Middletown transcript., 1895-10-26

| 0SotA uSttoh va thS kOOA 40 VlSAA PONSAty
! White Ribbon women must be TIN
sworn foes Of monopoly, oflandlordisn
and every other form of class legisla
tion. For one, believe that the LIANT
belongs to the people, and that Will
the farmers domain should not be in
terfered with, since he turns it. int
beneficient use, propaganda of educa
tion should be devised whereby the sin
gle tax and the issue of all money BY
the government itself should become
4 two of the central planks in the plat.
form of the party of the future"
| A ''NEw MAN" NEEDED.
"The constantly increasing partici.
patton of women in all The affairs o1
the world is of the utmost significance
| for good. When woman is transplan.
ted from the conseryatories of seclu-
sion into the great open garden OF
of common life, the culture of that
garden must become more refined and
its purpose more protecting. Mother
and child are rapidly taking their
rightful place as the central figures of
the great world problem. Peace in
the government and purity in the home
must be their guardian angles.
"But what the world waits for is not
the new woman alone, but the new
man. One swallow does nOt make a
summer, and one partLtLy the hearth
stone does not make home. We need
to stop singing the old ditty, What is
Home Without Mother unless we
add, The Father Alone Can Make the
House Home If he spends his leis-
ure time in what is now popularly
known as the The Workingman's
Club disguised name for the dram
shop, and his wages are levied on by the
proprietor, new woman will be neces-
sary to keep the home together unless
he himself becomes new man.
"We need new man in the editors
sanctum who will not dip up b er along
with his ink; a new manin the pulpit
who will recognize the right ard the
sore need of the church to the COM
pletest participation of women in all
its exercises and its councils; we need
new man in the laboratory who will
not, as the ultimatum of his studies.
rule God out of the universe; We need a
new man in the medical profession who
will not administer alcoholics nor prac
tice vivisection; We need a new man
at the bar Who will strive to make
peace instead of pocket-fees; we need |
a new man in the Legislature and cabi-
net who really believes in the Ten
Commandments and supremely seeks
the welfare of the people.
woMAN's PROGRESS.
"The action of the Methodist con-
ferences in voting to admit women to
the General Conference is the largest
straw on the current of the times. The
woman's department of the Atlanta
Exposition and the great Congresses of
Women held in the farther South are
other tokens hardly less significant.
That good bishop and other ministers
who have spoken unkindly of the pro-
gressive women movement do not rep.
resent the guild to which they belong;
on the contrary, no other class of men
has done so much to bring in the era
of justice to women and children of
peace and purity as the American
clergy. But for their teachings, that
have mellowed mems hearts, woman
would never have been in the Colorado
nor would bill presented
by those women have been adopted
raising the age Of protection to eigh-
teen years, nor would the Legislature
of Texas have been specially convened
to forbid couple of prizt lighters to
braise one another within the borders
Of that State"
ENGLISH WOMEN IN POLITICS.
Miss Willard considers the women
Of England to be nearer political eman-
cipa ion than their American sisters.
"Here We may well sit at the feet of
The women of Great Britain,n she |
said. "They are generation in ad-
vance of US in their work for politics.
There is no branch of that intricate
art in which they are not versed. They ;
canvass for votes, arrange meetings.,
address constituencies, in fact do
except to cast and count
he ballots, in winning which they are
ofIen the most potent force. 1t was $
my good fortune 10 address several :
meetings in England, some of ]
which were held in churches and pre- b
sided over by the pastor. They were
!. combination of a church sociable, +
Fourth of July picnic and a Methodist u
ovefeast. When men and women are
woDted TO this constant comradlike
participation in political work, it is
,ut one step further to the admission
# women into all governmental coun- a
ills, and feel sure that the sense of .
ustice of the British nation will lead r
hem to take such action within the a
Iext few years. "
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