The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-06-07
! THE COMING WOMAN.
An Episcopal Bishops Denuncia-
h tion Of Woman Suffrage. :.
WOULD BEA NATIONAL 1NrL1oT1oN
According to Bishop Doans aMannishness
Would Replace Motherhood and Neg
4 Iected Homes FernIsh Candidates for
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according TO bshop Donne "Mannishness
Would Replace Motherhood and Neg
4 Iecssd Homes FernIsh Candidates for
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ALBANY, June 7.--Thc Right Rev. VIII.
sam Crosswell Doane, Episcopal bishop OF
Albany, presided at the closing exercises
of St. Agnes school here yesterday. The
institution is maintained In connection
with the Episcopal cathedral for the edu-
fstion Of young women, and has many
pupils from other states. Bishop Doane
- one OF the most prominent anti. .
rights men in the country, and he evi.
IDENTIFY believes In carrying the opposition
70 the coming woman" into the school
room. His address to the graduating
class was Of much interest In this connec.
tion. He said:
Zone gets sick and tired Of the way In
which the talk OF woman's vocation fills
the air, not merely In the wild vagaries of
Its blatant assumptions but In the parade
and push Of its claims for recognition OF
what are called Its rights.' have had
secession 10 say what wrong to woman
hood those woinen's rights would be, and
1hsve no desire to recall word believe
that God will yet save this state and ma
tion from the aggravated inissries of an
enlarged, unqualified suffrage, which, In
its university of male voters, is our most
threatening danger today.
But IL we are to be visited with this in
aiobioD, as well earned punishment for
many national sins, then believe that,
when we have tasted its bitterness, we
shall be brought back, perhaps through
Anarchy apd revolution, to democracy
which shall demand for its existence gov
ernment by men whom education and ae.
tual Amerlcanism Of final interest in the
nation qualify to govern.
Meanwhile when constitutions shall
have been altered to disturb the equipoise
Of the relation between man and woman
whom motherhood shall be replaced by
mannishness; when neglected homes shall
furnish candidates for mismanaged Of
0ces; when money shall buy the votes Of
women, as IL does now themselves; when
che fires of political discord shall be
lighted on the hearthstone Of domestic
peace; when the assertion of demanded
right shall have destroyed the instructive
chivalry Of the conceded courtesies; when
woman, as has been well said, only the
superior has become the equal Of man,
then the reaped whirlwind of some vic.
lent political reaction will be gathered in
tears by those who are sowing the wind,
IN tho mad joy of the petroleuse of the
French revolutions.
Never in any age, nowherein any land,
end nowhere in America, so much as now
u our own Empire state, was there such
absolute unreason for the clamor which
sseks to distract women from the duties
Of the vocation TO which they are called, )
fn the mad pursuit. of the greatest wrong
that can be done to their sex, their coun.
try and mankind. The man who Ia set in
public place today, to train some Of the
women Of America for their vocation, may
net, in times like these, withhold his voice
Of warning against the dangers and dclu.
Of tho hour"