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‘THE WOMAN’S JOURNAL

FOUNDED BY
LUCY STONE and HENRY B. BLACKWEL

A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to
Winning Equal Rights and especially
to WinningviEqual Suffrage for Women.
V Editor
MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL

Contributing Editors
MISS‘|MARY JOHNSTON
MRS. IDA H. HARPER
MISS ELLIS MEREDITH
REV; CAROLINE BARTLETT CRANE
MRS. MABEL CRAFT DEERING

Office - 585 Boyldton Street. Boston. Man.

Telephone. Back Bay 4717

New York office: National Suffrage Head-
quarters, 505 Fifth Ave.

 

 

.STOCKHOLM CONVENTION

A Thousand“ Delegates Present—Mrs.
Catt Re-elected—Great Welcome to
Miss Shaw
A press despatch from Stockholm,

dated June 12, says: ,

The sixth conference of the Inter-
national Woman Suffrage Alliance
opened here today. There were pres-
ent 1000 delegates from Europe, the
United States, Australia and South
Africa. The address of welcome was
made by Mrs. Anna Whitlock of
Sweden, after which Mrs.,»’ Carrie
Chapman Catt was're-elected presi—
dent of the Alliance. Riksdag Deputy
Beckman spoke Warmly in favor of
suffrage for women, and then Mrs.
Catt. delivered a long and eloquent ad-
dress on the history of the movement.
Mrs. Frederick Nathan of New York
proposed'the formation of an associa-
tion of Swedish men to work for wom-

an suffrage. .,
The Congress will sit until Saturday.

Interesting incidents of today were
the presentation to the Congress by
Janet Richards of a suffrage ‘baton
. Mash. warren .. ;-
the warm Welcome given the Pié‘v. Dr.
Anna Shaw. The whole assembly
arose on Miss Shaw‘s entrance.

The newspapers speak, highly of
Miss Shaw’s eloquence at the religious
services held Sunday at the Gustavus
Vasa Church, where she occupied the
pulpit.

 

Apparently the report that she
would not be allowed to preach in that
great church was a canard.

A LIAR

Alleged Ex-Dean of Colorado Univer-
sity, Who Is Talking Against Wo-
man Suffrage in California, Never
Was Connected with University-—
ls UnknOWn in Colorado

The Denver News of June 3 says:

Members of the VVonian’s Public
Service League are much wrought up
over the statements made in Los An-
geles recently by Professor E. C.
Lindmann, in which he declared that
women in politics have been a bane
to Colorado, and have desecrated the
homes of the State. At a meeting yes-
terday the League adopted the follow
ing resolutions and sent copies to the
Equal Suffrage Association of Los
Angeles and to various woman’s clubs
of that city:

Whereas, One E. C. Lindmann has
recently, in the city of Los Angeles,
California, according to the press of
that city, stated that, since the adop-
tion of woman suffrage in Colorado,
family life has decreased and that

. woman suffrage has been the bane of
Colorado, has desecrated the homes or
the State, has debauched womanhood
and is one‘of the greatest evils of the
age;

Now we, the members of the “/0-
man’s Public Service League of Colo-
rado, hereby denounce each and every
one of such statements as Wholly and
maliciously false and without a
shadow of excuse. We declare that
anyone who makes such statements
is wholly unworthy of belief and not
entitled to the confidence or respect
of any truth-loving or justice-seeking
person. We regret that there seems
to be no way in which to mete out le—
gal punishment for such slanders.

Inasmuch as it has been stated in
the press of Los Angeles that this so—
called “Professor” Lindmann was for-
merly a member of the faculty of the
University of Colorado, we desire to
state that said Lindmann has never
been connected with the University of

 

-‘ woman’s signature as witness is not

Grand/W6 '

WOMAN AND LAW

Odd Legal Injustices—Mother Not

“Next of Kin" to Her Own Child
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Mrs. John K. “White, at a. recent
suffrage meeting in Frederick, Md.,
gave some curious examples of the
law’s injustice to women. Mrs. Jeffer-
son Davis bequeathed interesting
relics to the“ Daughters of the Con-
federacy, but her will could not be
carried out, because in Louisiana a

legally valid. Mrs; White "also cited the
case of a young man killed at a dan-
gerous trade in New York State. The
father put in a claim for damages,
which would have been granted but for
his death before the case was settled.
The mother could not collect the claim,
because by law she was not “next of
kin” to her son. f

FOR WORKING WOMEN
Baltimore Form’s Trade Union League

The \Voman’s Trade Union League
of Baltimore has been organized to
promote the interests of ,women’s
trade unions, to forward labor legis:
la'tion and to 'aid in the formation of
new unions in all trades. These
unions are to be affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor and
with their national of international
organization. Their platform includes
equal pay for equal work, the eight-
hour day, and woman suffrage.

A BRAVE MOTHER-

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Mr.

APPEAL Toj'CHURCH t

Weighty and EarnesilgAppeal’of Epis-
copalian Women for Enlarged ‘Field
of Usefulness I,

The 5 following influentially- signed

memorial was presented to the Six-

teenth Annual Council of the Episco—
pal Diocese of Legcihgton, Ky., re—-
cently held at Frankfort:

Memorial

he Sixteenth Annual
the Diocese of Lefxington:

We, the undersigned communicants

of the Church in the Diocese of Leic-

ington, in View of the enlarged field
for the activities of women brought
about by changes in education, indus-
try and other social agencies, earnest-
1y urge this Council to consider these
facts in their bearing upon the rela-
tion of women to theiwork of the

Church and upon the need of taking

measures whereby women mayr have

opportunities for: commensurately
larger usefulness in the Diocese; and
we suggest and petition, in further-

ance of these objects, that Canon II,

Section 3, be so amended as/to make

women equally eligible with men .to

be elected deputies to“ the Diocesan

CounCil. ? ' ' '

(Signed)

' Mrs. Charlton H. Morgan
Mrs. Wickliffe Preston,
Mrs. Wilbur R. Smith,
Mrs. Shelby '1‘. Harbison,
Mrs. Katherine G. ,Reid,
Mrs. Avery Winston,
Mrs” Samuelf Bennett,

.Mrs. 'Sarah W. ,Norwood,
,Mrs. John W. Scott,
Laura Clay.

Miss ClaMfii Address
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Miss Laura Clix Coke as follows.

ouncil of

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Charities and Correction in this city.

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NOTABLE SPEAKERS

Jane Addams, Louis D. Brandeis, Dr.
Edward T. Devine and Dr. Sophon—
isba Breckinridge Address Crowded
Suffrage Meeting—Mr. Brandeis An-
nounces His Co‘nversion

Despite a furious rainstorm, a great
audience gathered on June 14 at Jacob
Sleeper Hall in Boston Univgrsity,
where the Boston E. S. A. for Good

some of the ablest men and women at-
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President 4 9/ Members of the

Council :

Louis D. ,Brandeis presided. Twenty-
five‘years ago, he conducted the case

 

 

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Mrs. Margaitiat Dreier Robins, in her
address at the National-"anference of
Charities, told a remarkable incident
of the great strike among the Garment

 

 

 

 

 

MRS. RAYMOND ROBINS

 

Workers in Chicago. The strike lasted
for months, and caused \great' suffer—
ing. During the course of it, 1250
babies were born to the strikers. The
Women’s Trade Union League and
other sympathizers tried to supply all
these little noncombatants with milk.

A visitor, going into one of the
homes, found a mother in bed with a
neW-born baby, and surrounded by
three other children of three, four and
five years old. i There was neither food
nor fuel, and it was a bitter winter’s
day. On the mother’s bed were three
letters from her husband’s employ’er,
offering to raise his pay from $15 to
$30 per week if he would come back
and help to break the strike. He had
refused, and his wife rejoiced in the
refusal. The visifor asked her how
she could hear such suffering, not for
herself but for her children. With a
steady, quiet look in her patient eyes,
the mother answered, “It is not only
bread‘we give the children. We live
not by bread alone, we live by free-
dom; and I will fight for itgtill I die,

 

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to give it to my children." ‘

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the org nized ’Ch'urr’l‘vewe,“ your memo-
rialists, do not WiSIQ‘ fonve’y the idea
tha'lee supposegrafnssg a new form
of liberty would indi‘lwhfiya new spirit
in the Church. We k ere and. are fully
persuaded that, wher glee Spirit of the
Lord is, there is liberty,'a.nd that it is,
as it always has been, the duty of the
Church to watch for this sign of the
Spirit‘s loadings in all her delibera-
tions. We present the facts for the
purpose of directing your attention to
the expediency of making such altera-
tions in the rules of the Church as are
needed to keep them in touch with the
alterations in the social conditions of
women which have come about ‘with
such rapidity and force that it has
proved difficult for institutions to ad-‘
just themselves to them.

Industrial Methods Revolutionized

These alterations have come very
largely, as ‘a little investiagtion will
show, from a revolution in industrial
methods. Mechanical inventions, es-
pecially those made within, the last
have greatly affected the in-
dustries of men; but they have revolu-
tionized those of women. Not only
has the change been greater than in
any previous equal length of time, but
greater than has been known in the
whole of previous history covered by
written records. Men are familiar
enough with the fact that mechanical
devices have made it possible, with
their assistance, for one man to do
the work which formerly required
many men. Society" at times has
found» it difficult to adjust itself to
the changed industrial I attitude of
men; and how immensely more diffi-
cult it is to adjust itself to the new
position of women! ‘

century,

'Women’s Work Transformed

For, after all, men’s outlook upon
life has been very slightly modified.
The views of their own ability,»the
qualities which are required “for their
self—respect and their customary rela-
tions to others, have remained very
much the same. But with women the
whole outlook upon; the world has un-
dergone a transformation. The new
machines have taken their work out
of the home and placed it in factories
and shops. “ They 1:10. )longer in their

scanners—said: ,

for ‘the anti-s-uffragists sat a legis-
~- > L3 1.1;:er _ _ ‘ . '
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FIVE MILES

»Of Women Seven Abreast Are March-
ing in London To-day—Greatest
Procession in: History -— Manyr
Nations Represented ‘

If we were in London today, what
should we see? Five miles of women
marching seven abreast—women of
all ranks and conditions, and of al-
most every nationality.

A, Hundred Kangaroos

“The man in the street” will recog-
nize the Australian contingent at once
by the‘little models of the kangaroo
which the Australian women are car-
rying on long poles. At the Headquar-
ters where the pageants and decora-
tions were arranged, a man came to
the door a few days ago and told the
secretary that he had one hundred
kangaroos outside and wanted to knOw
what to do with them. Skilful suf-
fragette hands have since gilded them,
and today they are glittering in thg
parade.

A particularly strikingisection is that
in which the women from India are
marching in' their beautiful native
dresses, carrying a. model of ' an

. elephant to typify Hindoostan.

Will Sing Welsh Airs
At the head of the Welsh women

goes a banner bearing the beloved red

dragon of Wales, and‘smal-l models of
'it are carried by the marchers. They
are singing in their native tongue “All
Through the Night” and' “Men of
Harlech,” led by a famous\Welsh con-
tralto. With them‘march the Cardiff ‘
Progressive and Liberal Women‘s
Union, with their banner, “We Stand
for Justice." ‘ '

The Scottish contingent are march- .

rear. 'twhite mdggsses..t-nit v: t-

 

Louis D. Brandeis’s Speech

It is just a quarter of a century
since\I last expressed in public my
viewson woman suffrage. Then I op—
posed it. Today I advocate it.‘

That change in opinion is the result
of~ my own experience in the various
movements with which I have been
connected, in which We have tried ,to
solve the social, economic and politi-
cal problems that have 'pres ted
themselves from time to time. As

and more impressed with the‘ difli
culty and complexity of those prob
lems, and also with the power of so
ciety to solve them; but I am con-
vinced that for their solution we musr
look to the many, not to the few. We
need all the people, women as much as
men. In the democracy which is to
solve them, We must have not a part
of society but the whole.

'The insight that women have shown
into problems which men did not and
perhaps could not understand, has con-
vinced me not only that women should
have the ballot, butthat we need them
to have it. This is especially the case
because these problems will have to bc
solved largely through collective ac-
tion, in‘which legislation is necessary.

Dr. Devine Speaks

Dr. Edward T. Devine made a bril-
liantand witty speech calling forth
much laughter. He said that ‘he did
not underate woman’s power to in—
fluence public opinion. “But,” he con-
tinued, “the ballot is the final autum-
nal fruitage and justification of all the
agitation and discussionthat leads up
to a reform.‘ However beautiful a
flower may be, if we‘know that it can
never culminate in fruit, its sterility
brings a shade of contempt and a les-
senin of its influence upon our es-
theg sense. When we realize that
the woman who discusses. so intelli-
gently the need of a new law is not
able to vote for it, the fact casts a
shade of depreciation upon her influ-
ence. Not more intimately connected
are the fruit and the. blossom than the
ballot and the qualities of mind that
women possess.” ,

Mr. Brandeis introduced Jane
Addams as one of those women whose
work had converted him to orthodoxy
on the, sufirage question. Miss
Addams said: ‘ ’

Jane Addams’s Speech

It is always very difficult for me to
make a speech on woman sufirage. I
always feel that it belongs to the last
century rather than this. The men
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years have passed, I have been more»

scarves and ‘ rosettes. x . 1... ring"
Drummond—“General” Drummond, as? .
she is affectionately calledeheads
them, with four girl pipers.

The“ Irish Contingent g

The Irish contingent are wearing .
“Colleen Bawn’-" cloaks, and are un-
doubtedly being cheered all along the
line. I ‘ “ 9 ‘
The” college and university women
march in their hoods and robes, under
their academic 'banners.‘~ They are led
by pr. Flora Murray. .

Lady Stout, wife of the Chief Jus—
tice of New Zealand, is-much disap-
pointed that she is unable, on account
of her health, to leadgthe New Zealand
section. The New Zealand women
march under their own banner, and
carry models of the Fern Tree as the
emblem of their country. The Ca-
nadian contingent are marching under
a" beautiful banner, with the maple
leaf as their distinctive mark.

Many Nations Represented

There is an American contingent——
our hearts go with'ltheml—a Rouman— .
ian L“group, and others representing
many nationalities. Madame Pinnet
has come from Da’usanne on purpose
to head the Swiss section, and many
representative, Swiss women are
marching with her. " The Britsh colo-
nies of the East and West 'Indies are
represented, as well as the East and
West African Protectorates, the Fiji
Islands‘and the British possessions in
the Western \Pacific. South Africa’s
women are [marching under a model
of the Springbok. They are led by
Mrs. Saul‘ Solomon, Widow of the
great Prime Minister of ‘Cape Colony,
“the Gladstone of South Africa.”
Olive Schreiner is undoubtediy march-
ing with them in the spirit.

The London branCh of the Church

Socialist League marches under a ban--
ner bearing a figure of John Bull hold-
ing the cross, with the words, “God
send help, for NOW is the time.”
' The Catholic Women’s Suffrage So-
ciety is in line, and some of the march-‘
ers personate the Abbess Hilda and
her “seven blue nuns.” She founded
at Whitby in 664 a monastery for men
and women. ' V

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The Historical Pageant
The Historical Pageant is not only
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