The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-03

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speaking women are at the present
time in possession of the complete suf-
Irage, and all, except those of Wyom-
ing have been enfranchised within the
past ten years. BY adding to these the
women of Great Britain and Ireland,
who have all except the parliamentary
vote, those of Kansas with municipal
of Louisiana. Montana and New York
with the taxpayers, and of over one
half the state with the school ballot
the 1,125,000 will be multiplied several
times.
The following are officers of the ma
tional association: Susan B. Anthony,
honorary president; Carrie Chapman
Gait, president: Anna Howard Shaw
vice president at large; Kate M. Cor
don, corresponding secretary; Alice
Stone Blackwell, recording secretary;
Harriet Taylor Upton, treasurer;
Laura Clay, Mary Coggeshall, auditors.
Club Women and Child Labor.
The New Century club, of Whining
ton. has taken up the child labor
movement for Delaware. 1t held a
meeting on the subject last week, which
was addressed by Mrs. Florence Kel-
ley of this city. At the conclusion of
the address DR.. Layton Coleman, Epis-
copal bishop of the diocese, moved
that bill be introduced in the legis-
lature- The bill is now being drafted
under the supervision of Chief Justice
Lore. The New Century is one of the
most powerful clubs in the country.
composed of 500 wealthy women, and
owning its own club house. Little
Delaware has no child labor law at all,
and it is known that 1000 children of
school age are in the ranks of wage
earnerS.
The New Century club, of Philadel-
mia ic lilyaxy-ica in I,a Of
sylvania child labor BILL which it is
having drawn up by the leading con-
stitutional lawyer of the state The
Philadelphia New Century is the most
pawerful club in the state and it has
taken up the cudgels for the $4,000
child laborers in Pennsylvania who
bring that state next to Florida in the
scale of Juvenile illiteracy.
In Illinois Mrs. Harriet Van Der
Vaart. of the Chicago Consumers
league, is in charge of the child labor
bill, which has been introduced by
Mr.. Davies. brother of the state fac
tory inspector. Gov Yates recon-
mended child labor legislation in his
message in much the same manner as
Gov. Oden. The Illinois State Fedora
ton has sent out thousands of leaflets
describing the conditions that surround
the states $4,000 child wage earners,
and all the agencies for the protection
of child life-Protestant, Catholic,
Jewish and settlement wOrkers-are
cooperating with the Consumers
league to secure the passage of the
bill.
In Wisconsin Mrs B. c. Gudden, of
Oshkosh, secretary of the State Con-
sumers league, has charge of the child
labor bill, and cooperating with her
IS the State Federation and the Chill
dren's Betterment league, the latter an
organization including all workers in
the state interested in the welfare of
children. One of the Wisconsin bills
makes attendance at school compul-
/ sorry under fourteen, for the full school
year, instead of twelve weeks as at
| present, and the other places more eff
fective restrictions about the admit
lance of children to factories and
stores. Gov. La Toilette has announc-
ed himself in favor of the bill.
The Colorado Consumers league,
which was organized by Mrs. Kelley on
her way to the Los Angeles biennial
last May, has for its president Mrs.
theodore Van ,Wagemenn, who is also
chairman of the reform department of
the Womans' club. The league has in
troduced 9. bill restricting child labor
in factories. 1t is already effectively
restricted in mines, and there is but
little in factories, as Colorado is not a
manufacturing state.
After the biennial last spring Mrs.
Frederick Nathan. of this city organ
lZed several consumers leagues in CAL
ifornia. These are all cooperating
Gators, who, under the leadership of
a professor in the state university,
have introduced a comprehensive COM
pulSOry education bill