The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-25
CHICAGO WOMEN
BANDED To SEEK
SAFETY At POLLS
Clubwonen Unite to Gain
Protection Against At
tacks in Streets.
Effort Will Be Made to
Force Saloon License
to ST., 200.
Movement Is Started to
/ Secure the Ballot on
City Affairs.
Meetings in Churches Will
Seek Means to Sup
! press Crime.
Unsafe Metropolis Of West
Is Aroused to Stamp
Out Perils.
Special to The Journal.


S ing as a disgrace to a civilized
community the harvest Of crime
reaped in Chicago in the last few
months, the women clubs of Chicago,
bound together in the Cook County Lea
que of Women s clubs, have called upon
every organization of women in the city
and every Industrial clubwoman to
work tirelessly for the passage of the
high license ordinance in the city coun-
Gil March 6.
Immediately following the adoption
of the resolution demanding the 81 900
license, the league unanimously adop-
! ted resolution calling for mass meet
| ing of women, at which all questions
| pertaining to the safety and welfare OF
women in Chicago will be thoroly dis
/ cussed.
At this mass meeting the club women
Of Chicago propose to assert themselves
in favor of municipal suffrage plank
in the new Chicago charter.
Protection Thru Ballot.
They believe that with the ballot in
their hands they will be strong enough
to compel the authorities to afford their
sex the protection which has been de-
MED the unprotected women who by
the nature Of their employment are COM
PEELED to venture alone in the public
streets.
| At this meeting demand will be
. made upon Mayor Dunno to enforce the
ordinances forDidding the sale of hquoI
4 ~ oil lIcnr d0rf
dance halls in the city limits.
The mayor also will be called upon
to refuse to grant temporary liquor IL
censes to the keepers of dance halls.
4 Recent action of the leading clubs
Of the city in declaring for high license
is being followed up effectively. Today
the political action committee of the
Union League club sent letter to each
Of the 1900 members of the organiza-
! ton reminding them of the resolutions
adopted by the club Feb. 10, and urging
them to request their alderman to vote
for the higher license.
Endless Chain Plan.
Similar letters were also sent out by
the directors of the Chicago CONNER
cial association, urging the members
not only to speak to their aldermanlc
representatives about the issue, but to
create an uendless chain of pressurs
by making the same request of their
employees and friends. Hubbard, spen-
Ger, Bartlett & Company sent such let
tiers to all their employees.
President F. J. Shead has called q
meeting of the Anti-Crime association
for tomorrow evening at the Grand Ia
/ cifc hotel for the purpose OF perfecting
the organization by the adoption 81 =
constitution and bylaws.
Churches in Movement.
Churches in Chicago will take con-
certed stand tomorrow for the suppress
sion Of crime. Mass meetings and spec
ial services will be held in many of the
churches for the purpose of stirring the
CITY authorities to action in the cam
paign against vice and disorder.
The largest meeting of the day will be
held in North Shore Congregational
church. Invitations have been extended
/ to all voters Of Buena Park to attend
this meeting. Rev. J. N. Hall of Wes-
ley Methodist church, who is leading
movement for the union of all churches
and civic leagues in an organization
to rid the city of crime, will be one
of the speakers. He will invite the
people of Buena Park to join the gem
eral crusade, which now reaches into
every corner of Chicago.
The women of Wesley Methodist
church, of which the murdered Mrs.
4 Bessie HOLSTER was member, are In
earnest in their desire to learn Jiu-jitsu
and other methods of defense from in
structors of the art Encouraged by
their pastor, Rev. J. N. Hall, the wo-
men are forming classes for the pur-
lpose Of studying the art of defense.
Many of the women are carrying cay
enne pepper to punish men who o1es
insults to them.