The San Francisco call., 1896-05-06

The wife is dearer than the mistress. Men do
not fight for the mistress in her defense, In ner
honor, though among themselves they may ngnt
over her because their ownership is disputed, taer
properly rights questioned.
1t is for the wife and home that men pour iortn
their life blood. a good womans influence must
ever make for good in the home-ln the nation.
The advent OF woman in the shop, the ONCE lne
cohege-wherever she has gone-has raised the
moral atmosphere. ,,
When women vote the morals of the Nation will
be st.ll more in her keeping. The advent OF women
at the polls will not so much AFFECT the relative
put ii5 better IT. men for once for no man OF known
immoral character can hope for the votes OF
the women, as class. -,
This will promote the morality of the nation
for no more pernicons doctrine was ever current
than that the pubic have nothing 10 do with the
private life, the personal character OF pubic man.
Besides conserving the moral health of Nation,
women are intrusted with the development OF the
child into the young American patriot. the loyai
American citizen The mother impresses the child
before birth and, during the first seven years or
its existence. the child is almost exclusively under
feminine Influence that of the mother, or of an elder
sister, or of some woman teacher; and in the first
seven years of chiid's life, the philosophers
tell u.s. the childs character is formed.
The time is coming when American men, c acting az
rescue the Nation from the ignorant foreign voter
and the criminal elements IN our National lie.
Why fear that woman will then struggle with
man for supremacy in his own fields? The inter
ests of women and men are not antagonistlc
They are compemental, and the keener moral
sense and the finer intuit onS of women VIII re-en
force the greater physical strength and intellectual
power of man in shaping the destiny of the Nation
sponsibiIies of citizenship, trained in the princI-
pies of good government and political economy,
clothed with political authority, and able to carry
out her convictions either mother or school
teacher women will be better equipped to train
the rising generations in patriotic citizenship
Every American mother must make her child q
baby patriot, proud OF the tiny American nag
which she pins upon his breast as she takes him
to see the Fourth OF July procession.
Zach teacher-a woman teacher, remember
eaDy epa a1a MUTe
that, the American schoOlteacher must plant the
first Idea OF patriotism in many little heart; IN
spre him TO love this country the land of his birth
or the home of his parents adopton-to love IL
most and best. This country is educating him,
this Nation wants him for its loyal citizen. 1t
calls for his love-his devotion. To him this Ma
ton must become the one Nation OF all the earth.
Does the Nation realize the responsibilities
which rest upon these political nonentities-these
women teachers of our public schools?
Think OF 1t, our public schools are full OF children
| who never hear one word OF English spoken ct
home. They are the offspring OF parents who
habitually set all law at open defiance Or secret
evasion These parents are strangers to our Anglo
aXon ideas or morality and government. They
| obtain the living that they could not wiring from
the pauper soil OF Europe. Can the public school
| children? That is what she is doing every day.
The hope of our country is in our children, and
as our public schools are conducted so will that
| hope be frustrated or fulfilled.
] Among the thinkers OF the Nation those who
| loyalty elevate the Nation above the separate
Government should have control Of the public
schools reducing the uneven and conflicting sys-
standard of individual excellence
The Nation educates her soldiers and her sailors,
whysnot her future citizens? Her very life de-
! pends upon their loyalty.
1t is TOO late TO train a voter when he is on his
| way TO the polls but the children may be trained
in the virtues of true citizenship. School children
must be taught that good name is better than
riches, and that the ballot-box is as sacred as an
| altar.
The American child must be helped to realize
| that material prosperity is not everything, but
that art is the soul OF life, the divine compensa-
| tion for mans necessity for labor.
In America good is better than the best OF
other nations What is bad has come from out
| side sources and shall be cast forth, and what is
| best in other countries will take and MAKE our
/ own and stamp il with our Americanism.
We are the people and our country is the one
| great Nation Of the earth.
The Rev. DIR. Philip Graft of Oakland
opened the discussion.
1.-The new woman he said, lis only the
woman of old under nobler and better
auspices. The patriotism now being
manifested by woman is an earnest that
she will become great bulwark of the
| Nation"
Other well-known speakers discussed the
paper until the hour for adjournment.