The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28
Denies at the Women's Press
Club That Women Degrade
the Press.
AN INTERESTING CONVENTION
Miss Anthony and Mrs. Cooper Pay
High Tributes to the San Fran.
cisco Press.

The monthly social meeting of the Pa
clfic Coast Women's Press Association,
held at Golden Gate Hall yesterday after
noon, was enlivened by the presence of
Miss Susan B. Anthony Mrs. Sarah B.
Cooper and others interested in the ad-
vancement of women.
AS Miss Anthony was unavoidably late
in arriving, an article from her pen, en-
titled "An Argument for Woman Suf-
frage," was read by Mrs. Henry Krebs.
The strongest objection made to female
suffrage" said the essayist, "is, that the
home is the foundation of the Nation. and
the father is the head of the home; there
fore, the father should have the sole right
of representing the family. Now, l think
if that man had grown-up sons he would
have deal of trouble in making them be-
lieve he should represent them.
"1n political crisis he would very likely
be glad to have them assist in electing
their favorite candidate. l know families
myself in which the mother and daugh-
ters are far better qualified to vote rightly
than the father and sons.
'Then they say that the pool of politics
is too filthy for women to dabble in. This
is tacit confession that, after a century's
exclusive control of the franchise, they
still are wading round in slime. Will the
men promise US chat in another century
the political pool will be a Ponce de Icons
spring of life? What we women want is a
chance to help purify the body polite"
A pleasing recitation by Miss Alice Per-
kins was heartily applauded and the young
lady was recalled for another selection.
story by Mrs. Hannah Neall recounted
the adventures of young married couple
In endeaVoring to rear their first born
and onh hn,r In cINn II
terrupted by the arrival of Miss Anthony
Everybody crowded around to congratulate
her and 1t was some time before Mrs.
Neall was able to proceed.
After a poem, '"The Orchard" bv Miss
Harriet n. Skidmore, Miss Anthony was
called upon for speech and for the course
of an hour kept her audience laughing with
her witty and sarcastic words
The most of her time was devoted to
answering charge, recently made by one
of the Californian weeklies, that women
writers had tended to degrade the press
She was vigorous in her denunciation, and
asked that some member of the association
take it upon herself to answer the charge
Miss Anthony, during the course of her
speech, took occa sion to pay high tribute
to the dailies of this City. She believed
they had treated the women fairly and
equitably.
tOf course" she added, ''they have not
COIue OuI Will greet Q6duS ana l6aQ1ng
editorials, but they have given US consider
able space, and truthfully reported our
meetings"
She did not, think, however, that women
would ever have an equal chance to pre-
sent their side in controversies until women
become stockholders in the newspapers
81 don't want to be understood as ar
raigning the men in this matter she
said 'but it is human nature for the con-
trolling element to run things to suit
itself. Do you suppose that if we women
had paper of our own we would let the
men put anything in it we didn't like?
Not If we know ourselyes-and l wish it
understood that we do.''
In conclusion, she said she wanted the
great political parties in their conventions
soon to be held at Sacramento to adopt
amendment No. IL and quit talking. Miss
Anthony said the women themselves had
been talking for fifty years and now they
proposed to act.
Mrs. Sarah i. Cooper made some an
nouncements concerning the third an
nual meeting OF the Woman's Congress of
the Pacific Coast, to be held in Native
Sons Hall from May to May IL. Mrs
Cooper said that one of the leading men
OF Stanford University, speaking of the
programme prepared for that occasion,
had admitted that men couldn't improve
it. She then took up Miss Anthony's re-
marks on the San Francisco press and
added another eulogy of the daily papers
of this City.
The session was brought to conclusion
by Miss Stella Ames of Oakland, who
reclted selection from one of Ella
Wheeler Wilcox's poems, and in response
to an encore gave humorous selection.