The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 3, 1896, Page 16

‘16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, ‘MAY 3, 1896. THECAL TS FRNINATSFFGE MisS Susan B. Anthony ~ Dances in Her De- : light. WISE WORDS OF THE ] LADIES. ’Wo:.i'xen Overjoyed at Having the Great Daily for an Advocate. A GLAD CHORUS OF TRIUMPH 1S HEARD. Prominent Suffragists Express Their Gratification on Hearing the Good News. THE CALL to-day declares for _woman suffrage. The great daily, " which speaks for all, cannot ignore that portion of humanity which seems to have more . than half the goodness, wit, ‘wisdom.and beauty of the world. Hence THE CALL, in accord with its own principle, is constrained to recog- nize the noble endeavor which woman is making to secure her right. In'many a boudoir and over more than oue- tea-table exultant voices musically chant-in jocund measure: “Tue CaLL has come out in favor of woman suffrage. Anditis true. Some of the ladies who have given the best years of their lives to the adyancement of the great movement, and suffered many eruel disenchantments on 1ts. account, hardiv dared to believe their ears when the news reached them that Tue CaLL was about to take up their battle. ‘‘Are you sure there is no mistake?"” anxiously queried Susan B. Anthony. © 7 “‘Sure,” was the laconic answer of the tittle bird who carried her the news. For a moment the veteran suffragist seemed to be makingasilentact of thanks- giving. She remained seated in her chair, the tears rolling over her wrinkled cheeks, for a good three minutes. Then, without 2 note of warning, she jumped from her seat and seizing her hostess, Mrs. A. A. Bargent, about the waist, executed a tri- umphal waltz with her through the spa- cious parlors, to that lady’s great wonder- ment. “Never mind,” gasped Mrs. Sargent, panting breathiessly after the mad dance was over. “I'm as glad as sheis, or nearly 8o at any rate. She has worked over half a century, so I suppose the victory means even more to her than it does to me.” Mrs. Sargent, president- of the State ‘Woman Suffrage Association, whose hus- “band was the first California champion " of ‘'woman’s cause in Congress, was over- joyed at the news. “I most certainly and emphatically in- - dorse all Miss Anthony’s'words,” she said, *and I am more than happy for myself and the thousands of readers of THE CaLy, whose.pulses, I know, will thrill with joy ‘. -when they hear of the progressive attitude *.it has-taken. 3 “I do not believe there is a truly patriotic citizen :in this or any other State of this Urion; who will regret the steps taken by THE CALL. “I.am proud—prouder than words can express—that my State has the honor of producing the first great daily newspaper ~to come out actively for the cause of " woman amid the fire and smoke of - battie. “This is only what might justly be ex- pected of the Golden State, where men are -so fair- minded and where every truly -Toble movement is championed in its very . inception.” “I am delighted, though not astonished, to -learn that THE CALL bas taken this stand.” 8o said Mrs, Ada Van Pelt, lady editor of the: Pacific Ensign, president of the ‘Woman's Press Association and vice-pres- ident of the Woman’s Congress. ‘“Lhere is, to my mind, nothing surpris- ing in"this new move of THE CaLy,” she ‘continued. “That paper has treated the matfer of woman suffrage with unfailing respect whenever it had to be mentioned, and pow, when the movement is most in neeéd of able support, in view of the coming battle. THE CALL takes up the sword to aid woman in her fight for equal rights. There is nothing strange i this, but it is grand and-noble, none the less. “In’ my opinion, .the liberal, generous spirit displayed by papers like THE CALL— if there be another like it—augurs well for our cause. Especially on the Pacific Coast is this ‘liberality most noticeable. In no other State has woman suffrage met with so little opposition as 1n California. This speaks volumes in favor of the chivalry and fair-mindedness of the men—partic- ularly the newspaper men of the Golden West.” Mrs. John F. Swift, one of the auditors of. the State Woman's Suffrage Associa- tion, was very enthusiastic over the news. *“Why,” she exclaimed, “this is wonder- fal, but really it is no more than was to be expected of THE CALL. “I believe with ail my heart and sounl that this means a victory for those who have worked so long and faithfully for the emancipation of woman. “THE CALL has taken a step that will be an honor to it forever. This one act alone would make 1t the greatest newspaper of the State, if it were not so already. Long live THE Carn!” “How many, many ‘friends Tue CaLy is zoing to make, merely by championing a just cause!” exclaimed Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper. “During the last Woman’s Con- gress there were women in the country districts who were unable, by reason of their poverty, to come to the city, and who, rather than be deprived of all share in it, rode as much as twenty miles to get copies of THE CALL in order to read its long and faithful reports of each day's session. “Adter all, the whole argument for womun suffrage is based on a simple prin- ciple of justice. Think of the good teach- ers in ourlocal kindergartens, over seventy in number, divided among forty schools. These women form children into little ladies and gentlemen before they are old enough to enter the public schools. And yet these women, these cuitured, ‘devoted ladies, have no voice in public measures which vitally affect the hittle ones whom they have trained. No amount of reason- ing can convince me that such a thing is just; and it looks as though T CaLv had reached the same conclusion.” Mrs. Aylett R. Cotton, wife of Judge Cotton, whko has for a quarter of a century been an ardent supporter of the equal suf- frage proposition, when told of the action Tue CaLr had taken, went into ecstasies. *f must tell my husband at ouce,” she exclaimed, retiring in high glee. In a minute or two she reappeared with the Judge in tow. “You may say for me,” said Mrs. Cotton, “that THE CALL’s taking our side will cause mothers and wives to be looked upon in their true light. A mother will no longer be laughed to scorn for being her soh’s po- litical tutor, and THE CALL deserves all the praise. “This is going to be the greatest draw- ing card in circulation THE CALL ever is- sued. Why shouldn’t it? It hasshown the genuine chivalric spirit, and has her- alded the victory of woman in her strug- gles for recognition.” Mrs. Lovell White, whose name has been long and intimately connected with the struggle for political equality, was per- haps the happiest woman seen, with the single exception of Miss Anthony. When she had subsided sufficiently to look upon the matter calmly, she said : “I'o all true friends of equal rights it is gratifying to learn that Tue CaLL will take a decided stand 10 favor of woman suf- frage. ““While unbounded thanks are due from the Woman Suffrage Association, it will be observed that nothing else was to be expected from the most progressive news- paper of the State—a paper that always keeps abreast of the times.” GIVE WOMAN THE BALLOT. Cogent Reasons Advanced by One of the Officers of the State Suffrage Associatlon. Woman suffrage is not a new or an un- tried experiment. Women have some form of suffrage in most of the civilized countries. Women vote in a more or less limited way in every English colony. In England women have the full municipal, county and district suifrage, and lack only the power to vote for members of Parlia- ment, and their political prestige is far in advance of that of the women of the United States. The single women and widows of Canada have municipal suffrage. In New Zealand and South Australia women have the full parliamentary suf- frage on exactly the same terms as men. The unvarying testimony of trustworthy persons from every one of these countries is strongly in favor of equal suffrage. There is not a particle of evidence-to prove the quietest, most orderly and cleanest elec- tion ever held since it was a city. There is only one way out of this terrible orgy of corruption and crime that the signs of the time afford, and that is through the votes of women. The New York Sun, an opponent of woman suffrage, says: “The great inct demonstrated in Kansas on Tuesday is that the women there want to vote; that they are willing to beer the burden of exercising the privilege of the suffrage whenever it is granted them. They manifested a very keen interest in the elec- tion, and were esger to go to the polls.”’ The appearance of women at the polls in as- sociation with men would not provoke re- mark on the ground that such publicity is un- feminine. In these days women are entering into so many employments, side by side with men, that they are encountered in all the busy parts of the town, in the streets, and in offices and counting-rooms. Their presence no longer attracts particular observation, so fre- quentis it. It is taken as a matter of course; and if they were admitted to the suffrage they would be as free from annoyance at the polls. These clippings are selected from a large number equally as strong from va- rious newspapers. The woman’s vote has steadily increased during the past nine years; the elections are orderly; the hack- neyed objections to woman suffrage are no longer made and it is accepted us a natu- ral and desirable thing. s The Territorial Legislsture of Wyoming extended full suffrage to women in 1869. Twenty years later, when a State constitu- tion was adopted, it was unanimonsly de- cided to incorporate an equal suffrage plank. An attempt was made in Congress 1o prevent its admission as a State unless the woman suffrage clause was stricken out, but the members from Wyoming stood by it and the battle was fought for a number of days. Finally a telegram was sent to the Legislature of Wyoming, then in session, that its admission was im- periled. The answer came back, “*We will remain a Territory a hundred years rather than go in without woman suf- frage.”” The fight at last was won and ‘Wyoming women have fnll suffrage. Yvery Governor from 1869 down to the present time has declured in the strongest terms in favor of it. The Chief Justices, the State officials, the members of Con- gress, without a single_exception, have given the strongest possible testimony in its favor, on the platform and through the ress. United States Senator Carey of Wyoming wrote to Chiei Justice Horton of Kansas in 1894: Wyoming has now been a State for four years and woman suffrage has shown all the udvantages that were claimed for it by its most earnest advocates. All the opposition to woman suffrage in this State is raised by per- sons outside of the State. What stronger ar- gument can I make when I state from careful observation for a period of twenty-five years that woman has exercised the elective fran- chise with wise discretion; that she performs the duties entailed thereby with as high a de- gree of intelligence as the best of the male sex. 1t has not dethroned or degenerated her, nor has it brought discord into the home. 1 ho| the movement of this great reform will rapid, as it will result in untold benefit to our country. The Wyoming House of Representa- tives, in 1393, passed by unanimous vote the following concurrent resolution : Be it resolved by the Second Legislature of the, State of Wyoming, That the possession and ex- the existence of any of the eyils that-are s0 freely prophesied by its opponents. In ercise of suffrage by the women in Wyoming for the past quarter of & century has wrotight noherm and has done greatgood in many lowed to vote because she is folog ous of her sphere. She can stay right in her sphere and Yote too. She is equally interested with man in all the questions that concern the public welfare. She is not denied the freedom of speech, then why deny her the freedom of the ballot? She may discuss public men and measures in the home circle, express her pref- erence for this or that man for Mayor or Con- gressman, but 1f she desires to go Once a year to the polls to manifest her preference in a way that will count, some burly man will tell her 10 g0 home and mind her business and the children. If woman wishes to vote and hold office there is no jastice in preventing her by man-made law. “Utah has taken adyvanced fimundon this proposition. Its constitution eclares that the right of the citizens of the State to vote and hold office shall not be de- nied or abridged on sccount of sex; that both male and female citizens shall enjoy equally all civil, political and. religious rights and privileges. The effect of this provision will 1ot be to degrade lovely woman and drag her from the precinets of her hallowed home down into the filthy pool of politics. She can stay at home and mend stockings just as well now as she ever could. But if, after the 'mmf are all mended and the babies are all tended, she Wants to go around the corner and vote against 8 bad man who is running for office she has a perfect right to do it in Utah. There is no tenable ground for refusing woman the fran- chise. 1'think all the arguments against it ever conceived were adduced at the public de- bate here last spring. But the cause had as many winning ways as woman and it won. Senator Cannon says: “Utah would have wandered in the wilderness another forty-nine years before coming into the Union without her women. Utah gave woman suffrage while still a Territory. Congress took it away after the women had exercised it inteliigently for years, but the first chance the men of Utah had they gave it back.” It seems that testimony could mnot be any stronger and more conclusive than this which has been given. The opponents of woman suffrage can meet it with noth- ing but speculation and theory. All sorts of dreadiul things might happen if the women of California are enfranchised. But they have not happened in other States where women have had the ballot for years. ‘Are the women of California less intelligent, less capable, less trust- worthy than those of other States? Such an insinuation is an insult. These old, worn-out objections belon%wlmn n- eration. The men of this State are alert, rogressive, up-to-date. Woman suffrage 1s a large, progressive movement in the di- rection of social and political reform and should be heartily supported by every man who desires what is best for his State and his country. Ipa A. HARPER, Chairman State Press Committee. T i OPPOSED BY THEOSOPHISTS Woman's Ethical Nature Liable to Glve Way Before the Onslaught of Practical Politics. It is no reflection upon women who advocate political equality for the sexes to say that the enfranc 'ment of woman would in a most insinuating way encour- age the adoption of a less exacting code of ethics to guide and wern womankind. It is claimed, how ever, and no doubt sin- cerely believed by practically all suf- fragists, that the cause for which they are laboring is necessarily ethical because of Miss SusaN B. ANTHONY oN “THE CALL'S” ATTITUDE TOWARD WOMAN SUFFRAGE. I am perfectly delighted. The very fact that “The Call” has dared to come out in favor of woman shows that it is the greatest, most independent and most progressive journal on the Pacific Coast. I have been in twelve woman-suffrage amendment campaigns, and this is the first in which any of the great dailies has exhibited sufficient public spirit to come out boldly in favor of the cause. It is now twenty-nine years since the State of Kansas submitted the proposition to amend the constitution to the Legislature, and it is positively the first time that any great political paper has made the announcement that it intended to advocate the cause of the weaker sex. Some have had faint editorials, and have spoken out when the fight was not raging, but “ The Call’ alone can claim the honor of coming out during the campaign. I believe this action on the part of “The Call” will so educate the voters that they will surely cast their ballots for the amendment, and I can’t help feeling that this is really the firing of the first gun proclaiming victory for the California amendment. We shall get “Calls” and send marked copies to every president of every woman-suffrage club in this State and to all our Eastern friends. “The Call ” will find this the best move it ever made. The press of the State cannot help following in its footsteps. Whenever any great political organ takes any stand so noble as this it is only a question of time until the others are forced to fail in line and tag along behind. each country it was tried in a restricted form and gradually extended as experi- ence showes its desirability. As space is limited, we will consider in this article only the status of the question in the United States. At the present time women have the school suffrage in twenty- three States and a vote on local questions, such as the issuing of bonds, ete., in four States. Kansas was the first State to give school suffrage, which it did in 1861. The remaining States gradually fell in line. This suffrage was conferred by the Legis- latures, which could at any session recall it; but it has not been done in a single instance. The women have exercised the school suffrage in as large nnmbers, proba- biy, as men would do if they had to comply with all the necessary requirements and then were permitted simply to vote for School Trustees. In Kansas women have municipal suf- frage; in Wyoming, Colorado and Utan they have the full Presidential suffrage, voting for all elective officers on precisely the same terms as men. The situation in these four States ought to give us a basis on which to form an’ intelligent opinion. After eighteen years’ experience of school suffrage, Kansas, by acsc of the Legislature, conferred municipal suffrage upon women in 1887. If the terrible re- sults followed which are so eloguently pic- tured by the opponents—deserted homes, neglected families, unsexed women— the Legislatare couid at any time have repealed the bill, but, although it has been in the hands of Republicans, Democrats and Populists, during this time, there never has been a movement in this direc- tion. The Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of - Kansas have submitted a _written opinion that ‘“woman suffrage has given a purer and better municipal government.” Hon. F. G. Adams, secretary State Historical So- ciety, says that ‘the vote of the women is unexpectedly large; they have a healthy influence in banishing riot and disorder from the polls; all parties vie in extending courtesies to them;‘ they vote with good judgment, for the common welfare, for the home and fire- side, for the freeing of the community from demoralizing influences; there is no longer a guestion whetber women want to vote.” The testimony of public officials would fill several columns. At the elec- tions last year, when there was no vital issue, 85 per cent of all the women who were registered, voted, a larger per cent than of the men. The Kansas City Daily Journal says: The recent elections in Kansas have demon- strated one fact, that the voting of women has | 1ot cha; the natural order of things or affected the wheat crop in any respect; but it has done one thing—it has shown to old fogy people that the world can move without a a‘i;l(r:::l:. no doubt did admi: ) oubt & can mis: %fi wan!‘:dd&:on‘nnu 'h“d& & ms,ieon";): men vof r from pre ot T thsamen i 1 e Atlpecty, As far as we have been able to analyze the vote the women seem to have discriminated to a that evidences critical examination and selection of candidates. There ap) be none of that stultifying drivel of tl age voter—“without a scratch.” In other words, they have shown themselves to be dis- creet and intelligent citizens, It is the first indication we havc scen of re- lief from the nightmare of corruption in ciites. Inour sister city over the line &ey say it was I prophesy that, as a mere stroke of policy, SUSAN B. ANTHONY. Ways; that it has largely aided in banishing crime, pauperism and vice from this State ana that without any violent or oppressive legisla- tion; that it has secured peaceful and orderly elections. good government, and & remarkable degree of civilization and’ public order; and we point with pride to the facts that after nearly twenty-five years of woman suffrage not one county in Wyoming has a poorhouse, that our jails are almost empty, and crime, except that committed by strangers in the State, almost unknown; and the result of experience we urge every civilized commun- 1y ou earth 10 eniranchise its women without Resolved, That_sn_ suthenticated copy of these resolutions be forwarded by the Gover- norof the State to the Legislatute of every State and Territory of this country, and to every legisiative body in the world; and that we request the press throughout the civilized world to call the attention of their readers to these resolutions. . _Colorado gave school suffrage to women in 1876. After an experience in 1ts practi- cal workings for seventeen years its Legis- lature submitted a constitutional amend- ment to the voters. The bill was passed by a Populist Senate and a Republican House of Representatives. It was indorsed by all political parties and supported by the press. The amendment was carried by & majority of between six and seven thousand, and Colorado women have now the full suffrage for all elective officers. They have voted for two years,and Gov- ernor Mclntyre writes: *“Woman suffrage is a decided success in every respect. The ‘women have voted in as large a proportion as the men. The chief benefit has been in forcing the nomination of the best men available for office. It is the estimate of women upon ¢ne candidates that the ‘bosses’ have most to fear.” The leading newspapers in Colorado speak in the highest terms of the enfranchisement of women. All political parties extend a cordial recognition. The large number of women who vote has been a great sur- prise. The Denver Republican say One of the strongest stock arguments against woman suffrage is that perticipation in politics would be left to bad and ignorant women, while good and intelligent women would refuse to have anything to do with public affairs, being unwilling to enter the filthy pool of political contention and sirife. The conclusion would be unavoidable if the premises were true. But the premisesare not true, and so the conclusion is false and without foundation. It has been shown that the most intelligent and cultured women are taking an active part in political matters, and that they have not shrunk {rom the discharge of the new duties that have been conferred upon them, This is true of the women of lllfio itical parties. Women voted in Utah for seventeen years, but were disfranchised by the Ed- munds-Tucker act in 1887. In 1895, when Utah was preparing to come in as a State, all political parties indorsed woman sui- frage, it was incorporated in the State con- stitution and enrr;}ed by an hoverwhelming majority. As showing the progress of puglic opinion in this dlmt}:m may be cited the fact that, while six years before the admission of Wyoming with woman suffrage had been bitterly opposed in Con- gress, there was no objection whatever in the case of Utah. Her women have now the full Presidential snffrage. Under date of February 15, 1896, Governor Heber M. Wells writes: My mmou on the suffrage question is that man no business to restrict woman in her rights. There is no justice or reason in the common plea that woman should not be al- their identification with it, but ethicists generally dispute that, and for abundant reason. It isa fact that humamty does not advance wholly upon ethical lines, and hence the public work devolving upon the enfranchised man or woman could not be altogether ethicized. It is the fact, too, that civilization is urged forward by two more or less antagonistic forces, one of which is ethical in some degree, whiie the other is not at all so. The non-ethical force is blind desire to secure political privileges for the one purpose of remov- ing obstructions that lie between purpose and accomplishment. This would be . un- bridled license to give full play to un- ethical desires. The ethical, or ratier the partially ethical, force would use political privileges with discriminating judgment, first for a purely selfish purpose—to ac- cumulate property holdings and social po- sition for personal advantage—and, sec- ond, for the altruistic purpose of perpetu- ating the privileges for the zood of poster- ity. This is as near an ethical basis for political privileges as can be reached until man himself adoptsa very much higher code of ethics than now prevails in the world for his conduct of inner and out- ward life. that the substruc- Yet, while realizin, ture of political privileges must be some- WwLat ethical in character, neither one of these forces would admit, nor would the philosophical woman suifragist admit that the superstructure could be ethicized, ex- cept by the slow process of that moral unfoldment which is the privilege of the experience gathered from the field of the €go's planting ana harvesting during many well-spent lives upon this earth. It follows, therefore, that the political en- franchisement of woman would not only not ethicize the Nation’s economic or so- cial influence, but it would ssriously en- danger her own Smgnn and be almost sure to make bad Karma for tie Nation, for the community, for the family and for the individual. The ultimate evolution of personal cre- ation is into impersonal Brahm, but re- taining iudlvidunlity. The dewdrop that returns to the sea is still an individual dewdrop. The frog could not be a frog without first acquiring all_the experience of tadpole life, nor could the butterfly poise in midair and flash its many colors until it had gathered to itself the personal experience of caterpillar life. 'he evolution of the ego is a process or method of universal life, which is force and intelligence, to carry the individual spirit from experience to experience, and it never permits the ego to omit, pass by or forget a single phase of existence. In each incarnation the ego must ascend into all the heights and traverse all the deptas :l;:-:ir': \:zl:ioc range of its environment and y. surveys ana marks out the way and n-’igm toy duty the ego in the field of each incarnation, and Karma keeps note of things done and undone. To journey upon a path or hway other than the one upon which t{a then needed experience is not only to sow and Teap tares and poison-weed one’s own self, but it is to scatter seed of tares and poison- weed for another to harvest. When dwell- ing in a house of flesh azd representing the female principle of uaiversal lite, the ego has a distinctive duty to perform and distinctive experiences to acquire, and so it has when representing the male princi- ple. There is nothing inbarmonious naturally between these two paths of ex- perience acquiring, because every ego must travel both to the very end—now a man, now a woman—but to essay to cross and recrpss from path to path nntil the harvest for that incarnation is gathered is to defy the law of God. The ego when loyally fulfilling the divine mission of womanhood is upon the vlane of wisdom and spirtuality, while the ego, as man, is 5eneull upon the plane of love and materiality. Love is not an attribute of deity, because it is uncer- tain, changeable and influenced by cir- cumstances. Wisdom is the incentive to a life of godliness in spirit and in truth, and love is the incentive to a life of sense pleasure. Wisdom seeks for fresh experi- ence in the realm of righteousness, and love seeks for gratification in the realm of satisfaction, or in what is misnamed hap- piness. The Over Soul comes in touch with humanity by wisdom leading humanity upward, but loves_kindness by tarrying to toy with briar and thistle, thus Three Special Bargains deceiving itself and humanity. The ego when clothed in wisdom, or the female principle of universal life, is lofty of pur- pose and sincers in endeavor. It comes a woman that when it comes again a man, itmay be more able to sow purity and gather godliness. But why, then, do some women aspire to. the plane of love rather than to the realm of wisdom? Because in a previous incarnation the love principle so predomi- nated, through failure to cultivate its op- posite, that Karmic law consigns them in this incarnation to dwell upon the outer edge of the material and spiritual restless- ness of man’s self-made sphere. Not that they are not good and true women, but rather that they must learn the lesson they neglected to learn before—that uni- versal life places the burden of carrying hum-nitfl forward upon the shoulders of woman because her way is the way of spiritual wisdom. But if she fails to em- ploy wisdom’s influence for humanity’s spiritual good the fault is hers and she must atone for duty neglected. The world’s great and holy teachers of truth have always been men in whom the gentleness of woman and the wisdom of predominated in the immediately preceding incarnation. Therefore, for a woman to engage in political strife is to show that in her latest previous life she held to a life of agitation and to acts ma- terial in conception and in execution. The cause of manly women and womeniy men appearing upon the world’s stage is distinctly seen in the operation of Karma. There are other reasons why woman suffrage is not in accord with the philos- ophy of theosophy. The right to vote carries with it the right to hold office, and the spirit which makes a woman long for political equality would make very many women lone for not only office but the sgoils of office, and if her ethical nature should {iu way before the onslanght of practical politics upon her morals, she would be stranded. Still she would re- main & woman, and the monad seeking an opportunity to again take up its round of experience would recite in the story of its environment the ethical effect of such an avenue of rebirth. Aside from a répre- sentation of the wisdom of universal life in its work of advancing humanity Godward, woman is commissioned by nature to afford the reincarnating monad the highest, the purest and the most en- couraging conditions under which to re- sume its pilgrimage. For that, if for no other reason, she should keep herself un- fettered from politics. Political et mlit{ ing ground for all_kinds of men and all kinds of women. Ifinits practical opera- tion man should prove to be the stronger his methods and standard of conduct would prevail and the woman would have to con- form thereto or abandon the field alio- gether. If the woman should prevail she would also govern, but in any event pos- terity would suffer. The ethical influence of the good woman which, by common consent, places her in advance of man in civilization’s onward march would be lost to those now upon the earth and to those who must come again. [t is a most serious thing to retard soul growth, butit isan even morejserious thing toJthrust}a reincar- nating ego amid environment that is the product of willful degeneracy. Because of the relation she holds to those already here and to those awaiting opportunity to again begin work upon the fabricof their ex‘%stence. theosophy proteststhat woman is bound by the ties of thie brotherhood of man and of the glory that awaits the earn- ing of it forevery age in the flesh or out of it, to keep herself the embodiment of the wisdom of God and the fit vehicle for awaiting souls to employ to fetch them to the field of their life’s labor that they may work out their redemption. ARMOND. ———— THE WOMAN’S CONGRESS. Indications That Its Third Annual Meeting WIll Be Replete With Interesting Features. - Women throughout the State are pre- paring to attend the annual meeting of the Woman's Congress which will open to-morrow in Native Sons’ Hall. Two years ago the first convention was held in Golden Gate Hall and was so in- teresting and so largely attended as to command the attention of even the bitter- est opponents of all that savors of woman suffrage. The next convention met last year in Golden Gate Hail—that is it tried to, but there was so much crowding and disco: fors owing to the large number of partic pants, many of whom bad come from dis- tant parts of the State, and so large a pro- | portion of the delegates were unable even | to effect an entrance into the hall, that | the congress made arramgements to hold its sessions in .the First Congregational Church, which was barely large enough to accommodate the thousands who at- tended. This, the third annual meeting, prom- ises to be more important than either of its predecessors. The topic to be discussed, “*Woman and Government,” and its vital bearing upon the present movement in favor of woman suffrage, gives it a peculiar interest. The prospectus issued by the congress refers to the subject in the fol- | lowing terms: Calitornia will presently be ealled upon to decide whether she will give to her women their share in the rights and duties, the privi- leges and obligations of government, and the decision should rest upon a clear and full knowled the matter in hand. With this in view the congress will give this year's session to a most carefnl exposition of government and woman’s relation o it. The best minds on this coast, as well as trained thinkers and speakers from other States, will be called upon to assist in the work, and the public will have full opportunity not only to become acquainted with the newest and best thoughts, but to take partin the dis- cussiqns of this great question. treatment of the subject planned is ex- haustive and thorough. Beznmlnf with an analysis of Government as a social function it is our plan to trace its birth, growth and latest development, and to indicate the trend of Gov- ernment to-day. The principles of American Government, as_distinctive of our people, will be carefully explained. Among the speakers will be some of the most cultured ladies of the State. Nor will man be ignored, since each day one ortwo of his kind_will have a chance to say his little say before an audience far more critical than those found at most political conventions. No Juper is to exceed twenty minutes in delivery, and will be followed by a discrssion lasting ten minutes. The first day’s programme will be as follows: Morning sesston, 10:30 o’clock—Address of ‘welcome, Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, president of the congress; response, Miss Susan B. Anthony of Rochester, N. Y., and Mrs. Henrotin of Chi- %‘o. IIL.; introduction of speakers; opening re Afl the president. n’? ?Governmen!" (a paper), Mrs. Char- n: of 3 foria Ter Chicako, 11 session, 2:30 o’clock—“The Be- tie ‘kins Stetson, , IL; “Func- tions of Government,” President Keliogg, Uni- versity of California. Evening session, 8 o’clock—*The Evolution of Governmenty: President Jordan, Leland Stanford Jr. University; “The Trend of Gov- ernment To-Day,” Rev. Anna H. Shaw. By a short of 148 miles the Lnn‘udoc:noirm , in nce, saves a sea voya nearly 2000 miles by the Straits of Gibraltar. makes a common meet- TIN French - Woolen Dress Fabrics! NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. e e e e e e e e $1.00 Yard. 50-INCH SATIN FINISH FRENCH COVERT CLOTH for Tailor and Outing Suits, 9 different colorings. e Yard. 42-INCH CHEVIOT (French many- colors. INDIGO STORM facture), warranted fast Toe Yard, 40-INCH FRENCH NOVEL= TY PLAIDS, pure silk and wool, latest styles and colorings. Write for Samples of Above Goods. TELEPHONE MAIN 8777. =" AUCTION WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, AT 12 M. 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