Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-02

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charges brought against them. The demon
! straton Of hostility was less open on this
occasion, but Madam Sterling could sec that
! the majority Of her fair sisters regarded
her as wallowing in exterior darkness. To
| me she explained: ~ merely wished to
emphasize my view. We ought to recognize
| the existence OF men in the universe. Women
acquire prejudices. They don't see all the
sides. Men are like belt in machine
| that keeps all the wheels in running order.
! | felt this strongly when my husband died.
| Intelligence is without sex. There is no sex
! in true love. l am Irish, English, Scotch
| and American and was brought up in com.
| plete freedom. Men are just as noble as
| women The only difference Is one Of con-
duct. Men and women should have one
country, Gods country. one creed. Love
! your neighbor as yourself; one church, the
| great church invisible"
Dissatisfaction Among Americans.
Much dissatisfaction is felt by the Amer
lean delegates to the International Congress
OF Women at the way the meetings are
managed. Nearly 800 of the brainiest and
most progressive women in America came
TO London for the congress, some travel
ing 5000 miles, yet they have been largely
ignored by the officials given few oppor.
tunities to speak and the leaders have been
persistently snubbed by the conservative
section OF the English managers headed
by Mrs. Creighton, wife of the bishop of
London, who tried to keep in the back
ground all the advanced women for fear of
offending English susceptibilities Rev.
Anna Shaw was not given a single oppor-
tunty to speak until almost the last day
Of the congress, when her oratory electri-
fled the congress. At the great suffrage
meeting the speakers included five English
men, four English women and only one
American, Miss Anthony. Americans are
vigorously protesting against the attempt
now being made to again elect an English
woman president OF the international or
ganization. During the ten years of its
existence the two presidents have been
English women. They now want to elect
Lady Aberdeen president. The Americans
say under the rules Lady Aberdeen cannot
stand for election. as she was not properly
nominated, They want May Wright Sewell
to be chosen.
Death Causes Gloom.
Some gloom was cast over the American
delegation by the death of Mrs. Johnston2,
representing prison work in Massachusetts,
Mrs. Johnstone suddenly expired shortly
after reading a paper before the congress.
Susan B. Anthony said mo doubt it is
difficult TO make an international congress
really international for the officials of one
land. cannot fully know the delegates from
arother. The international congress owes
its inception to American women, for when
l visited England in 1882, Mrs. Stanton and
myself first proposed the idea. l believe
the congress has greatly aided the promotion
OF a mutual understanding between the
women of different nations. The language
problem has been difficulty to many Amer
lean delegates, for 1t has been hard to follow
all the continental delegates. We American
women are not, a rule, so well equipped
with a knowledge of foreign languages as
The English. The congress showed me that
while English women have made great ad-
vances in recent years. the Americans have
yet led in the van Of progress. You must
remember the congress represents not alone
suffrage women, but women interested in all
kinds of work, philanthropic, social, relig-
ious. industrial. Many of them are not yet ad-
vanced enough for a suffrage movement but
we regard them as all our children, for un-
til we suffrage women organized there was
no womans organization whatever"
Anna Shaw said: THE whole arrangement
of the congress is convincing proof of the
vast amount of trouble and work taken by
English officials to aid strangers. Nothing
has been left undone that could promote the ,
comfort of the delegates or smooth the prog
ress of the great gatherings, but l am con-
vuced that it would have been better had |
the speaking been put in the hands of
trained platform speakers rather than eX-
perts on different subjects. Many experts |
spoiled admirable papers because they did |
not know how to deliver them. The congress |
affords encouraging proof that the women's |
is not confined to America. The |
congress reveals that altogether the great |
tdarm in manner is kindness. English |
women are more conservative than Amer- !
cans, and are apt to adopt an air of patron |
age toward the American woman and at |
tempt to instruct her in things which the |
American woman thinks she knows better |
than her teacher. English women cannot |
forget that we are the daughter nation: she
fancies she still has the maternal right of
patronage and instruction. She thinks, too,
that class distinction and social life may be
used with Americans when dealing with
them"