The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-18
FAREWELL SAID
BY NOTED WOMEN
Distinguished Visitors to Salt
Lake City Depart for. the
East.
MANY GENTLE FRIENDS
SEE LADIES AT TRAIN
Leaders in the Delegation Ex-
press Interesting Views
Concerning Work.

Gently concluded in Seattle, and the
delegates from every country on the
globe to the Quinqucnnial Congress Of
the International Council Of Women,
which was previously held in Toronto,
Canada, all Of whom were welcomed and
entertained Friday night by Salt Lake
City on their arrival here, departed for
the east over the Denver s. Rio Grande
railroad at $40 o'clock Saturday morn
ing, with the kindest thoughts and best
wishes OF local club women.
Notwithstanding the extremely un-
pleasant incident of the Mormon doml-
nation at the reception of the distin-
gulshed women, tho visitors enjoyed
their stay here.
A large party of Salt Lake City club
women and members Of tho branches of
the National Council went down to tho
train to have u farewell chat with their
friends among the visitors, and each
parting guest took with her a remem-
brance bouquet.
the Mormon leaders conducted the re.
ception, shook Salt Lake City society
TO its foundations, and the echoes of
the clash still resound in many quarters.
1t is probable that the trouble will not
down for many Il day, and it formed
the text of gossip IN exclusive club and
social circles Saturday.
As the train drew out, the foreign
delegates stood on the platforms or
waved the flags of their respective ma
tions in goodby.
Fascinating Gathering.
A no more fascinating gathering Of
women ever graced this community with
n visit. Each of the visitors was a
woman who stood in the highest esti-
nation among her own people, and Salt
Lake City honored itself IN honoring
them.
The swirl of conversation was most
interesting, and the most striking fea
ture of the occasion was that 1T seemed
as though each foreigner conversed in
every other tongue as easily as in her
own. They were women of the highest
culture, and most Of them accomplished
llnguists. There were as many various
types Of women as there were women,
and many striking personalities.
Froken Gina Krog, who is Norway IS
greatest woman, and president of the
Norwegian National Council of Women,
said: "After fighting for twenty-fou.
years, the women of Norway won the
suffrage, but only on the basis Of tax
alton. As a result, every liberal man
of the country now puts property in
the name of his wife. and thus a great
many women may vote who could not
otherwise do so. But | am certain that
within the next two years, women will
have full, equal suffrage with men in
Norway. For some time they have
voted at municipal and what would cor
respond to your county elections. They
Will never rest content until they are
cn the same economic and political foot
ing with men,"
Frau Marie Stritt. president of the
German National Council, who is one
Of the handsomest women in the foreign
delegation talked on a number Of sub.
lects, saying in part: 'sThe situation in
Germany is little different than in
America. We have good laws regulat-
ing child labor, and by the new laws
every man and woman is constituted an
officer of the law and has a right TO
report i'll treatment OF children and
have the offender punished. In laws
for women, we have succeeded in Sc |
curing a revision of the abominable and
cruel law forbidding women to poin po-
l;tical parties. This was not an i'm
perial law, you understand, bat one
Prussia, which constitutes four-ffths |
Of Germany, has revised this law, and
the Prussian women now belong to po
litical organizations and are working |
NIGHTLY for recognition.
Striving for Suffrage.
"We are striving for the municipal
vote, The Liberals are giving us much |
and even the most con |
5ervative are considering us seriously.
fOur national council is working for |
special labor requirements for women.
Some suffragists decry asking for spe-
cial laws for women We do ask for !
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have a special mission-the grandest Of !
all missions-motherhoo
"We arc advising an insurance for
and asking for laws to do
away with hard labor for all women
We are determined to better the work
ing conditions for women, and the
states destiny itself depends upon our
On a population born of slave-driven
over~worked, lll-fed, abused mothers.
We mean to abolish everything that is
dangerous to the mother.
"Bismarck said that every boy is
4 German soldier, and every little girl
is the mother OF a soldier We hold
that this idea should be applied to the
revolutionizing Of every department. of
human life, not for the purposes OF
war, but for the improvement Of the
race.
"Bcsides this, the council is demand
ing that the moral standard be raised
Temperance is one Of our main points;
but, understand, this does not mean to
:al abstinence, as with your radical pro
81 do not know how it is here, but
N Germany this. great movement for the
uplifting of womanbood is not only on
paper, and confined to the occasional
airy remarks of some after-dinner
speaker, In Germany, this movement is
1t actually exists, and it is stcadily
and swiftly broadening until it is in
;luding all of our women.
"We are now gathering the confes.
;ors, that is, the women whose work
IS in the church, Protestants and also
The Jewish women have joined us. 1t
s now our hope to enroll the Catholics
You see, this interest of the confessors
means much with US. We work to
gether in harmony, all women of all
,reeds. shoulder TO shoulder at the wheel
If common progress, walking slowly but
surely toward the light. But in our
meetings. religious discussion is abso-
utely forbidden. The National Council
If Germany includes thirty.ono state
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