The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-09-20
chronological Journal. ]
W0man,S RIGHTS.

The Rev. Mr.. W. Mex. Darwood
recently preached before large con.
gregation in the Bedford Street
Methodist Episcopal church, New
York, on women's rights. He en-
phasized the word them in his text
Male and female created he them;
and God blessed them and said unto
them. subdue the earth and have do
minion over every living thing" He
said that the claim for the equality of
the sexes was warranted, because God
made them equal and gave them equal
authority, conjointly, to have domin-
ion. 1t is argued that the present re-
lations of the sexes are natural. So
Aristotle argued when he declared
that the Greeks were of free nature,
while the barbarians Of Thrace were
Of slave nature. The same argu-
ment was used by the slave owners of
the South, when they called Heaven
and earth to witness that the domin-
ion Of the white man over the black
was natural. When the Almighty
placed Adam and Eve in the Garden
he put them both under the same re-
strictions. Each was made equally
accountable for moral action; each
punished because Of transgression.
They had no separate and independ-
ent rights and privileges.
In speaking of the education of
women, Mr. Darwood said, that as
God has endowed women with intel
lectual powers, it is the God-given
right to acquire all the knowledge
they can. Yet this is, in many direc-
tions, denied them, and he alluded to
the petition that was presented in
England not long ago, praying that
women might not be taught the arts
because it would interfere with men S
pursuits in that line A lady had ap-
piled to fourteen medical colleges in
England for an opportunity to fit her
self to earn her bread, and was re-
fused admission by all; and the Penn
sylvania Medical Society has directed
its members not to recommend wo-
men graduates. He alluded also to
the recent action of Columbia and
Harvard Colleges. But, he continued,
the sign No admission to ladies" has
been knocked off from many a college
door, and almost the whole world is
alive with the question Of fair play to
women in the matter of education
Our own country is making rapid
strides in this direction. Already
some of our leading universities have
opened their doors to women, and
Presidents White of Cornell, Leconte
Of California, and Warren Of Boston,
have declared that the presence of
women students has improved the
manners and morals Of their institu-
tions.
Another right claimed for women
is that they shall receive as much pay
for the same work as men get. Wo-
men clerks in Washington get 5000
for doing the same work for which
men are paid S1,S00. Woman has
the right, he continued, to say wheth-
er laws shall be enacted by which
unprincipled men are authorized to
change her loving father and husband
into madmen and demons. She should
have the right to say whether her
property shall be taxed to keep up
poor-houses and orphan asylums made
necessary for the licensing of men to
sell that which dethrones the reason
and makes paupers and criminals.
Governments derived their first pow
ers from the consent Of the governed,
and taxation without representation
has ever been considered tyranny
Sex is not crime, and it is, there
fore, degrading to deprive women of
the right to vote and thus class them
practically with robbers, murderers,
and the worst criminals Of the male
sex.