The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-05-08
6o-62 West 23d st,

alphabetical order for each voting precinct,
she ds 90 sRRs IL
lions for voting. Of which Gusiinestion the reg
up to a short time ago there wa. poll tax
in Massachusetts. the payment Of which was .
abolish ed and now any citizen, male or female
who has the REQUISITE, oualihcations. already
tween the seIes being that men may vote for for
All candidates whereas women can vote only
scribed WITHOUT any formplity. whereas female
voters get their names upon the voting list
means a woman who does not desire to exsr.
clse the right o. suffrage for school Officers
but she also reirsins from asking that her
name should appesr on the Voting list, Prior
g H 'if SSt wS Of F.s q
and Ss.s t tasS ss2, or 20
male voters. and 34O. 600 Of these lless than IS
per cent ;I ,ssppearsd, at the p9lls. itwouLd
from voting is less than the proportion Of men.
different to the boon or duty OF voting. BY the
f6s male male insaeissnt. and ' fs
male inha6tta tan pr,e,ponderance OF $1,000
about foe f emsie to fo5 male s hsbitsnts IN
the Bay State. But this disparity Is completely
spa IL sf cent? ySanE 81 se o
the electorate. and the men U5 per cent. The
advocate. Of female suffrage explain
as women are restricted to voting for
school officers only; and have not therefore
Interest in elections. and abstain generally
from voting. on the other hand. tho oppo-
ference OF the female citizens Ia OF maralY To
voting for school officers. but to all voting. and
as y hs to s q
deeply Interested, the extension Of their, right
see shs events the set ands
niable that women do not exercise the right to
Deoember, election Of 1885 n Boston. IS
women to 1888 men voted In the sixth ward.
Eleventh ward, which Includes Beacon street
and Marlborough and Commonwealth avenues
A wo.aa's Opinioa OF walter Bssaats
Opisioa or wooss s.a Her Work.
The New York Independent has given nearly
. whole page OF its space to the publica-
ton OF Mr.. Walter Desant's opinion con-
corning women's inferiority to men and rea-
sons why he opposes women's self-support
and self-government Now II Mr.. Besant were
a. unpreiudiced on this question as he 10
the absurdity OF m making a com parison between
the intellectual attachments OF English men
and women at any time within the past TOO
years In order to decide fairly In regard to
tho intellectual capacity OF tho men and
women OF any race. 1t would be necessary to
compare them during q sufficiently long period
OF equal opportunities for cultivation. When
Christendom fell into the error OF accepting
the subsection OF women to men as a righteous
position. every artificial advantage nsces sariiy
fell to tho share OF men. The mind OF woman
was as inevitably cramped by such . social
condition as was the mind OF man while he
held himself to be divInely subject to King
The first requisite for either mental or ply
steal growth Is freedom. Yet. as every one
knows. since the establishment of the English
universities. while everything possible has
been done to stimulate and foster the intellec-
tual powers OF men. exactly opposite course
was pursued with regard to women until about
nfty years ago or course. men were no more
to blame for this blundsr than women. and
both are more to be pitied than blamed that
they were so ignorant as to assume that men,
tai training Is less necessary for the parent
which most strongly influences tho minds OF
children. But tits as that until half q cen
tury ago English girls were mentally re-
pressed from their earliest childhood and pos-
sessed no more chance for intellectual free
dom than the arlstocrstic young women Of
thog are wne % and sarn oSy gnt
lite accomplishments afterwaId. It Is. there
lore lore desidedly iGdiGrSps 70 III, hnd MI Bssant
depg.dsHt conspieuously publishingl the fol-
do not think that women have shown
themselves as capable as men In Intellectual
work. neither in art. literature. science. nor
among women. Among noyelists Georgs
Eliot cannot compare with Fielding or Thack-
the best OF our womsn poets. IS not to be com.
pared with her husband. Robert Browning.
eass Of Miss FaMsstt wSo Was hisseT than the
senior wIangler that was only youthful COM
When We remember that II was but the other
day, as 1t were. that Englishmsn were posi-
lively declaring that II was waste Of time to
and eI then behold sIiss FSWSett o6tsinins aOd
marks above the highest masculine mAths-
Besant airily waving this fact aside as an In
significant tribe. the situation becomes de-
But Ma. Besant is now seeking consolation
tTanquilly publishes lisI ne! thou advocate
the ' one Kind of outside intsilsctua n w So
for which men are absolutely necessary and
work Of the world that It Is the duty Of the
anglo saxon to spread himself all over the
and shall do tomorrow, whether 1t Is right or
wrong ID; aud that ts mans Work." Now.
LII II is necessary, and l should Ike |
to call the attention OF our conqusTing hero 10 |
the fact that there was q certain period in the |
world history when some very importa Mt parts |
OF the conQueTing WORK OF the world were done |
BY women. There was notably one Deborah,
General Of the Israelitish army. who could |
not get her masculine CAPTAINS even TO 90 |
into battle unless she led them IN person. But |
IL 10 pretty late in the centuries to call con-
querlng work intellectual work, when II Is q |
Kind Of conqusTing that requires crushing out |
other nations TO allow the spread OF the Anglo |
Saxon.