The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-06-25
THE NEW WOMAN.
Rev. P. 8. Henson, D. D., Discourses on
the Subject az . Chicago Church
Banquet.

to Madison Chautauqua goers, at a re-
cent church banquet in Chicago, was
given the subject of "The New Woman
and spoke Is follows, says the Inter
Ocean:
1.-The subject Of the new is a
very delicate and difficult question, and
I never touch it except when away from
home. 1t is q matter which must be
handled as carefully as a car OF dyna-
mite, for you car never tell when it will
blow you to the oon 1t is a-question
which looms up ominously before us all
just now. The prophet saw an ominOus
sign in the heavens like unto the hand
Of a man, but this is the hand OF a won
an. The cloud is gathering dark and
threatening and will some time strike
hard. I hope that I am dead when the
worst comes. (Laughter.)
II am not here as a representative Of
mans superiority, nor do / believe in
woman's superiority. I believe as Lin
coin, who when president was presented
Will I"O udU5 W INoh AnoV0iS' y ~
happened that the two rivals CHANGED to
call at the same time for his opinion Of
their wares, SO taking the hats, n in
either hand, he said. Gentlemen, each Of
these hats is superior to the other SO
man aud woman in the proper perform
ance of their duties is superior. 1t is
impossible to compare a flower and a
star or the various parts OF the human
body, for God has made each thing supe-
rior in it's proper sphere. I think that
the, most wonderful invention Of man is
the locomotive, and yet what is more
helpless a sight than a locomotive off the
track, foundering helplessly in the mire,
and what is more contemplate than a
womanized man unless it is o mannish
woman?
1.-The Lord did not create a man and q
woman; he created Adam, and humanity
in it's totality was Adam. Humanity is
not double headed. Man may be &C.
knowledged to be the head, but woman
ia the neck, and the neck moves the
head in whatever way she will, as a rule.
But to return to the scriptures; Adam
fell asleep, and when he awoke he had
lost his best part; m is the best
part of Adam, but woman must ever &C.
knowledge that she owes her existence to
man. Each is superior to the other.
Woman is possessed of less intellect, and
man prides himself upon this. She
claims she knows naught about logic
and can't argue. Can't she?. Has no
logic? Suppose she hasn't. The whole
subject Of logic is evidence of our imper.
lection. She just knows a thing. A
man tries to reach a logical conclusion,
and founders about, while woman just
leaps clear over logic and secures a firm
footing. Spiritually woman is superior
She is more religious, and is more in evi
derce in church than man, for religion
appeals to the deepest emotions and
thoughts. I believe that in heaven
there is no marrying nor giving in mar
rage, for the reason there would not be
men enough to 60 round; not that
think all women to be angels-O no. ]
have lived too long with one to think
that. Women were last at the cross
and first at the tomb, and even Pilates
wife pleaded against the murder Of
Christ, and vas right, not by logic, but
by instinct.
There ia a radical difference between
the sexes, their spheres, and funct .ons
and each may be nobler and superior ir
its respective sphere. l want to say
that Adam has been misunderstood. HI
has been called mean to lay it to woman
What else could he do? Lie? (Laugh
ter.) That was the honest truth. Th,
devil walked around Adam, sized hin
up, and decided that he could not tackle
him alone, 80 he decided to let woman
try her hand. She succeeded in doinl
what the devil could not. She still beat
, the devil when she tries her hand a
mischies and misery. Adam was not de
: ceived. Eve was. She believed sh'
l could eat the fruit with impunity. ant
3 when Adam saw it he saw that the poo
girl was gone and was too chlvalrous t
= allow her to suffer alone, SO joined her
. and has been doing it ever since.
Z / believe in woman's industrial rights
and that when she does her work as vel
t as q nan could she should be paid q
: we'll. There VAS a rule in Washington
: D. c., at one time that no woman shoul
+ receive more than $1,000, while men re
a ceived salaries away up in the thousand
y and as much more as they could steal.
As for suffrage-welL I wish that
had all the men together SO that I coul
tell you what I really do think. Laugh
: ter.) Some arguments which are YER
: foolish have been used against femal
{ suffrage. l oppose it a little, as niue
as I dare. Some say that the right
e vote and the duty to fight should go t.