Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-26

burne. Mrs. Kennedy, Miss Kennedy, Miss
Wilson, Mrs. Caroline Earle White and
johnson. Miss Turner. Miss Curtis. Mrs.
Barnes. Mrs. Allen G. Tying, Mr.. Bryan and
Mrs. R. Wallace Of Illinois.
Last Evenings Session.
On account of this reception there was
no afternoon session Of the council yes
terday. In the evening there was a large
audience present to listen to number Of
interesting papers. Two general subjects
were discussed at the session-industry and
politics. The National Association of Wo-
men Stenographers had charge of the in
dustrial part of the program, presenting
two able papers by Mary e. Miller and
Marie L. Price, Miss Harriet A. Shinn pre-
by the Woman's Republican Association of
the United States, ]. Ellen Foster presiding.
Labor and the Unemployed" was the
theme of Miss Miller's address. 1t is the
duty OF the government, she claimed, to
come to the aid of the people and secure
to them that protection which it promised
when 1t ssprang into existence, by :he
enactment and enforc ement of laws which
will compel a master to render an ac-
counting to his servant.
Miss Mary L. Price of Illinois discussed
"The Current Conditions Of Labor for
Wage-earning Women and Children"
Scoring of Tnmmnny.
In opening the second part of the pro-
speech and then introduced Helen Varick
Boswell of New York, who delivered a
very entertaining address on 1.-The Women
Against the Tammany Tiger" She led off
with sketch of the Tammany Associa-
ton, beginning with its BIRTH more than a
century ago. 1t was SO corrupt, even when
1t was a baby, that Thomas jefferson said:
New York seems to be a sewer of all the
depravities of human nature" Miss Bos-
well gave a detailed history of the struggle
against corrupt municipal government and
the final overthrow of Tammany in New
York. The question of the lady or the tiger,
she said. was settled by the New York
voting public
Never did any. community of women
engage in a worthier struggle. never were
their efforts more completely compensated
in results. Election day was ladies' day
In the best sense of the word and election
night was a night Off for the women.
TT takes strong words to depict the de-
light of both the masses and the classes
on election night, and as majority after
majority against Tammany rolled in the
excitement intensified, the hurrahs grew
louder and longer and the faces OF the
women and of the men who loved them
and the right grew brighter and brighter.
Even the Tammanyites seemed to forget
their grievance for the time being in the
general hiiarity. We who had worked and
striven so long and earnestly cried aloud
In our JOY and gave all honor to the best
elements of man and womanhood which
mad come together and, uniting might with
right, had relegated Tammany and its
cohorts to an obscurity from which 1t is to
emerge. The work of the women had been
great; their share in the victory was
greater"
The Financial Question.
The all-important financial question was
then taken up, and the women were given
an opportunity to express their Views on
the subject of free silver, the bimetallic
standard and all the rest of it.
Miss E. F. Pierce of Boston read an ad-
dress written by Mrs. Burke on the double
standard side of the financial problem.
Miss Emily Sheldon of New Haven, Conn.,,
but now a resident of Washington, made
an argument for the free coinage of silver.
Closing the proceedings Mrs. Foster said:
THE subject of the paper which 1 was to
read Is How can the moral element in
current politics be supplied" AS the hour
of adjournment has arrived I will only say
word as do not know that will have
another OPPORTUNITY of saying 1t. Aside
from the ordinary method, which will oc-
cur to you-that is, the responsibility of
government, which should embrace all citi-
zens alike; aside from intelligence, which
always induces higher moral tone; aside
from all this, I believe that the enfran-
chisement of women will introduce into
politics moral element.
Not because woman is to he regarded
as the exclusive custodian Of the moral
tone, but because she has by nature this
element and is ready at all times for ac-
ton.
But 1t was never Gods will that man
and woman should act alone. 1t is the
mutual influence for good # the mind of
man upon the mind of woman and of wo-
mans upon mans that will supply the
moral element in current politics. 1 believed
that theoretically once and I believe 1t
practically now from what have observed
in Colorado. There the women not only
brought themselves into political action,
but their influence and effect upon the aver