New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-04-25

l"' ,rcl-known women Of this city will take
smO"e shape to-day. y meeting for organization
ce", mn, called and IT is intended to begin vigoi-
ha' ,,paicn to Offset the activity Of the suffragiss
Gus ,,or Of striking out the word male from the
,"' constitution. Until the organization is eff
sA' tho women who are concerned in the opposi-
is' ave unwilling to furnish for publication details
p'' ,rao,rt lions. one Of the foremost members
onnosition is Nlrs. George White Field. Of No
rast EiShtecath-st Mrs. Field told a Tribune
,or Yesterday that the opposition organization
VIA be formed to-day.
,onc the Other women who have been quoted as
s".ei TO woman suffrage are Mrs. Frederic Good
IT, Miss Annie Jcnning. Miss e. q. Cunningham
svrs Clarence L. Beeby
- CONAN who intends TO take active part In
-. onposition movement said yesterday: I'VE have
y, thought it necessary 10 organize until now. We
- NOT inclined at first to take seriously the move
", among The society and professional women OF
~. city in favor of woman suffrage. But there is
>. ssnving that Il has made great and substantial
Y,rr,ss Many of the best women Of the city are
49, enlisted under the woman suffrage banner.
those Of Us who disagree with them, however,
80, rot wlling that il should be understood that
-, woman suffrage people speak for all our sex
=" soi,e OF the many who in favor OF woman
."nrage. We believe that the great majority are
.nounced 10 he people anl brought 10 tn attention
~ Inc Constitutional Convention IL Will be merely
SSa,anse We are unoi Sanized. believing as we 90.
~ are not willing that the petition OF the woman
sSnrsgis,s should go to the convention as me IN
ea nsror meeting held yesterday afternoon at
~ home Of Mrs II. \. Pos. 40 East SNty-second-
;,;-s iRusse sage presided Among the other speak
s srs was Elizabeth Cady stanton: 49,. g ~.
Burt No. l72 West Eighty-eighih-st, yesterday
s.ieTnoon.
An INTERESTING PAHLoH MEETING.
Society and politics were united in a social-suf-
tage meeting held last evening at the home Of Mrs.
william Barton Roc, No l61 West Fifty fourth
:, varied programnc Of violin solos. rectItions
o,d speeches was given. after which a supper
was served. and an informal reception heiu me
pan Mrs Lille DeVcreux Blake. Mrs Emily
Bishop and Dr. Armstrong Dr. hcatnsv sPoone
mon the Ethics OF Suffrage. She SAID that rev
w SpS stmdied The complex character OF the moral
principles which underlie all human lie anu Plo@
srbere IS nothing" she said that can give any
foundation for the opinion that woman VIII rose
,h Ist fastidious there can be nothing unladyke
in simply voting. The Law MAKES az lieH Sein';;t'
s sv "a and The uneGucated masses can meet on
common footing with men OF standing a"a i'' i
lect but the women who are coHectNtE, aiiu III
djyidually their equals. have not the privilege.
BAD MEN ARE IL rowDR.
THE hisher education OF woman is bringing to the
surface latent phases o. character ard thought
which Will and must be recognized. II good men
and true were In power women might si.I possess
their souls n patience bur many OF me men N S,T
fal whether Adams fall was due to Eve, but II Is
,irS,sb woman When tn Nation gave the fran
chse II the negro race no questions were asked
81 ignorant nat they didn't know the meaning Of
suffrage but into the hands OF Such men Was ENell
prieg3e, th9 a. r EN- b ss' fv va Wo
are taxed without representation ana tried With
Mrs Blake said that much had been said regard
ins the Difference now pala - women, @t ~ ,"G 1
oncc wa not paid to sex, buf TO rank both in men
and women. and that in Wyoming, where women
IN any other state she added that 10 Wa un-
nece ssary for a woman to elbow her way 10 a
precinct. and she would be unlikely TO encounter
large number Of people II was menti2ncI Ihat
at the last election and florists counted upon Eec-
lion Day one Of their best st. day. nd u-s 1on, W
Wood Mr. and Mrs kp Mr and Mrs b. Li{m hns
and the Misses De Ribus. Mrs. Lyman Broun, Mr..
Croft ana Mrs. G!assfofd.
JUDGE DAvIs's ARGUMENT.
Before the Political Equality Cub, in Brooklyn
last evening and fashionable and an intelligent au-
dence, ex-Judge Noah DAVIS delivered carefully
prepared address the reasons why ne should de-
vote the remaining years OF his life 10 the cause o
woman suffrage. he began by saylns ma ~,
keystone OF the arch was NO taxation without rep
was frst Inserted in the fundamental aw Of TIM
Commonwealth. 1t was perfectly natural theh
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law Of England. under which the man owned al
wife children and property TBS congin4h OF ~G
ones. There was little advance IN the elevation o.
woman by the constitutions OF ~ ana ~, rd
Davis when first went the bench IN the west
ern Circuit the position of woman toward property
was Completely revolutionzed by according e
women Independent property rights. Step by s.S S
this radical innovation was bitterly contested by th'
opposition and ! we'll remember that the old judge
Of that period very reluctantly accepted ue NJ"
order OF things The first test was tried be
mo sitting In IOCkDOrt forty years ago
third OF the property in this State. but not rep
resented in the halls of legislation or In othei
branches Of the Government 10 the extent OF a sIl
gle voice or a single dollar The basic principle o
the American revolution as far as women were con
.cerned thus LEA palpabe lie 1t was con
tended that II suffrage was conferred on won ne
they would become office-seekers az once, ana ina
they were not fitted 70 exercise these pubhc an,
masculine functions. The answer 10 TINS ne "ou.'
give from personal experience. Women were per
mitted by law TO vote for and to become scnoo
Heights the School Board Was composed entirel!
Of men. who quarreiled ana fought: Inc wom a,
election. What was the result? The standard o
edueaiion was az once raised me a''f arnIy IN
creased, while the schoolhouses were kept In goo'
order and efficient teachers replaced the easy-gon
sluggards.
GOOD WORK DONE BY WOMEN.
1t was So he found on careful inquiry all owe
the State where women were installed. II was SAT-
that women did not want the ballot Then VIII,
should the opposition be afraid 70 give 1t to her
!. was well TO nave loaded gun in the house eve
u one did not fire il off at every alarm. TO CIV
woman the ballot was simply 10 increase the reserv
force Of the Nation. Was II not pity that IN
Hover Of womanhOOd should not now occupy IN
executive mansion at Albany instead Of the bloom
ng Flower that would wilt IN November. wlthe
III January. (Applause)
\ MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION
Judge Davis went on TO say that he regarded thi
question the most important that had come be
're the people in the last hfty years Shoul
Woman suffrage fall at this Constitutional ConVen
Ton, should the simple word Of four letters, male
ne not stricken from the fundamental la" ths yea
me movement would have TO DC postponed 10
twenty years. according TO the terms or tHat IN
srument itself What might not happen in IN
Interim? God only knew, With great bodies o
maeontens gathering at the capital OF the NdtoI
VIII questions of capital and labor darkenng "a
horzoa with violence here and there witn n
,eady inroad Of ignorance and anarchy WIN IN
immigrant made a citizen by the peculiar orerauo
%Se courts after he had been six months on thes
.ores. instead Of FIVE years the outlook called 10