New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-14
DIR. RYLANCE SAYS IT Is MADNESS.

HE THIS CHARACrERIzEs THE PROPOSAL TO
GIVE TIE FRANCHISE TO WOMEN
you are mad. You mad, say If to the
women you extend the franchise. and the welfare
OF our Republic"
Shaking his hand with a notwithstanding gesture.
the Rev. DR. Joseph II. Rylance of St. Marks
Protestant Episcopal Church. formed a striking
picture last night he uttered the foregoing words
II was only sentence OF many almost equally
emphatic against the woman suffrage movement o.
the day. Or. Rylance's sermon was n strong one
and doubtless on next Sunday night. when. accord
ng to his own promise. he will raise n voice oil
still stronger warning against woman suffrage. quiet
ST Marks will have still greater number OF Wis
itors than last night.
Let the woman learn in silence with all sub
lection" was DR. Rylance's text. He found 1t IN
Timothy. Il. H. He said the text suggested that IN
Paul's estimation woman's place was one OF sub
ordination. II the on canons Of the Bible are 10
obtain then this saying Of 81. Paul would dscredit
the assertion that woman Is the equal OF man The
speaker did not hold however, that this injunction
Of 81. Paul Is binding for all time. He would Ike
arms against higher criticism could justify them,
selves by totally ignoring the teachings OF 81 Iaui
on the question Of the subOrdination or women.
Some women better than some men; he al
tted but that was no Tor mTge5 uP Sa
because woman Is n person. human beng she
ought be allowed to vote. The Digger Indian
said Or Rylance is also u persona human being
but his right TO vote would be questioned even In
The notion that every man has right to have
everything that every other man has was brought
10 this country by a sentimental politician named
Lafayette, but the claim was not Endorsed by ~
until the adoption OF the XVIII Amendment An
stract or absolute rights are things Intangible 10
practical politics. It IS therefore silly to claim any
such right for women.
The truth Is that much OF the advocacy or
woman's rights has sole regard TO few choice
specimens OF human bipeds. II Is your ideal not
your common woman. that your orator has before
him in his panegyric The women that Parkhufst
has been hunting you may feel sympathy for bu,
you would not advocate their voting. one great
wrong we suffering under to-day IL tho wrong
inflicted by low. ignorant men sharing In the con-
duct OF this government. Your woman sufragist-
would double that wrong. The overwhelming ms
jorty Of women have no conception OF the duties OF
citizenship They would become tho easy prey OF
tricksiers and OF the lntrsucs OF schemng priests
and preachers. Women always Ike 20 reach perfec-
ton at a bound Political perfection doesn't bound.
II is a plant Of slow growth
THE proposed measure would be leap In the
dark. 1t would be confusion worse confounded Hoi
are mad-yOu are mad ] say II 10 the women YOU
extend the franchise and tho welfare of ogr Re-
public. Is Il time. when the newspapers TEEN with
news which Ills with dsUay affecting the great
social questions. to spring ibis new problem ~
Isn't IL much better - wait until have settled
some OF these other voxlng prob.ems|'