The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-02-20
Address Before the Council
ArOuSeS Interest.
AN ERA OF IETBRg8TIONALIZA7IOE
Bits of History of the Organ
iZatiOn Now in Session.
CONDEMNS ARROGANCE
Efforts 10 Unite With the Fair Sex OF
the Occident in the Execution
OF "A World Wide Work.

Widespread interest has been aroused
in the address delivered before the ma
tional council Of women last night by Mrs.
May Wright SewaII. president or the In
ternational Council OF Women. Her subject
was International Relations OF Women.
and what she said about the woman and
the twentieth century has evoked general
comment Below are extracts from the
address:
Many epigramatic utterances have
been made relative 10 the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries The nineteenth cen
fury was century OF men, said one poet;
the twentieth century shall be the cen
fury OF women. said another I choose
never 90 think OF woman and man sep
arately. since 1 bcHcve TT their des-
TIMES for time and eternity are inter
linked. I would. therefore, ray that the
nineteenth century was a century Of ma
tionaiization. and would add that the cen
fury upon which we have entered, the
twentieth century, VIII prove itself cen
fury of decentralization. To the first
assertion I would ask you TO look at the
map Of Europe at the beginning of the
nineteenth century; &c was q map OF iTag-
ments. fragments that for the most part
had been sundered each from that to
which il inherently belonged by arbitrary
favor.
'The national afinities asserted them
selves ia the early half Of the nineteenth
century and demonstrated their claims in
the latter half OF the same cycle. Witness
the act Of union that brought Scotland
and Ireland into their seats in the British
Parliament, as recognized parts of politi-
cal Great britain. Witness the union OF
score CT principalities kingdoms and
dukedonis in the German Empire. Witness
the resurrection Of italian liberties in
united Italy. Witness a United states Of
America, whose union. proclaimed in II76.
was sealed in actually by the civil war.
and came into a more than nominal exist
ence OILY in 1865 There can be no inter
nationalism excepting as sturdy, vigorous
nationalities created.
1T was worthy. &c was great, and hu-
manity justly rejoiced as fragments OF
races achieved tor their race a consoii-
dated matte As these severed frag-
ments ,sr1. prcyineialism. see
4 -.r grasp, and yield t.
Consciousness Of ma
7nabers-
been able to fnd
q score Of movements
claim to the epithet Of In
o. The last twenty years OF the
-- -enth century saw this number dou-
ed. and already the two years Of the
twentieth century have seen this tota
again more than doubled.
"The aflnitIes Of race. which resulted
in the union Of fragment with fragment 10
form united nations. has expanded to the
larger affinity OF principle. aspiration and
purpose. which transcend the afllnities
of race and result in the union OF all
races. whose conduct rests upon the same
principles whose eyes are fixed on tht
same goal. who feel the inspiration o
the same purpose and who move towar,
achievement animated by the same as
piratious.
Among the international movements
most significant OF the tendency which
am seeking 10 describe is the Interna-
tionai Council OF Women So far as its
genesis is known IL was born in an
American heart on English soil. The i'm
pulse came from an American who was
ENJOY 4IE a bAALLLlcl t4lAt N GAEdA toA H.
ain.
'The first movement toward realizing
this particular form OF internationalism
was made in this city In March, 1883. II
includes two fundamental motions. First
that its component parts shall consist
Of the organized forces or wOmanhOOd OF
distinct nationalities. and that it shall
consist Of a union Of these national or
ganisms-
The international bodies.
Three years ago the international
Council Of Women was preparing for It's
second qUinquenniaI. which was to take
place the following July in London. Al
that time. that is, In February, 1899. there
were six nations. with three national or
ganizatiOss within them, which had
united Ia the International Council Tn
der the impulse OF the approaching quin-
Quennial three more nations. then par
italy organized Ia national councils. hast
ened their organization, that they might
part cIpate in the QuinquenniaL There
fore in July Of 1899 the International
Council meant a union Of nine national
councils. To organize these nine national
councils. you VIII see. eleven years had
have passed since the quinquennial and
within that time six more countries have
been required. Two and e-hal years