The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-01

churches, asking them for the same
rights which we have asked of the
states for these last fifty years-for the
same rights, immunities and privileges
that men enjoy
You mentioned that the perversion
OF the religious element in woman pre-
vented her progress ?''
Yes; that very perversion has held
her Tor ages under the car of jugger-
naut, has doomed her to the funeral
pyre, has kept her in iron shoes, has
Kept her in the harem. This perver-
sion makes her the beggar for church
lars, the maker Of altar cloths, sur
pllces and slippers. In return for this
devotion women are entertained with
sermons from the texts. Suffer not a
woman to speak in the churches etc.
Women must demand that all I'M
worthy reflections upon the dignity of
Womanhood and motherhood shall be
expunged from religious literature.
The ideas continually enunciated con-
hict with the Golden Rule and with the
Fifth Commandment = Honor thy
mother
Jewish women and Christian women
should unite in the grand protest; it
must be rather humiliating for the
former to have every man stand UP IN
the synagogue each Sabbath day and
say: I thank, thee, o, Lord, that
was not born woman
AGAINST HEAVY ODDS.
You see, in '99 we have these odds
against us-hrst, all the ignorant men,
particularly the foreigners, who are
accustomed to seeing women subServi-
ent and ignored in their respective
countries; and, secondly, the intelli-
gent, large-hearted, thoughtful men Of
the land, those who appreciate and
ooi, -, Of
our government. These men fear wo-
mems power against it
They fear that women would restore
the puritanical Sabbath, close the Ii
braries, the picture galleries, the con-
cert halls and museums that common
sense people have been so long laboring
to open to the masses"
What is your own personal expert
ence among women, Mrs. Stanton?"
'Of the liberal women I have met
their name is legion, but the rank and
file of womankind are bound in the
letters of the middle ages. Witness
the efforts Of that great pllalanx Of
women to close the great Chicago eX-
positions on Sundays. and thus deprive
the multitude of toilers of all the ele-
waiting Influences of that magnificent
spectacle; sacrificing the good of the
many to the bigotry of the few.
'In every walk of life we meet
charming women, but very seldom do
we find a woman with the infinite gen.
tleness of the tenderest Of her sex,
combined with the mental breadth, the
universal grasp. the indomitable cour-
age and the fearless aggressiveness Of
magnificent manhood"
THE NEW WOMAN.
DO you think there is going to be
reaction against the new woman, Mrs.
Stanton?" was the next question.
The new woman, as caricatured and
gossiped about, is a fad of the day.
she replied. There never can be a
reaction against the cultured. conten-
ted physically and mentally strong
new woman. She is in her right sphere
now-the comrade, the companion of
man. Genesis, first chapter, says:
And God created man in his own i'm
age; male and female created he them
The obnoxious rib story was never
mentioned until the second chapter; it
is one of the legends women must in
sist upon expunging.
eff we could only educate women to
the thinking point, all would be well,
for it is self-evident fact that
world filled with tolerant, fair-minded, /
liberal women would be very desir-
able place for man to dwell in. Men
are everywhere helping US in the good
work
How inconsistent 1t is to say that |
women have encroached upon mans |
work. Do we not see that women need |
no longer knit or weave, make butter !
or cheese? Cunning arms and cunning
fingers of steel now do it all. And who |
made those arms and fingers of steel? |
Why. man, of course. And why should |
be not lift the heavy burdens of labor |