Evening star., 1900-02-10

employees, should she at any period Of her
life hold position of trust and business
management"
AT the conclusion Of this paper, Miss An
thony amused the meeting by a request of
the women present to remove their hats.
II want you to take off your hats said
Miss Anthony. ''If some of you will insist
upon wearing bonnets as large as bushei
TO be asked to remove them
For the space Of several seconds there
was a general removal of hatpins.
Duty of Women Citizens.
Isabella Beecher Hooker Is unable to at
tend the convention and has probably made
her last appearance before q suffrage audi
ence. but the old Beecher spirit is still
strong within her and her pen appears to
write as pungently as ever, as was evi-
denced by the paper read for her last even
Ing by Mary Seymour Howard. The title
of the paper was THE Duty of the Woman
Citizen Of the United States in Present Po-
Etical Crises, and was a blistering ar
raignment of everybody and everything
connected with expansion. The first part
of the address was in the form Of a peti-
ton which the convention was asked TO
present to Congress. 1t reads as follows:
we. woman citizens of the United States,
being deeply impressed with the great idea
of the Constitution Of the United States.
as well as that of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. that the consent of the gov
erned lies at the foundation of all Just
governments, do urge upon Congress the
duty Of assisting the people of the Philip
pines to form such government And to
that end we ask that the people of all the
islands be invited, through such represen-
tatiVes as they may. in some satisfactory
manner, appoint. to open negotiations with
the United States for the purpose Of organ
iZing and establishing an independent gov
ernment under the supervision and pro-
lection of the United States. this govern
ment maintaining its military control until
such government is firmly established. and
thereafter retaining ii only for its protec
ton
Just what will be done with this petf-
tion is prob!ematical, Some of the sena-
tors and representatives who will support
the suffragsts in their appeals to Con-
gress, 1t is understood. will not counte-
nance any anti-expansion sentiment or
seem to lend their aid to such petition.
In view of this, the leaders may deem 1t
ahWlse to raise the issue by presenting the
paper. Miss Anthony may hold that they
nave no business to mix in 4 matter where
they have no vote and squclch the whole
thlng. As convention the suffragists are
expansionsts.
Mrs, Mary Church Terrell was the next
speaker. Mrs. Terrell is president of the Ma
tlonal Association of Colored Women, a
81 raduate of Oberlin, with honors won in
the classical course ana the degree of
A NJ, which has since been conferred upon
her. She is proficient in French. German
and Italian, having perfected herself In
study abroad
Mrs. Terrell taught in the High School Of
marriage with Robt. II. Terrell, Wash
ington lawyer. She is a member of the Dis
trict W. S. A, but not often seen at its
meetings. as her time is largely devoted to
work with and for the colorcd people, she
being president of the Bethel Literary and
Historical Society, chairman of the educa-
tfonal committee of the ColOred Women's
League and leader of a class in English
r1Q l1r Of bar S,,ti,
friends.
She was offered the registership of Ober-
lin College at one time. but refused on ac-
count of her coming marriage. and was the
first co1ored woman in the country to re-
ceive an offer to serve on the faculty of a
college of Oberlins standing. She was
trustee of the schools of Washington.
Mrs. Terrelrs Theme
Mrs. Terrell said in part:
"As a nation we Drofessed long ago to
have abandoned the principle that might
makes right. Before the world we pose
today a government whose citizens have
the right to liberty. life and the pursuit of
yet. in spite of these lofty
professions and noble sentiments. the pres
ent policy Of this government is to hold
one-half Of its citizens in legal subjection
TO the other. without being able to assign
good and sufficient reasons for such a fla
grant violation of the very principle upon
WnlCh II was founded.
THE founders of this republic called
heaven and earth TO witness that it should
be government of the people. for the peo-
pie and by the people: and yet the elective
fra nchfSe is withheld from one-half of the
citizens many of whom are Intelligent, Gull
tured and virtuCus. while it is unstintingly
bestowed upon the other some of whom
are iliitcrate, debauch-d and vicious he
cause the word people, by an unparalleled
exhibition of leXicograph:cal acrobats has
been turned and twisted to mean all who
are shrewd and wise enough to have them
selves born boys instead of girls or who
took the trouble to be born white instead Of
black.
The argument tha; il is unnatural for
women 20 vote Is rs old as the rock-ribbed
and ancient hills. Whatever is unusnal is
called unnatural the world over When
the world takes step forward in progress
some old custom falls dead at our feet
Nothing could be more unnatural than
that n good woman should .hirk her du,y
to the state. if 1t We're possible for her to
discharge it
WOmen's EnfranchiSemcnt.
In Introducing Rev. Ida G. Hutton of
Illinois. Miss Anthony referred to the
clerical profession which Rev Hutton
had chosen to follow by saying that she
held position in the world that good
ministers of long ago had declared God
never intended a woman to fill. Rev HUI
ton delivered one Of the most powerful ar
guments in favor of woman's enfranchise-
ment heard thus far in the session, al
though her subject was ''Woman's Posi-
ton in the Ministry The speaker held
the closest attention of her audience
She traced the labors of wo-
men in religious fields from the time when
Paul gave them permission to preach
through the ages when men denied her
that privilege to the present time. Before
the greatest achievement of the Sex can
be solved once and for all. she insisted
man and woman must work in harmony
and together. Woman today, said Rev.
Hutton, are not only asking for recogni-
ton, but they are taking it. They have
the keys to the doors which have been
barred against them. and they will open
them without asking consent.
Conference work ard organization was
taken up during the afternoon meeting,
which began at o'clock. The gathering
was presided over by Mary G. Hay, secre-
tary Of the committee on organization.
The usual sorg service and prayer opened
the meeting. which was informal.
Refers to Schemes.
A paper was to have been presented by
Laura A. Gregg, national organizer of
on How Obstacles to Organiza-
ton May be Overcome but on account
Of business engagement at Omaha she
was unable to appear, and the time which
was to have been devoted to that paper
was taken up by short addresses by the