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Corydon.

Our first meeting was held with Mrs.
Miles and Miss Carrie Stromstein as
hostesses. In the absence of Mrs. Le
Compte, Miss Minnie Littell presided
01‘ er the meeting. The subject for the
afternoon was Iowa as a territory. Roll
call was answered by items on the
early history of the state. Mrs. Ruth
Daly read an a1 ticle on Woman’s clubs.

A pictuie of Susan B. Anthony hav-
ing been given to the high school com-
mittee was instructed to attend to its
hanging and to place beneath it in 3.
Suitable frame a short biographical
sketch. The corresponding secretary
was instructed to send a letter of con-
dolence and sympathy to Mrs. Payne
Parsons in behalf of the club. Miss
L Maud Elmore who has just retired
from five years’ service as county sup—
erintendent of schools and Mrs. Flora
Sallman were appointed delegates to
the national convention. The new
year books were distributed.

Very sincerely,
MRS. M. V. KIRK.

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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Smoot is still a United States sena-
tor, notwithstanding the influence and
the petitions of millions of women. The
point to which we call attention is not
which of the two are right or wrong,
the women or the senators, but wheth-
er or not casting an influence or cast—
ing a ballot is most desirable.

Here is a question for debating
clubs. What influence, if, any, would
women in the jury box, have on such
trials as that of Harry Thaw? Would
it be in the interest of justice, de—
cency, morality and eificiency?

_.o.¢_.

The Iowa legislature is trying to
pass a family desertion bill. We think
it. is a good bill and ought to pass. It
would be sure to become an enact-
ment were women voters and law
givers in Iowa.

Topeka Journal: The lemon crop is
short, but President Roosevelt found a
large sized one to send to the Congress
of Mothers, when he wrote that body
that the proper place for women is at
home.

.—6.0—-

How about the women who. have no
home, the single women, the working
women, and how about the men who
are hardly ever at home? Lots of
nonsense advice is handed out to wom-
en about their dress, their homes, and
what they ought or ought not to do.
Does a woman want her rights or want
to work in reform or want to do some.
good in the world, she is promptly told.
that her place is at home. President
Roosevelt was simply writing male
cant and nonsense when he wrote that
home is the proper place for women.

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Hon. Beveridge of Indiana is deserv-
ing of great credit for his efforts in be-
half of the child labor bill. It is likely
to be lost between the Scylla and
Charybdis of National and state rights.
This also is the gauntlet that Mr.
Blackwell's plan of presidential suf-
frage for women would be required to
run. It is this pulling and'hauling be-
tween state and nation that has en-
abled the trusts to keep 011 their feet
s<~ long. But when the states neglect
to attend to the child labor problem
why should not the nation attend to
it?

'—6.0—

South Carolina has abandoned the.
state dispensary plan for the sale of
liquors and adopted the local option
plan. IVe assume that this ends the
state monopoly plan of the sale of
liquor. It makes drinking easy, in«
vites scandal, is promotive of political
corruption, and on the whole is a fail--
ure. The best way to manage the
liquor traflic has not yet been dis—
covered. Perhaps local option backed
by public sentiment is as good as any.
Prohibition abolishes the traflice, or
tries to do so, but to be effective, it
should be national rather than state
wide, or local. The prohibition party
is organized to secure national action
but so long as it makes this the main
aim of its work, and woman suffrage a
side issue it is not likely to win.

Privilege is the insurmountable wail
ahead of prohibition; property is the
equally insurmountable wall ahead of
socialism. To assail them directly is
to butt the head against a stone wall.
So long as woman’s suffrage is made a

 

side issue instead of a main issue, one
to be talked of and platformed about
instead of being acted on, so long will
socialism fail to make any progress or
any conquests. So long as this side
stepping is indulged in, failure will he
deserved, because it will show that so-
cialists either do not know what they
want or how to go about it in order to
secure it. This paragraph will attract
the attention of readers as far apart as
New York, Pasadena, and New 01'-
leans. SOme will approve, others will
disapprove ofrit. It is written to call
their attention to woman’s suffrage as
their main strength and stay. Seek ye
first the accomplishment of woman’s
suffrage and all other things will be
added unto you.
O

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To prohibitionists, socialists, trust
and tariff reformers, southern and
northern problem solvers, state’s rights
and national rights defenders, lynchers
and anti-lynchers, lawyers, good, bad
or indifferent, politicians and states—
men, political parties of every com--
plexion, editors and publicists of any
and every sort; woman suffrage is the
issue of the hour, suffrage reform
along this line is the question that has
the floor, woman suffrage is the re-

form sine qua non.

Women ‘Vill in Nebraska.

Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 21.—-The senate
adopted a joint memorial to congress
in favor of an amendment to the com
stitution permitting women to vote.
The vote on adoption was a tie—16 to
iii—Lieutenant Governor Hopwell de-

ciding in its favor.

—6.6—

EQUAL SUFFRAGE.

Representative Hambleton Starts the
Ball Rolling.

Representative Hambleton yesterday
offered in the house the resolution for
submission of the woman suffrage
aniendment to the constitution.

Mrs. Evelyn Dame, who has charge
of the legislative work for the equal
suffrage association this year, has not
yet decided whether to have the reso-
lution offered in the senate or depend
upon favorable action of the house and
its message to the senate.

I11 former years the suffrage amend-
ment has been permitted to pass one
legislature and half of the next, being
killed in the home stretch. There
seems to be more favor for the pro-
:osition in this session than there was
last year.

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ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER

Boston Transcript: The death of

 

Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker of
Haitf01d marks the passing of a re-
markable family. She was the
youngest daughter and last survivingi
child of the late Rev. Dr. Lyman‘
Beecher, and by no means the least
gifted of a rarely gifted household. i
The head of it ranked with the great-I
est of the New England cler9,

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The Woman’s Standard _

THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE

Iowa Woman Suffrage Association.

delished Monthly at Waterloo. Iowa.

SARAH WARE WHITNEY, Proprietor.
J. O. STEVENSON, Editor.

Terms:—-Fifty cents a year in advance.
All letters. whether containing contributions
~ for its columns. remittances, or relating to other
business, should be addressed to \VOMAN‘s
STANDARD Waterloo Iowa.

Subscribers will please note that the receipt
of the paper is an acknowledgment of their
subscription.

 

OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL A‘MERICAN
WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION.

Honorary President, Miss Susan B. Anthony.
17 Madison Street. Rochester N. Y.

President. Rev. Anna H. Shaw, Philadelphia,
Pa.

Treasurer. Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, \Varren.
Ohio.

Corresponding Secretary, Miss Kate M. Gor-
don. 1800 Prytania St.. New Orleans. La.

National Headquarters. Warren, Ohio.

 

OFFICERS OF THE IOWA E. S. A.

Mrs. Mary J. Coggeshall, Honorary President,
Des Moines.

Mrs. Bertha A. Wilcox. President, Ida Grove.

Rev. Eleanor E. Gordon. Vice-President. Des
Moines.

Mrs. G. P. Goldie, Recording Secretary, Sioux
City.

Mrs. Edith Payne Parsons, Corresponding
Secretary. 827 Seventh St., Des Moines.

Mrs. Susie K. Brown, Treasurer, Panora.

Mrs. Eleanor C. Stockman. Mason City, and
Mrs. M. W. Eldridge, Sheldon, Auditors.

Adelaide Ballard Representative on National
Executive Committee. 111111.

The following members W'th the above eight
state oflicers form the State Executive Committee.
Mrs M. J. Coggeshall, D- s Moines; Lona I. Rob-
inson, Des Moines: Miss Flora Dunlap, Des
Moines. J .

Miss Alice Priest, Shenandoah, Supt. Press
Work.

Mrs. Evalyn E.»Dame, Albert Lea, Minnesota.
Supt. of Contest Work.

Iowa Equal Suffrage Association Headquarters,
827 Seventh St., Des Moines. Iowa. .

 

 

Municipal Sufl’rage.
An excellent symposium on Muni~

E Kelly (if New York in the chair.

“We are not doing well by our wom-
en in this enlightened country,” said
Mrs. Kelley. “Fourteen of the countries
of Europe have recently formed a
treaty absolutely prohibiting night
work for women and children. We
were not invited to join this treaty be-
cause it is known that under the
idiosyncracies of our constitution we
are debarred from any such action.

“Our government has a very conven-
ient scheme for the senators and rep-
resentatives who don’t‘ want to go on
record in this matter of the labor of
women and children. Proposed legis-
lation on this subject goes to the judic-
iary committee of the house, who guess
as to whether a measure is constitu-
tional or not. In that way the legisla-
tion is buried and the women of this
country are less protected in life and
limb when they are working than those
of any other civilized nation. As Eu-
rope is moving forward in this we are
moving backward.”

Miss Anna E. Nichols of Neighbor-
hood House, spoke on “Chicago Work—
ers Who Do Not Vote.” She express-
ed regret that the tentative draft of the
new Chicago charter contained no pro-
vision for the enfranchisement of wom—
en. .
Miss Sophonisba Breckenridge of the
University of Chicago took the place
assigned on the program to Mrs. Ray-
mond Robins, who was unable to be
present.

“The exercise of the suffrage is now
essential to woman’s proper perform-
ance of her domestic duties,” said Miss
Breckenridge. “I may put it either
that housekeeping'has become a pub-
lic function or the ballot a domestic
necessity, whichever you prefer.

“By virtue, of her relation to the
child woman must be and remain the
director of the home. If homemaking
and housekeeping are part of her work
she is under obligation to'strive for
the acquirement of the ballot, which
is one of the agencies that would help
her in her most important work—the
upbuilding and safeguarding of the
home.”

Mrs. Lilla D. Monroe of Kansas told
how “with the 25 per cent modicum of
woman suffrage in Kansas the women
voters of Topeka wielded a balance of
power sufficient to the election of a
laW‘ and ord