, and
this published announcement resulted in
the Opera House being well filled by those
| who wished to hear the famous female
lawyer who took the stump against Sena-
| tor ingalls, in the last campaign in Kan.
sas.
Mrs. Lease. 1t may be said, was LOADED
for bar" and when her time came she
turned loose gattling guns in manner to
cause the audience TO do things which, in
well-regulated female meetings, did not
| appear as exactly proper.
Mrs. Lease was as calm as May morn.
| ing as she advanced to the front and an.
nOunced that she was glad she was living
| in this day Of the worlds victory, when
| there was no difference between the intel
| ligent woman and the intelligent man
The Farmers Alliance women were
mighty factors in the political world, and
| the dynamite OF thought was stirring the
| world from centre to circumference. The
| farmers had ceased to allow old party
| political demagogues to do their thinking
| they had ceased to vote to themselye.
| poverty and degradation.
| She said there was an uprising the great
| est since Peter the Hermit led the cru
saders to the rescue of the Holy sepplchr.e
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