The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-02-25

Il BoffoR kflof-Year editorial upoo
Episcopal Prsgres Baekvard," was d
sooosadabls fer il lively insstsss In the
Episcopal Church and IL gallant devotion
to the saass Of the ladies, that Il d matter
II regret 70 eAurchmsn, that tnsre sAodld BE
any inaccuracies Of statsDsat Or eonftiion
Of IDEAS in the article, prompted ~ il YES,
b. the best Of motives.
when the PrLof raises its <oies against
oppression and ''progrsss Backward" all
good cisissns nsst rejoice; bat it Is we'll tolbe
certain that there il oppression and pro
gress backward" before the voice Il raised:
A. member Of the Fond ID Lac CdnSen-
tioa, am one Of those ''ihdisiddal clergy
men" Who approve" its action. and a there
WAS NO dissenting voice, it il fair 70 infer
that there were no clerical nor lay members
who did not approve.
The "resslutioa on future represent ation"
WAS an article If the Constitution proposed
BY the committee Of which Judge Gary, Of
Oshkosh, Vas Chairnad. II gives every
parish two lay delegates and an additional
one for every Fifty communicants; and. instead
Of casting one vote for the parish, ~ form
erly, each delegate has . vote. According
to this, ST. Jamss' parish would have three
delegates and three sotes in convention. Ae-
cording TO the old plan, she had four dele
gates and only one vote which Vas in danger
Of being lost through . division Of senti-
IN L. Ii n. -
spset, there is no progress backward"
The same bad influence exists around the
Church that there did before. II 10 hard to
leEislstesS 'irreverent and worldly Influences
out Of existence; and even if that were pos.
sible, it is hard to see how that would neees-
sarily be progress backward"
That the delegates to the Council should
be commandments Of the Church was insisted
upon BY the lamsnted Bishop Kemper; thus
the first step backward Was taken BY him.
That the majority Of the vestry should be
COMMITMENTS, was settled by civil law. Re-
vised Statutes, Chapter LXvI, section I.
this great and glorious commonwealth Of Wis
consin.
That the electors Of delegates to the Coun-
Gil should be communicates, was the next
step backward. and this was taken by the
new diocese of Fond du Lac 1t surely
would not become the Church to assume to
know more than the State, and every one
we'll knows that suffrage in the State il con-
ditione al nv posi1surH ard ;ct>re;on
Of citizenship.
The attempt to compromise between those
who are "of us'' and those who are only
with u.s." Is, to say the least, . dangerous
experiment. No ether Church in the land
attempts it. "The influence Of irrevsrent
and worldly husbands" doe. not "Aedgs
sro1nd'' the election Of Romax Catholic and
Kethod;t Bishops much.
With respect to the ladies, the thine hon.
cred rule" to which you alluded, ia the
same rule to which Anna Dickinson and her
sister refcrmers have been alluding for sew
eral years past. Women have voted in the
Church land so they have in the STATED, but
never BY constitution or canon, have they
been formally snfrsnchised.
In common with pew-holders and support
ers Of the Church, they have justly had or
might have had the right to . voice in pa
rochial elections.
II the PILor wishes to see them enfran-
ehised by constitution and canon in the
Church, l trust it will advocate their cause
With that gallantry and ability which is the
PILor's Characteristic. will join it in 60
ing further and advocate with it the right of
woman suffrage in the State, feeling that
thereby We should have pure and high mind
ed Bishops, and upright and honest Govern
ors, Judges and Legislators.