The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-11-13
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ton of her audience. She gave the his
tory of our government from the olden
times to the present, following step by step
as it gradually progressed, as repub-
lie, until now only one step more Is need
ed to make il into an ideal republic, a
country governed by the whole people,
not because they are men, but because
they are citizens, and that one step is to
let women take part in our national at
fairs. She is an orator from whose lips
eloquence falls as readily as rain from
the clouds. There is just one thing rela-
tive to our government upon which she
is not well informed she doesn't under
stand why even the marble woman,
Justice, who is found i'm all court houses
holding a pair of evenly balanced scales,
can hold those scales balanced under
the present suffrage law.
Toward the close of her lecture the
lights went out owing TO burned out
fuse, but the light that still flowed from
her lips was sufiicient-so completely so
that the lamp which was finally brought
in actually looked dim.
She is full of wit and humor, and when
she brought the lecture to close, it was
with feeling of an evening we'll spent
that the audience wendell its way home
ward.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
This session was presided over by Mrs,
May Knaggs of Bay City.
A song by the audience preceded the
greetings from fraternal delegates. Mrs.
Gulielma III. Barnum had greeting from
her Charlotte club, Mrs. Head one from
the club at Hartford and Mrs Mary l..
Doe one from the president of the organ
ization, Mrs. Martha Snyder Root of
Bay City.
Following these was the report of the
National American Woman Suffrage as
ISOLATION held at New Orleans last winter
by Mrs. Belle M. Perry and daughter,
Miss Georgia of Charlotte.
Mrs. Perry gave good report, quot
ing at times from Rev. Anna Howard
Shaws lectures there, which she said
were most successful. 1t was 10 days
convention and great enthusiasm was
manifested throughout the entire con-
vention, many people being turned away
on account of lack Of even standing room.
The report of the memorial committee
was the next number by Mrs. Mary L..
Doe
She read several obituaries of noted
people whom the association had recent
lx,l -, ~ ha frx
and several other delegates gave similar
reports.
Mrs. f. III. Harvey then rendered a
vocal solo in her usual attractive way,
after which Mrs. Gulielma II. Barnum
gave an address on The Women of the
Old Bible" in which were many inter
esting and touching episodes of the bra
very of women of ancient times, making
very entertaining address.
The closing number of the program
was a symposium, lis the Indifference
of Women Main Obstacle to their En-
franchisement?" in which the entire
audience took part.
Many ideas and instances were adj
vanced, but it appeared to be the almost
universal opinion that indifference was
not main obstacle and in few cases an
obstacle at all, their inability to work in
politics making their supposed inditier
ence apparent.
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
Mrs r. h. Harvey opened this session
with a vocal solo, following which was
an invocation by Rev. f. II. Harvey.
Then came vocal solo by r. +. Jen-
nings, which preceded an address by
Mrs Winnifred Harper Cooley of Grand
Rapids on "Womans Place in the
World"
She spoke of the primitive times when
women did all the out-of- door work,
which has gradually been diminished
until at present the usual household
duties are being taken from her, the
kindergarten even relieving her of the
cares of motherhood to a great extent
The happiness of home, she believes, de
ponds on the man as well as the woman
Women are not laborers and, she says,
are intellectually besting men.
She has a voice full of expression and
is an interesting speaker.
This address was followed by a vocal
duet sung in a delightful way by h. f..
Jennings and Miss Matte Cooley, after
which came the last address of the even
ing, sex as a Factor in the Problem of
the Individual" by Mrs. Lulu Annis
Pound of Lansing.
She believes sex has nothing to do
with principles and ideas, that they may
originate as well in a woman as a man,
but woman has SO much with which to
contend that she has no chance to bring
her intellec tuality into prominence.
She is a good speaker, full of argu-
mentative powers and very deliberate in
her statements. At intervals she wove
in good stories and finished her address
by strong appeal to the men in behalf
of the women.
THURSDAY MORNING.
Thursday morning was occupied by
business session. Following are the
officers elected for the ensuing year
President, Mrs. Gulielma H. Barnum.