ent research into the discriminations
against women in the business and educational world and gave many
flagrant instances. "In Government positions," she said, "this was
clearly due to their lack of a vote."

The Government departments at Washington are almost entirely
governed by politics and women are greatly discriminated against,
notwithstanding civil service rules. The report of A. R. Severn,
chief examiner for the Civil Service Commission, shows that
during the last ten years less than ten per cent. of the women
who have passed the examinations have been appointed, while more
than 25 per cent. of the men who passed obtained positions. To
prevent the possibility of women obtaining high-class positions
the examinations for these are not open to women. Of the 58
employments for which examinations were held, women were admitted
to only 22. The per cent. of women employed of those who had
passed was 13 in 1898; 6 per cent. in 1899, and lower in 1900,
not a woman being appointed to a clerk's position from the
waiting list. The Post Office Department in the last year sent
out an order that women should not be made distributing clerks
wherever it was possible to appoint men.... Legislation for the
protection of children has been defeated in Georgia, Alabama and
South Carolina. In the factories of Birmingham, it is stated,
children of six and seven are obliged to be at work by 5:30 a.m.
and to work twelve hours daily, attending spindles for ten cents
a day. Jane Addams says she knows from personal observations that
in certain States the conditions of child labor are as bad as
they were in England half a century ago. In the great cotton
mills at Columbia, S. C., she found a little girl scarcely five
years old doing night work thirteen hours at a stretch, for three
days in the week.

Sunday afternoon the Rev. Olympia Brown gave the convention
sermon--The Forward March--in the First Baptist Church, with scripture
reading by Mrs. Catt, prayer by the Rev. Margaret T. Olmstead, hymns
by the Rev. Kate Hughes and the Rev. Mrs. Woolley; responsive reading
by the Rev. Alice Ball Loomis. The Rev. Anna Howard Shaw preached in
the Church of the Redeemer in the morning and Louis F. Post in the
evening. Dr. Shaw preached in the evening at the Hennepin Avenue
Methodist Church; Miss Laura Clay spoke at the Ce