The record-union., 1896-06-14
HOME CAUCUsES
That is the Only Place Where
Women Should Hold Them.

Listen to the complaint OF Rev. MISS
Shaw:
Where we discuss man and his pos
sibilities we never think of any career
he may enter upon interfering with his
duties as husband and father. But
when we talk of careers for women
the suggestion always arises that 1t
will interfere with her duties as a
mother"
And will it not, Miss Shaw, if that
career take her out of her home
sphere? Can a woman-any more than
man-serve two masters? Child
bearing and child-rearing, together
with the arrangement of the home
environment of her and child-these
are the natural work of the mother.
If she ignores these by following some
other Career" the home, including her
family and herself, are soon stranded.
The very first duty of husband and
father is to follow faithfully and well
some business career in order thereby
| to be able to provide for his wife and
family Then how could his following
his business interfere with his duties
as a husband and father" when that
is his paramount duty to those depend
ent upon him?
The suffrage" cause must be very
weakened when it is forced to lean
upon such logic as the above.
Here is another hysterical bit OF
Shaw logic in the same line:
THE true mother is she who instead
of walking the floor all night with her
fever stricken baby because of bad
sewerage, bad water and dirty streets
Will go to the ballot-box and vote for
clean streets, good sewers and clean
water. When that time comes we will
have the caucuses at home, and the
mother and father and son (why not
the daughters, also. Miss ShawO will
caucus for clean laws against the sa-
! loon, the brothel and the dive
That bit of logic might almost go, on
| its merits, without further comment
but l am 10th to part with it so easily
In the first place. if the Rev Anna
were a doctor of medicine instead of a
| doctor of woman suffrage she would
know that where one baby gets fever
| from bad sewer, bad water and bad
Streets nine hundred and ninety mine
are the victims of ignorant mothers
who do not know the first principles OF
|
norant upon the subject of child bear
| ing
Improper food kills more babies than
| bad sewerage, lack of ventilation more
| than bad streets, and where bad water
Stays it's hundreds, that invention OF
the devil, the corset with fool wo-
man for it's Samsonian weapon) slays
| its hundred of thousands.
! A woman does not have to vote to ac-
quire a knowledge of these facts OF
| the way to remedy the evils.
| Again, what is to hinder a properly
| constructed woman from "caucusing
upon the matter of the saloon, the
| dive and the brotheI' right now?
have done some pretty thorough eau
| cusing" myself upon those subjects
not only in my capacity as mother, but
also as public school teacher, in which
occupation l have served a brief ap-
premiership of some twenty-five years
The best place, yes, the only place
| for a mother to caucus with her son
upon the subject of personal purity is
| at home, beginning some months be-
| fore his birth and continuing her "po-
| liticaP' manipulation Of this sort while
| he is under her care, say until he be-
comes a youth oi about 5O for the
| right kind of a son never gets from
under the sweet control of the right
| kind of a mother AS for the old
man." if he hasn't been pretty thor
| oughly "caucused" upon the subjects
| OF the saloon, the brothel and the
dive" by his own mother and his nat
ural instincts, there isn't much hope
that he would be thoroughly desir-
able addition to the above-mentioned
| combination. - Carrie Stevens-Walter
| in the Monitor