Evening star., 1902-02-12

will be promptly given them Your task is
with the women and not with the men, for
in this country, and especially in It's capital,
the women rule with or without the ballot.
| trust you may soon convince your indif-
ferent sisters. Your brothers will gladly
ratify their decision
Mrs. May Wright Sewall. president of the
international Council OF Women, then eX-
tended welcome to the foreign guests
and was followed by Miss Clara Barton
president of the International Red Cross.
Miss Susan Il. Anthony. honorary presi-
dent National American Woman Suffrage
Association, and Rev. Anna Howard Shaw,
vice president.
Each was forceful in her own way. and
when the quartet OF distinguished women
got through the foreign guests We're thor
oughly welcomed to hospitable hearts and
homes.
Of the foreign delegates was made by Mad
anne Lvovna Friedland Of Russia. Madame
Friedland is petite and pleasing in person.
ality, and her response touched the hearts
OF her hearers.
Madame Friedland's Greeting.
Madame Fricdland addressed herself to
american Women" Il am" she said,
"a loyal daughter of friendly country,
who thanks you for your welcome, and
brings greetings from her distant home
Russia and the United States have been
friends for many year, and are friends
today, proven friends, who have stood by
each other in the hour of need. In 1863
the French ambassador at the court Of ST.
Petersburg laid before the czar the prOpo-
sition Of Napoleon III to interfere In your
civil war, for the purpose of perpetuating
the division between the north and the
south. After listening to this bold proposal
Of the French emperor, Car Alexander, the
man who had freed % 5OOOOOO of slaves with
one stroke of his pen. replied: Tell your
friends. and tell him also that they have
the same right to maintain a republican
form of government as We have to choose
& monarchy. Tell him also that he must
keep his hands Off and not meddle in their
affairs, for l will not allow anyone to In
terfere on the other side of the Atlantic.
He who strikes my friend. strikes me-
This answer. in diplomatic language, went
the same day to Paris. and soon after
Russian battle ships reached the harbors
Of New York and San Francisco. There
are still men and women who remember
them. They used to wonder why the Rus
sian men Of war were lying in American
waters. President Lincoln could have
given the answer, for in a private message
from the czar he had been assured Of the
friendship Of the great eastern empire. He
knew that the commanders Of the Russian
ships had secret orders to act in case of
necessity. The American government
proved it's gratitude by taking Alaska Off
our hands, and they made a good bargain,
too.
Greeted Star Spangled Banner.
But the American people have done more,
for there came morning when the glori-
Gus winter sun Of Russia greeted the star
spangled banner, when American ships
landed on Russian shores, ready to protect
us from a more cruel enemy-hunger. The
cry Of distress from our famine-stricken
villages had found an echo in American
hearts, and the ships which came, bore
not government orders; they bore the
other; they brought us wheat and corn to
feed our people.
I'm December, 1871. Grand Duke Alexis
visited your country. A banquet was given
to him. when oliver Wendell Holmes read
the following verses:
"'Bleak is our shore with the blast OF
December,
Throbbing and warm are the hearts
which remember
Who was our friend, when the world was
our foe
Fires Of the north-in eternal com
Blend your broad flashes with evenings
bright star.
God bless the great empire which loves
the great Union
Strength to her people! Long life to
her cZar!
''Thus an American poet has expressed
the feelings of his countrymen and women.
God bless the United States! Long life to
President Roosevelt, and prosperity to you
ALL In the days to come and the years
to follow, may our two great nations stand
side by side in harmony and peace. May
the star spangled banner and the Russian
double eagle soar aloft-not on battlefields
not against any nation, but for a brother
hood of men in the federation Of the world"
Address Of National President.
The address of the national president,
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, was received
with every expression OF interest. She said
in opening:
IAN international woman's suffrage con-
ference deserves to be called "a new thing
under the SUM- It does not matter whether
its immediate results shall prove to be i'm
portant or Insignificant, 1t stands as a mile
post in the onward progress Of a great
cause. an unmistakable indication, too,
the heights beyond where. without a aues-
ton. the banneruof equal rights for men
and women will one day be planted
Self government for men. in it's modern
thing. It is true there were so,ealled % e "rm ree
publics Of great influence and power In the
early centuries Of Europe, but in eyery one
the number Of those who were authorized
so limited, it is doubtful II they deserved the
name."
Then Mrs. Gait proceeded to show that
self government. ahased s.sa upon the broad
right, although its evolution may reach far
back through the centuries. may justly be
claimed as q new idea. 1.-The startins
point of the modern movement she de-
clared, was unquestionably the American
Declaration Of Independence"
She thought that the world had long
been preparing for the departure from old
ideals and quoted De Tocqueville, who said
OF the American republic, 'for seven CEN
turies, aristocracies and class privileges
have been steadily dissolving" and also
from John Stuart Mill who added in COM
ment upon this. "and the noble has been
gradually going down on the social ladder
and the commoner has been gradually go
ing up. Every half century has brought
them nearer to each other"
During the centuries In which the re-
pressive customs Of feudaiism were grad
.nally .reeedfng into the past, while com
merce was uniting more closely the des-
Etinies Of nations, while education was sure
" substituting understanding and reason