WOMEN'S NOVEL REPUBLIC.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13091, 3 June 1913, Page 9

WOMEN'S NOVEL REPUBLIC.

A woman's . movement which _is but little- "known in England, 'but one' that is fast gaining a firm foothold in the United States, is the American Woman's Republic. Rising 01.1t of tho ashes of the American Women's League, which, owing to discord within and misrepresent ..tioii and enrhity without, fell from a mem-, bership of 50,000 women in 1910 to a few thousand in 1912, the new republic, 1 which was inaugurated last June, now numbers nearly 100,C00 citizens in the United' States and a, considerable number in Canada and European countries. The government of the republic is fashioned on that of the United -States. A wonderful marble building at University City, Missouri, which, with its bas-j reJief frescoes and sphinxes, loolp as though it had been transplanted straight from F.gypt, houses the feminine Lpgis r lature, the Supreme Court of Justice, and the Senate. The present ■ governmental machinery consists of a president (Mrs Mabel Lewis), three vice-presidents, seven Cabinet officers, comprising, a Secretary of State, a Secretary of Peace, a Secretary of Education, a Treasurer, a Minister for Commerce and Industry, a a Minister of the Interior, and an At-torney-General, a Supreme Court, seven district judges, 50 governors, 50 senators, two representatives from each State, providing the numerical strength of the citizens warrants this double representation, arid a distrfct committee of seven committeewomen in each congressional district. Tliese district committees are the real foundation of the republic's national government, as each committeewoman is directly responsible to the department of the republic she represents. Tlie republic's activities can be romghly divided into three great divisions—the educational and social service division, the industrial and commercial division, and the financial division. The Education Department has its own university, art academy, and schools, whose courses are open to all members of the republic and their children at a small charge. With the admission of women into the wireless service on the same footing as men the republic also took the opportunity to erect a large " wireless station in the capitol, and has ' added free tuition in this subject to the many advantages already ,' enjoyed by' its citizens.