The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-31
S(FFRA1|STS N SESSION
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION HOLDING
THERTY-THIRD ANNUAL CON-
VENTTON In MINNEAPOLIS
ADDRESS BY MISS ANTHONY
Veteran Leader in WOman's Work
Believes Emancipation of
Woman Means E1eva-
ton of the Race.

A1AO Thirty 7IltlrQ annual convention OF
the National American Womans Suf-
frage association convened in the First
Baptist church, Minneapolis, yesterday
afternoon with Mrs Carrie Chapman
Gait, the president, in the chair
busy session was held, and in the even
ing the time was mostly occupied vita
the ceremonies attendant upon the for
NAL welcome extended to the delegates
by the governor, for the state, and May
or Ames on behalf of the city
After the roll call and the usual pre-
liminary business the veteran ex-presi-
dent of the association, Miss Anthony,
delivered an address. Before giving her
own speech, however, she read an ad-
dress prepared by Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, who is an honorary president
OF the association. Mrs. Stantons adj
dress mapped out plan which she
thought would expedite the work Of
emancipating women from slavery and
superstition" She thought important
work should be done in the churches in
the attainment of this end, and she .sug-
gested that a vigorous agitation be be-
gun in church circles The time has
come, she maintained, for woman to be
heard in the councils of the churches Of
the nation. She would like to see COM
mfttees and delegations from all the ma
tlonal and state associations visit the
clergy in their several localities. attend
NilCil Nc1lOuS COHN6uItOnS ana general as
semblies and press on their consideration
the true position of woman as a factor
in Christian civilization
MISS ANTHoY's ADDRESS.
In the course of her remarks Miss An
thony said that if the divine law visits
the sins of the fathers upon the children,
it equally transmitted to them their vir-
tues Reasoning along this line she ar
gued that if it is through womans ig-
norant subsection to the tyranny of
mans appetites and passions that the
/ life current of the race is corrupted, then
it must be through her intelligent eman-
cipation that the race shall be uplifted
again. The mother of Christ should be
made the true model of Womanhood, and
the Office of maternity be held sacred
She commended that before mothers can
be held responsible for the vices and
crimes and the wholesale decentralization
of men they must possess all possible
rights to control the conditions and cir
cumstances of their own and their chill
dren's lives.
ANNUAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT.
Mrs. Gait then delivered her annual
address, the keynote of which was that
during the past year the work of the as
ISOLATION has kept steady pace with the
rapidly increasing sentiment of the ma
ton in favor of the aims and purposes
of the association.
During the year the association. by
means Of bazaar, swelled the
available resources Of the treasury by
$4,000. Through generous advertisement
of this bazaar an unmeasured education
al work was accomplished. Thousands of
persons, who had never before heard Of
the association, became acquainted with
its workings, and are today In sympathy
with the movement.
AS to the suggestions which have been
made for the association to adopt for
its motto the words, Education, agita-
ton, organization, the president said
that whether they were formally adopt
ed or not, they represented the work
which was being done
During the past year the work of pub
lie education has been greatly as
sisted by the activity of the associations
press department. Under the management
of the superint endent, Mrs. EInora Bah
cock, $1,000 articles bearing on woman's
suffrage were sent for publication to
papers in the various states.
Judlcious distribution Of free literature
from the national headquarters had also
done much in an educational way, more
than half million pages having been
sent forth ON their mission in aid Of the
movement.
In touching upon the finances of the as
| ISOLATION, the president spoke in an OPP
timistic vein. The receipts were annually
increasing at a satisfying rate, and dur
ing the past twelve months, exclusive of
the bazaar, a large increase over last
years total was received.
The customary quadrennial appeals
were made to the nominating committees
of the national political parties, with the
usual disappointing results The conser-
vatism of the political parties, for the
present at least, did not seem to afford
much encouragement, but hope for the
eventual addition Of the cause of the
women was not by any means to be
| abandoned.
WELCOMED BY THE PRESS
Ex-Mayor James Gray, in extending
welcome to the national convention of
Woman Suffragists last evening, in be-
half of the press of Minneapolis, said in
part: 1--WE shall show you the city and
take you through the mills, lumber ana
flour, call your attention to the real es-
tate. get you to buy If we can. This is
what we do to the men, and display the
| wonders of the city, one of which, in the
person of Mayor Ames, occupies the plat
form He has told you he is one Of the
Oldest settlers, has been here forty-nine
years Well, during that time he has
been mayor four times; he began
Democrat and ended a Republican, and
tonight he has told you he Is a suffragtst.
1 knew he would be when he looked over
the audience and saw that there was
something in 1t. I'm connected with the
paper that Is the official organ of the
mayor, and feel that 1 must do my duty
in showing the marvels of the city, AMI