Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-02-23
A WoMAN's APPEAL.

Kate G. Bushnell, who did such ef-
fective work in exposing the stock
AIDED dives among the pine forests
in the Northern part of Wisconsin.
The subject of her lecture was
"The Slavery of Women IN Northern
Wisconsin," and she was listened to
and applauded by large audience
composed about equally of men and
| women. Some time after DR.. Bush
nell graduated from the Women's
Medical College in Chicago she went
to China as medical missionary
under the auspices of the Methodist
Church and later became an evange.
list in connection with the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. While
she was engaged in her labors with
the organization she undertook the
investigation Of a Wisconsin forest
dive with such good results that
she was called upon by the Legisla.
ture of the State to aid in obtaining
evidence against them.
DIR. Bushnell related many terrible
stories concerning the dens with
which the Wisconsin pineries swarm,
and of the fearful lives of slavery
led by young girls who are captured
in the large cities and taken there
for the most horrible purposes.
Using these Illustrations, DR..
Bushnell made an appeal for degrad-
ed women. These are some of her
epigrammatic utterances:
"The life of a woman of the town
of Philadelphia, as we'll as elsewhere,
is one of AFFECT servitude.
"People say: Il would rather
have my son than my daughter go
astray.' / would rather have my
daughter a victim than my son a
victim maker
GA woman has her shame stamp.
ed forever on her face, while the
man who is equally as guilty can go
back in society, so long as he can
afford to buy broadcloth to button
over his rotten heart. Applause.
"I've been brought up straight
laced Methodist aud / have my own
ideas about Universalism, but l had
rather have a preacher say that we
can all get into heaven on an equal
basis than to be told that woman
must be 100 per cent. purer than a
man to get there.
GA cowboy, we will say for in
stance, murders Il man and sleeps
and eats well, without the twinges of
conscience. A man of intelligence
and culture in a fit of passion, under
great provocation, kills fellow be
ing and never lifts his head before
society again. He suffers the ago.
MES of remorse and is punished ii
thousand fold. Which is the great
est sinner?
"You will say the man of conscience;
why then should you reverse your
logic where there IS a dual crime
between a man and a woman
think you she is sinner above all
Galleeans. tell We nay. Unless
We repent We shall not enter the
Kingdom of Heaven ?"
AN EQUALLY GREAT CRIME FOR
BOTH.
cit is not the preacher, but socie
ty that prevents u degraded woman
from coming into the church and OBJ
tanning recognition in hex efforts tt
reform.
We need to shift our ideas t
this extent. The breaking of thu
Seventh Commandment must not bt
regulated. Unjust be exterminated
"The point / want to make is this
Where there are two criminals boil
should be punished not the woman
alone, as is always the case. God'
commandment, sThou shalt not,
meant as much for man as for VIC
! man.
"Man's iniquities are CONSTANT.
excused in all the literature you feet
your children.
elf we could uncover the hearts o
our mothers and wives, and shoy
what they have suffered from thi
, iniquity, the sight would be terribl
one.
, Mothers, do not keep you
daughters in ignorance. Teach ther
to distinguish between a good ma
aud bad man. The ignorance {
! girls is deplorable, and the perfid
: of men is dsplorable. death ha
come up in the windows of our pals
: ces.' For the hurt of the daughte
. of my people am hurt. Is ther
no balm in Gilead ? Is there n
7 physician there? Why then is ne
the health of the daughter of m
. people recovered"