Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-01-20
MISS STEARNS' ADDRESS.

Last Saturday evening the members
of the Mems club of the Universalist
church were highly entertained by
| Miss l.. K. Stearns of Milwaukee, who
| is we'll known in Wausau by her long
and very efficient work on the state
| library commission, which has neceS-
| STATED her paying visits TO this city
very often. Supper was served at $50
O'Clock as is usual on occasions of this
kind by the club, following which G.
C. Yawkey, president, introduced
| Miss Stearns, who gave an eloquent
address on woman's suffrage
Besides the men, there were quite a
number of ladies present. The sup
per was gotten up and served as has
always been the case, by committee
of the ladies society of the church, and
| these ladies also had an opportunity
of listening to the address.
Miss Stearns prefaced her remarks
| by saying that she felt very much at
home in talking before the club as
she belonged to a similar organization
| in Milwaukee, composed of over LOCO
men and women, where all kinds of
questions pertaining TO the nation,
state and city, were brought up and
discussed. Miss Stearns spoke for an
hour and half, taking up all phases of
the woman'S suffrage question, and at
no time did she fail in holding the
undivided attention of her audience.
She is not only an earnest, convincing
speaker, but at times is very humor-
Gus, especially when she wants to
drive an argument clear home and
bolt it down. She devoted some time
to the states of our union in which
women are permitted to vote and
how it affects conditions. She took
up the many statements made by the
ants, and answered them in way
that brought her frequent applause.
She brought forward many reasons
why women should be allowed to
vote, many familiar TO us all and
many which were not. She showed
how impossible it was for 10000 wom-
en- TO affect a reform in Chicago
without the right to vote, and how
easy it was for the same number of
women to bring about the reform
when the right of suffrage was finally
granted them Especially when the
word was given out by the powers of
Chicago that Ella Flogg, one of the
great educators of the land, must
give up the position which she held
| in that city as superintendent of
schools, the women, were as in
| sistent that she should not and
were able to win in the fight which
ensued and Ella Flogg still holds her
position. Miss Stearns showed how
absolutely futile the women would
have been in this fight without the
right of suffrage.
Her description of the Sutfragette
movement in England was very inter-
esting. In England women have the
right to vote upon everything except
| ing for members of parliament, and
as, this is just what they want so
: they can have hand in making the
laws, hence the fight now in progress.
She deplored the fact that women did
not have the right to vote in Wiscon-
sin, so that in Milwaukee they could
have the pleasure of lining up against
Dave Rose. She paid her respects to
''Teethodore" Roosevelt and other
men of note. She said that mon
arches gave women more rights in
relation to the use of the ballot than
did republics. That even in China,
women had more rights in this respect
than in free America. That it was
not the "yellow peril" which she
feared, but the ''red, white and blue"
Many questions were asked at the
close, which she readily and cheer
fully answered. Miss Stearns was
given a rising vote of thanks by the
club for the excellent evenings enter
tainment offered.
Miss Stevens while here was guest
of Judge and Mrs. A. Fl. Reid. On
Monday morning she went to Marsh
field on official business.