The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-07-29
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Mrs. Elizabeth Cady StantOn,s Opin-
ions of the Effect of the Recent
Scandal Trial Upon Society.

(trOm the New York sun, July H.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton is writing her
next seasons lectures in her home on the
wooded western slope of the Palisades.
| The summer is her domestic season, and
| so much does she possess the attributes
and common i.abts of ordinary women,
| that If a person as ignorant as a juryman,
never having heard that she had traverS-
ed the country, leading conventions all
fall and spring and lecturing all winter,
should call on her in Tenafy, he might
not see her as any other character than
the faithful wife, unfaiing housekeeper,
and good mother of many children
Midsummer brings back her two daugh-
ters from VaSsar college for the long sum
mer vacation; adorns the undulating.
grassy grounds of her snug villa with
live or SIX young gentlemen, all her sons
one dreams in a swaylng hammock, an.
other reads on the piazza, third irolics
with the great shaggy dog, fourth acts
the knight gallant to his sister and chance
visitors, a fifth is seated under great
spreading chestnut tree In full July
bloom, and her sixth son is on 300-acre
farm IN Iowa in company with his wife
and million OF grasshoppers. The hus-
band and father, the Hon. Henry B.
Stanton, is also here. He lodges in the
city, near his own legal or editorial ink
stand, when the public, or the colleges,
or Europe, or law offices hold his wife
and his daughter aud his sons.
An interviewer sat on wicker settee
opposite Mrs. Stanton in rustic arm
chair, apart from the company, on re-
cent afternoon, and after some conversa-
/ oil ,iCh, i ~ I
Jet Of the visit, Mrs Stanton substan-
italy said
The trial for Henry Ward Bcecher for
adultery, which has SO tediOusly nau-
seated the whole country, | believe to
! have been Salutary medicine which has
produced three distinct beneficial effects.
! 1t has knocked great blow al the priest
hood. All over this country women had
a reverent respect for clergymen; low
ing, clinging confidence III them, like that
of the sick, and long troubled woman who
said of Christ: ''if can but touch the
hem Of His garment | shall be safe" 1t
is a lesson well learned by women and
! by the world that the woman of this
trial, precisely "by touching the hem Of
! his garment, and even though only
touching the hem of his garment, shat
tered her household, her home and her
| hopes, beclouded her children, lost her
! else unattached and happy obscurity,
and has appeared before all Christendom
dragging
This unhappy and exciting lawsuit has
struck great moral blow at the weak
ness of women. 1t brought before men S
attention truth which has faced them
up like a picture held before their eyes,
how utterly weak the women are who
stand in fear of men, and feel obliged to
use their husbands as confessors. 1t has
taught men the need of women being
strong minded and self-poised for men 5
own protection. If Mrs. Tilton had been
such woman, she would not have been
making these confessions, which them
! selves, are largely the origin Of the
! priests publicity as an accused aduter-
er, 1t has knocked blow at the subor-
dinatiOn of the state of wi(ehood. The
weakness of this wife has taught men
that domestic security is more relia bic
when there are individuals in the home
| than when there is only one intellect in
the house, and that one the husband s.
This muddle never could have happened
if Mrs. TiltOn had been a grand strong
minded, self-poiSed woman. Men will not
| forget that for their own safety, that in
all associations of men with women, bet
| ter strong, self-poised woman than the
weakling who is to-day domineered by
! this man magnetism, and tomorrow by
that, conieSseS here, retractS there, and
re-cOnfeSses and re-retracts.
! Another prominent effect of this trial,
said Mrs. Stanton, is that it has been a
strong pull toward making the standard
of tolerated and reputable behavior Of
women and men equal. Here area woman
and a man, an accused aluIteresS and an
accused adulterer. Plymouth church,
three thousand strong, have stepped In III
advance of all past ages, and their public
regard and social treatment is tie same
! of the woman as of the man. For once
in the history Of the world, since the
| Christian era, fellowship has been given
to woman the same as a man In the
same circumstances. Plymouth church
merits no thanks. Plymouth church did
not reflect what it was doing. Plymouth
church did not know, or care. 1t is doing
it all in it's blind zeal to protect man.
But the moral epoch has come in geologi-
cal history when man cannot be protect
| Gu WlllOuI Iile WOuldil ID piotCCAcd wv
and on the self-same social plane is
given the good right hand Of fellowship.
But while the Plymouth church
zeaIots have socially upheld Mrs.
Tilton to bolster up Beecher, legally they
have trodden her under foot, Gagged her
and guarded her. Beechcr stands for
large moneyed interest, for Plymouth
church, the christian Union and the
Life Of Christ" The protection of
Beccher means the preservation Of capital
invested in a very wealthy society, a
newspaper, and book enterprise. A
woman, on the contrary, stands for
nothing. No matter if Mrs. Tilton were
sacrificed, nor how many women. They
would Sacrifice any number of women.
''As to the guilty OF not guilty." said
Mrs. Stanton, Il have all along said that
what Henry Ward Beecher would swear
to, | should believe.
1T is true that Mrs. Tilton told all this
same story to Susan Anthony at several
times, years ago; and Theodore Hilton to
me. And what man could have stood
the ordeal Of six months search by