The herald., 1895-05-09

pledges, his contracts. She Is the emana-
| tion of the conditions of modern society.
The new woman exists because she has
discovered a natural right to do all her
hands find to do. and her mental capac-
| tiles enable her to do; bee use she has
| discovered that woman, as little as man,
! should, after certain age. be depend
ent on aught but her own exertions; be-
cause it is right that useful occupation
| stimulates independence il woman as
we'll as in man. Her ambition does not
outweigh her sense of right to the extent
OF de handing the natural place OF men,
and by the natural place OF men L mean
that from the standpoint of nature, the
| physique, the strength, the endurance
and the mind of man enables him to do
many things which woman cannot en-
compass. not because she is not mis- equal.
but only because she is woman. We
| cannot trench upon the limitations OF ma
| ture, and that such limitations exist not
even the strongest-minded woman will
| deny.
| To the second questionable new wo.
| man, what is she? l answer. TODAY she IS
rebellious woman who rails against al
! most every condition in existence. She
is essentially a reformer who wants to lay
bare the supposedly rotten foundations of
every social structure. There is nothing
good under the sun so far as she is con-
cerned. She meets in.solemn conclave with
her sisters. and together they determine
the doom of the world. She has resolved
that man is not worthy of being her
equal. She is the evolved species of
discontinued Roman matron, an lnde-
pendent creature with a lashing tongue
and a rod of chastisement in her fair
hands. She is the quintessence of inde-
pendent action. She goes her way alone.
In her scheme of social and moral re-
generation man mas at best very insig-
nifcant part. Tradition and ideal, both
are alike to her; she wants to rear her
Utopia upon her ruins of an old, decrepit
world.
In her heart of hearts she doubts the
possibility of republic OF women in
which man shall be but the newer OF
wood and the carrier of water, like the
ancient Tiberonites, but an inordinate
pride and a well developed bump of OBJ
stinacy prevent her from giving public
expression of her doubt. All her ,pecu-
derision of the opposite sex, proceed,
however. from but one source. She does
not respect man. She has lost her ideal
of manhood and l respectfully submit it
is as great a misfortune for woman to
lose her ideal of manhood as for man to
lose his ideal of womanhood. In the loss
of either both are the sufferers. Manhood
is a noble and beautiful thing, as glor-
ious of its kind as is womanhood. In it's
highest, its noblest condition it repre-
sents the concentrated power of the
human race to lift the animal man to
the heights of the God man. That ideal
should never be permitted to suffer BE-
cause that men have fallen to lowest
levels, any more than one ideal OF wo-
manhoud suffers from the fact that many
women have cast thei1 CLOWNS OF purity
and chastity in the public gutter.
claim that woman who has lost her
ideal of manhod is a one-sided creature.
bo NIL oH hat good
man. She has forgotten qualities and
become blinded to several facts that
know she will learn again when she comes
to her senses. Such facts. for instance.
that since immemorial days it was the
blood of man that drenched battlefields;
that in the primeval forests of the human
intellect it was his ak which made the
I first pathways that the great industries
and proud monuments OF perseverance
were builded by him.
Her want of respect for the genus man
cripples the intellectual perceptions of
the new woman, and she forgets the
achievements OF manhood because man
| has done her an injury and she has seen
| him in his weakness.
But what the new woman is today she
is not likely to lie tomorrow. All great
intellectual and social revolutions begln.n
about the same way. They are preceded
by phenomena that challenge the reason
/ able powers of man. The dream is the
! precursor of the reality; the theory, of
| the fact. The new woman may in sense
| be social anarchist, but it is because
she is the forerunner of great social
revolution.
She has had the courage to lift the veil
that hide the future, and some day. when
/ that curtain shall fall, she shall behold
nothing less than the realization of her
dreams. She shall witness herself stand
ing on the high pedestal OF public esteem,
and not one whit shall her throne be low
cred.
Where man is king she shall be queen.
In the realm of intellect they shall be
equals, in the domain of state they shall
share and divide responsibility. She shall
no longer be a protected person; the
rights inherent in man shall be inherent
in her. She shall do all she hopes to do.
all she is able to to do. She shall lead
the men of the state into the highroads
of pure and upright character.
She shall be praised because she is the
mother of mans character, just as man
is the molder of strength and intellect.
The rights of voting and owning property,
| the right to appear as respons BILE wit
| nessses. they are illustrations of the main
question whether the equilibrium of man
and woman shall be restored, whether
the law of mutuaity shall once be recog
nized. In that future things will proba-
| bly, be as they ought to be. Man will con-
| tlnue TO exercise his llllOu anu IDuSCle,
woman to be the strong, sweet influence
of his life.
They will still complement one another
| in the great designs of God and nature.
| Man shall have no standards that she
cannot recognize; he shall not be able to
accomplish anything in which her sound
sense. stimulated by her love and faith,
shall not have the casting vote. And all
| this shall come to pass not by fire and
sword, not by revolution and rebellion.
not even by the one-sided councils of
| women or men, but it shall come to pass
like all great moral revolutions, by the
penetrating influences of educat ion.
By the better sense of, the better knowl
edge of women; by recognition of the
| influence of womanhood on man. the in
f1uence of manhood on woman: and
above all by the prevalence of justice to
woman tnat comes from the Omnipotent
source of strength.
The new woman of today is only the
precursor of the woman of tomorrow.
In conclusion Dr.. Voorsanger answered
his question of where the new woman is
the repelllous, rampant new woman. She
| is everywhere and her ancestresses were
in Greece and Rome. Everywhere the
women are studying and considering
their wrongs, be it in Europe or America;
in Russia or Massachusetts. in the south,
in India. IN France and in California /;
everywhere that G has made man and
woman: whom the Almighty. has given