The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-11
DAILY PRESS.
PORTLAND.
Wednesday Morning, March II, 1894,
The Pope's Lecture On The ':woman

Question A."
| Let DIR. Holland, Or. Todd and DR.. Willets
HIT up their voices in rejoicing and thanks
giving, for they have found an ally. On the
contrary, let Theodore Tilton, Henry Ward
beecher and DR.. Chaplin tremble in then
clerical shoes, tor they have raised up an ad-
Versary to their heretica doctrines, who will
turn upon them the keys of paradise, and
leave them to make their bed with the out
SIDE barbarians and rejected lay delegates of
the next world.
Thls Is the way it all happened: Good
M. Drury, Minister of Public Instruction in
france, bethought him that the education of
girls IN France was too much neglected
ne Church has hitherto had entire charge
OF the matter, the education of vouno
women being lett to the cloisters. M. Drurv
proposed to throw open the civil schools to
oo'n sexes and SO give all an equal opportu-
nitY TO improve the gifts of heaven. Now
there resides in France mighty prelate.
ycieped Bishop Dupanloup, who homes some.
time t. draw over his gloomy brow the red
nat OF cardinal, and TO whose amb,tious
dreams the very keys OF st. Peter are not
strange. In such man, obdurate and up-
bending conservatism willalways be a marked
characteristic So the Bishop, who is lust the
opposite OF the pious Bienuenu in Les Mis-
cradles, admonished the minister of his er-
ror in good round terms. At this moment an-
ter the Pope. His Holiness endorses all tba.
the pis-headed Dupauloup has said. If one
OF our American politicians of the genus fos-
sll, species Copperhedd, were to write ON tbe
same subject, he would not differ greatly from
the Pope in his treatmento of it. He denloros
tne attempt ito deprive woman of her native
modesty." He prates of 'wo,nau's sphere,
anu all that. as If inspired by the spirit of one
OF our own pamphleteers. He would keen
tne feminine intellect pure from the contain
niation OF false and vain KNOWLEDGE He
declares that education will make woman ssa
stumbling block" 1t is impossible to dispute
WIN one whose relations with heaven are so
int'mAte and generally influential, but, by the
oeafd OF the prophet, it seems as if woman
mad right to feel aggrieyed at this epithet.as
the elder Weller did when the parson called
him "wessel."
What sleepy old behind the-times Pope It
u.s. to be sure. He hasn't heard from Hiram,
Name, where "Aunt John" was candidate
for member of the school committee. nor
from Reading, Massachusetts, where three
ladies' have been elected to serve in that Of
nee, nor from Kansas and Iowa, where 40
men are lawyers, nor even from England.
where Jacob Bright, brother OF the ceiebra-
ted John, was helped into Parliament by the
vote OF at least one woman. The Pope does
not subscribe for the Revolution, and is vet
IN bilssiul unconsciousness of the extent of
the great heresy. Let some Italian patriot
send him but single copy of that little sheet
ana the Roman question and Pins TX will
ooth be disposed Of at the same time without
any conference of European powers. Let it
be a number containing biographical sketch
OF Pope Joan, and the immediate decrease of
the feeble old man can be counted on with
absolute certainty.