The San Francisco call., 1896-05-09

suffering for the sake OF the higher life which Is TO
come.
! The differences between men and women are not
| 10 be overcome. Maternity will always cost more
physleaiy and mentally, than fatherhood. 1t Is
the greatest OF all possible errors 70 attempt to
make women over into cheap limitations OF men.
Inc "eternal womanly" Will always be with US
Yet the law Of evolution in the application to the
nighef human life always involves these phases
We pass from homogeneous indiherentiated
OASIS, through specialization and differentiation
70 20 a more organic unity on higher plane
unless there Is integration OF the specialized func-
slon IN the whole OF life In government we pass
through all possible types, good and bad, toward
certain Ger common type which shall, with the great
TO all In religion we pass from simple basis
through through all, all possible beliefs and super
tonality Of the universe and the one God and
pass from the homogeneous family, through all
kinds Of conditions to a homogeneous family
which involves, instead of excluding. the widest
specialization OF junction and life The ideals OF
man and woman tend to approach each other and
are united in the inclusive ideal Of the human be-
ing. The ideal man must be not only strong and
brave and true, but tender and sympathetic; the
ideal woman must be not alone loving and sensi-
tive and tender, but strong and capable Of Inde-
| pendent life. Likeness between men and women
is the last thing 10 be desired but there can be no
satisfying personal relation without equal freedom
and development.
Anything which relieves women from the neces-
sity OF marrying tends 70 place marriage itself on
/ nobler plane The interests of men are the in
4 terests OF women. The notion that there is a
necessary struggle for supremacy between the
sexes, and that one couquers at the OF the
other is one of the most absurd and perncfous no
/ tions eyerperpetrated upon patient world.
I No regeneration of humanity is 70 be expected
! from giving the suffrage TO women II is ONLY a
step toward freedoms bu. it is sucn step, and as
such deserves cur cordial supporL. Out OF all the
/ long struggle OF humanity emerges the ideal of
! womanhood. II is the "Eternnl WomsnIy,'' but
/ limitations Woman-lovfng. tender and sensi-
/ tive, but woman strong and true is the modern
! ideal; womaa capable Of standing alone, and
! a oil mr. ha
/ new woman-"God bless and protect her.
| A Mr.. Howard opened the discussion by
| indulging in what promised to develop
! into an intermlnable dissertation upon the
merits and dement's OF the new woman"
considered in the light of sociology and
evolution, but was cut off by the three
minute limit.
Another gentleman named Benham
spoke of Lady Aberdeen's lace industry in
Ireland as good in its way, but would pre-
Ter 70 see the land in that country in pos
session of the natives. He scored absentee
landlordism in the strongest terms.
Mrs. Andrews commented upon the new
woman and the new man in set of orig
! 1nal verses, which were warmly aDplauded
Miss Sarah NJ. Severance read a most
interesting paper on .'Woman's Stake in
| :he Country"-thatis, 1T was called a paper.
but was properly magnificent extempo-
raneous Grafton. She said:
a stake is something set-something fixed Ha.
woman stake IN government? Governments fs a
great JOINT Stock company, into which woman is
oorn- she cannot sell out throw up her stock.
she cannot avoid assessments Politics fs e method
I OF management Gods law for the correI ation Of
human beings; 1t ts science, and there "a no cor
ruption except in Its management; il is that haf
/ OF the Golden Rule which pertains to humanity
Inc ballot IS choice, the only choice which e
counted. Those who have no Vote are enslaved
10 those who have said DIR. FRANKLIN Tbe
prime object OF government TO protect and IL iz
as 2ust 70 deprive the unworthy and the incapahIe
OF the ballot as Of the pistol IL the greatest good ~
the greatest number so deman s.
But there should be no passabIe barriers When
the incompetent the minor. the lunatic The idiot
the lgnoramus, become capable, when the criminal
becomes worthy, then should they be Permitted -
vote their stock The sex line for vo er il ts T1S
unFlse possible for sex marks functions and fnnr
ton reads 70 different developments. Man deals
Win the mass, woman with the individual Ee
mas power she ethics and intutions feeino NJ 70
sponslDllt as the result OF functions PoSb sra
needed IN the nation as in the home. we are told
tnat woman shan't vote because she can't f51f,f
eno tnat sue snan't vote because she viii punge s
inlo rellglous war; that women will vote frsr ss
thelr husbands do and that they VIII vote fnst 81
LnsH nusDands DON'T and said husbands will he
u8iy ana make nnarmony in the family: tbat
men 10 lower levels 80 Sel1Pt
II after investigating the free States ,ba..
assertions prove true disfrauchfse woman ,5e-s
ior out don't disfranchise woman because she ia =
woman Il IS stigma upon her son: II blasts ne
race Star-eyed science, in the person Of sir
James CTlcnton Browne, tells that aonce eSr-