The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-06-07
NATIONAL NFLICTION.
Bishop DOane's Views of the Effect Of
WOman's Suffrage.
WOULD SHE SELL HER VOTE9
The Great Divine Airs His Pet Theory and
Declares That Fair Woman, who
Was Once Mans Conceded supe-
rior, Is Now Only His Equal.

ALBANY, June 6.-The Right Rev Will
liam Croswell Doane Protestant Fpisoo-
pal bishop of Albany, presided at the clos
ing exercises Of St Agnes school here to-
day. The institution is maintained in
connection with the Episcopal cathedral
for the education Of young women and
has many pupils from outside the state. :
In his address Bishop Doane said lone
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 it's bla-
tant assumptions, but in the parade and
push of its claims for recognition of what
is called its rights 1 have had occasion
to say what wrong to womanhood these
women's rights would be, and have no
desire to recall a word.
The agitators are really in the minori-
ty. Numberless names on these modern
millenary petitions mean only the thought
less and good natured yielding to persist
emit pursuit, just as legislative majority
votes stand, in not q few instances, for
mistaken courtesy or an unmanly cow
ardiee.
Il believe that God will yet save this
state and nation from the aggravated mis-
cries of an enlarged, unqualified suffrage,
which, in its universality of male voters,
is our most threatening danger today.
But If we are to be visited with this other
infliotion as a we'll earned punishment for
many national sins then I believe that
when we have tasted its bitterness we shall
be brought back perhaps through anarchy
and revolution to dem mocracy which shall
demand for its existence government by
men whom education and actual AmeEl-
canism Of final interest in the nation quail
ify to govern.
Some Strong Statements.
Meanwhile, when constitutions shall
have been altered to disturb the equipoise
Of the relation between man and woman;
when motherhood shall be replaced by
mannishness; when neglected homes shall
furnish candidates for mismanaged Of
fees; when money shall buy the votes Of
women, as it does now themselves when
the fires of political disoord shall be light
ed on the hearthstone of domestic peace;
when the assertion Of demanded right
shall have destroyed the instructive ohiv-
airy of conceded courtesies; when woman,
as has been we'll said, once the superior,
has become the equal of man, then the
reaped whirlwind of some violent political
reaction will be gathered in tears by those
who are sowing the wind in the mad Joy
Of the petroleuse of the French revolutions
Never In any age, nowhere in any
land, and nowhere in America, so much
as now in our own Empire State, was
there such absolute unreason for the clam
or which seeks to distract women from the
duties Of the vocation to which they are
called, in the mad pursuit of the greatest
wrong that can be done TO their sex, their
country and mankind
The man who is set in public place to-
day TO train some of the women of Amer
ioa for their vocation may not, in times
like these, withhold his voice of warning
against the dangers and delusions of the
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