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308 the whole land, and enter into relations with the American woman suffrage committee, and with the German "Association for the Dissemination of Radical Principles."

Second Motion — "Since the rights of women are championed among German men only by the real radicals, who are trying to inaugurate a general propaganda, through their ‘Association for the Dissemination of Radical Principles,' it is the interest as well as the duty of radical German women to support this association to the best of their ability. Fairs ought therefore to be started, as soon as possible, in all places, where a number of such women can come together, and the proceeds turned over to this association."

In discussing this motion, attention was called to the fact that German men, in general, even many who call themselves radical, have no money to spare for intellectual purposes, because they must spend everything for beer and cigars — a need which nature has fortunately denied to the feminine sex. That, although our sex, on the other hand, has a passion for fine dresses and gewgaws, this would yield in a direct ratio to an increasingly rational education, while radical women were free from it even now. It would, therefore, be quite an easy thing for women to spend a part of their pocket money, not, indeed, for gewgaws and ribbons, but for material for handiwork, etc., that could be utilized for fairs.