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...work for the Public School Association and the Citizen's Municipal League of Boston, in the Trophy Room of the Union this afternoon at 5 o'clock. E. E. Smith '02, a member of the Boston City Council, will speak on the work already accomplished in behalf of municipal reform, and plans will be discussed for the coming Boston city elections. About 40 men are needed for work on Election Day, Tuesday, and today's meeting will provide an opportunity of learning the nature of the work required...
...opening her address, Mrs. Pankhurst briefly outlined the history of the woman suffrage movement. From the French Revolution and the Reform Act of 1832 in England, women learned by experience that although they helped men to win political freedom, they were excluded their proper privileges on account of their sex after that freedom was won. It was this open injustice which led women to take up the fight for their political rights. Hence, at the opening of this century, the first woman's political organization in England was formed to organize the suffrage movement and to take some definite action...
...period of thirty years ending in 1909 was marked by destructive despotism and utter barbarism. A reform party arose, however, and the Sultan was forced to abdicate...
...This reform party, the "Young Turks." had many problems to solve, but so much was accomplished in a short time that the whole country now seems to be on the way to better things. At this critical time, it seems the duty of every country to extend a helping hand. On the contrary, one nation is taking advantage of a blunder on the part of the Turkish government. There seems to be but little excuse for seizing Tripoli by Italy, and still less for the horrible slaughter of 4,000 men, women and children...
Many remedies have been suggested to meet this coming crisis: parcels post, the insurgent program, government ownership of railroads, and a score of others; but there is a great world test-tube where they have all been tried. In New Zealand every conceivable reform has been given a trial, and with more or less success. The postal service is excellent, telegraph rates are cheap and the company is efficient, there are stringent laws against corporations, there is government ownership of railroads, there is efficient factory inspection; but in spite of all this, poverty, cost of living, slums, corporations, and capital...