The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-01-30
LEGISLATIVE
KINDERGARTEN.
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overcome prejudice concerning woman's
sphere. But conditions change, and we
are compelled to meet them despite all
our Prescriptions TO the contrary. The
stern logic of events, in its march or
progress, deals mercilessly with precon-
ce.ved notions and prejudices.
In discussing this subject, please con-
slider it as one in which the right to
earn a livelihood in involved, and not as
a demand for woman's rights. Treat it
as a natural outcome of our advanced
state of civilization, one in which learn
ing and equal privilege TO use that learn
In are a necessity to man and woman
SOME COOL ERRORS.
1.-The policy of our Legislature has
tended constantly towards concerning
upon women the same properly rights
and business status that men ENJOY.
They become physicians, artists, sc.en,
lists. ministers, educators, ~nnaneiers and
editors, and may engage without let or
hlndrance in all the activities of the
business world. She works side by side
with man, as resolutely as he, and Is
Inspired by the same faith, that so Tar
as human ~endeavors can win, the Worid
belongs to those who can take 1t. She
has demonstrated in every undertaking
Within the. past generation that work Is
"Ou Legislature has never recognized
that relic of barbarism, the inter;orlty OF
woman; it has never closed the door OF
honest employment 10 woman, or ASSIST
ed fn@an way to circumscribe her Ell
forts.NSays Chief Justice Hackney, OF
Indiana There is no reason for an Elk
ception in the legal profession. If nature
has endowed woman with wisdom, II
our colleges have given her an educa-
ton, If her, energy n diligence have
lee her to a knowledge of the law, ana
if her ambition directs her to adopt the
legal profession, shall it be said that for
gotten fiction must bar the door against
hsa practie ~Of the law IS a profession
which confers property rights, and,
though certain property qualifications
may be required by law and conditions
attached, should sex distinctions be one
of those conditions? Its emolhments in
voIve the right to earn a livelihood and
acquire property. Sex distinction, there
fore. is a false one, and grossly unjust
to woman, when it closes TO her energies
any avenue of usefulness. If apprecia-
tive regard for her sex is here urged
l reply that the chivalry in discarGing
such a distinction is greater than the
chivalry in recognizing IT.
CASES OF Comfy.
aside from sentiment on this subject,
let me call your attention to the comfy
rule which exists in the several states.
BY this rule attorneys from another state
not residing here may, upon certain con
d;tions,. be admitted to the bar of this
State Under such circumstances,
is to prevent a woman lawyer of New
York or Pennsylvania from being adj
T1itted to our courts upon like cOnQltiOnS
as her brother lawyer of the same State.
Is it fair that outsiders should have privi-
Ieges which our own citizens are denied?
BESIDES courtesy, our courts lave ex-
tended to member of the bar of other
States the occasional privilege of argu-
ing cases here. Is it not a %travesty upon
Justice 10 withhold that right from our
foWngswomen? In over thirty of our
States the legal profession is open to wo-
men, and in cases where the rules of
court DO not permit her admission the
immediate action and given her the
equal benefit of the practice of the law.
All the leading law colleges of the
United States have extended to woman
education. Every in~dueement is afforded
for her education in this branch. Why,
then, should she be denied the use of
AN AWFUL EXAMPLE.
Miss Philbrook's address made an APP
parent impression. She was followed by
Mrs. Carrie B.; Kilgore, the woman law
yer of Philadelphia. Unlike the previous
speaker, she wore no hat, and spoke with
the ease of one accustomed to speak
ing hlic. she has a strong but not
suT4s 1--we. as she warns up to her sub
ject. A Back silk costume of the pre-
vaiiing fashion. with sleeves of the pre-
vailing f~ullness, clothed her ample figure
she removed at intervals and held in her
hand as she emphasized her points.
she was a thorough woman, III one re-
spect at least. She said she had not
much to say, and made the longest speech
of the session. She declared that matri-
mony cid not interfere with a woman's
praeticing law, and said hat when she
was admitted she had two children, nine
months and three years old respectively.
She did not neglect her family half as
nIleh as society women did with their
,prpgresS:ve euchre clubs and other social
functions. Marriage was not a bar to
the practice of law. Married men prac-
ticed, and why should not married wo-
men,? She enumerated the thirty States
& which women were admitted to the
do you account for New Jersey
being out, Mrs. Kilgore?" facetiously
asked Storrs; do you think it is the
JefSey@ mosquito@"
Mr. storrs laughed at the joke, and
Mrs. Kilgore said
Supreme Court made that decision
against Mss Philbrook the members
were looking backward"
She paid a high tribute to the New
said were eagerly sought after by the
judges of other States. She told of the
time when, by right of her admission to
the Philadelphia bar, she was allowed
to practice in New Jerseys courts, and
appealed to the committee not to dis
crimipate against the women of their
own State in favor of those of other
States.
In answer to questions by committee
men, she said there were about $50 wo-
men lawyers in the country.
The committee has concluded to crawl
out of the dilemma by reporting a bill
authorizing the Supreme Court to make a
rule admitting women or not, Just as
the bench sees fit.