Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-04-06
Vol. II.-No. g..

She says, s'To show as this work faithfully does
that Christ and his apostles held woman in high
estimation and believed her capable of filling with
honor, laborious and responsible positions is to
half way win the battle. So firmly rooted in the
popular mind is the belief in Holy Writ that OPP
posing parties always, as first step, try to de-
monstrate that the Bible is ION our side"
Referring briefly to the many avenues into which
women are turning for the means of livelihood and
weaving in deity the old nursery rhyme why wom-
en- are fast becoming merchants, lawyers, doc
tors, chiefs" she asks this pertinent question:
'sWho, in great factories, has taken to baking and
brewing-the brewing especially-the canning and
cleaning, the sewing and weaving? Men! and
since they have broken into woman's field she per-
force must find new pastures. The writer dis
claim for our sex the high tribute paid to woman
by the author in his preface, but thinks that women
secluded in their homes are almost entirely shielded
from such temptation, and should temptation reach
them society visits on them SO much seyerer PEN
alties than on erring men, they dare not sim
fallen woman? Every door is shut against her.
Every hope every ambition vanishes forever All
that life holds dear is lost by that one sin. A
fallen man? A man can descend to the lowest
depths and the term fallen does not apply to him.
- man Keeling drunken through the streets is
held in contempt and scorn, and can never hope to
regain the respect she has lost. A drunken man
can stand in the forefront of the nation and let
me say to the w. C. T. u, of which am not a
member, that if they once arouse so strong pub
lie sentiment against drinking that a drunken man
loses as much as drunken woman, they need not
appeal to the government for prohibitory laws, for
social ostraclsm is a stronger penalty than any
government has ever been able to devise
She regrets that the learned d. D. did not give
clearly his views on the much discussed question
political equality" question that at this time
is uppermost in the minds of the thinking mena and
women of the world, and says, elf women have
the heart and brain to occupy official positions in
the church, still more is their good influence
needed in that corrupt public life where money,
not honor, finds its way,to the front But far
deeper than expediency, lies the question of JUS
tice in this matter of womans equality
Referring to taxation without representation, she
gives the views of Mr.. L. B. Mcfarland distin-
guished member of the Tennessee bar, as ex-
pressed by him recently in a lecture before the
Conway Institute;
Now central and fundamental idea of democratic or
republican government Is that taxes must be levied or as
sessed by the people pay them The persons and prop
ery must be protected just as the persons and
property of men, Their property taxed for this purpose
That they denied the right of participating In the evyng
of this by the ballot is denial of this elementary right
and violation of the principle of government The
States that persist in the denial are behind
in the march of progress and civilization.
The article closes with an ardent wish that there
were more books like this one OF DR.. Blacks, for
they 60 far toward moulding public sentiment.