The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-29

opinion to this effect is shown by the large vote
in the last New York Legislature for the bill re.
curing that there should be on every School Board
at least a certain proportion Of women, Even
without A law making il compulsory, the number
Of women serving on school boards is constantly
on the increase.
President Faunce of Brown University does
not believe in coeducation-at least he thinks
New England not yet ready for it-but he is a
strong believer in collegiate education for women.
In his recent inaugural address he said
The breadth Of horizon will lead the university
Of the future 10 make ample provision for the
instruction Of women. This provision must be
made, not as grudging concession 10 dubious
demand, but as glad response to one of the great
est needs Of our time century from now it
viii seem incredible that the great University
libraries and laboratories and museums Of the
world were once closed TO one half Of humanity,
and that our vast educational endowments were
useless to our sisters and daughters"
4 century from II will seem incredible
that the great school Of public affairs, the educa-
ton of the town meeting and the ballot box,
have been closed To their sisters and daughters.
II will seem, # possible, even more incredible
that this vast educational influence should have
been denied to the mothers of the race whose
especial province II To teach the rising genera
ton the duties OF citizenship.
A writer in last Sundays SUN snys:
New Jersey was the first State in the Union
70 give suffrage 70 women y was an accident
however, in the formation Of the suffrage clause
Of the Constitution That gave suffrage To ct.
zens without declaring any sex When some Of
excitement throughout the State, and the convcn.
ton Of 1884 changed the provision so az TO limit
suffrage 10 male citizens.
a greater number OF historical mistakes could
hardly be crowded into one paragraph. Women
voted in New Jersey for more than thirty years
The Constitutional Convention held in Burlington
IN 1910 IN fixing the qualifications for voters,
struck out the words male freeholders worth $50.
fna was sot ns 1 SS S S
OF the convention were imbccile, they must have
known what they. were doing when they delib.
aialx out ...rIh al
election law: passed by the Legislature in 1890
use the words he or she. and his or her ballot
New Jersey. the Quaker influence was strong,
and II is supposed 10 be owing 10 this fact that
tax paying women and tax paying negroes were
were allowed 10 vote. But the tax-paylng women,
tradition says, were mostly Fcdcralists and their
votes helped TO carry q presidential election for
iature me into power in 1907 il took away the
suffrage from tax paying women and taX-paytng
negroes, inserting in the election law the words
white male, and at the same time II abolished
the property qualification The advocates OF
equal suffrage have always maintained that this
but as the Constitutional Convention held some
years later also adopted the words white male,
the taN-paytng women and taXpaytng negroes
were thcnceforth legally excluded.
ALiCE STONE BLACKWELL
To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: Now as
election time draws near and nearly every
county has woman candidate In some part OF
women should be permitted to hold Offices or
not. Now half or more than half OF the men
who say that a woman's place is In the home
need an introduction to their families Again.
mon say that the brain OF man Is superior to
that OF woman. Tho man who makes such
statements is a back number and is suffering
from q bad case OF narrow mindedness caused
by a swelling OF the head.
Women in public offices will bring about the
much needed poiticallreform. Again hear a
croak But the polls are no place for woman"
II men are tho superior minded gentlemen
they pretend to be the polls 10 just
as proper place for women as tho drawing
room or church pews. Space does not permit
for me- to present the thousand and one hrgu-
mentt in favor Of women holding office. but
would ask every fatr-minded man. Why; why
in the name OF reason. nre not our American
women, who were born Of good American par
ents. educated in our colleges and universities.
under the supervision OF superior- IN nded men,
women with the principles Of patriotism and
justice inculcated in their lives from child
hood. more capable OF holding public office
this country, and with his vulgar
conceted abstrusiveness pushes himself into
political office and at once begins to work
havoc withriRhteous principles OF patriotism
and depreeates the abilities OF our American
mothers and sisters. In snsaking OF women,
that hope to be. owe to my angel mother"
Surely the hand that rocks the cradle Is the
hand that SWAPS the world" and right will De
kept in the background until woman is placed
in her proper place. right up even with men.
~ CHARLES SAMUEL TATAR.