Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-03
GREAT CAUSE MENACED.


 The Woman Suffrage movement in this country has gone along pleasantly and on the whole rather proepsrously up to the present time But now it is about to meet . real setback, and possibly destruction. And the setback isn't coming from Tyrant I Man. Tyrant Man has his mind pretty we'll reconciled to the idea that women ought to vote if they want to. He will not stand strenuously in their way in this mat ter any more than he will stand strenu- ously in the way of their bicycles. But Sister Woman will. She will do it in different ways, but the result will be the same. Ia Kansas Susan ! B. Anthony will deliver telling blow against the great cause by making 475 speechez in It's favor. IdsNew York the attack is to be direct, and Tyrant Man is to have fine token of esteem and appre- citation in an effort by women to head off those other women who have taken an oath not to cut their hair or shave their whiskers until the word "male" is stricken from the constitution of the State. Among those in New York oity who are going to stand by Man are such women as Mrs. Clarence Beebee, Mrs. Robert W. Chapin, Mrs. A. M. Dodge, Mrs. George White Field, Mrs. Richard Watson Glider, Miss Jeannette Glider, Mrs. Richard M. Hunt, Mrs. Thomas Jsnvier, Mrs. Abram s. Hew- it, Mrs. Richard Irwin, Mrs. Benoni Look wood, Mrs. J: Pierpont Morgan, Mrs. F. R. Jones, Mrs. D. H. Greer, Mrs. F. H. Scott, Mrs. A. B. Stone, and Mrs. A. Butler Dun can. This list indicates that Man has the | support of Society in New York city, and it also indicates that the women who are trying to oust him haven't. And just listen to Mrs. Tunis G. Bergen: "I be- neve, and suppose most of those who are with me in the movement which the news papers call the anti-suffrage movement, also believe that the time will ultimately come when women should vote, but that time has not arrived yet. They are not prepared for the ballot and 1t would be 8 great wrong to the intelligent and good men who are now trying to get good gov ernment to inundate them with this great mass of ignorant voters. Things are bad enough now; they would be much worse with the women voting. In Holland the canals perform most important function.
 They are the highwsys, and on them the
 traffic of the nation Is conducted. The water is blessing now, but if the dykes , were broken down and the sea lct
 in all over the country the wa.
 ter would not be 6 blessing" Il will be noticed that this deelara
 ton ignores entirely the old idea that the munitions of women are better d safel guide than the reasoning of men. Gan fl be that women need education and train ,, ing tomske them good citizensa Here is { woman saying they do, and she ought tt know something about it. But there hal
 been a notion more or less assiduously pro
 mu1gated that women were better fitted
 from the foundation of the world
 for government than men, and tha
 they were entirely capable of takini n the crazy quilt which men hav I made in their efforts to rule themselve Z and women and making harmonious com
 forter out of it.
 The new movement on the part of Slate
 Woman is decidedly interesting. Itis als
 important. It lets Man out of the squah
 ble and he can now look on ss an impsrtia
 spectator while the women who don't wan
 tovots contend with those who do. Sail in dear sisters, and may the best women wiu