Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-02-20
The POSITION OF WOMAN IN THE TWEEN
TIETH CENTURY.

The POSITION OF WOMAN IN THE TWEEN
TIETH CENTURY.
1t is my cherished belief that in the
twentieth century there will be no ar.
tificial restrictions placed upon women
by laws which bar them out of certain
employmeuts, professions and careers,
or by that public sentiment, stronger
than law, which now practically closes
to them many paths of usefulness for
which they seem to me to be specially
adapted. All that the most progress
i've pioneers have ever dreamed of ask
ing is that in the case of women as in
that of men, they should not be hedged
about by barriers made by the privi-
legged classes, who, in politics, eccles-
iastical, professional and business life,
have secured the power to say who
shall come in and who shall stay out.
This power has crippled the efforts of
men to develop according to the utmost
of their possibilities, but it is now uni.
versally conceded among intelligent
people that men are fast coming to
their own in the sense of being free to
make the most of themselves in any
direction to which their bent of mind
has p~redisposed them. The same will
be true of women in the twentieth CEN
fury. l confidently expect that they
will win their greatest laurels in the
realm Of government. Many of the
great statesmen of the future will be
women; many of the greatest preach.
ers will be women.
The world has lost %incalculable by
the senseless prejudice that has silenced
the potent voice of the mothers of the
world in aisles of prayer and halls of
legislation. The tact of woman have
been of incalculable service to the peo-
pie in the settling of disputes. From
the beginning a mother has been both
statesman and diplomat in the home;
from morning until night it has been
her work to settle disputes, reconcile
opposing forces, put down rivalries; in
short, to administer justice tempered
with mercy. 1t has been we'll said
that probably the greatest loss human
ity has suffered 10 from the fact that
half the wisdom, more than half the
purity and more than half the gen.
tleness of humankind have been missed
from the mart, the camp, the court.
We want the survival of the most as
we'll as of the f%ittest, the survival of
Others as we'll as of ourselves, and we
shall never have this principle carried
to its complete conclusion until every
child that is born, whether boy or girl,
shall from the first drink in the inspir-
alton of knowing and feeling that ''the
world is all before them where to
choose. by Lady Somerset.
WHAT HAST THOU DONE?
That little children wall and starve
and perish and soak and blacken soul
and sense in our streets; that there are
hundreds and thousands of the unem-
ployed, not all of whom, as some would
persuade US, are lazy impostors; that
the demon of drink still causes among
us daily horrors which would disgrace
Dahomey or Ashantee and rakes into
his Golfers millions of pounds which are
wet with tears and red with blood
these are facts patent to every eye
Now, God will work no miracle to
mend these miseries. II we neglect
them, they will be left uncured. but he
will hold us responsible for the neglect.
1t is vain for us to ask, "Am I my
brothers keeper" In spite of all the
political economists, in spite Of all su-
perfne theories of chilly and purse
saving wisdom, in spite of all the crit
les of the irreligious, still more of the
semireligious and the religious, press,
he will say to the callous and the
slothful, with such a glance "as struck
Gehazi with leprosy and Simon Mogus
with acurse:" what hast thou donep
Smooth religionist, orthdox church
man, scrupulous Levite, befringed and
bephylacteried Pharisee, thy brothers
blood crieth to me from the ground
-Archdeacon Farrar.
EGGNoG AND sENAToRsHIP.
A Knoxville Sentinel representative
lately visited Washington City, and
called on Senator Bate at the Ebbitt
House, where a few other Tennesseans
were assembled. He says If the Sena.
tor receives all of his callers as he did
him that Bate will be very hard to beat
when he stands for. the Senate again.
The correspondent further says:
Mrs. Bate had prepared an immense
bowl of golden eggnog, and it was
strong enough to stand alone. This
Senator Bate lovingly called the nectar
Of the gods, and Mrs. Bate laughed al
him for being poetical. Concerning
the proper strength of the eggnog il
seem there is a difference of opinion
between Senator Bate and his martial
colleague. The Senator stands for q
liberal construction Of the clause OF
the recipe relative to the amount OF
whisky to be used.
FACTS o EER DRINKERS.
have treated nearly 1000 cases OF
inebreity, and eight tenths Of that
number originated from wine and