The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-01-22
THE CAUSE OF WOMEN.
A Catholic Bishop on the Advancement
of Women - Inconsistencies of Anti
ExpansionistE Women OneehoIders.

a Catholic Bishop on the Advancement
of Women - Inconsistencies of Anti
EXpansionistE - Women Ofleeh0lders
The heart OF thoughtful woman will thrill
with gratitude at the address OF Bishop Spald
ing. delivered in Columbian University Hall
Washington. last Monday. Cardinal Gibbons
presided. and In the large audience were many
OF the religious and political dignitaries OF this
city. The lecture was In the interest Of the
proposed Trinity College for graduate women
students. and the theme was THE Higher
Education Of Women" In sketching the
progress of the century the Bishop said:
In considering this question. another superiority
Of our century. its chief glory. perhaps. q Splendor
which falls on our own country more than on any
other. Is revealed-the position and the opportuni-
tics II has given to woman The indelible stain on
tho page OF history iB the WIS treatment OF wo-
man. Through the ages man had boon unjust to
man. cruel even, but woman seemed 10 be almost
beyond the pale Of humanity. She was his drudge,
his slave. his chattel. She was Q thing to bs bought
and sold. to be PLAYED with In Idle hours, and for the
rest to be immured in the two-fold darkness OF igno-
rance and combining walls. " " " Woman was the
great outcast Of the human race. and 1t would seem
that only the coming of q God could have given her
courage to hope for 4 botter fate.
Such utterances as these from a noted repre-
sentative OF that great Church which Is re-
Rarded as extremely conservative. especially
In relation to women. may be justly accepted
as one OF the strongest arguments ever made
for their higher education.
II we accept tho assertion that " the platform
woman Is a blot upon American womanhood."
found In the Ladies' Home Journal. then We
must count among these IDIOTS" Clara Bar
ton. Mrs. Ballington Booth. Emma Booth
Tucker. Kate Field. Alice Freeman Palmer.
Isabella Beeoher Hooker. Carrie Chapman
Gait. Helen Campbell. and the large number
OF women preachers. eyangellsts and mis-
sionary speakers, the many fine orators among
the ". @. T. u. Federation OF Women's Clubs.
Women's Relief Corps. Daughters OF the Revo-
luton. Collegiate Alumne. Press Association.
and all the other great national organizations
OF women far too numerous for even q mention.
February promises to be q banner month for
woman In the national capital. The National
Woman's Council heads the procession. begin
ming with o religious service Sunday afternoon.
Feb. IL. and continuing through the week.
with many distinguished speakers. Tho
Mothers Congress will b, in session at the
t T1Psu 't Hosyen mhe f %SSn ib, T Inse TseR i1iId rESss
will be devoted to the National Congress OF the
Daughters of the Revolution. Az the Woman's
take this opportunity for distl9Otlve meetings,
anu tHe woman VINO Cannot unu. nof sphere y
somewhere among all these will belong TO that
class who take great pride In announcing that
they represent nothing "-in which statement
other people coincide.
When William Jennings Bryan and Senator
William L. Mason declare for the literal inter
q the ssntenCe "Sll Soyernmsnts
the governed" they are, perfectly. consist.
ont, for both are avowed advocates OF woman
suffrage. When. however, Mr.. Vest OF Missouri
arises and makes the greatest effort OF his life
on the text that the United States is founded
upon the principle that the lust powers OF gov
eminent rest upon the consent OF the gov
erned." the women of tho nation would like to
resppnd with a unepipous burst Of derlsiye
anne Sepator In this same Senate chamber
called upon Almighty God to protect the coun-
try from the devastation OF the ballot In the
hands OF women.
At The recent election woman suffrage amend
ments were submitted to the voters In Wash
and South Dakota. 4 mild. campaign
was made blythe women. who had neither inan-
eial nor political backing, The amendment was
In Washington by 10.326. Nine years