Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-12

snce with the terms Of this constitution.
A strong effort was made to elect the
president for a term of five years and rem
der her ineligible for reelection, an amend
ment offered by Mrs. Mary Wood Swift.
1t was discussed with vigor, not to say
vehemence, but was finally voted down,
as 1t would necessitate change of trien-
NAL sessions to quinQuennial sessions, and
would SO demoralize the arrangement CT
officers and their terms of office that 1t
seemed to most of the speakers not at all
feasible.
Representation to the annual meetings Of
the executive committee Isl enlarged. and
local councils are given representation and
vote in the national body.
Sessions Of Yesterday.
The sessions of yesterday afternoon and
evening in the triennial meeting of the ma
tiona1 council of women were full Of in
terest to the large audiences which gath
cred to hear the discussion of the questions
presented. The ladies who talk generally
disdain papers" They have ideas and
seem to be able to express them without
the aid of scrap of a note, and therein
may be the charm in hearing them. The
session OF last evening was held in the
large hall at Pythian Temple and was
crowded to the very doors. The room was
handsomely decorated with many palms and
nags and upon the platform were many dis
tfEgufshed women.
Miss Anthony, as usual. received an ova.
ton as she came forward. and that rapier-
like vocabulary Of hers got busy right
away.
ut is thirty-fve years ago that 1 first
began to come once a year to Washington
to submit to the national legislators a prop
osftion to enfranchise the women of this
republic" she said. Men have SO mar
rowly construed the Constitution as to
make it for men alone. Fifty-five years ago
the woman suffragists first met with Mrs.
Stanton and Lucretia Mott at Seneca Falls.
l think that the resolutions passed at that
rkoh 10 hon thn
larat1on OF Independence, because they
sought to apply its principles to all human
beings. All of the rights asked in those
resolutions we have gained, except the bal
lot, which underlies the whole Before the
war we agttated the question in a few
states only and in 1869 we came to Wash
ington. The republican party showed that
the ballot could only be attained through
change of the federal Constitution, and &c
felt that If the negroes might have the bal
lot we should have 1t also. We shall keep
pegging away at it if it takes a hundred
years.
Where there were only few states the
movement now encompasses the whole
United States. Five states have favored it
by enactment and ten or twelve have near
iy done so. Last year we went to Berlin
to hold the quinquennial Of the national
organization, whose greetings I bring you.
The United States has the presidency of
armed and shall go forward to success
With the republican party in power, and
President Roosevelt overwhelmingly seated
we expect great things to happen in the
next four years."
international Council Greetings.
Mrs. May Wright Sewall. past president
OF the International Council of Women.
then presented the greetings of the Inter-
national Council. "The International Coun-
Gil, she said, lis a different body from
that which met five years ago in Washing
ton: Then there We're nine countries repre-
sented, While now there are nineteen. Gaze
sar knew not so large an unprecedented
the empire of womanhood encircles Rome
itself. At that meeting we felt that the
propaganda most essential to the welfare
OF mankind was peace and international ar
duration We outgrew this, and now stand
for two other propositions. Miss Anthony
had advocated that under a republic women
should share in the government through
the ballot, but we now hold that this should
apply under all forms of governments. But
governments are aggregatfons of individ-
uals, and. therefore, everything depends
upon character. There has been Separa-
ton of the sexes and the giving of the
duty OF labor to man and of spiritual to
women. 1t has been held that men should
make for material success and that women
1.-The International Council of Women
henceforth makes the proposition that
wherever organized it shall stand for an
equal standard of personal chastity for
shall be the object of both. We exact
the same ideal for manhood as for woman
hood
The greetings of the Council of Women of
Canada were presented by Mrs. Robert
Thompson, its president. "All sorts of
women join in our council for the common
good" she said. 1.-THE outlook for the
future was never brighter"
Mr.. Edwin Markham's Address.
The Man With the Hoe" or more prop
erly speaking, the author of that cele-
brated poem which will be read by him at
the meeting of the council tonight Mr.:
Edwin Markham, was the next speaker,
and that his profound Endorsement of
women in everything that they do for the
uplifting and betterment Of humanity is
kindly received by them was evidenced by
the applause which greeted his appearance
and almost every utterance.
Woman and the Future Social Con-
science" has subject. The woman
movement of this century is it's most sig
nificant movement, because it brings hu-
man hearts together he said. That is
the meaning of the social conscience. Gull
ture signifies that we belong together In
every man there are two men-the brute
and the God man. The fighting of the
brute in him is the mighty miracle of the
social conscience. Against the brute is
growing up the divine. the social man.
The principle to guide humanity in it's
problems is the social conscience. 1t is
the lowest to the highest strata of society
we find the principle growing. In it we
find the new heaven and the new earth.
I see everywhere great pillow blowing
through humanity. On one side of the
furrow thus plowed are those who live
for self-interest: on the other side are
those who live for others: Religion, after
all, is nothing but an appeal to men to live
for the social welfare, and is expressed
In all beliefs. Jesus simply proclaims it's
law when He announced that the greatest
should be the servant of all.
THAT plow I believe, goes on through
eternity. This is only one chamber of the
many series of worlds beyond. You may
say that this is poetry, but poetry is the
highest truth of the universe. 1t is an ex-
preston of the ideal. Heaven we shall
find is the social conscience. He'll is self
interest To brotherhood, then, we look as
the supreme principle of life for eternity.
1t is the essence of all gospel and the full
fillment of all relation. We want not the
rule of gold, but the golden rule.
ITO carry this out in this world we
need the help of women. Men have done
all that they can do in government. I am
a very ardent woman suffragist."
Afternoon Proceedings.
After The Star report closed the after
noon session of the council was greeted