Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-02-01


cupation. Woman has largely taken her
place among the unemployed Woman is
no less feminine because she has broader
outlook. She has changed in her
avocations, her professions, changed in n
Thousand ways Man will find it impossible
to turn back this progress. The fiction
OF the age shows quite we'll the conditions
OF that age. Douglass Jerrold caricatured
woman. Even Charles Dickens held
women up to ridicule. Nowadays such
writings could not be penncf. The people
would not laugh at this kind of ridicule.
Sec how different women regard their lives
at present. How much more seriously
woman looks out upon the duties before
her.
She had no desire to criticize men. She
should not consider it wise to criticize
those from whom we wish favor
She believed human nature has in it so
much good that there is nothing to be
appealed to but the good in anyone. And
deep down in the heart of everyone she
believed there is more Of good than evil
She had never seen person who mad not
some good in them.
Education has changed womans out
look There are other things She has
been recognized as an individual She
is allowed to hold property. Some think
woman's effort should be confined to car
ing for the sorrowful, the sick and the
S nful. She knew not how long sine
woman had been relegatcd to the
ambulance corps. But she has changed
in that she has learned to look
for the cause These new views of looking
at these questions has rcvolutionized her
attitude. She asks, when she sets about
to alleviate misery "Why should there
be misery at all?" And other questions
she asks as children sometimes do. And
sometimes she feels that somehow she
might improve upon conditions.
1t is a question wholly of sex
with the opposition. Men say
that they represent u.s. I have meyer
found man willing to represent us when
the tax collector calls. 1 know that in
Massachusetts woman does not own her
own child She felt that there were laws
which the women could change to advan-
tage. woman cannot fight" is the
crushing argument against us in England
and always say, "Im not so certain of
that Among the savage nations it has
been demonstrated that physically the
women are the equal of men. The tribe
or nation which ceased to put its women
in the front of battle did so because they
discovered that if women cannot bear
arms, they can bear soldiers and are the
fount of the nation.
In the bread winning hand of women
arc the same implements as i'll the bread
winning hand of men.
If the facing of death is to be recog-
nized with political privileges, women
have earned them.
If woman suffrage means the destroy
ing of homes, then good many homes
have been destroyed in New Zealand and
in some of the states of this country.
Because we believe in the sacred in
nuence of woman in her home, we believe
women should vote. When her son goes
out to manhood he should find that his
mother is not classed with idiots and
lunatics in political influence, but that
she occupies the same influential position
about the hcarthstone Of politics as about
the hcarthstone of the home.
We have too long separated the religious
and the secular When men learn to vote
as they pray, then we shall get truer
insight into what political life should
really be.
Lady Somerset then referred to woman
suffrage in England. A few years back
no city was more corrupt than London.
She said that when she came into her
fathers London estates she found the teDc-
mcnts in doplorable condition, and told
how her efforts to improve them were
baked by the corrupt political influences
at work. She told how the London county
council found they could not do without
women and appointed them to advisory
board.. and one of the most prominent
men in the council had told her they were
to ask Parliament to reinstatc women up
on the county council. She believed party
politics must be eliminated as far as posi-
bio from municipal legislation. She be-
loved woman suffrage would do this.
| They say women will not vote. She
SAVED TWO WOMEN,