The Portland daily press., 1894-08-01

doubt claim that the article itself, COM
mon sense pure and simple, also applies.
Dr. jacob writes in manner to secure
the respect of thoughtful men. The
body OF this treatise is largely taken up
with argument drawn from STATISTICS;
theappendlx consist of her address before
the committee Oh Suffrage of the State
May 9lst, 1884. In this latter paper she
touches upon tine new conditions in the
status OF women which have arisen with
in the past quarter of century and
women's participation in industrial and
gainful employments, their position as
property holders and their entrance into
the professions. She considers in turn
the objections which have been made
to woman suffrage, such as their not
bearing arms, their susceptibility to
bribery and corruption, and SO on throug
out the list, including the claim that
all women do not yet demand the suff-
rage. She says:
No social sphere is more remote from
political life than that of medicine; and
none it might be imagined, more appro-
pirate to women. Yet, in all the Euro
pean countries of two hemispheres, Ian
guage was racked to find words, and
science tortured to find arguments suffi-
GENTLY abusive to condemn the proposal
to allow women to minister to children
and other sick of their own sex. We are
perfectly we'll aware that industrial i'd
professional competition are entirely
differen matters from Popular Sovereign
ty. But when we find the same instincts
aroused, the same opposition or excited,
the same arguments advanced, and the
same determination manifested, by
trades unions to exclude women from
trades: by learned societies to exclude
them from professions; by universities
to exclude them from learning: and by
voters to exclude them from the polls. we
cannot avoid asking whether the differ
ence in the cases is not balanced by the
identity in the mental attitude OF the
opponents"
Speaking of the effort necessary to
bring about any reform DIR. jacob
quotes Mrs. Stanton in a story she told
at New York mass meeting that if
we had only kept quiet, all these desira-
BILE things would have come about of
themselves" II am reminded of the
Greek clown who, having seen an archer
bring down a flying bird, remarked
sagely: "You might have saved your
arrow, for the bird would anyway have
been killed by the fall"
Again she says:
"We do believe that this special
relation of women to children, in
which the heart of the world has always
felt there was something sacred. serves
| tosimpress upon women certain tenden-
cies, to endow them with certain virtues
which not only contribute to the charm
| which their anxious friends fear might
be destroyed, but which will render.them
| of special value in public affairs Their
| conversation, their economy, their hor-
ror of waste, their interest in personal
character, the very simplicity OF their
| Judgment, their preoccupatlon with di-
rect and living issues. are all qualities
| generated by the special circumstances
which have surrounded women, and'must
continue to surround them. These can
not be broken down by the fact of their
| sharing the suffrage, for they lie far
deeper than any political condition; they
exists in the very nature of things"
Mr.. Goodwin Smiths favorite state
ments and differences are considered, and
| GQ0 pOSUUldG0 budG WOuCh CuhAOo va
up an occupation, but can only "invade
a sphere "The act of shooting Indians
from a stockade seemed to our tore
fathers. as to our contemporaries, sc
meritorious, that it deserved all the
sovereignty it could get. The acts Of
nursing families through the small pox
of bearing famine, or grinding corn
seemed too trifling for social recogni
| tion."
We have made no attempt to follow
Dr.. Jacobs line Of thought, In this
brief review; that belongs to the reader
of the book But il he be fair-min ded
and impartial, he will recognize the in
tellectual grasp of the subject here dis
played and the shrewd, clear, eloquent
handling of the theme, without rant o.
scolding, but with logical ability an6
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