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CALIFORNIA STATE "W. S. ASSOCIA
TION.
MINimdSOTTIIK FIFTH ANNIVJSESAIIY MEETISG.
April 29, 1S74.
JI0RNINO SESSION.
The "Fifth Anniversary Meeting of the
California Woman Suffrage Association
opened at 11 A. M.
In the absence of the President, Mrs.
C. M. Palmer, Mrs. Lena Clarke, the
Secretary, called the meeting to order,
and invited Mrs. A. J. Duniway to the
platform, who addressed a few words of
encouragement in the cause of "Woman
Suffrage.
The Chair then called for nominations
for the office of temporary President.
Mrs. DeWolfe, Mrs. Collins and Mrs.
Snow were nominated. Mrs. DeWolfe
and Mrs. Collins having declined, Mrs.
Snow was elected temporary President.
On motion of Mrs. Collins, Mrs. Clarke
was elected temporary Secretary.
Mrs. Snow, having accepted tbechair,
appointed the following committees:
Committee on Credentials, Mrs
Waterhouse and Mrs. E. S. Sleeper;
Committee on Resolutions. Col. Jno. A.
Collins, Mrs. A. J. Duulway and Mrs
Waterhouse.
The Chair further autlounced that tho
appointment of a Committco on Nomi
nation of Officers would be deferred
until tho afternoon session.
Mrs. Collins read a letter from Sydney
Hudson, of Utah, on the progress of the
Woman Suffrage movement in that
Territory.
S. Puree, Esq., .of San Francisco,
nest addressed the meeting at length
on the objects and purposes of the suf
frage agitation. Ills remarks were at
leniivciy listened to, anu warmly ap
plauded.
Mrs. Collins nest read a letter from
Mr. D. V. Norton, of Callstoga, on the
same subject.
Committee on Resolutions submitted
the following report:
Whereas, The Legislative depart
ment of tho Territory of Utah several
years since practically demonstrated its
appreciation of and confidence in the
principles of political equality and self
government, as enunciated by the
founders of the American Republic, by
conferring the elective franchise upon
the women within its jurisdiction; and,
Wjiereas, The general deportment
of the newly enfranchised class in Utah
and Wyoming has been so character
ized by quiet, order and respect for pub
lic authority as to attract the attention
and challenge the commendation of
high public officials; and,
Whereas, There aro several bills
now before the Federal Congress, em
bracing those of Senators Frelingbuy-
scn, Logan and Sargent and Repre
sentative McKec, each of which, while
aiming to suppress polygamy in Utah
provides, with tho esception of that of
Mr. Sanrent. to remand the women
back to political subjugation; therefore,
Jlesolved, That the California YV. to
Association, at its Fifth Anniversary,
in convention assembled, on this 29th
day of April, 1874, hereby records its
solemn protest against this crafty ef
fort on the part of the enemies of Hu
man Rights to induce the Congress of
the United .States to perform the des
potic work of disfranchising the women
of an entire commonwealth, thereby,
under the specious pretense of promot
ing public morals and womanly purity,
proposing to inflict a punishment upon
the polygamic wives or Ltali to wincu
only felons should be subjected, while
inflicting no punishment and Imposing
no restraint upon polygamous husbands.
Jiesolved, That the Board of Control
is requested to prepare and forward to
Congress a memorial askiug that Body,
to protect the women of Utah in the en
joyment of all the rights of self-government
conferred upon them by the Legis
lative department of that Territory, andi
that a copy of these resolutions be for
warded to each Senatorand Representa
tive in the Rational Congress from the
Pacific Coast, who are earnestly re
quested to use their influence to defeat
any bill which abridges or denies tho
right of suffrage to any person or class
on account of scs.
Col. Collins advocated the resolutions
In a brief address, after which, on mo
tion, the meeting adjourned until
p. sr.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The President, Mrs. Snow, called the
meeting to order at 2 o'clock-, and invited
discussions upon the resolutions pend
ing at the time of adjournment.
Mr. Butler took the floor and argued
at some length against the adop
tion nf tho nhraseolocv of one of
the resolutions. He was followed by
Mtss Baker, Mrs. Hughes, Mr. Collins,
Mr. Furee and Mrs. Ballou.
After a spirited and interesting discus
sion, the resolutions read at the morning
session were adopted.
Mr. Collins then introduced' and read
the following additional resolutions:
JTcsohed, That the action of the last
Legislature in making woman ellglblo
to positions of authority in the manage
ment or the California Public School
department, Is a hopeful Indication of
progress on the part of the votlug class
in their opinion as to her governing
, ability, and should stimulate the friends
women for school superintendents, spouse to tho lengthy petition of over
oi womau ouurase ana tbosn n-i,
favor the enlargement of woman's field
of remunerative employment to be
active throughout the State, to secure
the nomination and election of suitable
members of boards of education, school
trustees and examiner?, as tho most ef
fective means that can be employed,
not only for increasing woman's com
pensation and for elevating skilled, ef
ficient and experienced lady teachers to
the higher, more responsible and lucra
tive positions, now exclusively monopo
lized by men, but also to raise the
standard of education and improve the
system of discipline.
Jlcsolvcd, That as there is no law in
California, which declares women ineli
gible to the office of University Regent,
His Excellency, the Governor of the
State, who has the filling of vacancies,
is hereby earnestly and respectfully re
quested to appoint a woman to fill the
first vacancy that shall occur in the
Board of Regents.
Jlcsolvcd, That the natural and com
mon needs of the sexes are prophets of
their natural and common rights;
that the neccessarypresenceof boys and
girls iu families where the foundation of
education is Unavoidably commenced Is
a natural indication and forcible argu
ment in favor, not only of tho co-education
of the seses in public and other
schools, but is also a strong intimation
that It is a system which cannot be safely
ignored among men and women in the
body politic.
Jtetolved, That the experiment of tho
co-education of the sexes, which has
been thoroughly and favorably tested
for nearly a third of a century in
Oberlin and Antloch colleges, and by
some three score of universities and
colleges or more recent origin, Is a
hopeful exhibition of tho broadening
and liberalizing sentiments that-nt pres
ent prevail among a very considerable
minority of the governing gender, in
favor of theintellectual capacity and
undustrial needs of woman.
Jlcsolvcd, That the maintcnanco of
Grammar and High Schools, at the pub
lic expense, for the separate education
of the sexes, is not only expensive and
injurious to the well-being of each sex,
but. is also an unwarrantable defer
ence to the prejudices of tlioso religious
sects which are governed largely by the
rules and usages of mcdevial ages.
Jtetolved, That the confiscation of the
homestead of Abby Kelly Foster and
other heroic women of th&RevoIutionary
type, by tho authorities of Worcester,
Massachusetts, and of the personal prop
erty of tire Smith sisters pf Glaston
bury, Connecticut, by the town authori
ties, because of their refusal to submit
to "taxation without representation," Is
a "tyranny" quite equal to that imposed
upon the Colonies by the emissaries of
King George prior to the Revolutionary
war.
After some further discussion the
meeting took a recess until half-past
seven o'clock.
At thathour the meeting re-assembled,
when the President read the annual re
port of the Recording Secretary of tho
Board of Control.'
Mrs. A. J. Duulway then delivered
an eloquent, able and logical ad
dress of over one hour's length,
upon the questions under consideration.
On motion, the meeting adjourned
until 10 A. sr., April 30th.
SECOND DAY AFTERNOON SESSION.
.. The morning hours having been
occupied by the different committees,
on assembling at 2 p. jr., Mrs. Collins,
from the Committee on Credentials, ren
dered her report, and Mrs. Clarke, from
tbeCommlttecou Nomination, presented
the following list of officers, who were
unanimously elected:
President, Mr. P. J. Shaftcr; Vice
Presidents, Mrs. E. G. Leavltt, Mrs.
Emily Rolfe, Mr. John Taylor, Rev. W.
W. Smith, Mrs. M. A. Duncan, Mr. J.
H. Lining, Judge J. H. Budd, Mr. J. L.
Kiug, Mrs. O. Irwin, Mrs. Ham, Mrs. E.
Cooper, Mr. Thomas Geary, Mr. W. W.
Clarke, Mrs. Flora Kimball, Mr. . li.
Allen, Mrs. R. Rule, Mr. D. V. Nortonf
Mrs. J. Cassady and Mr. H. Y incuester;
Secretary, Mrs. Lena Clarke; Members
Board of Control, Mrs. M. A. Lewis, Col.
John A. Collins, Mrs. E. S. Sleeper,
Hon. John M. Days, Mrs. Mary J. Col
lins, Mrs. Mary F. Snow, Mrs. Lena
Clarke, Rev. Herman Snow, Mrs. E. G.
Leavltt, Mr. E. M. Lewis, Mrs. E. A.
Do Wolfe, Mrs. a M. Palmer, Mrs. R.
M..Beverly, Mrs. IL Sears.
Mrs. Snow then read letters heartily
endorsing the movement from Prof.
Wm. Denton, and Mr. J. L. York of San
Jose, after which Mrs. M. A. Lewis,
President ot the Stato Board of Control,
rendered her Annual Report, as follows:
Mrs. President- So elaborate was the
report of the Recording Secretary, that
little remain to be adifed. I woutd,
however, briefly state that the Board
has held during the past year 3G meet- j
Ings averaging 3 per month. Also,
that it has Issued, through our efficient!
and untiring Corresponding Secretary,
Mrs.M. J. Collins, and presented tour cir
culars containingmore than lO.OOOpagcs,
embodying political, organizing, and
other questions, and also written 251 let-
ters, receiving 115 In response, our ex
penses have necessarily been large, but
havo been chiefly met by individual
subscription.
I would especially congratulate the
Society upon the passago of Ihe Educa-;
tlonal Bill by our last Legislature, since :
it has been one of the principal points'
urged In all our petitions, sinco the
first organization of tho Society. In re-'
5,000 names, forwarded two years prevl
ous, a- Bill, submitted by our Board,
making women eligible to every posi
tion of authority in tho School Depart
ment of the State, passed In the Assem
bly by a large majority; but, owing to
the lateness of the session, failed to
reach the Senate. And now that it has
been" discussed and passed in both
branches of tho Legislature is, to us, a
source of the deepest satisfaction, and
since the aid is attained, -wo care very
little who gets the glory for its achieve
ment. During the past year the Board has
been hard at work, and with no ele
ments of discord in our midst no petty
jealousies to annoy or ambition to grat
ify we have gone quietly forward te
ward the accomplishment of our one
great object Woman's, Enfranchisement.
A spicy letter from John Taylor, of
Tuolumne county, was then read by
Mrs.De Wolfe. Also numerous letters In
response to the extensive correspondence
of Mrs. Collins, were read by herself
among them, an address to the Conven
tion from several of the leading ladies
of Salt Lake, giving favorable accounts
of the operation of suffrage upon the
minds of the women, and thanking the
California Society for its interest in op
position to the Congressional disfran
chisement movement ; also a letter
from Prof. Carr, of California University,
regretting his Inability to be present;
from Colonel Winchester, Including an
eloquent poem; from Governor Camp
bell, of Wyoming; Virginia Russell, edl
torSantuBarbarancfer; Mrs.Dupee, of
Sacramento, and a lengthy address from
the Woman Suffrage Society of Oregon,
by Mrs. Belle W. Cooke.
The following resolutions wcro then
submitted and adopted
Jlcsolvcd, That tho present simulta
neous uprising of women of the different
sections of tho Union, who aro deter
mined, If possible, to destroy the blight
of that monster scourge, Interapcrauce,
tho product of man's legislation, is an
earnest of the great reform she will in
augurate when she shall be empowered
with the ballot, by which she can crys
tallize her purifying inspirations Into
statutes.
Jlcsolvcd, That the authorizing by
the last Legislature of California a sub
mission to the electors for a convention
to amend tho Constitution, was an 1m
portant and hopeful step for the cause of
Woman Suffrage, and Its friends should
earnestly labor to secure a popular vote
in its favor.
Jlcsolvcd, That this Society cordially
commend the New Northwest news
paper, as an earnest and able advocate
of the cause of woman.
Jlcsolvcd, That this Association ten
dors its thanks to Mrs. A. J. Duniway
for her able and efficient labors in this
State In behalf of Temperance and Im
partial Suffrage, and expresses the hope
that she will make It convenient to
again visit California at "an early day.
On motion of Colonel Collins, voted to
take a recess till 5 p. sr.
EVENING SESSION.
At the openlug of the evening session,
the President read a stirring letter from
Colonel Stevens, Esq., of San Jose.
Preferring to listen to the fresh and ear
nest utlcrauccs ofMrs. Duniway, a wel
come stranger in our midst, to the voice
of any of our own speakers, always at
hand, she was again invited to the plat
form, and made a grand speech, answer
ing the objections commonly urged
against Woman's Enfranchisement.
Arcply to tho attack of SonatorLaine
upon the suffragists of the country,
pending tho discussion of the Educa
tional Bill in tho reccut California Leg
islature. by Mrs. Mary F. bnow, was
omitted, but will be published with
other letters and valuable documents in
the columns of tho New Northwest.
Resolutions thanking Mrs. Duniway
for her energetic labors in this Slate
and also endorsing her paper as our suf
frage organ for the Pacific Coast, were
presented and unaulmousty adopted, af
ter which, on motion, tho Convention
adjourned sine die Lena Clarke,
Secretary.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Victor Husro in his new story,
"Ninety-Three." vividly recalls tho
period of mad Inflation in Frauce the
reign oi terror anu ui m ujh;iiuu:s.
Evervbodv. ho says, gambled In them;
and later "tho people gavo chaso to
them (the Jobbers) as they did to the
thlovps. whom the royalists styled
'active citizens.' A gold louls (of the
value of 20 silver francs) was worth 3,950
francs. A course in a hackney coacli
cost COO francs. After a day's use of a
carriage this sort rf a dialogue might be
heard: 'Coachman, how much doTowe
you" bix thousand francs.' A green
grocer woman soiu ai.ooo irancs' worm
of vegetables a day. A beggar said,
'Help me In tho name of charity; I lack
230 francs to finish navlnc for niv
shoes.' " Carlyle says that on the 1st of
February, 17'Ju, at ttio Bourse, In Paris,
the gold louls of 20 francs in silver cost
5,330 francs in asslgnats. The end is
known; universal ruin and national
bankruptcy.
Happiness. Happiness between hus
band and wife can only bo secured by
that constant tenderness and care of
parties for each other which are based
Lnn rnrm and demonstrative love.
Tho woman who forgets to provide for
her husband's tastes aua wisues, renuera
i.,.. i,nmn undesirable for him. In a
nnd ever-demonstra
tive gentleness must reign, or else the
lioart starves.
The following letters were read before
tho fifth anniversary meeting of the
California Woman Suffrage Association:
Mr. Mary J. Collins, Corr. Sec Bear
Madam: I have the honor to acknowl
edge the receipt of your letter of the 8th
Inst, with circulars. It'will be Impos
sible for mo to bo present at your meet
ing, and I can only reply hastily to
your questions In reference to the prac
tical working of onian Suffrage in
Wyoming.
Iu public and private conversations,
in official and unofficial correspondence,
whenever and wherever I haver had oc
casion to express any opinion upon tho
subject, I have shown that our Legis
lature, in enfranchising woman, did an
act of simple justice, which has not, to
say tho least, been followed by any
painful results. This fact seems to bo
almost universally recognized by our
people so much so that Iu the last Leg
islature no attempt was even made to
interfere with tho existing order of
things, which fact may be taken as a
sufllcleut refutation of tho statement
that "their conduct had thoroughly dis
gusted the better class of citizens." The
other arguments which you say arc ad
duced by the opponents of impartial
suffrage seem to require uo answer from
me, for if "the women will not vote,"
they certainly cannot "vote as their
husbands do."
The fact is that in Wyoming, as in all
other portions of the country, the women
almost unanimously take advantage of
all tho rights and privileges that are ac
corded to them, and In voting they ap
pear to be influenced by the same con
siderations that influence the men, and
to "vote as the men do", c, just as
they please. Very respectfully,"
Your obedient servant,
J. A. Camprell,
Governor Wyomi ng Territory.
Cheyenne, April 23, 1874.
Mr. Mary J. Collins Dear Lady:
Through tho politeness of Mr. C. W-
Tappan, we havo perused the letter of
4th Inst, from you to his address. In
which an invitation ia extended to
Woman Suffragists of Salt Lake to
either attend your annual meeting or
address a letter for the occasion; for
which please accept our thanks.
The receipt of the note being at a late
hour (yesterday evening), affording too
little time consistent for attendance at
your Convention, wc arc happy to ad
dres3 you, although hastily.
Realizing as wc do, that the women
of Utah aro highly privileged, we are
not indifferent to tho interests of our
sisters abroad, and would be most happy
In assisting them in their wise and
laudable efforts. For their encourage
ment we can truly say that, with us, so
far, tho franchise Is a success refuting
many of the objections against it by its
opponents.
It is presumable that our then acting
Governor, when signing the bill confer
ring Woman Suflrage iu Utah, felt r
little tremulous It certainly was a bold
step ou almost untrodden ground, as we
were preceded by neither State nor Ter
ritory for example, except Wyoming:
but, having seen tho working of our
ballots, ho pronounces it, as well he
may, "the proudest actofhis life." The
utiaccountablc ignorance of people
abroad concerning the stato of society
and especially the social position of
woman in Utah, augmented, the risk of
the Governor in jeopardizing his rcpu
tattou as a Government officer in this
responsible and magnanimous act.
In all ages of the world, tho iutroduc
lion of beneficial principles aud prac
tlccs has to combat established customs.
usages, prejudices, and, abovo all, the
ignorance of mankind ; aud in this re
spect, the generations do not seem to
have so very much improved since the
time of Christ and His apostles, or since
tho days of Socrates aud Gallilco, al
though the mode of warring opposition
is somewhat modified.
With intense interest wc have watched
tho movements of the ladles of Califor
nia and elsewhere in our behalf, and
havo heretofore publicly acknowledged
our annrcciation of their noble, ener
getic efforts, and now feel constrained to
say that, In opposing tho passago
those unjust aud ignominious bills
which disgrace the American Congress,
you have not only aided us by your in
fluence, but have done honor to the
cause which you bravely and earnestly
advocate.
With many kind wishes for your suc
cess In every laudable enterprise, we aro
your fellow laborers for the promotion of
good, Miss E. R. Snow,
Mrs. L. Greene Richards,
Mjis. S. M. Kisiuai.l,
Mrs. M. J. Horne.
Salt Lako City, April 20, 1875.
lose more thereby, than the Convention
could gain by my presence.
Allow me to express the hope that the
proceedings of the Convention will be
characterized by harmony, intelligent
zeal, a pronounced discretion, and an
Inflexible purpose to sink all personal
feelings of discord, minor matters, and
side issues generally, and move onward
to the attainment of the full fruition of
our common labor and common hope.
The eyes of tho people are upon you.
The war that we are waging for the
abolition of Woman Slavery, is the
most gallant, tho most chivalrous, tho
grandeststruggle, that the ages have yet
witnessed, or that the pen of the histo
rian shall ever record. It 13 the legiti
mate development of the principles of
our Revolutionary Declaration of Inde
pendence.
Mr. Mary J. SuoicBextr Madam;
I take great pleasure In acknowledging
the receipt of your kind note of the 22d
Inst,, with accompanying documents,
extending to mo an invitation to be
present at and participate in the annual
meeting of the California Woman Sut
frage Association, at Mercantile Library
Hall, San Francisco, on the 29th Inst.
I regret that I am compelled, by the
pressure of my professional duties, to
make you reply that.1 cannot indulge
the hope of attending the meeting. And
my. absence will bo the moro regretful
to me, from the reflection that I shall
governed by the grandest of all virtues,
Charity. Make the platform pure and
progressive, so that the virtuous aud
good may take part in your deliberations.
Faint not because of unworthy support
ers or ridicule. The cause is just, and
justice must come soouer or later, and
those who are ashamed to take a public
stand in an act of common justice, are
unworthy the honor of havlugtho man
tle of the true reformers. When this
question gains popularity and strength,
the press, churches, and courts of jus
tice will own the right aud equality of
woman to the ballot; and with the ballot
reforms will be inaugurated as soon as
man is ready for them. Little by little,
step by step, will woman assume her
proper position in life. Nature works
out an eternity by moments, and;
woman will workout her own redemp-
We have no cause to be dis- j tlon by progressive steps. If we judge
heartened at the seemingly slow progress
we have hitherto made, but have every
reason to be hopeful" for tho future.
Great reforms are not the work of a day,
but often the growth of centuries. But
n this cause the slgn3 of the limes indi
cate that the pioneering is about flu-
lied. Our opponents have reached
their" last ditch. For myself neither de
traction, nor calumny, nor slander, nor
misconstruction of motives, nor social
ostracism, nor aught that may come,
shall muffle my pen, or still my voice,
or paralyze my arm, in doing what I
can for Woman's Enfranchisement.
I am satisfied to serve as a private for
life in that grand army of human free
dom, and receive as a reward only the
prescient consciousness, that when our
banners of victory (as they surely will)
flash in the sunlight of a not distant
future, then will our men bo purer, our
women nobler, and all thoso forms of
ice and Immorality that are the legiti
mate results of woman's subjection, such
as prostitution, intcmperauce, gambling
and corruption In high and low places,
will no longer pollute the life and fester
to the core our social system.
Yours for the right,
C. C. Stevens.
San Jose, April 27, 1S74.
Mrs. MaryJ. Collins Dear Madam:
Your circular has been received, with
an invitation to attend the Convention
in San Francisco, 29th of April, accordi
ng to the call. The cause of Temper
ance, morality, peace anu progress, is to
receive consideration, as well as the
grand central Idea of "woman's discn-
thrallment" from bonds of inequality,
socially, politically nnd industrially.
These are grand and great questions,
and require clean hand? and free hearts
to present them as from the fountain of
wisdom aud love.
We never can have true morality,
peace aud progress so long as intemper
ance blights our many homes, aud sac
rifices so many lives. Intemperance is
carried into the marts of trade, and also
In the world of fashion. It makes gour
mands of our men, and gilded toys of
womeu. The spirit of intemperance is
found in all spheres and conditions of
society, and based upon a selfish animal
plane. 'Tis very hard for the world to
learn tho true principles of Temperance;
but the word "Progress" will teach mau
true relations to Natural law, aud to one
another. The suffrago question would
be a failure, wero It not governed by
tho virtues mentioned in your call.
With Temperance, morality, truth nnd
justice, woman can redeem the earth of
its gross immoralities, peculations, and
unbelievers. The Government would
soon be free from alcoholic blood money
aud other National abuses, if women
were only granted the inalienable right
of using the ballot. No "Local Option''
Law would havo passed tho California
Legislature, if it had not been for the
moral heroism of mothers and maidens,
standing ou the pavements and pleading
with mau at the bar of God, for a cessa
tion of the unholy traffic. Such a
power and iuflueuce for good this world
of ours never beheld, and by
woman, who Is claimed by mau to be
too daintily reared to attend the ballot
box, or to take an active part-in Na
tional affairs, loo long a mistaken no
tion. Men, and womeu too, aro just
awaking from the dream of the past,
and with lightning speed progressing
to higher and truer conditions. Justice
and equality Is written in characters of
living firo upon the scroll of time; aud
if woman is denied her rights nnd privi
leges this year, the time will certainly
come at no distant day when man and
woman will know no distinction in
law and equality, in public, social, or
private life. These Suffrage Conventions
will cease with the cause. Temperance
Societies will bo only records in history.
The Government and people, free from
Its blighting curse, will stand aghast at
tho nresent time. The National Treas
ury Is filled with license money, and the
whole country Is a public bar-room. The
crave-yards and asylums are filled with
victims, and to correct and reform these
abuses, wo place our laitu in woman
Sufi race. Woman, freed from party creed
or platform, would adopt the platform of
moral, social, and uovernmematrciorm,
and the good times hoped Tor would
soon dawn upon our fair aud bcautllui
land, and peace, plenty, morality, anu
practical religiou, would smile within
the hallowed precincts of domestic sanc
tity, and hcaveu would open her treas
ury of good gifts, to swell the universal
gladness.
I do hope your deliberations will be
the future by the past few years, worn
an's millennium is now at hand.
Praying, however, that your hands
may bo strengthened In tho good work,
and that harmony may pervade all your
deliberations, I subscribe myself
Yours truly,
John TAYixn.
Mount Pleasant, April.21, 1S74.
It Is with nosmall degree of disappoint
ment that I am obliged to forego the
pleasure and satisfaction I should feel
in contributing my mite to the, success
of your annual meetipg. A previous
engagement In San DIegp makes it mi
duty to go there; but you will accept
my thanks for your klud invitation,
and I hope and pray your meeting may
bo marked by unanimity of feeling and
harmony of action. Tlie principles in
volved in our cause, which you have
met to advance, are those which affect
our entire governmental and social rela
tions; hence they are worthy of our best
thought and wisest action. Principles
so grand high as heaven and broad as
tho universe should certainly lift us
above all petty personal animosities into
tho atmosphere of a noble manhood ami
womanhood. I am not In sympathy
with any party or faction in thesuffrage
cause, but desire to be counted in with
all true workers in reform who seek the
full emancipation of women. To tills
end, dear friends, you have my sympa
thy, and such little influence as I may
possess, in carrying forward tho Woman
Suffrage reform; aud I ardently hope
the friends of our noble cause throughout
the State will gather under one stand
ard, and thus, by an aggregation of all
our forces, characterized by a sweet and
loving spirit, present a united front to
do battle for equal justice and equal
privileges for both sexes before the law,
and in all our social relations.
With these hastily penned lines T
command you all to good and kindly
influences asa guide to lead you into
right action in behalf of the cause to
which wo stand continually pledged,
aud for which I will not fail to bear tes
timony wherever I go.
Hoping all things (that are good) and
believing all things (that are true) I re
main yours in spirit. J. L. Yohk.
San Francisco, April 27, 1874
vention affords woman this opportunity
is in my view Its chief value. Your
resolutions in themselves are useful, so
are all your efforts put forth In pursuit
of their various objects; but the main
tbiug accomplished is the exhibition of
the feeling of American women it) pro
test against their condition. There can
be no hatred between the sexes. There
can be no willing pppresslon of one by
the other. In order for woman's posi
tion to be changed it is but necessary
that it shall be known that the self
respect of woman has grown with the
centuries, and that the subjection which
iu an age of different sentiments was
agreeable to her, is no longer consistent
with her womanhood. Mysympathles,
therefore, are heartily with the Conven
tion and my gratUudo wlth-the-noble
women whose fidelity and persistent
energy have made these conventions
possible. Very truly yours, - "
Virginia F. Russell,
Editor Santa Barbara Indcr. .
Santa Barbara, April 20, 1S74.
Mrs. M. J. Collins Bear Madam:
I regret that a previous and imperative
engagement. will prevent my accepting
your Invitation to auuress tue buurage
Association at the next annual meeting.
Wishing you a successful and interest
ing session, I am truly yours,.
Ezra S. Carr,
Principal Oakland University.
Oakland, April 24, 1874.
Woman and the Temperance Movement.
The developments of the last winter
and spring, Iu connection with woman
and the great public work which she has
so largely engrossed herself with, form
an epoch iu her history, which appar
ently staudingbyitself, isyetclosely con
nnft.wl with ntliprusricilions which have
preceded it, and with movements to.fol
low with which it is closely allied. Tho
great Woman's Temperance movement,
the great cyclone which has swept the
country, has not sprung up like a sudden
fungus growlli, extraneous anu uutuu-
nected with oiuer ueep-seaieu uutresw,
but preceding events have prepared tho
way for it; It has advanced on the high
tide of necessity a force invisible but
with all the inevitableness of fate, has
permeated the movement a3 an integral
element and made it what It has become
not a gensatio'n as it first appeared, but
a power felt and feared. Feared by those
whoso interests itdirectly defeats; feared
also bv another class who only indirectly
dread its effect on other interests. It is
condemned by some who stigmatize it as
an irregular proceeding, but reverenced
by others who see iu it something too
serious for criticism. But itstill moves
majestically on. The opposition which
it meets with in particular cases, seems
to have no effect to dampen it. Its wide
extension and steady persistence is a
wouder and a marvel, and of logical
minds the most serious thinkers with
hold criticism. The condemnation of tle
unthinkiug-and the calm respect of tho
thinkers, verifies in this instance tho
proverb, "Fools rush iu where angels
fear to tread."
Women have suffered and never fairly
realized that they had power to work
their way out. Their opinions were at
that stage too crude to recognize in tho
demand for Womau Suffrage the great
power which was to deal sledge-hammer
blows at every form of oppression. But
still the Womau Suffrageinflueuces wero
felt far and wide and deep, and the latent
feeling of resistance developed as far as
tins determination to
' it could co. into
Mrs. Colling-Madam:-Ily request of' overcome, at all 1 costs, the causes of in-
Mr. C. W. Tappan, and in keeping with
au invitation card to him for political
news from this city, to be read at the
coming Suflrage Convention, I proceed
to address you a brief sketch. The vot
ing franchise as enjoyed by women
here, is as highly valued by those of the
Mormon faith as it is by the men, and
It is as persistently exercised, aud as !
long as women .adhere to that belief
(and the claims of, the society are men
aced), it will be given iu the interest of
the Church. But as soou as a revulsion
takes place, it will be used as a barbed
goad to bring dictating priests and ty
rant rulers to salutary retribution.
Now the grand necessity is to learn
how to concentrate the franchise ou
proper persons for officers. This neces
sitates the study of the first principles of
representation, which will at once
demonstrate that the only palladium of
individual or national safety rests in
the nominative franchise. The women '
should have au extra vote for each child
they introduce into earth life, also
guardians of fools and insane persons, as
without it justice cannot, be compelled
In their. behalf, as long as mankind love
to feed themselves and their own favor
ites better than their neighbors. It is
time that the producers of wealth set
about making laws to protect themselves
in its ownership, and no longer feed and
clothe all the speculating shirks iu the
world for nothing.
I congratulate the ladies for their
heroic resolves to redeem themselves
and their children from barbarism,
which in promised civilization there is
uo prospect that men alone will ever ac
complish. I
Please forward reports of Convention j
to Box 132, S. L City. j
Very respectfully,
S. Hudson.
Salt Lake, April 22, 1874.
Mrs. Mary Snow Bear Madam: I
had purposed being with you at this
Convention. It would have ' been a
pleasure I should heartily have enjoyed;
partly beacause I would have liked to
bs with you who hold sentiments
kindred to my own; partly because be
ing in subjection I like lodeclare openly
my love of liberty. You who are pres
ent enjoy a privilege. The next thing
to freedom is the ability to, protest
against your subjection. That the Con
wavin which their education in life had
directed them, by persuasion, but deter
mined persuasion, rather thau that more
potent means which should be attainable
through law. This, however, Is one .
phase. They are being rapidly developed
to that point where they feel that they
must insist upon direct power through
legal methods, that the exercise of the
ballot is the sale ami sure avenue to
which all other powers or influences are
but auxiliary. It will soon be as im
possible for the women to help a deter
mined demand for enfranchisemeutasit
now appears impossible for them to help
entering into this other movement,
which is but a transitional step toward
the position where women shall be
recognized as an equal power with op
portunities for self-protection commen
surate with needs.
Wife-Cathing. The marriage cere
mony is performed curiously by tho
Esquimaux. When a boy kills a polar
bear, it is considered sufficient proof of
his ability to maintain a iamny; ne is
therefore toiu to go anu eaten a who.
Watching his opportunity at night, he
pounces on a victim and attempts to
carry Her ou. fcjhe, nowever, struggles
and shrieks juutll she has collected
around her a group of sympathizers.
She then turns upon ner captor, aim
bites aud scratches him until he Is
obliged to release her, then she darts
into the crowd and attempts to "escape.
The expectant bridegroom follows her,
but not unmolested. All the old women
take scourges or dried seal skin and flag
ellate him unmercifully as ho passes,
making at the same time every effort to
arrest him iu his course. If, despite
these little impediments to matrimonial
bliss, ho should catch his victim, the
hltlncr and scratching scene is renewed,
and, in all probability, he Is compelled
to release her, and the chase,, with its
attendant discomforts, is resumed.
Should he evercoaie-ail obstacles, the
third capture proves effectual, and the
victim, ceasinc her struceles. is led
away amid tho acclamations and rejoic
ings oi tue assembled multitude.
Echo Answers. Of what has
heaven given us an equal share? Air.
wnatuoes a rumor oiten ao wnen it
flies? Lies.
Which is the loveliest flower that
grows ? Rose.
Whoso children are we apt to think
the sweetest flowers? Ours. 0
What In manners is sure to please .
Ease. ',.
What will frequently overcome the
most austere? Tear. .... wmw
What loses Its flavor when we borrow
U What Is it that wealth .eldom --exUn-nate?
Innate.