Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-07-12

in the Saloons in dance houses in jails, in peni
tentiaries, would be overwhelmingly opposed to it;
as rule those women who have had no experience
in real life, who see no reason why all women
should not sit all day on sofa, embrolderlng or
playing with poodle dog, are opposed, for no ex-
pressed reason, only because lit is degrading to
mix with men" forgetting that men and women
are thoroughly mixed by the Creator; that one
german mixes them to their hurt much more
than casting ballot; that affairs in which men
and women minge as equals are safe and that the
most dangerous associations result from lrrespons-
ible power on one hand, helpless subordination on
the other The vicious man does not seek victims
among his equals; he preys upon those shut out
from human help, imprisoned in the meshes of
prejudice and law. All such believe in the subor-
dination of women, and are desperately afraid of
the chad woman" vote, as if it could possibly
place worse laws on our statutes than are now
there; as if sin is not the same in man and woman
for the decalogue was not addressed to women
alone. When we come to look for the friends of
justice to women we find that after counting out
ignorance and inexperience and few excellent
women who have not much faith in other women,
whose minds cannot comprehend that Justice is al
ways safe and can never hurt any one, we find
favor. Years ago the Aboitonist saw the trouble
called ''Woman's Rights" and many openly
espoused it, though for expediency's sake some of
them thought best to defer the work until arter the
'negro's hour" One of Charles Summers last
efforts was to persuade Edmunds not to draw his
Utah bill so as to disfranchise women, and had he
lived it would very likely never been done. He
said ''put in my speeches the word woman where
it reads negro, and you have my opinion of woman
suffrage though all experienced reformers knew
that woman's subordinaton being the cornerstone
IN nearly every family the progress of reform must
be slow, for only the most voluntary Law down
power, only the most noble dare In utter HELPLESS
ness to challenge power. Considering how inter-
woven the ''subordination" theory is in both
Church and State the progress has been wonderful
and creditable TO the husbands and wives of Amer
lea. No other organization has ever enlisted the
cooperation of so many married partners. In
comparison the Church has been q bone of con-
tentlon. From the first the Garrisons, Alcotts.
Mays, Stoves, Beechers, Cheevers, Phillips Emer-
sons, Smiths, Millers, STATIONS, Motifs, Collvers,
Parkers, Clarkes, and hosts of others equally emf
nent, have in this country been its advocates. the
Sewalls, Blackwels, Welds Howes, Liyermores
and Bowdiches of eminent talent have devoted
their best to its service, while other eminent women
and men, with or without mates, have dealt effect
I've blows for it like Whittier and Margaret Fuller.
Look over any volume of eminent women. noted
for what they have done not for husbands and
fathers regulations, and at least three-fourbs Of
them will be found arrayed in the army that asks
Tor equal rights Clara Barton asks her soldier
boys to make her free, and nearly every famous
woman Journalist asks the same of her co-workers.
eminent teachers like Anna Bracket and Mary
Beedy; lecturers like Amelia B. Edwards and
Anna Dlckenson philanthropsts like Frances r.
willard and Susan B. Anthony, demand it, and
women who go into the sums and try to lift those
who lie at the foundation of our social system
those OF lar Flat and Barbary Coast soon learn
1ne need OF political power, and that by lis per-
mission such places are what they are. No woman
can thoughtfully study her own life without finding