Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-06-24
The WOMEN HAVE
CAPTURED BERLIN
Lively Times at the Sessions of
the International Suffrage
Congress.
IS NOT A MILITARY AGE
Russia and Germany Alike Have Trou-
BILE Keeping Up Armies and Forcing
the Men to The S~ervice-Rus-
SLAMS Fear Jap Magic.

Copyright, 1904, by w. r. HearstD
Berlin special: This city is now in
the grasp of the international Congress
of Women, which is now in session and
which all through has been an exceed
tngly lively affair, giving the press OPP
portunity for man satirical articles.
A socialistic debate in the Reichstag
would seem tame in comparison with
the stormy discussions at these meet
ings of the fair sex.
To be just one must admit that the
foreign delegates have behaved with
much dignity and calmness and this is
particularly true of the American wofn-
en-, but between our own German wom-
en- great battles have been fought and
many bitter expressions have been used
In the heat of argument.
The preliminary skirmishes started
several weeks before the congress met,
when the radicals or Women Suffrag-
lists, headed by Miss Anita Augsburg,
were excluded from the management
by he conservatives, headed by Miss
Helen LANCE.
The radicals retaliGted by trying TO
break up the conference and succeeded
In a measure, as they formed a new
Woman's international Suffrage assoc
citation to oppose the old association.
and from that moment the fierce
NAAOo6A piOOulCSS Wal u NOEIS SLdIlCu.
Heavy ammunition was used by both
sides, the conservatives calling the rad
icals "horrid political a~dventurers,''
noisy agitators," "meddlesome politi-
cal amazons." while the radicals were
abusing the conservatives as "timid old
grandmothers," miserable creatures
whose spirits are crushed by, male
tyranny" and Slaves of the male
sex."
Americans Restored Order.
1t is largely due, however, to the two
American delegates, Miss Susan b. An
thony and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait,
that order was restored during the pre-
liminary meetings which preceded the
regular conferences of the congress.
AS the Oldest and most famous cham
pion of women's rights, Miss Anthony
was made president OF honor, but the
debate was led and regulated by Mrs.
Gait of New York, whom the women of
her home state had presented with an
exceedingly heavy gavel, which she has
been using with great effect and which
has been heard through all the din of
the hall.
The meetings VIII be continued dur
ing the coming week and it is now
thought that everything viii be run
perfectly smooth and a final agreement
reached.
Russian Soldiers RebeIlicus.
A letter from Russia states that 1t is
with considerable difficulty and only after
many preparations that the Russian GOV
inner has succeeded In sending rein
forcements to General Kuropatkin in the
far east. The other day" the letter
says. "a large part Of the garrison al
KIeff was called oet and paraded.
The men were ordered to stand at at
tention and all the Jews in the ranks We're
told to fall out.
The same order was then given to the
one-year service men, and again to every
| soldier who was able to read and write.
"All these men were then sent back to
the barracks, while the rest were sent
to the large cities in all parts of the en-
| pire where soldiers of the reserve had re-
fused to go to the front.
.At Kharkoff alone more than 1890 sol
diers refused to go to war and were sent
to military prisons"
The famous composer, L~eoncavallo, Who
has been in this city for some time for
the purpose of delivering into the hands
OF the kaiser the opera which his majesty
ordered from him some time ago, has been
lionized by the people Of Berlin. who have
gwen him great ovations wherever he
has shown himself.
The other night when the fashionable
guests dining at the Adelong hotel became
aWar OF his presence they asked the mill
itary band performing there to play one
of his pieces.
The bandmaster, however. had to ex-
plain that this was not possible, as MILL
tary bands sn Prussia were forbidden 10
play copyright music without permission.
On hearing this. the composer wrote on
the back OF a bill OF fare a declaration
that he r~enounced his rights ON the pres
ent occasion with regard to the prologue
of his opera r"Pagliacci.'
Thefcupon the band played the piece by
way OF homage to the italian master. and
the Performances was received with a
storm OF applause.
Never before nave thu representations Of
the masses of the Russian people been so
plainly Ia evidence as during the present
war.
Jap Objects Of Superstition.
Among General Kuropatkin's soldiers
the belief Is prevalent that the Japanese
are all magiclans and consequently not to
be overcome.
But anon tho agricultural population,
who for tho most part haye never heard
Of Japan nor seen a msp, ami therefore
a no idea why the war has broken out.
there are still strange beliefs.
1he correspondent % . Russian paper