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310, therefore, that the board of commissioners of immigration should be perfected by the appointment of capable women, whose special duty it would be to look after those of their own sex in need of help, and to protect them against all dangers that lurk in the way to their destination,

Accepted.

Fourth Motion — All German women ought to make it their especial task to send their children to German schools, and to insist upon their speaking German among themselves, which, of course, must not preclude the learning of the English language.

Accepted and recommended.

Fifth Motion — The chief means for spreading enlightenment, truth and humane progress is the press, especially the daily press. Women, all whose interests depend upon this progress, act against their own interests if they do not exert themselves to the utmost to support the radical press — the only one which champions their rights — and to discountenance the reactionary and indifferent papers. It is, therefore, the duty of all radical women, to introduce radical papers into their circles, and to banish all others from them.

This motion was especially supported by Julie vom Berg, who spoke as follows:

The feminine sex is all the more interested in reforming the press because it has so far been controlled, almost exclusively, by men. Men write the papers, men circulate them, and most women read without choice or hesitation, what is placed before