The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-24

field of action for herself and broader train
ing for the family which is committed to her
charge. In the ideal families, even now to be
found among US, father and mother are work
ing together; the mother not less gentle, the
father not less firm both com bining their power
to rear to manhood and womnnhood citizens
who Will carry forward the highest interest of
the family which find their ultimate realza-
ton IN the perfectly developed nation-the
nation which is to build Ged's kingdom upon
earth. The state needs womans help; the
greatest men OF the state are calling for her
wise councils and swift intuitions God
speed the woman who bravely lays aside her
natural shrinking from publicity and comes
forward TO combat the present elements of dis
order. and even dishonor, that are insidiously
creeping into our American institutions. She
is res pondine to a divine call.
We are looking with hopeful hearts toward
peaceful time when there will be more father
hooo in the family and more motherhood in
the state; When men and women, standing
side by side in the home life-that will also
mean pure political life-will rejoice as
never before in true liberty. This time will
come only when governments cease to be in
strumentalities in the hands of kings, princes,
lords and bosses for the perpetuatfon and
support of tottering thrones, despotic mon
arches and rotten republics; when kings and
popes and lords and millionaires cease to be
parasites and pIunderers and step down into
the rank and file of honest men; when govern
ments shall be conducted not for the ag
grandizement of the few, but for the common
welfare OF the many. Then war shall cease.
Then that other fierce war-less bloody, but no
less fatal 10 human weal-the war OF COMPETE
tive interests, in which men struggle to build
up self by downing and rcbbing their fellow
men, shall also cease.
from the homes, from the iresides, let moth
ers' voices be heard in response TO the bugle
blast that is sounding loud and clear for vol
unteers in the great cause of justice and hui
mainly. Let the family, in the father with the
mother, the son with the daughter, join the
mighty hosts that marching from the old
to the new-hoping for universal justice, uni
versal fraternity, universal equality TO rule
TO the state, the sovereign power, guided by
"Peace on earth, good will to man."
"My Quaker spirit moves me to say
the conclusion of the paper.
we are glad" said the president, that
the Quaker spirit moves her."
"Ralph Waldo Emerson" began Miss
Anthony, 'once said that men are what
their mothers made them. All Of this
elimination about men and business
! affairs and political affairs only sets forth,
as in mirror, the work of the mothers of
| the United States. | want to say, as l said
In the late anti-slavery days, the very fact
that there was a nation of people willing
TO i've without protest against an institu-
tlon that bought and sold human beings
as chattels in market made it impossible
Tor these same human beings to be honest
or Just In any other direction; and | want
to say to you to-day that just as long as all
men conspire together to rob women of
their right to a voice in the Government,
to rob women OF a just share in the pro-
ceeds OF the labor of their own hands, to
rob women of their right to individual ex-
preston and to have that Individual
expression counted in the ballot-box so
long as men are content to usurp the
rights, powers, privileges, earnings and
proceeds OF the labor of one-hah of the
people, it will be utterly impossible for
those men to be just to each other. They
| Will rob each other whenever they get an
opportunity, because there is planted in
their heart of hearts this principle. or this
lack OF principle, OF their right to possess
themselves OF and to own and control the
possession of the women of the world.
Now, the men in politics are vancouver
ing to gain ends by maneuyering, instead
OF by straightforward argument, are merely
patterning after the example of the
mothers in the home. Do not blame these
boys in politics, the men in business.
They are but carrying out on a larger
scale the same maneuvers that their
mothers taught
Mrs. Kline wanted to emphasize the
statements made by Miss Anthony, al
though she rather excused the mothers on
| the ground that their environment was not