The record-union., 1894-05-24
ROYAL BAKING POWDER.

therefore, of the whole situation, it would
appear that women have no grievances
that cannot be redressed through exist
ing agencies; that the possession of the
suffrage would not tend TO enhance
either the interests OF woman or of So
clety; but that, on the contrary, it would
tend to degrade her by imposing priv
llege which she could not exercise with
out confessing her inability to perform
the corresponding duties which adhere
TO the responsibility of civil government;
that the courtesies and amenities of life
which are now felt to be due from man to
woman would soon cease to exist, result
ing in the practical unsexing OF men and
women by destroying the sanctity and
privacy of the family circle and home
life, upon which depend the virtue and
the welfare of humanity.
IL. Finally, the proposed innovation
involves too much risk to the present
and permanent welfare Of woman, and
offers too little prospect of advantage to
warrant the voluntary assumption OF
new and untried political responsible
ties. the outcome of which may, and
probably will be, deplorable. 1t IS for
tunate that woman is now independent
OF the suffrage. Let her not become sub
ject to its Servitudes.
At meeting of anti-suffragsts, held in
Brooklyn. Mrs. Lyman Abbott, who pre-
sided, said that it seemed right that those
who did not Iavor woman suffrage should
be given a chance to present their ideas.
Mrs. w. z. Putnam, Chairman OF the
Protest Committe. said:
I'VE have been criticised for saying
that woman's place is in the home. We
know that it is losing power for two peo-
pie to attempt to do the same thing.
Women have just as important part To
play in life as the men, but it is not as
voters but as the power behind the
throne that they can exercise great in
huence for good"
DR.. Theodore l.. Cuyler said:
This is not question OF woman's ca
pacity in the domain of art, literature,
science, etc., but of her duties in the do
main of civil government. The Creator
made man and woman TO govern, but in
totally different spheres and methods.
10 man he entrusted civil leadership,
administration OF justice the authority of
magiStracy, with the strong arm to en-
force obedience to authority when re-
quired. Woman has her equally i'm
portant empire, in which she is to rule
by persuasions, by captivities of love,
by force of character, by power as gen.
tie as the beneficence of the sunbeam.
Woman's strength consists in remaining
woman, and not trying to be man.
'sThen, too, all womanhood is not an
gelic. The multitude of ignorant women
and of depraved> women would assuredly
be brought to the polls by machine poll
ticians and demagogues. A new respon-
Sibility would be thrust upon respectable
womanhood.
LET me remind the jealous female
suffragists," said DR.. Cuyler, in conclu-
sion, that if perilous passions were to be
introduced as an element into politics,
it would furnish new source of corrup-
ton and prohigacy. There is full scope
for true woman's patience, power, pu-
rity and prayer without attempting to
override that Divine arrangement, which
never fitted her to be soldier, sailor, a
civil engineer, jurymau, magistrate, a
policeman or politician"
The petitions being sent in by the
woman sutfragists contain the arguments
which have been used by them for years,
and which are familiar to all readers.