Evening star., 1902-02-22

States, that women will have conceded to
them frankly and without fear favor
the right to choose their life and course;
then, In that happy day. which will be the
morning of the millennium, the men will be
strong and pure, great and wise. They will
be manly men, worthy in every particular
to stand at the head of their households as
protector and guide
And the women will be pure and true
tender and gentle, loving and intelligent in
fact, womanly to the very core of their
beings. and all these because they choose
SO to be. The women will not be classel
nor treated as children nor dependents
They will legislate in all matters which
affect their own interests, and in some of
their interests which affect their sons, and
adopt such life will make the men
and women alike, the center of everything
that Is lovely and pure, progressive ana
beautiful Therefore. speed the happy day
when woman shall have her perfect right
of choice"
A Message From the Pacific.
"A message from the Pacific coast" was
the title Of a paper prepared by Mrs Julia
Stanclift Sanborn Of San Francisco and
read by Mrs. Spencer.
THE present session of the triennial will
have the distinction Of admitting the first
council organized on the Pacific coast
Mrs. Sanborn wrote. THAT it has been
cosmopolitan center indicates some strong
moving force along the lines of affliation.
Among the earliest patrons of the council
and some of it's most earnest advocates
were a number of California women. OF
this number were Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst,
Miss Harriet Cooper Mrs. Emma Shafter
Howard Mrs Annie c. Severance women
whose efforts in this line of educational and
philanthrOpic work are we'll known.
THAT there has been no federated effort
until the present time must not be con-
strued to mean that our California women
have done nothing to propagate the coun-
ell idea. The cosmopolitan character of
our people, the unsettled condition of gen.
eral society, combined with the long dis
tance from the centers of organza ton,
have left our women ignorant of what was
being accomplished in older states. But
new interest has been awakened, and the
women Of our clubs and societies are now
feeling that there is great advantage to
them to be kept in touch with the work of
eastern women, and are anxious to form
part Of the great organized movements of
the country.
A Pertinent Question.
what will the council be able to do for
California? is pertinent question. We
hope for many good results. We hope to
combine the influence of women with the
efforts of our good men, and send as our
representatives to Washington men who
will not take twenty years to find out that
we need a Nicaragua canal. Our women
are getting anxious to know what is to be
done about saving the big trees.
"A California woman would as soon give
her consent to have her children served
up veal as she would consent to hav-
ing the great trees demolished or used for
lumber. We have made use of our right
of petition. Through the combined influ-
ence of the Woman's Council the real SEN
timent of our women might have some
force
"Woman's wit combined with mans in
telligence might have framed an exclusion
law that would have excluded an undesir-
able part of our population. A great cry
is going up from all parts of our state.
Give the people access to the land Give
us relief from the tyranny of the great
corporations who are sapping the life
blood Of the state and have made Califor-
MIA by-word for greed and oppression
And what is California? The school
children will tell you: 1t is the land of the
sun. the land of mighty trees, the land of
fruit and flowers and gold. But it Is an
unfinished country, and we need the ef-
forts Of the women as well as the men to
aid in developing the state, and we hope
for this help through the power which
comes from the organized efforts of our
women, power that will be manifested in
the afiliation of state council.
Cooperation Vital Force.
"We are everywhere met with the notion
that a state council will be of no practical
Vdlue. bUL IL Is cOWdTQlC6 HULL
ing because not assured of success in ad-
vance. 1t is already plain that cooperation
is to be the most vital force in our future
economic and social life, but 1t must go
much farther than it has yet done, and 1t
must be supported by public opinion. Wo-
men of the council. the time has come for
strong, aggressive work along the lines Of
federation, and California should receive
your earliest attention.
1--WE need an organizer for the Pacific
coast. Though Independent work may be
possible to the eastern states, In sympathy
and in interests, there is great unity of pur-
pose and idea among the states composing
the Pacific slope. We are looking forward
to the time when there shall be added to
the other great divisions Of the work a
Pacific council of women.
"Fellow workers. God kpeed and may the
time come, and right speedily, when there
shall be no Woman's Council, no Woman's
striving for the common good"
Appeal to President.
''That brave, true, strong heart in the
White House. President Roosevelt. who be-
iieves in pure womanhood. appeal to. that
he put an end to this crime to Filipino wo-
men. That nag. which the American wo-
man has helped SO much to make. and
which stands for social purity. should not
wave over such disgrace. They talk good
deal about our f0refathers; they should
talk more Of our foremothers. The nag
should stand for protection. not only to
merchandise, shipping and mercantile COM
modities, but for pure womankind."
Ars Ellis spoke OF the devotion of Mr..