The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03
WOMEN FOR GOLD MONEY
A NEW ORK CLUB PREPARING FOR
AN ENERGETIC CAMPAIGN.
Special Appeals to BE Made to WOm-
en- Interested I'm Missions and to
Foreign Domestic Servants.

ing SoHlC NOih " SOuhu loicS 49,
Mckinley doesn't make his inaugural add
dress on the 4th of next March from a
platform with a gold-standard foundation.
it won't be their fault. They can't vote
themselves, and they don't want to, but
every woman of 'em is doing what she
can to influence her voting friends and
relatives to down Bryan and the three RS,
reputation. robbery and revolution. which
are the main underpinning of his platform.
These women form the membership or
the Business Women's Auxiliary OF the
Woman's National Republican Association,
which meets every Monday night at the
quarters of the st. Nicholas Republican
Club, at One-hundred-and-sixteenth street
and ST. Nicholas avenue. This auxiliary
was organized a year ago by Miss Helen
Varick Boswell, State organizer for New
York. Being a business woman herself,
Miss Boswell recognized what a factor
business women are when they league
themselves together to fight for or against
any cause. Her face lights UP, her eyes
begin to sparkle, and her tongue fairly
flies when she begins to talk about the
work that these young business women
have Ion and are doing in politics.
They've started already" she said to a
Sun reporter, who asked when the Repub-
lican women would Begin their campaign
work. "or, at least. the Business Women's
Club has. This club would really be a
revelation to most men if they only knew
something about 1t. 1t is only a little over
a year old, but it is a lusty youngster and
makes its presence felt. Its growth has
not been ct all phenomenal as to numbers,
for we started out with nearly a hundred
names on the roll OF membership, but 1
/ oxyo ENou- On N rna u, To- of -a~o, - Tn
crease so in strength. Every member in
this club is a working woman. They are
employed in stores or offices, or are in
business for themselves. and they have
not taken the club up. as a fad. Business
women. occupied from early Monday morn
ing until Saturday evening, do not do that,
as women OF leisure do. When they are
ious-to devote one evening out of each of
their workaday weeks TO the study of hard
facts. 1t shows a spirit of development
that is broad, that is bound to carry some
weight.
Every member is an actual student CT
standpoint. and all are therefore particu-
arly interested in il as the vital issue of
the campaign. These girls have come to
realize that the best politics is founded on
economics, and have worked out their own
salvStion as 1t were. At each of their
one or the number read a paper bearing
on some timely political topic, and in the
animated discussions which always fol-
lowed they put many questions to Mrs.
Cornelia s. Robinson. whose services have
been invaluable to these girls and TO my
self. Mrs. Robinson were them from
a purely economic and 1 from a purely po-
iitical standpoint. They gave us some
knotty problems, and we had to study
very hard to keep enough ahead to be able
to answer them. Too much cannot be said
OF Mrs. Robinson's work with the men,
bers. She organized them into classes and
they took a regular course In political
economy under her immediate instruction.
SYSTEMATIC EDUCATION.
Fortunately from the very start they
were interested in the money question. and
now their knowledge on this subject is
such that they feel that the money which
they earn must be equal to the best money
in the world; they feel that for their days
labor they must receive dollars which con-
tain 100 and not IS cents. They know that
while the government can say that 53
cents is one dollar 1t cannot make 50 cents
equal in purchasing power to one dollar.
Indeed, these business women so thor
oughly understand that, in the event of
success of the Silver party, the prices OF
all OF the commodities that are to them
necessities will proportionately rise as the
purchasing power of their money decreases,
that they are anxious and determined TO
fight, for the maintenance of the gold
standard.
Mrs Catherine Lane is president of the
club. She is a business woman, and is per-
lCCliy III lOuCn II hdSt-tdTHlllS III
and their needs and aims. Her work is
such that she is brought in contact with
many of the leading State politicians. and
from them she has picked up a great deal
Of valuable knowledge. She is an excellent
Executive officer; and her meetings are
like manner Miss Parent. a stenographer
Is the recording secretary. She is a girl
of ~indomitable energy. Her minutes of the
meetings are models in their way. Mrs. A,
X. kipp is the corresponding secretary.
One would presume that her duties were
light. but she has hundreds of letters to
write. Women from far and near write "a
the Business Woman's Club for informa-
ton and advice. At the regular meeting
held Monday night she read a letter from
TO the club. in which he said that he was
much pleased to learn that they were in
terested In the money question, and that
would have weight and influence in this
campaign where the wage question is at
stake; He urged them to continued effort,
and they were much gratffed.
LAS i said before, these girls nave al
ready opened their campaign, and they did
they gave an outing at Bronx Park one
Saturday afternoon. Each member in
vited her men friends. and / never saw a
set of women combine pleasure and bust
ness with so much tact. They are active
in every way. anyhow, and go about hav-
ing a good time with as much earnest1less
as they do their business. After the pleas
ures of sightseeing and a picnic luncheon
the girls mustered their forces in the big
pavilion and speech making began In earn
est. They turned their outing into a reg
ular gold-standard ratification meeting.
Mckinley and Hobart was their cry, and
after their first enthusiasm had spent it.
self they settled down to business.
After three of four speech came a quiz.
1t is the custom of the girls 10 hold q polit-
ical quiz once a month during the entire
year. and here they had an opportunity
of putting some questions TO the men
which they could not resist: The prevail
ing sentiment was that the tariff would be
properly adjusted and that the question 10
be fought out now Is the money question.
Mrs. Robinson is deeply Interested in the
In boring classes, and her idea is that civil
iZation can only increase as our standard
of living increases. She has instilled her
principles into the Business Women's
Club. and they are determined to bend al
their efforts toward helping to elect the
Republican candidates.
A PRACTICAL WOMAN.
One of the most prominent Republican
politicians in this State remarked as Miss
Boswell walked out of the Republican
headquarters the other day:
There goes the most ingenious woman,
when it comes TO devising and advancing
a system of management, that I've ever
known"
"Why?" asked the reporter who was
present.
"Ask her what her two latest schemes
are for the Republican women when il
comes to active campaign work" he an
swered with a laugh.
Don't call them schemes" said Miss
Boswell when the reporter really did nut
the question 10 her. They are a part OF