Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-04-01
The Remedy Tor Woman's Wrongs.
As STATED BY A WOMAN.

As STATED By A WOMAN.
We have seen nothing clearer and more forcl-
HE on the .. woman question" than the address
Of Miss Catherine Beeeher to the women Ct ny.
The mass Of the arguments commonly aiducel
in favor Of woman suffrage are not argu-
ments for giving the ballot. but for giving efH-
cation to woman. Tn plain upon the race Oh
the discussion, seems p'ainer than ever IN 'i'
light of bliss Beecher's clear statements Of tA'
nositious. a statement which in its simple con
trast between the two classes alluded to, j. ID
pungent argument sgainst woman suffrage we
reproduce the address, and shall watch with N
terest the movement inauguratei By it:
To the Homea Of New York city Their
are two classes now aiming 10 remedy the
wrongs Of women, but they greatly differ as to the
nature, the causes, and the true remedy oil Ties
wrongs.
one class maintains that these wrongs consist
in exclusion from civil government and other
professions Of men, and also from the institu-
tons that train for these employments that
as the consequence, women suffer from unjust
laws. are shut out from honorable and remune-
rative business, are driven TO vice, and are suit
iect to the most cruel slavery that the worst
form Of slavery results from the s'i50T4iHGLi0e
Of women in the msrsiCye relation that instea1
Of this, there should be two hesls OF a family
With equal and the same rights 10 control, while
many are also urging that mis- united pairs ought
to separate and marry others if they wish, with
out social or civil Disadvantages. Aud finally ir
Is claimed that woman suffrage would tend %
remedy All these wrongs.
On the other side it is held that our govern
ment is founded on the principle that the ruling
power shall be such a majority Of the people a-
can enforce obedience o. resisted laws that wo-
man suffrage involves liability to majoritics
CONSISTING LARGELY Of women, without such power;
and that whenever the ruling power passes TO "a
minority. the foundation principle Of our gov
eminent would be subverted that, this beng 4,
and as nothing Is ga right ~ which Is opposed
20 the best good Of society, women have 20
b. right 80 10 suffrage that while men have t1t
fhvscal power to govern by law, women nave
superior moral power % change unjust laws
much more speedily than BY the ballot that iAe
slborliuati5u Of woman in che family Is no more
e DEGRADATION than that Of men under employer
Oh civil and military rulers, and that the tTl
heads q q family 4ual in authority would iL-
volve conflicting parties OF children and servants
ending in the rule Of brute force. Finally, tna-
the great end e the family state, as the CHIEF
mode Of training parents, children and servants
% intelligence, virtue, aad Heaven, wol-l De
su5yertei by free divorce, while obedience TO -1e
Scripture rules for husbands, who are command Re
cd to love their wives not 0aly as themselves.
iut a.sl as Christ loved the Church. T0l.i
secure such selfsacridcing love and toll as W1u-i
raise ana sustain woman in her sacred ludc,
all end whatever slavery and tyranny lay u17
exist 10 that relation.
Moreover. these claim that the real wrongs .t
women result from the want Of appreciation o..
.er profession. as chief educator OF the race Is. ,
prime minister Of the family state, and still more
from want Of proper educational training 1lr
those duties that the varied empi0ymelt- cor
uec-al with the family state demand Mu-H
fence and as much practical training AS any o..
lau professions, and yet axe So diverse, that
Institutions o. prepare men -9r their pr9iess----
4-s not suitable for. training women that i-r
want lf suitable scientific AMI practical trtillr-
rameu are not qualified to be wives, nor to eia-
cate children. nor o. train servants, uor 20 prs
serve family health, nor 90 practice wise econ
omv. The sacred duties OF the family state be-
.as thus neglected and li-E9u0rei pass 70 the
.-lor8u. sni uusbilel, and receive neither
social honor nor liberal reward The French
4c music teachers become inmates O. the fam j.,
el-l social equality. and superior wa-e-, while
.le cook and nursery attendants. being ignorant
and uareilel. are degraded AMI ID rewarded
class. This causes the better class ai domestic
helpers Do i.rslae Oh. family for shops ali mills
which destroy ,a- health 4 future mothers
lll offspring, AL leave the family 90 disc uilgt
l-.. waste
The American rs man. Eiucadaaal Assa.4-
ZION aims % remedy these real wrongs u women.
i-- managers assume thar al just ami patriotic