Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1904-06-01

cialist party in Chicago had eight
women in it seated as delegates.
And these women were not all from
the states where women vote. The
states where women have full suf-
frage, voting at all elections, sitting
in both houses of the legislature,
and holding state Offices, are Wyom-
ing, Colorado, Utah and Idaho.
The Socialist party is the only
political organization in this coun-
try where women enter all its coun-
ellis and work on the same terms as
men. Socialism stands for indivi-
dual freedom and Socialists construe
individuals to mean women. Where
ever the Socialist party is organized
throughout the domain of the inter
national movement, in Japan, in
darkest Russia, Germany, Spain it
declares for woman suffrage. So
cialism demands economic freedom,
therefore universal individual free
dom. If women could once see
what this means to them, how the
shackles of the ages would be strick-
en- from old customs and disadvan-
tages they would unite in this com
mon movement with an ardor and
intensity that they have never given
to the superficial reforms that en-
gage their attention.
The Chicago women delegates
were Mrs. Forbes of Pennsylvania,
Miss wilkins of Los Angeles, Cali
fornia, Mrs, Irene Smith of Port
land, Oregon, Miss Carrie Johnson
of Iowa, Miss +. ii. Thomas of
Milwaukee, Wis, Mrs. Luella Kray-
bill and Mrs. Cogswell of Kansas
and Mrs. Hazlett of Denver.
Miss wilkins is business manager
of the Los Angeles Socialist. She
has taken the course at the Mills
school, and is we'll posted on the
movement. She can address aud
fences in either English or German,
and made most effective speech at
a meeting of the German Socialists
in Chicago in both languages. Miss
wilkins is kind hearted, noble
minded woman who will make an
excellent impression for our cause
wherever she goes. She has been a
teacher in both the public and In
dian schools.
Mrs. Irene Smith of Portland was
one of the prominent members of
the convention. She has a clear
emphatic way of speaking, making
her points with telling effect that
never failed to bring down the house.
The night she spoke against the
trade union proposition, the crowd
and the galleries went wild, and
cheered, and screamed, and flung
their hats. Mrs. Smith is a small,
black haired and black-eyed woman
of about forty. She has been a
Spiritalist minister, and student of
occult thought for many years.
Last year she stumped British
Columbia on the occasion Of the
Parliamentary elections. She at
tracted enormous crowds every
where, and four members were re-
turned to Parliament She was for
merly in the S. l.. r., movement,
and takes the position of that sec
tion of the Socialist party known as
the impossibles."
Miss Carrie Johnson furnished
the sentimental part of the Chicago
convention by becoming married
one afternoon in the parlors of the
Revere House, the headquarters of
the delegates, to- Mr.. Triller of Du-
buque, Iowa. Mrs. Triller was for
merly a resident of Indiana. She
went to Denver as the secretary Of
w. III. Wise at the time he was
managing the movements of the
Crusaders in the west. While there
she edited a dannisasnt in the AL
lance of the. Rockies' for awhile.
Afterwards SIZE Came TO Dubuque to
becomSSthc- associate editYg1,of the