St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-31
lmprudenee Of Women in Not
Teaching Their Children
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ure in a Sanitary Point
Of View.

Ing. After an address by Mrs. Herbert,
Mrs. Saxon stepped forward. She spoke
very plainly of the social evil; of the
lmprudence of women in not making
known to their children the great Sc
crets and truths of life, instead of learn
Ing them from children and servants.
Sons and daughters alike should be
taught the awful power of sex, for the
building of character begins in the very
hour of conception. Intemperance in
desire has marred the happiness OF
thousands of families. Young girls
should be taught the sacredness of mar
rage and to hold the control of their
persons against their husbands. Christ
preached the first sermon OF
EQUAL RIGHTS IN PURITY
for man and women, but society con-
dennis the woman and condoneS the
man. But it is the fault of the woman'S
own efforts not to hold herself free in
the contlol of her person. Men per
petually blame women for the sins of
The world. because of the Bible story of
Adams fall through Eve. Mrs. Saxon
has talked and preached freely on this
subject for twelve years before audi
ences in some cases composed entirely
Of men. Mrs. Saxon spoke of herself
as the champion for those who had
never vet had a champion--the impure
women, made so not by any fault of
their own, but by mans lust. Slavery
caused the indifference of men to the
pur ty of women, and the colOred man,
above all, was most bestial in being in
different to the purity of even his own
household. but since emancipation he
has begun to look upon impurity i'll his
own household as does his white
brother.
HISTORY OF WOMAN.
Anna Rice Powell, of the New York
commission for the prevention Of state
regulation of vice, introduced her sub
ject by saying that it has been asserted
that the history of prostitution is the
history of woman, but she had always
been its victim. There have always
been certain women set apart, and it
has been stated that the virtue of the
favored woman is safe only at the eX-
penSe of these pariahS. The result of
such state of affairs has been the eff
fort to license this vice by legaliZed i'm
morality. so as to evade its natural con-
sequence, lOathsome disease; but this
has proven failure in sanitary sense,
and is morally most deplorable, because
it does not check RIGHTEOUSNESS, only
gives man safe indulgence. Society
never forgiveS in a woman what it con-
aoneS in man. Innocent girls by the
license system. through the necessary
medical examination, are liable to be
subjected to this awful degradation
merely on suspicion. She then spoke of
the age of prostitution in several states,
and paid tribute to Kansas as having
made that age eighteen, while in one
state it was as low as seven years.
THE PAIL MALL GAZETTE.
Mrs. ArmOstOn Chant was then intro
duced. She has been engaged in the
work for twenty-five years. She v0ucheS
for the truthfulneSS of Mr.. Stead'S
charges as published in the Pail Mall
Gazette, saying that she would stake
her life on their correctness. She spoke
principally of the work OF the Social
Purity societies in Great Britain. Since
the beginning of Mrs. Chants work she
has seen marvellous results. She has
given meetings to women alone as we'll
as mixed meetings. In her meetings
for women they came at first heavily
yelled, but the wells were thrown aside.
She denounced the British governments
blue book as containing stories of the
Wrongdoings of the peers of Great Brit
ain, even worse than those published in
the Pail Mall Gazette. One member of
parliament, when the question of in
creasing the age at which consent could
be given was being agitated, said that
for his part he wished it was ten years.
The ladies of his borough got together
and made it so hot for him that he had
to get out. Girls, before there was leg
iSlatiOn in the matter, were taken in
droveS by PROGRESSES to the continent
to fill houses of ill-fame. under the pre-
tense of getting them places at service.
Now ladies of high character and stand
ing are to be found at all seaport towns
and railroad stations to
GUARD UNSUSPECTING GIRLS
who may be TINS deluded by false adj
Vertisements. Some of the women of
England have done and are doing as
excellent work in all philanthrophic
branches as we do. "What has woman
to do with politics." This question
Mrs. Chant would answer by saying
that it has been splendid chance for
women. She intimated that a woman
should know how often children should
be borne by her, and practically she
Is the mother of their minds and souls
rs we'll as their bodily frames. She
was the first one to put the criminal
amendment bill into force. If any one
says that it is dangerous for women to
engage in work of this kind, the answer
Is that the women who have been en-
gagged in it stand forth to-day with
whole skins and souls. She expected
to address the mixed meetings because
the men and the women are equally re-
Bponsible for the commission of sin.
She also said that the dressing of our
children should be moral as well as a
physical covering. Mrs. Chants adj
dress was enthusiastically received by
the audience. She represents in the
council the Edinburgh National Society
for Woman Suffrage.
Mrs. Caroline NJ. S. Frazer, of the
National Moral Educational society, and
DR.. Caroline B. Winslow, delegate from
the District of Columbia Moral Educa-
tlonal society, spoke upon "The Start
ing Point"
Harriet B. Shattuc said that wrong
to one was wrong to all, and that no
woman had right to forgive man
who had done a wrong to another
woman. She next discussed briefly the
question of marriage and divorce. Mar
rage, she declared, is not a contract,
but an institution of God.
THE SAME AS CATTLE.
Clara ClaybOrne Hoffman said that
women should receive the
same attention as cattle, yet 95 times out
of 100 she is the victim of mans lust,
and she knows it is wrong and her
nature rebels against it. All remedies
would be but partial and disappointing
until woman stands everywhere in a
perfect equality with man, until society
and church and law regard marriage as
a perfect partnership and she an equal
partner. The horror of lustful children
being brought into the world will con-
tinue until woman is recognized as hav-
ing the right to say when the new life
shall begin. When the parents them
selves are pure they will stand on diff
ferent grounds of equality with each
other, and the man will honor and
cherish his wife, instead of loving her
and lusting after her. Parents, when
that time arrives, will have no shame in
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