Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-10-06

lection no separation between them.
and each was complementary of the
other. The separation came with the
expulsion of the first pair from Eden
and the beginning of the curse: He.
thy husband, shall rule over thee
The cause of woman's SUFFRAGE ac-
cording to Mrs. Dickinson is the great
factor that will lead the race back to
the old time marriage of oneness. Our
, way back" she said, involves not only
the overcoming of obstacles to har-
mony OF nature without us, the sub
jugation Of nature and the consequent
establishment of a scientific conscious
ness in accordance with spiritual truth
that harmony for man presupposes his
rightful lordship over all below him. it
also involves the overcoming of nature
within. an at-one-ment of man with
himself
woman suffrage does not mean
desire on the part of women to be like
men or to assume essentially mascu-
line duties or prerogatives. God takes
care of that. The inmost desire of the
acorn is to become an oak and nothing
else. Equally true is it that the soul of
women irresistibly aspires to the full
tillment of its own womanly destiny as
wife and mother. and as a rule, to
nothing that definitely postpones such
destiny. Most emphatically woman
suffrage does not mean any persistent
blindness on the part Of women to their
high calling as to the outward embodi-
ment and representative of What is
highest and best in human nature
Blind she has been and is, but God is
her teacher He has kept the soul of
woman through all ages of her ac-
quieScent subsection to man. He has
led her, and, all unconsciouSly to him
self, has led man through her up and
out upon the high tableland of today,
whence both can see the large meaning
Of subsection in the past, and the larg-
er realiZa tons that await their accord
ant union in the future.
'Imperfectly rs she now apprehends
it, WOmanS suffrage does nevertheless
mean for women Il consistent rational
sense Of personal responsibility, and it
means this pre-eminenty, because upon
t1llS lCW uISHS1 SSlSC VI lSu-
sonality is to be built all the new and
higher relations Of woman in the flu
ture with herself, with men and with
society. We are ready for new and
higher relations between men and
women. Women must inaugrate these
relations, and an institution Of the
truth is the secret of the so-called
woman movement, of the intellectual
awakening Of women. Of their desire
for personal and pecuniary freedom
their laudable enorts to secure such
freedom, the sympathy and cooper
alton of the best men in these efforts.
I'm conclusion, there could, Of course
be no legal act Merchandising woman
since she was never legally franchised
But as it is her divinely conferred
privilege to be one with man the law
as it has come to be understood simply
stands for something that could not he,
and is therefore misleading and vicious.
1t stands not only for tha subsection of
woman, which it has a right to stand
for but it has also come to mean
real and not apparent separation be-
tween man and woman. We must
bear in mind that this apparent separa-
! ton is always Of the man from woman,
the masculine from the feminine, truth
| from love"