The Woman’s Tribune. “EQUALITY BEF ORE THE LAW." VOL. XX N0 33 WASHINGTON o c. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 28 r903 FIVE CENTS A COPY =:: THE WITNESS OF THE DUSI‘. Voices are crying from the dust of l‘vre, lrom Baalbec and the stones of Babylon- ‘3 We raised our pillars upon Self-Desire. And perished from th: iarge gase of the sun." Iternity was on the pyramid. And immortality on Greeca and Rome: But in them all the ancient t‘raitor hid. And so they tottered like unstable foam. There was no substance in their soaring hopes; I The voice of Thebes is now a desert cry. A spider bars the road with filmy ropes. Where once the feet of Carthage thuudcrzd by. A bittern booms where once fair Helen laughed: A thistle nods where once the Forum poured- L lisard lifts and listens on a shaft Where once of old the oliseum roaied. In house do stand. no kingdom can endure. Built on the crumbling rock of Self‘Desire. Nothing is Living store. nothing is sure, That is not whitened in the Social Fire. ' . -—Ed in liars/tam. __________..—— Itl leN LIVE. If i can live To make some pale face brighter. and to give A second lustre to some tea —d‘mmed eye, 6r e’en impart One throb of comfort to an aching heart, 'Or cheer some wayworn soul in passing by: If I can lend A strong hand to the fallen. or defend The right against a single envious strain. My life. the ugh bare Perhaps of much that seemeth dear and fair To us of earth, will not have been in vain. The purest joy. lost near to heaven. far from earth's alloy, .Is bidding cloud give way to sun and shine: And i: will be well If on that day of days the angels tell Of me. "She did her best for one of Thine." - Helen Hunt lecture. Social Life in London. ‘ The December Cosmopolitan has a tel iiug feature in au or unit: by’ Lady Henry Somerset on “British Social Life," It is profusely illustrated by portraits. Lady Henry says nothing has so broken down class barriers as progress in means of locomotion. She says she can well recollect her mother telling her of the first drive she ever took in a hansom cab. It was considered quite an adven ture. The change in the pomp of daily life has invaded every realm of society. The "Splendid though solemn recrea tion" of the ball has becr me a “crowded romp." Money today is the touchstone of power and Lady Henry says if the pedigrees of the great families were ex amined not one would be found which has not re inforced its exchequer by an alliance with a great commercial house. Sixty years ago no Iew could obtain a social standing in London. Today a large jewish plutocracy forms one of the pillars of social life. Another great change noted by the writer isthe mod. ern mania for publicity which has broken down the seclusion of domestic life. “Decorum is almost extinct. There is scarce any subject that is not discussed at socrety’s dinner table, ne illness that is not mentioned, no story that is not told." - Incidentally Lady Henry touches up on American society which she finds far less diversified and interesting than lritish society. The great families of Ingland have vast estates to manage; the society woman is “often a keen po litical partisan so thoroughly posted on the afiairs of the nation that she can criticise parties and policies with insight and keenness." "In London soc1ety may be found the most prominent men of af fairs, while New York society is scarcely interested in anything or any one outside Its own more oriess narrow limits. Lady Henry acknowledges the debt of British aristocracy to the wealthy American girls; that it has not only replenished its exchequer but through them ll has acquired new vitality and greater vigor Rather inconsistentiy with her former statement Lady Henry seems to attribute to these marriages the awakening to the needs of their fellow men and “the quicker concept of the eternal truth of the great brotherhood of the race The TRIBUNE is inclined to think that Lady Henry was more right in her conception of American fashionable life as more narrow and less concerned with vital things, for in chronicling the doings of the International Council of Women in London, where Lady Henry took an im- Dortant part, not a single American Duchess or other lady of title took any part in this gathering which was dealing with every phase of the brotherhood (if the race, although of England’s leading aristocracy half a hundred or more were: prominently identified with it. Governors Night. The Methodist Social Union had 1% Governors’ Night at Tremont Templé, Nove nber i6 Governors, Lieutenant—‘1 Governors and ex Governors, talked on: the need for and requirements of good» citizenship. But it does not appear that" _'tributing, active and associate. N_W M thods of Organization. The Kentucky Equal Suffrage Asso- ciation has adopted the plan of havrng unofficial members who undertake no obligations excent giving the name and paying annual dues. and this has been found very efficacious in increasing the 1st. Many years ago the editor of the TRIB- UNI advocated having three kinds of memberships in any association, con— This presupposed a thorough canvass of the community, which suffrage societies ought to make in any event, and the en rolling of all those in favor of the move ment as members of the Association un- denwhichever head they might prefer.. Active: those that pay dues and do thel in their incluswe statements and their comprehensive appeals they, with one. very notable exception, had any thought of women in connection with Christian citizenship. Women are accustomed to being ruled out from such generic classes as citi- zers, people, persons and inhabitants, but let us hupe that as long as they form at least three fourths of the labeled Christians they will be included when this term i: used. Yet, in the absence of any specific statement to the con—- trary, we must infer that when Gov, S. R. Van'Sant of Minnesota, said “Every Christian should take an active interest in politics—should attend the primaries —and see that honest, efficient men are chosen to represent us" he did not mean women notwithstanding the broad scope of the phase “every Christian." The strongest advocate of woman’s particr: pation in polities would hardly recom— mend that women should go to the primaries—popularly regarded as the “dirty cesspool of politics” as long as they were not voters and could not spPak with any anthnrif}! . . Perhaps women were indirectly in— cluded in Governor Garvin's appeal to citizens to “apply a spec1fic to our legis latures and our legislation.” Women are capital at making applications—physical and intellectualnand when they are voters they will doubtless be a great help in applying the spr cific referred to which is “a system of proportional rep- resentation.” Gov. Garvin is neither afraid nor unwilling to take his stand- for woman suffrage and as thespeeches are but meagrely reported in the Boston papers it is hardly fair to infer that he said nothing about it on this occasion when it would have fitted in so well. But it is comforting to note that ex- Gov. Boutweii's unequivocal endore— ment of woman suffrage did not escape the reporter. He said: For success in life. integrity. industry and urbanity are needed. The world is not governed entirely by politics or by dog» matic theology, but by auniversai belief that mankind can be made better. Women should have the opportunity of voting, not as a privilege, but as a right. Public men make the mistake of regarding the vote as a privilege when it isaright. Vtomen's votes will temper if they do not neutralize. the passion engendered by authority;the voice of the women, it it could be heard, would relieve the country of this enormous burden of war. Dr. and Mrs. Workman have made new records in mountain climbing, the former having attained a height of 23, 394 feet. Mrs. Workman broke her own and all women’s records by reaching a height of 22,567 feet. The music for the Ohio Suffrage Con vention was furnished by the Fox 815 ters’ Orchestra. There are six of them —really sisters, and the mother leads the music. The convent meetings were held in Library Hall, a building given to Sandnsky by its women. Bulletin No. 49 ot the Bureau of La her is almost entirely devoted to labor conditions in New Z aland. The Com pulsory Arbitration Act is treated fully. One hundred and ninety seven disputes were settled—54 by the board of concili ation and 143 t)» the arbitration court— from April 1896 2.0 June 30, 1902. "The gloomiest mountain never casts a shadow on 31W work. Contributing: those that will: ' pay a certain sum annually to the sup—5 port of the work, but wish to assume no obligations. Associate, those who are gunable to pay auriliary dues but wish to be counted in. In this lat— ter class might be included those who wouldpay a small sum for aux liary gdues while the contributions of the ’ ealthy would make up the auxiliary diners and meet the expense of distribu- ng literature among the associate mem- }bers. The treasurer ought to have an “pecount with every person favorable to Woman suffrage to collect dues annually from members letting none slip off the list through remissness or inability to PW— . It is interesting to note that this plan of enrolling associate non paying mem here has been adopted by the Central Women’s Suffrage Society of Great Brit- ain and the effect of the new plan is said by the Woman Sufirage Record to be magical in producing increase of mem— bership and vitality. .- Th. as French Congresses. _ no “—— Lc [oumal dc: Format: gives an ac- count of three congresses recently held in Paris, and which may be called femi- nist: although two of them were com— posed of both men and women because of their resolutions favoring the equality of the sexes. The report of the Congress of Human ity, held in Paris October 25, 26, 27, shows that it took up the labor question, the relation of the social Vice to health. It places first the enfranchisement of women. Next year the programme will include a study of vegetarianism. M. le baron Saint Georges d’Armstrong is president and the general secretary is M. Vodoz. . . The first National French Congress against Alcoholism was held October 26—29, under the presidency of M. Casi- mlr—Perier. In the Hall of the Faculty of Medicine where the congress was held were many professors and physicians considering how to make an effective warfare against alcohol. The congress of young church wamen held October 31-November 1, was of the greatest interest because it took un— qualified stand for the three-fold entran- chisement of women philosophically, industually and politically. The first two days were devoted to the two questions, Lay Morality and Christian Morality; and Militarism and Patriotism. The last day was devoted to “The Emancipation of Woman.” M. Lucien Le Foyer, and M. Vivrani presided, and although there were able women speak- ers in the Congress it is good to know that men took the lead in what is really more their business than it is women's, both because the sexes are equally con- cerned in the result and because men are directly responsible for the condition that calls for remedy. Miss Mary L. McGee of the National Census Bureau has been sent to collect the statistics of wealth debt and taxa— tion of Utah, her native State. This is considered important work, and she is the first woman to perform it for the bureau. Miss Iessre Cook won the Callaghan prize of $50 in law books for the best essay delivered before the John Marshall Law School at its commencement exerv ,both sides at once." cises. __ Notes from Englishwomau‘s R:- VLW. “South African Expansion" is the name. of a committee of British women organized for the purpose of sending women out to South Africa trained and equipped'for colony life as teachers, agriculturists, dressmaking, cooking, etc. The young women are received and taken to a hostel which is their home until they find employment and to which they may return at any time. As there is a large surplus of women in Great Britain and a dearth of British women in South Africa, very good pros- pects _are before the proteges of the committee, both for getting employment and for getting an English husband. In- deed one great incentive for the work is the hope of the Committee to thus prevent the Englishmen in South Africa from seeking wives among the Boer or native population. lizabeth Harcourt Mitchell makes a strong plea for representation of women in the proposed ecclesiastical body, the National Church Council. The intent is to form a gr‘ver ing body in which ratepayers and non-communicants are to be included, but the indications are that no woman will be eligible to the Councri. It will be in vain that the writer cites the honored names of St. Teresa, “St. Hilda, St. Catherine of Siena, as showrng the value of women as a fac- tor in ecclesiastical matters. It is learned” from Daguy that the women students at Upsaia, of whom there have been some in the city since 1872, organized into the Women Stu- dents Association in 1899, with fifteen members. The Assocration has now three times that number and it has re- moved the social isolation and mutual distrust under which the women labored, has contributed to their health, happi- ness and comradeship and is a protec- tion against unwarranted attacks nnnn their reputation. Mrs. S.'L. Ooerholzer of Philadelphia, National Superintendent of School Sav- ings Banks, reported to the W. C. T. U. Convention that the deposits made by scholars since the system was inaugurat- ed fourteen years ago aggregated $2,109,- 661. The convention passed unani- mously a resolution to ask Congress for the enactment of a law introducing the system into all the public schools of the Territories and those over which the National Government has jurisdiction. This action should be endorsed by all organizations of women. Pearson's for November contains ar ar- ticle on ' The Electoral Commission," by D. S. Barry in which there is the following descriptiou of a. famous picture in the Capi- tol painted by a woman: "0n the walls of the bean ifiil tessellated corridor of the eastern galleiylfloor oi the Senate wing of the Capitol at Washington. just opposite the floor of the caucus room of the Senate Democrats, hangs a large oil painting that never fails to attract the keen- est curiosity of sightseers and legislators alike. And for good reason: that painting depicts i1 glowing colors a scene of mo— mentous import a chapter of American political history of graver consequence and more far reaching results than any other since the Civil War. The printed legend on the frame of the picture reads: 'The Florida Case before the Electoral Commission, February 5 187] Painted from life sittings in the United States Sis- preme Court Room by Cordelia Adele Fas- satt.’ “The painting belongs to Congress. hav- ing been purchased from the artist for fif« teen thousand dollars. As you face the picture the portraits of two hundred and fifty eight men and women. who, twenty six years ago, wr re part and parcel of the legislative. executive. judicial, social. and j .urnaiistic life of Washington, look strait at you as if they were still lfving and breathing things. as indeed many of them are. As a work of art the picture is unique, for each face is so turned that the features can easily be studied, and the likenesses of nearly all are so faithful as to be a source of constant wonder and delight.” The perpetual phenomena of life fur- nishes all the material for culture. There is not a day but makes its demands on one for his highest and sublimest qualities. There is not a day whose experiences do not test the most exalted ideals. The work- ing energy of life is to hold the faith of its increasing beauty and power.—Lr‘lz’afl Whiting.