The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03
o M FOR GOLD O N
A NEW YORK CLUB PREPARING FOR
AN ENERGETIC CAMPAIGN.
Special Appeals to Be Made to WOm-
en- Interested In Missions ana to
Foreign Domestic Servants.

Z Ofh Ouh.
One hundred women in this city are do
ing some work for sound money. If Mr..
| Mckinley doesn't make his inaugural adj
dress on the 4th OF next March from a
platform with a g~old-standard foundation.
it won't be their fault. They can't vote
themselves, and they don't want 10. but
every woman of 'em is doing what she
can to influence her voting friends and
relatives to down Bryan and the three RS,
population. robbery and revolution. which
are the main underpinning of his platform.
These women form the membership OF
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
Narick 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 done 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 it. 1t is only a little over
a year old, but Ii is a lusty youngster and
makes its presence felt. Its growth has
not been at all phenomenal as to numbers,
for we started out with nearly a hundred
names on the roll of membership. but /
never knew an organization of women to in
crease so in strength. Every member i'm
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
Willingness. even more than that, anx-
ious-tO devote one evening out of each of
their workaday weeks to the study of hard
facts. II shows q spirit of development
weight.
Every member is an actual student CT
the money question. from an economic
standpoint. and all are therefore particu-
larry interested in it as the vital issue of
the campaign. These girls have come to
realize TINT the best politics is founded on
economics, and have worked out their own
salvation as it were. At each OF their
weekly meetings held during the winter
out Vi ne NUMBER read q paper bearing
on some timely political topic, and in the
animated discussions which always fol-
lowed they put many questions TO Mrs.
Corneiia S. Robinson. whose services have
been invaluable to these girls and to nv
self Mrs Robinson answered them from
a purely economic and from a purely po-
knotty probiems. and we f had to- 9s s s1mS
very hard TO keep enough ahead to be able
to answer them. Too much cannot be said
of Mrs, Rebinson's work with the mem
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 i'm 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 So cents. They know that
while the government can say that 50
cents is one dollar 1T cannot make So 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 10
fight for the maintenance of the gold
standard.
Mrs. Catherine Lane is president 90 the
club. She is a business woman. and is per-
fectly in touch with wage-earning women
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
executive officer. and her meetings are
pushed right through in the most business
like manner. Miss Parent. a stenographer,
is the recording secretary. She is a girl
OF indonitable energy. Her minutes of the
meetings are models in their way. Mrs. A.
r. 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 to
ton and advice. At the regular meeting
held Monday night she read a letter from
Mr.. Hobart. nominee for Vice President
much pleased TO learn that they wexe in
terested in the money question, and that
Would we Lflt b h weight taieSS,t and an G infn 7 W in fsi:
campaign where the wage question is at
stake. He urged them to continued effort,
and they were much gratified.
LAS | said before, these girls have al
ready opened their campaign. and they did
it in a rather novel way. Very recently
they gave an outing at Bronx Park one
vited her men friends. and I never saw a
set of women combine pleasure and bust
in every way. anyhow. and go about ha v.
ing a good time with as much earnestns So
as they do their business. After the pleas
Ures of sightseeing and a picnic luncheon
the girls mustered their forces in the bi,
pavilion and speech making began in carr :
est They turned their outing into a res
ular gold-standard ratification meeting.
Mckinley and Hobart was their cry. an
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 to hold a polit-
ical quiz once a month during the entire
year. and here they had an opportunity
of putting some questions TO the mer
which they could not resist. phe prevail.
ing sentiment was that the tariff would be
properly adjusted and that the cu stion tC
he fought ont now Is the money question
Mrs. Robinson is deeply interested in the
ization can only increase as our standard
of living increases. She has instilled hei
principles into the Business Women's
Club. and they are determined to bend al
their efforts toward helping to elect tine
Republican candidates
A PRACTICAL WOMAN.
One of the most prominent Republican
politicians in this State remarked as Miss
Boswell walke out of the Republican
headquarters the other day:
There goes the most ingenious woman
when 1t comes to devising and advancing
a system of management. that I've ever
known"
Why asked the reporter who wa.
present.
ASK her what her two latest schemes
are for the Republican women when il