New-York tribune., 1897-09-03

GRAVES or ATLANTA.
Iobn TennIa Graves Editor Of The Atlanta
Journal" in a late lecture on The New Woman
and the Old" said:
"It is no longer fashionable TO 90 into ecStasieS
over woman. She Is no LONGER sentiment, she Is
a probem and II is now our unhappy mission ~
grapple with her. or surrender as have done me
issues she brings are vital They take their places
among the issues Of the times; and II 'h'T SOUP
in their Importance. in their far-re icaiaE eHec''
involving as they do fun half OF the human race
and the destiny of the whole race, 1t may well be
said that womans struggle for her rights ana
nobler standards makes mp the foremost pro''eih
of this world After six thousand years OF subord'-
nation ard acceptance. woman is az '"S' D." ''
belion against the things that be. FOR slA'y '''-
tures sh. has been content 10 crown ths 'i'''' al
The lists Of human endcavor. now she IS herself
IN the lists for the crown and the laureS OF sNlle
We in the exigency Of this material axe repeat the
crv Room for a lady And W. have made fooi"
for her; or rather she has made IL for her'e'i. ii
every forum Of discussion and In ev ry he'd %
strife IN the professions and In the trades u! 'i'e
ranks of the workers everywhere, she has won her
noy and held her own Her triumphs over heather
nr.iudice have been magnificent But sAc mas not
va, released the sword Of progress. She Is mArch-
ing on to new fields and wider u.umphs.
HOW MEN GLORIFIED HER.
"F;rst then. woman has won her way 20 the
schools Of the country. She has coh''i''u ''''
prejudice which has shut her our from her '""''
zion Thanks u her own persistent courage. ana
against the persistent protest OF nirro"i'7' anu
higo.rv she has ennoblod and sl0rlhtd that priVi-
Iege Of intclligcnce. For thousand years men
have said that woman mad no brain lor "'E"''
developrnent and that her limited cai''iN'S VIZ
safer within the limited sphere 20 when mis- s'din-
ards held her Men have glOrhed her Judgment
u,der the name of intuition; they have rriu1'n u
cra6i. II 10 brains. l remember that Wnen was
,,oung was told that il was bad form 10 ASK
woman q reason for her opinion, that She hdn I'D
reason but was mighty in intuition. AIit'eH""9
quality wonderful creature, she secs "l'"o"' 60
thinks without reason. she is InidlNble Wllh'"t
logical processes What is left for men to con-
clude but that she is divine that Intuition i an IL
spration and that woman love touehed 'he 'i'i"e
in its scope and got infalbiAty for the onJ7c' u
its love. But il never entered my ne"d una, l'.'e
might be brains in a w0man's intuition She mas
nobly demonstrated her capacity for higher eduaa-
,ion Then in the wider fields Of cOciucduon' ai'e
By side in lessons with men, she mas not l9S' ID nr5
separate sphere, ana sAe mas slld 20 ~ -.
Lingdom has been won. The gates nave been
na5d everywhcre and with courage, energy, ana
perii the Intellectual superiority Of the otaer sex.
CONDITIONS IN 1870
.1n ,s,o when the great Harriet Martineau came
% this country. she found only seven paying occu-
nations into which women had entered. They were
auor,ed to teach TO sew. they could keep boarding
-. oncrarives and 10 enter printing oHCes'
I'D become bookbnders by trade. The iast T. "a fd-
A@!I @ censds shows a list Of more than th!rty-nEe
S"rdred enployments in which woman Is hohoIaoty
nd successfuIy engaged The sex l. hiini5, tNeiy
re az DIaces Of trust and pront with conspicuous
nceS II Is stated upon authority that there are
succttss. orn,rv nine hundred ana seventy -nVe
In thls ~, he Gospel. fourteen hundred ana
eShty-fVe practising mediGne: Oyer & s,1 j,ii r
msnaging postofces. and ABOUT "i''' -''''0' '"-
ing independent incomes ss. bo said.
Speaking woman suffrage ne he great eternal
,dil tbat IaXation and representation must De
PIlsI,t,t md coextensive She VINO ciiI p NJ NJ
coequdi anu ,aCE ,neeting rightly thinks tldt she
Should be counseled when the Issues eFe Who can
Vote her railroad stock ought 70 De ..oie in the
dealing with railroads. Sne "hT G,c weight in the
eSn9Si Of educational laws sg 5 u p her
honest labor earns thf hhnEt that she should have
an equal voice in deciding how ana 5 by Who is he
go are 10 be expended. Ana shr M. %yycI ir,eist
Cneen and guardian Of the home may II1S-Is in ibosc
That her vote shall supplement In rFr i'1ren and her
mighty questions that coHcei" '''