The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-23
THE CAUSE OF WOMAN.
INTERFERING TALK BY MEN At 4 MIS-
SISSIPPI EQUAL SUFFRAGE MEETING.

Women to Serve ms London CounciiIo RS
The Traffic In Chinese Women and Jew
| asses-Friotion In the Women's Coun-
| ell Over the Anti-Sufragist Letter.
There was some spirited speak ing at n recent
meeting Of the Mississippi Equal Suffrage As-
ISOLATION in Clarksdale The Mayor of Clarks-
dale. the Hon. Walter Clark. said in his ad-
| dress OF welcome:
Look at the political situation Of Mississippi to.
| day. 1t is not nattering. Men say that II women
| lad the right t. vote every married man would
| simply have two votes. Now. don't deceive your
selves. You are q Democrat, right wrong You
| would vote for Democratic thief against good
Republican. We'll. you couldn't make q woman do
that-she would vote for the every time. II
women had the right to vote know few politicians
who would get into other business in short
order They would not have the nerve to ask women
| to vote for them.
DR.. E. II. Martin. prominent physician. said
| at the same meeting
People Of the class which predicts loss Of mod
esty ON the part OF any woman going to the polls,
| and even hints a. growth OF whskers on the face
of woman running for the Office of superintendent
of Education. not to b. argued with. They
stitue that great conservative element that always
! pulls back against advancement. They OF the
same sort as certain members of the British parlia.
ment who: not many years ago. refused to grant
franchise to gas ompany on The ground that com.
msn sense taught them that whom the gas lit
would necessarily travel tArk into the pipe
AMI SET me bonsc ahre The same conser, aSe Gle
ment in Con~tantinople recently much scandal.
public in hot weather with but one veil " F"r as"i
women yemen had worn two wells tn,k one. wraped
and thin. loose veil over that. You cAu imagine
bU Wbsn h such fats gear is in hot
start the fashion Of leaving off the heavy veil and
mediate and dire results to Mo.Iem civil alton and
the total dcS,rncti9n ot Feminine modr.ty Tho
sultan was compelled to- issue edict requiring the
two yei,s t" BE- worn as before II is manifcstly use
accept what they are accustomed to- But that very
the order of things is changed for they accept what
ever they ind without question"
DR.. Mary Breene was lately appointed city
health officer by the Boari OF Aldermen of L.
mart. Ia. She is the first woman in the State
| TO hold the office. Her appointment caused
come excitement and 1t is now claimed that in
Iowa woman Is not legally eligible to the po-
sition. At almost the same time comes the
news that Mrs. NJ. b. Abbott. who had been
elected County Prosecuting Attorney by, the
pronounced ineligible by the Attorney General
on account OF her sen. The nt-SulrraGe a.:
no help to women in earning "A living. Here
are two women. both Of whom are hindered by
lack of the haIlo! from the full degree of sue
chosen profe ssions.
division in the House OF Lords on the question
of making women eligible as Councillors and
Aldermen Of. London the right Of the wo-
men TO serve was supported by the Arch
bishop OF Canterbury. the Archbishop OF
YORK and the Bishops OF London. BRISTOL
Ripon. Rochester. Gloucester. &c.--in fact. so
Ear as can be gathered from the reports. by
all the Church diEuitaries present AS tho
Archbishop OF Canterbury lately signed petit
ton in behalf OF full Parliamentary suffrage
for women. he might havo been expected to
favor letting them serve on municipal Coun-
Ills. But there must he q reason why 50 many
Bishors OF less advanced opinions should have
taken the same view Ia this particular Case
The reason is not hard to find
Ten women have served on London vestrles
their work in these lode, Ia. proved invalu-
as e.peGnY IN maf'Gr, reniinE to ne care
CHS are 70 assume most Of tho work hitherto
done by the yestriss. with fey added fpnc-
poor. The municipal Councils will be merely
'R9ri4ed ves,ries:" and the chief arGrmept
not he debarrsd from work in which their ser
vices had proved not only useful but a. most
"xeIadns he women Was csrr.d but It IS
encouraging to see that the good work OF wo-
men in the vestries haH proved a prnctic ,l
the SUPPORT OF the usually conservative Church
OF England
An article in last Sundays Sun mentions
that in san Francisco many hundreds OF Chi
nese women are held practically as slaves in
the service OF vice. and describes the methods
by which they are entrarped in China. brought
&c this country and sold. When visited Cali.
fornia. some fifteen years ago. tho traffic was
con iucted onenly. The women slaves we're TO
be seen by hundreds. looking through their
grated windows. and it was policeman. one
Of the professed guardians OF law and order.
who offered to take our party OF tourists to see
them as part Of tho sights" We did not 90
1t is amazing that men with daughters Of
their own and women with human hearts in
their breasts can ever go 10 see such specta-
Gle merely as a shov-but with some at least
OF that party. the incident has dwe!t ever
since as thorn IN their conscen"es and As
I'm In every large eitv there is srea: amount OF
voluntary vice. and 1t IL not likely that woman
suffrage or ANYTHING else vii soon Iut an end
and constrained to lead life Of shame against
their wi-this ought TO be regarded as intol-
monstrous thing about it in san Francisco
was that it went, on with the full knowledge
would such officers have held iher places II
their reelection hid depended in any degree
This reproach is not con nped to the Chinese.
ieW days Ws,, age S, an 1GtsTnai"nai CGnerence
der the ss the BIKE IN Of
Westminster. At this conference n speaker
eminent for statesmanship and sound Judg-
meut said
II is we'll known to those who know anything OF
the darker side OF human nature that over a very
large part Of the world women and girls eau be
| bought and imprisoned and used by the men who
have Nonght them for Immoral purposes rs source
| Of income: that they can be slapped from country
| o. country like cattle. and that they have
passed into the clutches of the who live tho
proceeds Of their infamy they all but powrrless
I - rs ape.
The victims are obtNined through false advertise
| mrnts FOR companions, governt sscs, sc. and the
most ignorant and UNPROTECTED are selected from
| among those who reply.
The persecution of tho Jews in RusS.a has boon
the cause Of terrible increase in the number Of
Russian Jewess"s as victims Of this trade. They
sent all parts Of tn" " rid 1t has been c#tlnaed
that IN the tolerated houses Of the city RueuDs
Ayr"s alone there q OOu European women I'M.
prisoHcd. The price Of n woman varies from f3p 70
| E5O there.
Up til now concerted international effort has
been made Grapplr with the evil; and 1t CON
slider what special machinery ia required for tins
purpose that this International conference has been
called together.
The discussions at the conference made It
clear that In some countries the law was de-
fAptiye but that in the de-