The mirror., 1894-06-28

the Restful Peace of the Harmoni-
Gus Home.
The seeds of all good or evil govern
ment are planted in the home. Gov
family, to leave and blossom out in the
world. All public systems that supply
good and evil, and manifestations Of
civil government, are in exact ratio to
the demands generated in the govern
ment of the home.
The center (the home) controls the
circumference (the world outside the
home). The demand for justice from
legislatures, and all demands for legis-
lation to make men good, are but
ignorant efforts to control the center
from the circumference, which is an
impOssibility. for the wheel Of justice
is moved from the hub or center and
its circumference moves as the center
moves.
Legislation is but collective homes
legislating for all the families of the
nation, hence, unless justice and har-
mony commence with the family, as
center, there can be no reform by Iegis-
lation, which is made up of emana-
tions from the center.
The armies of idle men, calling
themselves "Industrials," going to
Washington, to demand justice, have
never thought how little justice they
practice at home in relation to their
wives, mothers and daughters. Many
of these men have left wife at home
to take care of herself and children as
best she can, expecting her to find
work enough to do this. where they
say that it is impossible to get work.
If ali labor should be rewarded with
just wages, these women should be
entitled to two thirds of. the income Of
their husbands, for they work, at the
least, twice as many hours as their
husbands do.
There can be only one answer to the
. ever increasing clamor of men in the
world for justice, and that is: Begin
with yourselves and be just to your
mothers, sisters, wives and daughters.
Eliminate from your own persons and
families the roots of injustice, dishon-
esty, immortality and all manner of un-
righteousness; tlen, as units of self
grown justice you will blend together
:. and make the just government. AS
you nov are. YOU are units 0 + I'M us
r tice clamoring for the rights That you
: Go not give. and that you deride.
' Until the clamoring "!ndustrials'
o and all workmen practice justice al
e ut home, they cannot have it for them
IS selves. In all things men have re
n ceived more Justice than they metz
! out, in their ignoranc, to the femal'
e members of society. They have neve
e looked at tf.Is question i'll the ligl.
t.. herein presented, because the injustice
lc practiced toward women has becom
l. so rooted in custom that men loo]
n. upon it as matter Of right.
IS Woman is the heart or center of tn
Is home. From her flow out all tn
of issues of life, and it is for man to sa
Is whether these issues shall be corrup
I'd and degraded or exalted and purified
It. All the masterpieces of light, libert.
1e love, art, science and literature al
ne evolved in the home, in the quiet c
n ones own chamber. Grand sympht
he MES, inspired poems, great invention
as and growth in study of all that is goo
I'd and true have never been evolved
at crowds. Noisy gatherings and gres
e. crowds are but the froth on the sile1
ht waves of Infinite Progression. Jus
a. ice, liberty and light must be evolve
n in the restful peace of the harmonior
Dr. home; otherwise they will never ha,
ed an inception and be cultivated, finall
re- to external realization.-Lucy A. Ma
n lory.