The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-19

ton, at which time these questions
shall be acted upon; also that the
president of each state federation re
port action to the chairman of. the
committee, Mrs. D. N. c. Brock of
of each federated club report the
wishes of her club to said chairman
before Jan. 15, 1907
Montana has no state federation as
yet so this question will properly be
discussed and acted upon in the in
dividual clubs Of the state. There
is reason to believe that state fed
GRAFTON will be organized before long,
so, in considering the matter, the clubs
should presume that a state fedora
ton exists. The main point is shall
the individual club still retain the priv
ilege of sending its own representative
or representatives to the biennials or
shall Representatives be sent from the
state declarations only? In the latter
case only sections of the state would
be represented. since the state feder-
alton could not send a delegate for
Der of delegates at the biennials and
would also result in the identity of
the individual club being lost. The
Nebraska state federation has recent
ly voted to indorse,the present plan of
Individual club representation in the
general, and the reasons submitted for
their action are as-foHows: 30 that
the biennials of the G. w. F. c. are
not so unwieldy as to inconvenience
the transaction OF. general business;
(2) that details can best receive atten-
ton by reference to the executive
board of special committees; (3) that
large attendance is, an inspiration So
cially to participants; az that radical
changes in representation will neces-
state inconvenient, changes in state
and club organizations as well as in
the methods of raising necessary rev
enues: 90 that to reduce the represen-
tation so radically would destroy. the
enthusiasm, interest and support which
the presence of numbers alone can
inspire (6) that the power and influ-
ence of the general federation would
be greatly narrowed and curtailed by
the proposed change; 90 that an Or
ganized force for the accomplishment
of good and the promotion of well be-
ing can never be too large" On the
other hand, the Massachusetts fedora
ton believes in thorough reorganiza-
ton which would provide for repre-
sentation of Estate declarations and
kindred bodies only" They have solv-
ed the various questions to their own
satisfaction, provided just what
the finance-the details are too
lengthy to give in a newspaper arti-
Gle. Suffice it that under their ar
rangement the individual club is rel
egated to the background and the rate
of taxation is about as low per capita
6 cents) as it could be made. It's
Just what might be expected from Mas
sachusetts. Mrs Brook, in her adj
dress as president to the Pennsylvania
state federation, says it is too small.
But she favors the plan of representa-
tion through state declarations only,
and gives as her reason that it will do
away with two delegations from each
state, lone composed of a few women
with a state president at their head,
representing the state. and the other
of a large body of women, with the
state chairman at the head. represent
ing the clubs and these bodies in some
cases working against each other"
r;ela h,ap Of ha fwn
most powerful governments of the
world, the United States and England.
there are two bodies. In the United
States the smaller body represents the
different states: in England a privi-
legged class; in both countries the larg-
err body represents the people, and
every man feels that he has greater
interest in that representation because
he has had the privilege of voting for
him. The house of lords in England is
the aristocratic branch, but 1t does not
cut much of a figure in the affairs of
the nation; it is we'll known fact
that many of the best informed public
men in the United States have declar-
ed that the senate is fast drifting into
the ways of the English aristocratic
body: and at the same time it is an
undisputed fact that the lower house
in both countries represents the brain
and sinew of the nations; so it is in
the general Federation of Women's
Clubs, the individual clubs represent
the brain and sinew of the national