The herald., 1896-10-14
WOMEN AND POLITICS

"A kcuIleIIldu VIII dtLClQSu ycSIcIudy :
session of the Woman's parliament de-
sires The Herald to give publication to
some rather discursive remarks which
he would like to work OFF, in an anon
ymous way. A perusal of them con-
vinces the editor that they are in no de-
gree explosive or otherwise injurious
and they are hereunto appended:
II went to the Woman's parliament
expecting to be entertained and edited
was not disappointed. If attach more
Importance to the entertainment afford
ed me than to the instruction acquired
1t is not that the edification was Of an in
ferior sort, but because entertainment,
has become greater desideratum with
me than Instruction.
1.-THE world is crammed with informa-
tion-is q huge kindergarten. in fact
but happiness and the acquisition of
knowledge are hardly synonymous
terms. The reflection arises to my
mind that perhaps dreadful
time is coming when 1t will be
construed as the strenuous duty
Of everybody to be mutually instructive,
with small regard to whether there is to
own sake among the children of men.
] confess to growing fear that in new
regime, which seems imminent, mans
haven of refuge, the home, where fem
mime charms and virtues have illustrat-
ed the refinements of. catholic culture,
the elegance of taste and unaffected
simplicity, the pleasures of benevo-
lence and genuine hospitality, DOM
mated by the beautiful religion of the
risen Christ, will become house of de-
bate and dissension. The interdepen-
the dependence of man on woman, as the
homekeeper, curator and conservator of
all those sacred interests and joys to
which he turns from the stress of the
political and business world, is such
that the conservative person cannot
contemplate changed sex relations and
spheres with equanimity. II woman is
to invade the sphere of political govern
ment in all it's departments, as must
follow from the general recognition of
the petticoat in politics. in the ulti-
mate adjustment. an equal number of
men must be driven to the distinctively
QOIUGSllC oPHGIe. lCoSC iiHdS,liiC q
ministering angel Of man about the
domestic hearth, nursing children, dust
ing the Lares and Penates soothing the
fevered brow of the senatress, the may
Dress of the city or the sheriffess of the
county, keeping bright the altar flame
of home, even as the Roman virgins of
the temple kept alive the sacred fires of
Vesta!
Can such things be? 1t is not i'm
possible. The differentiation of the
sexes is giving way to an assimilation
and mergement, which look upon with
a jealous eye, and from which augur
distressing results in the future
Now, let us turn from this lugubrious
prophet of evil to the glowing invocation
of Hon. M. L. Taylor to women for their
political cooperation. In his address
at the Sl-ver wigwam last Saturday
night, the Colorado orator spoke as fol-
lows:
I'VE have got another thing in Colo
RADIO 1 wish You had in California. The
mothers and the sisters and the wives
and the sweethearts take us by the arm
when the polls are opened, and go with
US into the booth and heln us purify the
politics of this country and select good
:nen. This is campaign of humanity;
it is campaign for the elevation of the
human race; it is campaign for the
lifting from their shoulders of an unjust
burden. The idleness in this country
is the parent of vice. of crime, of dishon-
or, and of misery. l tell you they have
fought this encroachment, this pressure
until by, degrees they are losing power
of redress Men cannot strive forever
hope!essly and with a simple patience
in the same fight; and if we could only
have the women Of this country, with
their women's hearts. and let them hear
the story of the depression and the
wrongs and sufferings of this people,
tell you they would march every man
in this country to the polls and free
these people with their selection, and
would settle this question for all times"