The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-01-21
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What Rev. G.. w. Fitch has to say
On the Subjec

hsF' MI rllcu uraW large congrega-
tons to the M. E. Church. Last eve-
ming the Church was filed to hear his
Views on ''Woman's Rights" Taking
for his text LIST Peter III--i-6. he said:
The public mind is agitated by
those questions which involve the
rights and interests of woman. This
restlessness is of English origin. and,
at first, only sought for remedies
against evils which surrounded those
women who were alone and unprotect-
ed, aud against whom society was per.
petually practicing the greatest in
justice. At length the question of
woman's sphere, her capabilities and
comparative worth as a laborer when
placed side by side with man in the in
dustries of life, were discussed, and the
movement has now passed into the
Woman's Rights agitation.
From just demands In behalf of
woman, for enlarged means of inde-
pendent livelihood, with which all
ought to sympathize. the leaders of
this agitation now claim everything
that society allows to man--from
pantaloons and latch keys to seats in
the Legislature. The effort now is TO
clothe woman with all the attributes
and responsibilities of manhood. But
happily the large majority of the
female sex are not quarreling with
Providence because they were not made
men. They are rather thanking God
that the sweet shelter of a husbands
manly affection is theirs and theirs
also the dear privilege of refining and
adjoining home for his sake. God him
self decided whss should be woman g
mission when he made her to be a
help-mate for man. He did not make
her mans inferior, nor his slave nor
drudge, but his assistant, companion.
help mate. Woman's mission is not to
be found in the domain of civil govern
ment. The scriptures place the right
of Authority and government, both in
the family and civil society, in the man,
who is to rule in fidelity and love, as
Christ rules his church. This law of
God and nature is opposed to-day by
many who are clamoring for the, right
of female suffrage. They would drag
woman tothe ballot box and into the
arena of politicalostrife. They would
stir up dfssension 10 the family and
array husband and wife against each
other.
We oppose this demand, first, on
social grounds. /. admit that the
women of our country, taken as a
whole, are AS competent to vote as men
are, while very many are better fitted
than some menare, to whom this right.
is extended. But, Notwithstanding
this. it would completely revoiutionize
society; it would entirely change the
status of the two sexes. Woman may
have the right to be man, but she
cannot be mau aud woman too. II
she steps out of her place and de nlands
to be and do what men Ito enter
the political strife aud contend for Of
fee with men, she must not expe ct 20
be treated with all that tenderness due
to woman.
II it be- said that she would not
become the rival aud competitor of
man. butEather his companion and CO.
! worker. then the demand is no not for
free suffrage and means nothing but
the right to vote according to the
wishes and opinions of her husband.
In this sense she is now represented.
This demand. however, means the
right to think and vote as she pleases;
the eight to go to the polls and nulllfy
the vote 'of her husband. father and
brother. ltmeans the right to meet in
caucus. publish political papers and
favor and denouace political measures
according to her own views. La a
word. to.use ALI tho methods of politi.
cal intrigue and chicanery to carry her
points, whether they harmonize' with
the views of neutrality-suspicious. or
not.