New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-06-01
of the experiment, President White, Of Cornell

says:
AN the good results we anticipated. and some We
dill not anticipate. have followed the admission OF
young women. The best scholars are men. but
there is far larger proportion OF young women
than Of young men who become good scholars
Dr. Angel OF the University of Michigan. says
not fail n their ssdies f hey d no, break down in
heath; they have graduated In al departments,
men"
May Wright Sewel SAYS: I'm more than 200 letters
from presidents and professors IN co-elIcational
colleges there is not one which does not give testl-
inony to the value OF the system
THIS evidence in regnrd 10 the co-educaton or the
sexes warrants the conclusion that woman IL the
intellectual equal OF man. and hence not only mat
social and political right but that the power OF the
her c Wi GoSsd IN er p6 %a aaTs anu
The arguments aganst woman suffrage are really
herself They are put forth by men who Ike
neither TO reinqulsh the power ~ command. nor the
%of Or P2i T IN
command" he says rs the gr9wl Of coerc sNS
aptly term /; violence in latent state" And vio-
lence Is bIrbarlsni And It Is from barbar.sm tina,
Thn D' wSo Win cub brt ot the
brains OF the first superiinous female child; me
~ his friends. prefcrring to her a prostitute the
Roman who In law degraded woman to the condi-
ton Of II chattel. ana DR.. Rylance. who denounces
her ignorant ana unconscious OF the ogicai
issue Of her hopes her aspirations and her prayers
these types 81 unbelicf In woman. the en-
bOlinen, Of Spenccr'r Irresistible conclusion For
what" he says. When closely examined, is this
those OF mem Simply an evaue3cent form OF the
theory that women have souls"
venture to reply 10 the puerile arguments OF the
reverend gentlemen 10 whom have referred that
the noble women who are engaged in the struggle
to achieve suffrage In the goat State of New Yorl,
may not bc compelled TO waste time In such
counter. They the moral and intellectual elite
10 whom II Is given - see and have the feeling OF
that futuriiy o! III" human species which IT, 10 re-
cult IA part from their Efforts. II is. however. the
Or Rylance and his fellow opponents OF equal suf-
fragr that renders T. necessary to human progress
that thor" should BE- radicals like SavOnarOla and
John brown men who act In scOrn Of consequence.
men who happily know It'll" and care less for the
miserable subcrfuges Of practical politics but who
men who go straight 10 the mark. though
the goal D" the gallJWs or the s;akci
Having emancipated The negro. and made him q
citizen. - IS Illogical not to ridiculous to deny
equality OF rights TO woman. Government by man
alone is caste; and caste ~ the crime Of all the
share in gcvcrnmcnt a form OF case-is the special
crime OF this age
TIL, ballot H., citizens defence against injus-
tlcc. ana the poorer the citizen the he she
qualification IA the mcanest condition that can be at
tached 10 the right of suffrage. One-haf OF the rac
can neither govern nor slvr the whole OF II. Only
through the united eforts Of man and woman can
salvation corle. The twin monsters Ignorance and
WIr can be- abolished Only through the cooperation
~ woman with man ga government.
Woman IS emitted - suffrage: Because she ~ n
human being. l""auS' she IL a member OF society
bee iuse of her )th,rhool because she Is the moral
hcu. ~ tn" family AMI bread winner.
Thor T. not an argument ag1ns. woman suffrage
that could not have been made with equal reason
AMI force against negro enlancpatlon
CHARLES HENRY HAM.
Ncw-Yort. May g. 1901