Show THE MUNICIPAL LEAGUE S Committees Report at the fleetS fleet-S ing Lust Night WOMAN A A PACTOB IN MUNICIPAL NICIPAL POLITICS Paper by M E B Wells Will Hold a Meeting at the Grand 1 Opera House The Municipal League met at the joint building last night and a usual hurled oratorical thunder at the political polit-ical evils of the municipality Outside of committee reports and oratory nothing noth-ing of great Importance was achieved except that the league has decided to open its artillery at the general public next Thursday night Committees were given a preliminary audience The committee on morals reported re-ported that they believed It unwise lo the league to make any aggressive move at present except to seek the enforcement of the law against cigar eMe smoking and to personally offer its cooperation and aid to the board of police commissioners Scott Anderson Ander-son fo a special committee reported that the theatre could b obtained fo HO and the Grand Opera House for 15 and It was thereupon decided to hire the latter place of amusement for a meeting on Thursday night This announcement nouncement is to be made from all the pulpits in the city on Sunday and its purpose was stated to be to create a general interest In the league The membership committee reported IS new members who were promptly initiated into the league Mrs Emmeline B Wells was first Introduced and read a vigorous address on Woman as a Factor In Municipal Politics Mrs Wells advocated the study by women of local politics Which she said was necessary in order that they might intelligently begin the work of curing the existing evils She believed be-lieved It impossible for these evils to be remedied until women came to the rescue The sentiment in favor of womens entrance into the arena of politics she said was Increasing and It was apparent appar-ent that they would soon become a powerful influence for the good of the municipality Every one recognized that women were economists and the speaker was in favor of their holding at least a few of the offices When that time shall come she concluded women wH make of this city a comparative com-parative paradise The subject then became open for general discussion and Rev Lockwood arose to remark that womens votes were valuable and that every one of them could counteract the vote of some professional politician or rumseller Scott Anderson thought that a woman wom-an had just as much right to become mayor of a city or legislators as menU men-U their capabilities fitted them for such positions It was for poitons I necessary women to come forward In order that gambling and other vices might be suppressed and that the city offices might be swept clean of bad mend men-d J Corum and B F Clay also spoke in a laudatory way of the effect of women In politics and prophesied a better condition of affairs when their influence should be felt 1 E Hall referred scathingly to the recent actIon of the board of education In barrIng married women from receiving re-ceiving positions as schoolteachers He wanted women on the board and spoke in a complimentary way of the excellent management at the county Infirmary since a woman took charge of It H W Lawrence made the concluding address His subject was Direct Leg islation or the Initiative and Referendum Referen-dum He referred in the course of his remarks to the issuance i fu bonds by the county over the protest of the people I was against just such evils I and enactments ag said that the referendum was aimed and he believed I there could be no true democracy until legislation was referred to the vote C the people |