Show DISCH only the depletion of the number of men dating civil war responsible for women holding office washington feb 14 before the rational yat ional suffrage association met today the delegates gatherer in informal conference for the purpose of press work TS ainora M babcock she announced that as parts ot te united different remedies and as the sou was aela the time would be allotted to hearing from delegates from the southern states mrs toung of bouth carolina said she found newspaper work the greatest factor in the of equal rights ideas As a member of her state press association she declared she had never had any opposition n the association on account of being a woman editor except from one man who had insisted at it would nun any press association to have women members mrs of maryland said her experience peri ence had been that where articles were properly prepared the newspapers accepted them suggestion from mrs de merrit was favorably received her idea was to have the newspapers a comans womans wo mans column devoted to woman suffrage in me main but seasoned with other items of interest miss bandoo of maryland agreed with the suggestion of mrs le merrit saying that a woman in looking over a paper for recipes for mince pie and fruit cake or something to beautify her complexion will a paragraph about woman suffrage it there is a wo mans column and that sho will undoubtedly acau and digest it mrs chesbrough 0 buffalo pleaded for clear condensed and up to date articles for alie press me biffi culty that the woman suffrage organization encountered she said wae in furnishing to the newspapers something new showing what advance has been and is being made in work when the meeting was called to order i clara bewick boldy delivered an nd dress no industrial problems in which j she criticized criticised the pending legislation in congress providing for the abolishment oLef ck eave of government clerks on the ground that women were absenting themselves aliis ehe said was a covert attack on womanhood in the interstate commerce commission where no women arc employed she said the percentage of absence for sic klies fans greatest mrs catt said in response to these remarks that it was not so lucli louder that woman is being closed out da it is a wonder that she ever was appointed at all only the depletion of the number of men during tho civil war alie said was responsible for women holding office As tho pressure for patron ago grows stronger elie declared it is but natural that those who have no votes be considered less and less eligible abr government positions it behooves m said mrs catt to the day when may vote in order that they may be eligible not only for government positions but that they may have an equal opportunity men in all the industrial lines of work speaking in behalf of the committee on gail laughlin said that their duties were somewhat restricted from the fact that this 1 an off year in but that in eight stated holding elections this year tho state eif are making efforts to ob axin large rights susan B anthony eaid she believed in currying the gospel of woman t arery convention of men and women that be reached because nit lier cintr belics presbyterians rians othere come to the conventions she aid we must go to them she pleaded for suffrage for alie women of ILi porto paco and jhc thc philippines after referring to alio COO taucher tc ucher who had gone to the philippine islands she mid chink of them being put under tho asel of the barbarians of the philippines and the barbarians bar bariana sent from this country washington feb pills in poll bics tics was the of dr a smith eaton of minneapolis who women medical practitioners it ie not a far cry from pills to politics she said the woman doctor cannot practice al all until she has passed an examination required by law made by men before a state medical examining board composed of men only in the four equal suffrage states arc women doctors given paid and responsible positions on boards and on staffa of institutions where women arc or congregated the progress of women in medicine has kept pace with the suffrage movement the woman was admitted jn 1848 now there probably aro 6 women practicing medicine in this country the pioneer doctor suffered social ostracism professional contempt and persecution legal restrictions and commercial suspicion while the modem woman finds nearly all the best medical schools open to her state boards courteous and complimentary speaking of municipal politics dr eaton said one fifth of the population of cities are women and three fifths arc children it is manifestly unjust that the men the one fifth of the population who know least about the needs of the other four fifths should constitute alio health boards the impediment is she said that friends of the party in power must bo cared for and the women doctors want the impediment removed mrs adelaide shaw of boston discussed A captivating alliance she illustrated the decay of old religion ideals and the substitution in mena minds of ie business point of view and compared this with what she claimed the decay of the present ideal in the minds of our countrymen and the substitution ution of the commercial consideration jhc pictured the heavy odds against which ahe cause of woman euf and s oughtie to show why they whose ideal is of pure government of perfect laws of statesmen incorruptible and fearless are so little in touch with ane average american legislator she pleaded for passionate patriotism and tha puriA cation of political life what ue to plead for with choso whose apathy about their own suffrage lias become a byword and a reproach she asked speaking of president roosevelt sirs shaw said of course he is with the brain that conceived the idea of the regiment of rough riders the mind that was first to recognize magnificent war material in all eliat unrivalled horsemanship and las not failed to perceive another waiting host a great reserve of moral foree more scattered power gone to waste the woman of hie country the lady and the quill was die cussed by sirs elizabeth gumer of new orleans a newspaper writer known as darothy Ds rothy dix she said atlis is an unsentimental age and the daily paper is tho most tiling in it if a woman occupies a position as a reporter or editor or grap hist the world may rest assured that it is the result of fitness and ability and not because of some mane galla with men alio ability to collect and disseminate news is the triumph of nature With women it is intuitive faculty k 1 ie only within the last three or four icare lio wever that we have been removed from the fide chow of journalistic freak and now he works aide by eido with her brother stands or falls on her own |