The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-09
ON The FOURTH OF JULY
Committees Disagree as to
Whether Rev. Anna Shaw
Shall Speak.
UNAUTHORIZED COLLECTIONS.
Petty SWindlers Have Had Receipts
Printed-ReWard for Their
Arrest.

The ex ecutive committee for the Fourth
OF July celebration and the literary COM
mittee do not agree on the proposed ad-
dress of Anna II. Shaw during the literary
exercises of the National day.
The literary committee held a meeting
yesterday afternoon, at which a communi-
cation from the executive committee was
read requesting that Miss Shaw be placed
on the programme and allowed half an
hour for a patriotic speech. This the lit
erary committee declined to do. In this
connection Colonel Lambert made a little
speech. He said:
We have been in session now a month or
more meeting about twice week all trying
TO contribute TO the success of our celebration
on the Fourth. All that we have done thus far
has BEEN accomplished in the most complete
harmony.
At the last meeting several women were
present, not members of this committee. One
suggested the name of lady singer from the
interior. DR.. Fitch, our chairman, politely in
formed her that we had unanimously agreed
not to engage any one to participate in our ex-
ercises residing outside of San Francisco; on
learning this the suggestion was Withdrawn.
Notwithstanding this plain announcement,
another lady suggested that Miss Anna B.
Shaw be invited to deliver an address on that
DAY. The chairman, in an equally courteous
manner, announced that the rule applied in
both cases, which necessarily concluded the
subject.
After conducting the business of the meet
Ing, which occupied over an hour, we adj
journed.
The next morning 1 noticed in one of our
dailies that Mrs. Cooper believe it saba
very. worthy lady, had stated that Miss Shaw
had been treated with marked discourtesy by
our chairman at that meeting. Inasmuch as
there was no debate upon that subject, no
such person as Miss Shaw present and all our
proceedings conducted agreeaby, 1 was
naturally surprised not to say indignant, that
such an authorized report should be given out
for publication.
With indeicate persstency the matter of
having Miss Shaw speak at our celebration was
appealed to the executive committee, which
has no more control over our actions than we
have over theirs. To get rid of them the ex-
ecutive committee "resolved" that the literary
committee be invited to reconsider that sub
leet provided the speaker should confine her
remarks TO patriotic subjects only.
When gentlemen leave their business or oc-
equations and devote their time and patience
TO patriotic labor, to be thus wrongfully as
sailed and misrepresented it is certainly not
encouraging.
The professional "woman's rights" advocates
occupied week here in discussing and pro-
mitigating their doctrines but short time ago.
They were well received, their meetings
largely attended, and we thought they had
gone. The facts are some of the results of those
meetings have substantially operated to in
crease dlscontent in the already disturbed
marital relation; it has tended to create dis
trust in the minds of many of the female sex
that the physical creation designed by AL
mighty God as their natural aid and protector
no longer existed as a fact, but was purely the
and by lar the more dangerous, it has tended
TO renew unwise aggressiveness in the minds
of the unemployed female agitator and con-
fers responsibility upon indicate notoriety
and sacrilege.
If this brief experience with the so-called
'new woman fad'' is a fair sample of the posi-
bic future results to grow out of their coveted
entrance upon the full discharge of a portion
OF the masculine duties and responsibilities
for one am constrained TO call halt at once
for the purpose of ascer tanning its effect upon
the possible future OF our own wives, daughters |
and sisters |
Our time for literary exercises at the Pavilion |
on the Fourth is already over-occupied We |
are trying to curtail rather than enlarge it. but
with this brief experience in womans rights |
$50 caled), If we had time to spare, this undlg-
niied and indicate persistency in forcing
themselves upon US would constrain me as one
member of this committee to oppose the intro
duction OF any discordant element into our ex-
ercises.
No expression of dissent to these opin-
ions was made by any of the committee
men present, and the secretary was in |
structed to voice the committees refusal
to the executive body, placing it upon the |
ground that, by a former resolution. the |
committee had decided to employ only |
home talent in the literary exercises.
When the executive committee met last |
evening this refusal created quite a storm. |
There were a score of women present in |
spite of the fact that they are not members |
OF that committee and have no vote in its |
hSS1S4OllS' ne committeeman present
Messrs. W. H. Davis, Castle, Foster. II. L.
Davis, Tichnor, Marshall, Galloway and |
Reichart-were, however, quite over |
whelmed by the feminine array and took |
their part as effectively as they could have
taken it themselves.
Mr.. Reichart moved that the literary
committee be instructed to place Miss
Shaw's name on the programme in accord.
ance with the preceding request. Mr.. Gal |
loway suggested as an amendment that |
they do as instructed or resign. Mr..
Reichart's motion, unamended, passed,
however, without a dissenting voice, and |
Chairman Fitch was instructed to call a |
meeting OF his committee for Monday after
noon and to report to the executive com
mittee on Monday evening.
On the adoption of this resolution Mrs.
Sarah B. Cooper made little speech COM
plimenting the members of the executive |
committee on their gallant, epoch-making |
action"
Mr.. Worth called attention to the fact
that unauthorized persons were and are
collecting money, ostensibly for the eele-
bration, and giving receipts for it on a
form printed as an aid in the swindle. He |
exhibited one of the receipts. 1t was
signed by "E. Anderson" and read as fol-
lows:
FOURTH OF July CELEBRATION
SAN FRANCISCO, June g. 1895
Received of cash.