The Portland daily press., 1896-10-17

lege 10 claim the protection of the
power Of the United States.
When travelling in Turkish domfnions
hast sprtng slept with the flag of my
country over my bed and felt more secure
on account of it. That flag. our own
old Glory is respected by all nations
] was told by Turkish officials that my
passport would NOTICE honored in some
parts Of their domain unless supple
mentsd By one signed by their own
officers aad obtained such a one at
great price; but they did not refuse to
let me keep my flag. or tell me I must
carry their Turkish ensign in order to
pass through their territory unmolested.
loved TO exhibit eur beautiful Stars and
Stripessand tell what they meant and
tell OF the free institutions and of the
greatly advanced privileges of women
which this flag protected, but could not
say what desired most of all 10 say.
THAT ahssthe women of America could
have a voice in their own government
and in suateining, perpetuating and i'm
proving the laws for their own protection
end that Of their children; thar the flag
waved for and over governments of the
people and by all the people. May the
time come apaoe when woman shall be no
more weak politically, but when she will
be elevated to the highest sphere of her
own possibilities. Then she will elevate
the unborn generations, both men and
women, her own posterity, to place be-
side herself in the scale of human
heights.
"Don't talk of woman's weakness.
tell y0u that this hour,
The weight Of this worlds future de-
ponds upon her power;
And down the track of ages, as Times
flood tides are told,
The level OF aheir height is marked by
the place that women hold"
Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs. Foss, Miss Tit-
comb, MES. Zsnas Thompson, and DIR.
H. M. Lewis were appointed a commit
tee to report list of officers OF the eve-
ming meeting.
The New England Woman Suffrage as
ISOLATION Is to hold its mid-year meeuing
in Maine. The executive committee are
empowered to fix the time and place for
this meeting. This meeting will probably
be held at Augusta or Portland.
After collection had been taken up
with the aid Of the hats Of the very few
men present, Abbie Morton Diaz of Boa-
ton, author OF the William Henry letters
and the Oats Arabian Nights. The
speaker said that the woman suffrage
question was not matter of opinion,
not matter Of what this one or that one
desires. not question whether the man
or the woman should rock the cradle, All
good things can be referred to some great
law of the universe. The first great law
is life. Everything in nature Is moving,
growing. Each form of growth has its
own pattern, its own individuality. 1t
doesn't do for the pine to tell the oak
how to be pine, or for the rose to try
to instruct the lily. This law of in
dividuality applies to the suffrage ques-
ton. The woman Is an individual, and
must live out her pattern as the oak or
the pine or the lily. She alone must
know what is womanly. For man to try
to set the standard of womenliness Is to
try to interfere with the order of allure,
and breaking Of natural law. Woman
alone should decide what she should do,
whether she should vote or not. Man and
woman together make up the human
force. Without both. that force is inoon.
plete. Hence have come the woes of the
world, because man alone has exerted
the force which both should exert. Man
has even gone SO far as to decide what
she should do and think, and has UNDER
taken TO determine her condition in this
world and also in the next. Woman Is
sisher Responsible or not. II she is re-
'ponsible she ough t to 5act for herself.
And il she Is not responsible and cannot
act for herself, the responsibility must be
on the man. This is loading the poor
,rature with more responsible ity than he
,ught to have.
The text, "It Is not good for man to be
slone," applies as we'll to man in the
pulpit and legislature az elsewhere.
Each man and woman should work out
his own and her own pattern of life, each
equally free to decide all questions of
iuty.
Mrs.. Charles Bird Wade OF Oregon.
laid that in her state they had woman |
outrage on the school question. This |
lad not detrscted from the dignity or the |
nodesty Of the women of Oregon.
Rev. Mr.. Rogers of the Pine street |
Methodist church of Portland, spoke en-
Of the characteristics OF the |
lew woman.
Rev. Blanche Wright of Livermore |
Falls spoke of woman in the ministry. |
NoYem bsr 1st. of last year there were |
ixty women in the Universalist |
The divinity schools of that |
denomination are open to women, most |
Il them having been SO for an indefinite |
'eriod, There are no prejudices against
women in the min istry, but she must
tand strictly on her merits. But every
woman should think the matter over
erlously before entering it. She must