When reading the annual address of the President before the Women's Educational and Industrial Union of this city, I said, if this platform is rendered practical, it is the thing for the period, and the woman and the hour have met. We know little of the inside or outside of this organization, its motives, methods or aims, but Mrs Diaz has presented a fitting model whence to enlighten, uplift and adorn society.
From her address we quote the following: "Will there never be an uprising of slaves, a declaration of independence? Never, while woman thinks her part is chiefly to please. Never, until she stands on equal ground with man; equally free to decide questions of duty, equally bound to develop all the powers of her being.
Fraud, drunkenness, sensuality, vice, crime, are simply character manifest in life, the seen coming forth from the unseen, coming from unconsidered forces, which it is the province of nurture to consider."
