The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 4, 1896, Page 14

army of delegates 14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 4, 1896. SUSAN B, ANTHONY LAUDS “THE CALL." Warm Words of Praise | From the Veteran Suffragist. HER POWERFUL ADDRESS | Mme, Louise Sorbier Likewise Expresses Her De: light. OTHERS SWELL THE CHORUS. Great Numbers Expected at Te.Day’s Opening Session of the Woman's Congress. The Womsn’s Congress opens its third annual session this morning at Native Sons’ Hall from all over the State will be present and it is doubtful whether the spacious meeting place engaged will be able to hold the and sympathizers. However, those who cannot get in will have one consolation—THE CALL will keep them well informed regarding all that may transpire during this great convention. Women Delighted? That is not the word. The women of the City are actually transported with joy at THE CALL'S position on the womsn suffrage question. Yesterday’s edition of the paper had to be reproduced | in order to satisfy the demand for extra copies which were sent abroad by thous- ands. “What a grand thing Tre CALL has which certainly seem to indicate that a self-respecting woman need fear no indig- | nity at the polls: ) { _The city election last Monday was for more reasons than one the most important ever held in Seattle. The presence of women at the vot- ing-places had the effect of preventing the dis- graceful proceedings‘ usually seen. 1t was the first election in the city where the women could vote, and the first where the gambling and liquor fraternity, which had so long con- i trolled the municipal government to sn en- ormous extent, suffered defeat.—Seattle Mirror. The ladiesof Dayton were treated respect- fully by all who surrounded the polls, and not one instance came to our knowledge where, by word or deed, the crowd forgot the respect which they owe to the sex. The ladies voted conscientiously and do not deny that they | made some mistakes, yet we venture the asser- | tion that they made léss than did a large num- With all due re- ver of their male friends. spect to our feelings in the matter, we must confess that they did their duty, as they saw it, in a manner that would put to blush the average male voter as he usually conducts himseif at municipal elections.—Dayton Chronicle (opposed). The ladies turned out en masse on election day.—Goldendale Sentinel. They were everywhere fully respected and their rights were courteously observed by the great throng which constantly pressed about the polls.—Seattle Star (opposed). The result shows that all parties must put up good men if they expeet to elect them. They cannot do as they have in the past—nominate any candidates and elect them by the force of the party lasb.—Olympia Transcript (opposed). The ladies are out in full force, and the scene &t the polls is, to & stranger, & novel one, Their presence is, however, having the effeci wiich ulways goes with the presence of women —men seem 10 have more respect for them- selves. So much, at least, Is the good wrought by women’s presence at the poils.—Seattle Daily Chronicie (opposed). Their presenceat the polls worked a charm | in the cause of universal suffrage that gives a prestige to be felt on all like vccasions. M single quarrel occurred, nor was there d | turbance of any kind to throw reproach on the privilege granted by our laws to all citizens j irrespective of sex—the right to the use of the baliot for the purpose of making known their | will.—Sprague Herald. ‘*All these extracts and several more that I have,” continued Mme. Sorbier, ‘‘refer to the city and State elections in 1884 Now the fact of a woman voting attracts vo attention whatever, As for women be- ing insulted at the polis it is nonsense. I don’t know of any place where a woman could be more in danger of insult than in | & Barbary Coast saloon at 2 o’clock in the | | morning. Yet I have been there and not | | been insulted. One night my little girl had a terrible hemorrhage from the lungs. | Lsought in vain for some ice to stop the flow of blood. In my extremity I went outinto the street and before I' knew it there I was in front of a low saloon. The sound of cursing and quarreling came | from the inside and for a moment I hesi- | tated. g ‘‘But my little one's life hung in the balance. I wentinto the saloon—into the | midst of a ‘mass of fighting, swearing | loafers—and asked for some ice. change came over those rough men! One MME. LOUISE SORBIER. done,” exclaimed Mrs. Cooper yesterday. “How many friends it has gained by simply coming out flat-footed on the side of justice and right. The very janitors ‘who sweep out its offices should be proud to work for such a paper. *“But,” she went on, “I'm not satisfied with the general run of interviews. They are not half strong enough as a rule. I'm going to write something, and I hope Tne CarL will publish it word for word."” For a few moments nothing was heara but the scratching of Mrs. Cooper’s stub- pen. Then she handed her visitor the fol- lowing written statement of her views on the matter: I am neither a prophetess nor the daughter of & prophetess, yet.l venture the prediction that the position” taken by THE CALLon the subject of woman and woman suffrage will ‘prove itself one of deep prophetic import. It was a great mistake—a fundamental error based upon ignorance and injustice—to ever have introduced to word ““male” into the con- stitution—either the Federal or State constit tions. The terms “male” and “female’” sim- ply, designate the physical distinction between the sexes. But there is no sex in mind. Our constitution was designed to govern intelli- gent, responsible human beings—men and women—not sex. Three cheers for THE CALL, and for the just and- righteous position it has taken on this great question! Itwill be proud of it in the years to come, &s we are proud of it to-day. Yours respectfully, SARAH B. COOPER. *‘Those are my views,” said Mrs. Cooper, in conclusion. *To-day is not for cut and dried arguments, but for deep, unbounded joy. We women have a champion of whom any causg, however noble, might be gmud‘ and since only to-day our knigut as sworn his allegiance it seems that for a while we should give up talking and re- sign ourselves to the delight which so glad a piece of news brings to us all.”” Mme. Lounise M. Sorbier, president of the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union, was no less enthusiastic. “‘This 1atest move of THE CALL, she said, is a grand and wonderful thir I can- not even picture to my imagination the magnitude of the results which it will surely bring about. Another thing I can- not comprehend is the idea which some good men entertain that the moral sense of woman will be outraged at the polls. Just look at these extracts from Washing- ton papers which I cut ont and saved.” Among the exracts were the following, NEW TO-DAY. EVERY KIND HUMOR FROM PIMPLES SCROFULA Speedily cured by CUTICURA RESOLVENT, " greatest of humor cures, assisted externally by warm baths with CUTICURA BOAPR, l:;l gentle applications of CUTICURA (ointment), the great skin cure, when all else fails. s0c. A o v0 Gure Every Humor,” iosied free. commenced to saw off a piece of ice, an- other prepared a piece of paper, while yet | another sought some string in order that it might not be delayed. The barkeeper | refused to take any money for the ice, and another man, who seemed to be very much under the intluence of liquor, stag- ered to the door and held it open as I eft the horrid place. If I am to be treated as well at the polls as I wasin this low | saloon at 2 o'clock in the morning I shall | have no complaint to make. “It is often said that woman’s place is the home. I believe it with all my heart. Every true woman loves her home, Why, | then should she not have a voice in order | to protect that home? I lost one dear | child by reason of the foul sewer which opens before this house, In Paris the taxes are not to be compared with those which we have to pay here, yet the French capital has the best sewerage system in the world. If woman could vote she would try to have things kept physically clean at any rate. “‘And then they say that if woman had the ballot, females of bad character would vote. I grant that. But for every bad woman who would cast a ballot five hundred wives and mothers would vote after calling upon the divine wisdom for light and guidance. These are just the votes that are needed. When voters make | their voting a matter of conscience we may look for a vast majority of votes on the right sicde. “But I don’t care to give my own ideas when others can speak more to the point. Justread this, if you please,” and Mme. Sor- bier took out a document which certainly looked very official. It was asfollows: Be it resolved by the Legislature of the State ot \Vyomln%: That the possession and exercise of suffrage by the women in Wyoming for the past auarter of a century has wrought no arm and has done great good in many ways; that it has largely alded inh banishing crime, pauperism and vice from this State, and that without any violent or oppressive legislation; that it has secured peaceful and orderly elec- tions, good government and a remarkable de- gree of civilization and publie order; and we point with pride to the fact that aiter nearly twenty-five years of woman suffrage not one | county in Wyoming has a poorhouse; that our {’nlh are almost empty, and crime, except that strangers in the State, almost unknown; and as the result of experience, we urge every civilized communiiy on the th to enfran- chise its women without deiay. Resolved, That an authenticated copy of these resolutions be forwarded by the Governor of the State to the Legislature of every State and Territory in the country, and to every legislative body in the world; and that we request the press through- out the civilized world to call the at- tention of their readers to these resolutions. ““These resolutions,” explained Mme. | Sarbier, ‘‘were unanimously adopted by the Legislature of Wyomingon the 16th of February, 1893. In order to make sure that the thing was not the work of female legislators, we sent for particulars to the Governor of Wyoming. He answered by telegraph as follows: Adjourned Legislature of Wyoming had forty-nine members and never had a woman. JoHN E. OSBOURNE, Governor. “1 think & document like that is enough to render it unnecessary for us t» apolo- gize for the stand which we aré taking. It is just, it is reasonable. What more do we want? The right will prevail and we will win the day."” i Mrs. J. T. Swift when seen at her home, 824 Valencia strect, expressed great de- light at THE CaLL's attitude. “How this move will help the move- ment!” she exclaimed. ‘‘This is the most encouraging news I have ever heard. To be sure our cause is a just one; but how few newspapers are willing to .cknowledfie e it. THE CALL has taken the lead. T other papers will have to follow, or alse be leit behind in the race. But we can never forget that THE CALL has constituted itself the Woman Suffrage organ, and as such we must always regard it. The great paper What a | B | change, and that it has b | deep an interest and as active a part in politics | | and hearts of men by means of his bril- | liant eloquence and noble piety. This grand man I knew in Boston. He was a great battler for equal rights. How glori- d U Wl Lk \ Susan B. Anthony, the Veteran Leader of the Equal Suffragists. will lose nothing by thus standing up for | the right.” 3 Mrs. D, J. Murphy, president of the Lib- erty Suffrage Club, another one of the women who have long been identified with the movement for female suffrage, was as glad at the tidings as were her sisters. “I must have been born a woman suf- fragist,” she said, *‘and have been suffer- ing from the ailment ever since. I cannot | see any reason why the right of the elec- tive franchise should not be accorded to women as well asto men. They arebound | to obey the laws, they suffer to the same | extent by the enaction of bad laws and | profit to the same extent by good ones. “If we are to'have, in the words of the immortal Lincoln, a ‘Government by the | eople and for the people,’ then suffrage should be granted to women, and with the | valuable assistance of Twe CaLL I predict | that the eleventh amendment to the con- stitution will be adopted. All hail Tre Carn!” On December 12, 1895, Secretary of State A. B. McGaffey wrote as follows: There has been nothing to regret—there is nothing to regret—in Colorado’s experience with women in politics. On the contrary there have been many gratifying results. There have been no siartling or revolutionary , but as we study thesituation ‘‘before” ter” we see that there has been a | en in every way for lly take guite as | the better. Women gene here as do the men, and I think I am safe in saying that fully as large a percentage of them £0 to the polls and vote. Since Colorado has had universal suffrage there has undoubtedly been a distinct improvement in the morai tone of politics. Woman’s influence has been felt as it could not be felt before. Primaries, con- ventions, public- meetings, elections, all have quietly and almost unconsciously, though none the less effectively, been molded by her presence—quieter, more orderly, and less liable to take chances in the nomination of candi- dates unworthy of the fullest confidence of the people. 1 trust that the women of California will be suceessful in their effort to secure that undeniable right of citizenship, ‘equality before the law,” and I know that if they do your State will be the better for it. T R MISS ANTHONY SPEAKS. She Pays a Glowing Tribute to * The Call” for Its Stand Regarding Woman Suffrage. A good-sized congregation greeted Miss Susan B. Anthony last night at the Afri- can Methodist Episcopal Zion Church on Stockton street, near Sacramento, After the customary devotional exercises the veteran suffragist ascended the pulpit and spoke tor about an hour. “This pulpit,” commenced Miss An- thony, “was once the place from which the great Starr King swayed the minds | ously he'stood up for the victims of op- jon L e know that before the war, both in | the North and in the South, the negro had nothing in life worth living for. How- ever, the attempted secession of the South- | ern Btates forced President Lincoln to iree the slaves as a military measure. He himself said that if it were possible to put down the Rebellion without freeing a single slave, be would not have freed one. But the slaves were freed at last, and then came the question as to whether the negro should vote. “The fourteenth amendment to the con- stitution originally provided that all citi- zens, whatever their color or race, might vote. This, however, would admit negro | women to the privilege, or rather the right of the ballot. The dreadful result was foreseen, and in order to save the country from so terrible a calamity the grand pa- triots in Congress assembled, amenaed the amendment so as to make it a})ply only to ‘male’ citizens. Still some of the States hung fire, and until the passage of the fifteenth amendment to the constitution the neero was not free to vote in whatever part of the Union he might live. The first time all the colored men of the Republic were allowed to vote was in the spring of 1870. “Thirty years ago I told the colored women and men of Kansas that the time was coming when they would have to vote. | promise will be kept. So far as the black men were concerned my prophecy came true. Let us hope that the prophecy I voice to-day may come truein its entirety. Women of California, black and white, I tell you you are going to get the vote here in your own State. When the day comes use. your power rightly. The black man has proved his | ability to make a right use of the elective Erivilege. Can we believe that woman, lack or white, is inferior to the negro, only recently let loose from slavery ? *“Now I have one petition to present to you colored men. beg you when yvou approach the polls at the coming election to mark your tickets in favor of woman suffrage. “You make a good use of your right to vote; why cannot your wives or your mothers do the same? It is only just. subject of strength and some of the char- acteristics of strong character. She said: “For highest results justice and power must go together. W hatever is just should be powerful, and whatever is powerful should be just. No people can be truly free who have not learned to be just.” Mrs. Cooper here paid a high tribute to Tue CALL for its position in regard to woman, as enunciated in yesterday’s edi- tion. She said: o “This is the only true position. Let woman be and de whatevershe can be and do! Every thoughtful woman who longs to be and do her best will not fail to show her warm appreciation of this brave stand taken by THE CALL. “There need be no fear tbat a true woman will be contaminated by work for the public good. The sunbeam is never contaminated by the sloughs and miasm on which it shines. 1t just lifts up all the rank dampness and transmutes itinto pure mists and vapors that descend in blessing on the earth. ““We need to serve others more than we do, renouncing lives of ease and choosing lives of service. In this way we should insure soul-health, and grow into his image who came not to be ministered unto but to minister, and to give his life aran- som for many.” THE LABOR ALLIANCE. Committeemen Make Reports Upon the Condition of Trades Unions. The Central Trades and Labor Alliance met last evening. Present Delegates L. Less, S. Fuchs, F. Hodges, A. Mueller, T. Hansen, J. Gammer, J. Robinson, P. Ross Martin, Thomas Hendersen and J. Jorgen- sen. These represented the following unions: Barbers’ Association of San Fran- cisco, Amalgamated Woodworkers, Frater- nity of Hotel and Restaurant Employes, Bukers’ Union No. 24, Carpenters’ No. 304 and the Confectioners’ Union. After receiving the reports of the organ- izing committee, the alliance went into executive session and elected I. Less of the Barbers’ Association temporary chair- man and T. Lynch of the Fraternity of Hotel and Restaurant Employes tempor- ary secretary. Vacancies in the organizing committee were filled by the appointment of I. Less, T. Lynch, P. Ross Martin and J. W. Rose. The alliance decided to give the barbers its support in the 8 o’clock closing move- ment. Theodore Lynch of the organizing com- mittee appointed to visit the various trades unions reported having met with a favorable reception in most of the unions. He said that the committeemen'’s visits to the different unions convinced them that a great amount of inactivity and lethargy exists owing to the fact that labor unions MRS, SARAH B. COOPER. One of the cornerstones of our Republic is | the equality ot rights for all the citizens. The first violation of this principle of equal rights took the form of denying the franchise to the poor. The 'last and only remaining violation, now that maie negroes can vote, is the unjust discrimina- tion made against women. *‘Taxation without representation 1s tyranny for women now, as it was for men in the days of King George. But, thank heaven, though we have no representation before the lawmaking tribunals of this State, we have a representation before the veople; THE CALL has taken up the mat- ter in earnest and in so magnificent a fashion that the other papers will have to | follow suit or fall behind. This is a grand victory for us, and 1 earnestly believe it is only the glimmering of the dawn before the glorious rising of the sun of liberty. “‘For thirty years we have worked for woman suffrage, For thirty years we have been thrust aside by the Senators of our country when we have asked for the vote. This has been a bitter pill for us to swallow. Still Tue CALL has given us a sweet morsel in order to take away the bad taste which has remained in our mouthis for over thirty years. But THE CaLr promises to do yet more, and its n the most public and irretractable manner that grand paper has espoused our cause. With such an advocate how can we fail?"” N AT THE BIBLE CLASS. Tribute to “The Call” for Its Stand on Suffrage. Mrs. Cooper during the progress of her lesson before the bible class yesterday in Native Sons' Hall was speaking upon the THE PRESIDENT OF THE \_/ V//4 Jwfi 2 t 7 y/A 1y 977 CONGRESS PROPHESIES. 77 are not more progressive along economic and political lines. The meeting adjourned to meet again next Sunday evening, when reports wi :ae received from the organizing commit- ee. WHITE LOTUS DAY. Memorial Services by Theosophists for Mme. Blavatsky in Shasta Hall May 8. As every society has days set apart for the honor. of its founaers or prominent members, so have the Theosophists. May 8 is White Lotus day and will be observed by members of that body the world overin honor of Mme. Biavatsky, the great cen- tral sun of the order. At 8 P. M. memorial services will be held in Shasta Hall conjointly by the San Fran- cisco, the Oakland and the Alameda Theo- sophic societies. Mrs. M. M. Thirds, the secretary of the Pacific Coast Theosophical Committee, stated that it was a wish expressed by Mme. Blavatsky, shortly before her death, that the theosophists of all the world should meet on the anniversary of her death and bave readings from Sir Edwin Arnold’s “Light of Asia’” and from the Bhagavad-Gita. As to the origin of the name (white lotus) the lady was in doubt. The following is the programme for the occasion : Piano solo, “‘Marches Militaires Nos. 1 and 8" (Schubert), Miss Alice Winant; introductory remarks, Dr. W. W. Gamble; solo, “Flower May Hide Its Lovely Face” (Osgood), Rob- ert Madden; readin lection from the “Bhagavad Gita,” M. M. Thirds; address, Dr. J. son;_quartet, *‘The Harmonious Blacksmith" andel). Mrs Rogers, Miss Spencer, Messr: and Jone: reading, selection from T Dr. Allen Griffiths; vocal solo, selected Spencer; address, Mrs, Harris; quartet, ““Home- ward” (Leslie), Miss Spencer, M Roy h Messrs. &ny ln’\’l Jones. g 2 ot ————— SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY, Dr. York Lectures Before a Large Aud- ience at Scottish Hall. Dr. J. L. York, the liberal lecturer, en- tertained a large audience last night in Scottish Hall on science, theology and 1eligion with a prelude on “Rome’s Hand in Sendine to Prison the Editor of the A. P. A. Magazine.” Science, he declared, is derived from the word scio and means ‘‘reading from the great book of nature the right relation of things”; and that, according to Draper and others, is nothing more or less than organized, arranged and definite knowl- edge of the world. The advantage of sci- entific truth, he said, is that what is true in science is true everywhere and is true always. Theology is the inverse of science, as the latter depends on demonstration and the former on faith, the one assuming nothing and proving everything, the other mumingc:verythin‘. but not provingany- thing. ience he termed the mother of true civilization and said that any one with half an eye can see that science and theology are not one and the same thing. Those who seek truth are the real students of divinity and high priests of men, and no religion is the foster-mother of science, civilization and liberty. 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