MANY SIMILAR AIMS
Mrs. Catt Contra$ts Progressive Union and Suffragists.

Regrets Laws Prevent Joining of

Forces for Good.


3peaka to, 1800 Persona and

1600 Turned Away.



Describes Woman of Centuries Ag.

and Change from Progress.


Development Which Forces Her from

“Bondage” Brings Her Face to Face

With Political Problems.


‘The Home and the Municipality” ware he title ot the address delivered in the Athenaeum last night to the Progresrhe Union and the New Orleans public by
. Carrie Chatman Catt. More than  persons listened to the lecture, and fully u Iy 1500 were turned away from the doors S before 8 o’clock. Every word was listened to with attention, and numerous outbursts of applause greeted the argu and President M. J. Sanders of the Progressive Union introduced the speaker with a brief address, commenting first the women of the South and New Orleans and then those of the association of which Mrs. Catt Is

Tb” speaking of the evening was pre by a violin solo rendered by Henry Wehrmann, accomr,aiiied by Miss Mamle
 Charlotte	Perkina Gilman read
two short poems.	Being encored, she
read one entitled “Prejudice,” wherein it was sold that the best ‘way to overrome prejudIce is to walk straIght through it.
Mr. Sanders said in part when introduring Mrs. (att:
"It gives me great pleasure to see so large an audience present here to-night to listen to the lecture to be delivered by the president of the National American Woman's Suffrage AssociatIon.
‘As an Englishman born and brought up, whoso good fortune it was to come to this city of New Orleans some eighteen years ago, I was very early impressed with the peculiarly attractive character of Southern women.
 "It is to me a great pleasure to know now that while the leaders of this move ment manifest a marvelous intellectual erpacity, a wonderful force of logic and humor a deep, earnest, untiring devo which Is bound to, bring success to  h 1 cause, there is also left with them ihose lovely characteristics of gentleness, maèlfiahness and the high moral consciousness which, to the average man, has hitherto !ormed almost the only requisite in a woman.
	The lady whom we are to be privileged to listen to this evening is Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt."
 Catt opened her address wIth a r f i&’ nce to work hitherto accomplished by the Progressive Union, In part saying hat the name of the organization was known as widely as that of the city, and hat its efforts to advertise and upbuild he city were worthy the utmost praise. Continuing she said in part: "I understand you are organized to adver e the city of New Orleans—yet I know that you stand for the city beautiful, the city healthful and the city with c-lean olitical life. For such also do we, the woman suffragists stand. I have heard your appeal K workers since I have been in the city have many workers yet
hy	Constitution	. we	declared 
from iiiiti g 10 y your 
After	expressing	t tha that the 
laws ot the land prevented the joining of 1 forces for good In New Orleans. she proceeded to the main groundwork of her address, continuing: ‘ 
	DAYS OF MANS RULE. 
	"The home we have seen described as being originally the castle of than—and in old time it was. Man ruled. The woman was the stay at- home, who sat and spun and wove through all the day.” She pictured graphically the conditions existent 100 or 200 years ago. Ehe then described the old-time custom of the men sitting on one side of the church, and the women on the other. She related the example of a church in a little New England town, where the custom had continued until only a few years ago. She satd that one day one man crossed the aisle and sat with his wife. The next Sunday several followed his example, and one Sunday later every man sat by the side of his wife or sIsters. Then acording to the speaker, the old minister remonstrated with the men. He told them that they - could never worship God aright while they were sitting in the contaminating presence of women. He fold them the origin of the ancient custom. The affair caused a schism in the church, for the men would not acknowledge that the presence of their wives and sisters was contaminatIng. Two churches arose upon the site of one—and the old-timers followed the minister, while those younger sod less prejudiced went with those who trusted to the purity of women.
Mra. Catt said the IncIdent showed bow few men knew the origin of the prejudices against the giving to women of privileges and rights, She told of the scandal which had been caused In the cIty of Boston by the rumor that in one of the public libraries a woman had been seen sitting reading in the presence of men. That woman was Margaret Fuller, end the time was not so many years ago. The speaker spoke of the marriage ceretony, in which for many ages woman lad sworn to obey, man had received the oath and the minister had delivered it, all three thinking It was a divine part
	the necessary ceremony.
	in those days,” said Mrs. Catt, “man was the owner of all property—even Though woman might be the earner.”
She described the ancient home of some centuries ago, and even that of five or six decades past, where the home was 1 truly the castle, self-supporting, wherein all that was needed was produced within the range of the domestic authority.
	The day in the old time was described
	the lighting of the morning fire with wood cut from the laud, lIghted with flint and steel found upon the soIl, the breakfast composed of dishes of which the parts wete found or produced by the servants and the housewife.
She showed how the woman of the family was the manufacturer, the pro-
	largely, who superintended the weaving and the cutting, the shaping and fitting of the garments, the adapting and the shaping of ‘the raw food materials, and the general supervisIon of a
great establishment orn small one. She denominated tinted the place of woman in this is a dignified one, worthy of all re
	and praise.	-
F TURES MODERN WOMAN.
Against this picture she contrasted that of t it modern woman, who builds the morning fire of coal bought from the coal t urst, lit with a match bought from the match trust, cooks a breakfast f which every part is bought fl-ow some  branch r the food trust. She described
meats which the modern housewife must buy nearly all from some part of the beef trust, and all embalmed or pre with some chemical Injurious to and sometimes fatal to life. Site
showed that the progrees whit-h had gone on through the years had taken from woman her place .as the responsidignified head of a household, and etc the . conclusion And so, to-day the development which has freed woman them the irksome bondage of the past
	has	b	rought	her	face to face	wttti lit’
	political	and	social	problems	of the age
in ‘her one time place, she occupied a more dignified position than now. She was a producer amid contributor to the ;upport of the family. Augustus Caesar was proud to boast, as was even the first Governor of Kentucky, that he wore no garments which were not made within the portals of his house
She indicated how woman had been taken from her position as the supervising and producing member of the old family, and added that some persons were clamoring to put her back in her au-it-nt osltlon. She ‘then developed the ignorance of those so wishing who said that women were taking lit- places of men and leaving the home unattended
"In 1830," 1830,” said Mrs. Catt, "there were niy thirty women and children working in the factories ef the land. Now there are hundreds of thousands. No woman ever took the place of a man until seine nan had taken her work from her In the home The work has been taken from the home--women are following it. Not so long ago Elias ‘Howe invented the seweing machine advertised as the Godsend to women. Steam was invented then electricity, and now the factory does by tremendous wholesale the work once done in the home. Women have been forced to seek that work, and to place the medium of money between the necessities of life and the work she has always done.
	ROBBED BY PROGRESS
“Progress—so-called—has robbed women in the home of their occupations, sod left in the home idleness which we have endeavored for several years to fill with occupations called womanly. Crazy work, macrame work, sofa cushion
—all have been tried, and even these machinery huB taken from us in turn”
Thus she traced the modes-st position )f woman, and concluded with the division of women into tile three’ classes which now distinguish the sex. She said:
And so to-day, we find the home invested with the business activity of the world, and involving the problems political. What are we going to do with it? There are three classes of women to-day. The first Is the idle class, who have the means and the inclination to spend their days doing nothing, The second is the great mass of women who have followed their occupations Into the tactorhes through the economic necessity of the increased cost of living in this age, when the men can not afford to support their familIes under the present coonditions. The third class is that of the tome women, home loving, home seeklug, and home keeping.” She described this class of women, snowed how she is race to face with the social and political problems of the day.
She then went into the reasons why women had not been given suffrage when he privilege was first extended to men in this country. She explained that stiffrage was first gIven to tax payers only, and that Oh women paid taaxes, and hence none of them received the suffrage. She showed that when suffrage was. extended to all men. under the leadership of Ehomas Jefferson, the Ignorance of women, caused by the laws of tile time, prevented them from profitIng by the advance of the time. ‘
BrIefly, she sketched the educational progress of the last century, marking the various epochs which indicated the advances made. She drew the conclusions that there Is no sex in brain, quotlug in proof the educational statistics )t the United State-, whk-h show more women graduates of the high sehools, and the danger that there wIll soon lie there women than men t, graduate from the colleges.
Continuing she said: : "There is now treat danger that the women will be the Intellectual class of the country, This we do not want. We want men and women to be equal sharers in the ptob. lems aud lice’ difficulties of the time.
“Why have men the ballot? When you men havefound the reason, then tell us. is it because they are tax payers? Women pay taxes. Is it because they are the earners? Women share that part of the world's work. Is It because they know enough? Surely, it is proven that women also are sufficiently informed to cast the ballot, Is is because the naen can fight? In this age it is mental power which wins the battle. Women have that mental power, and the met-al courage to
use It.	-
	TAKE WOMEN INTO POLITICS.
“Lay aside prejudice—take the women into municipal politics. You have your home in polities now, bring your polities into the home, where the best influence tan be brought to bear to purify the politics which concern you so closely.
“Should not women use the power they have, the intelligence they have, to cleanse the poliuttd departments of the cities?"
She went on to show that the age demanded action, earnest, devoted. She said the pace was too rapid few the sex . to bear all the brunt of the battle, and she declared that she stood for reform. "I want the women to have more to do-and the men to have more leisure.”
She said the women of the land were studying, attending the political meeting, learning the depths of statecraft. The men were too busy to attend to such matters. The women were becomIng the best equipped. She said matters should be evened up, thus enabling men and women to share the burdens.
She quoted the stateuaent of President Hadley of Yale, who declared the indIvidual American man to he the most honest and responsible in the world, but the collective American man, in business and politics, to be the interior in integrity of those in other lands. She explained this by saying that the American man had no time to adapt his individual opinions to his collective necessities.
“In this land the search for the dollar engrosses alL Women are at fault. They want too much, They spend too much. Both traits should be cured.”
After illustrating the mercenary mootives which rule the age, instancing the coal strike, the high price of kerosene and Rockefeller’s gift to Chicago University, she continued: “The home is Involved in all these problems. There Is scarcely a legislature in the land where there Is not some bill touching the protiems,of the family. The forces of the trusts and of those tremendous powers whIch are at work In the nation and the State-, opposed these bills which favored the power of the home and the better influences of the . land. When you want anything It pays to have the dollar. Women httve to beg, and can not demand those things which should come to them to uplift mankind, We are .not constituents of anybody. We have no recognized


	“The great fault In exIsting conditions Is not that we have property rights safeguarded, not that we have not the power to elect Presidents, the power to deride elections. in itself. It Is that we have not the tower of initiative, when good Is to lie done or wrong is to be righted, That Is what we want. The power to exercise ihe influence of is home, for the upbuilding and the uplifting of polItical conditions in the city and the State.
“There wan a time when man protected the home. Now the home protects  itself."
	PROBLEMS OF THE t)A1’.
She mentioned sme of the problems of the day. The rail roads, the manufacturing combine and the lobbies influencing  legislatures their respective interests I, lit showed that all these forces had
ever opposed women suffrage. and declared it was because the woman s vote was an unknown quantity, and the lobbles feared her stand,
“Give your women in Louisiana the right to exercise their power and save cour city an’l yt.thr State front the damgers which do threaten it. There will he no retroactive, injurious influence on the home The moos, will appreciate women when women re their equals. If the great State f Louisiana gives women the vote and equal rights wit h men , I:
will still he. ‘it- e the women men i the home. Business is the realm of man. ‘lit’ re he Is kIng. In the home the woman • a queen. King and Queen should sit sideby side on Lt tt equal’ throm-. 
‘You men of the Progressive U nion vote wIth your progressive wives. Get self-government for your city. Give the women the vote, and 15,000 women nIxpayers will make you proud of New Or leans as you have never beeu proud be-

"New Orleans needs the home In political affairs."
 
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