The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-07-30

In the first place, the God given in
stincts of womanhood will prevent any
great number of women from awaiting
themselves of political rights, even il
they were legally theirs.
The agtatorS, the restless and discon
tented the unsexed ambitious form Z
very small percentage of the women that
the census enumerates as dwellers in
this broad land of ours.
And grant that the chivalrg. OF afrec
tionate weakness of men makes then
give the franchise of women there are
very few in comparison that will take
advantage of it, and these WILL in nj
degree affect the social or domestic
status of the rest
No lot of men or of women can over
turn the unalterable DEGREES of God.
Men lose sight of that fact in their
praise for the ultimate result, and wo-
men overlook it in their eagerness to
have what seems to them possible
good; bur the laws Of God remain mex
orable. and women needs must, from the
compelling force of the nature God has
given them. stay in the place in which
He has put them.
We cannot re- make ourselves. or legis-
late away the entail of Ewes transgres-
sion. And Ewes daughters must re-
member the law which decreed.
Thy desire shall be unto thy husband.
And he shall here rule over thee"
Social laws and usages will sooner or
later conform in the main to the ordain-
ment of God, because the great conserva-
tive forms of nature prevail over all
human inventions, and the laws of
being rule them according to the de-
sign Of the creator.
The world advances in knowledge, in
science. in what Solomon calls witty
Inventions" and each century, yea. each
decade is marked by an advance that
amounts TO revolution in certain ma
terial things.
But absolutely unchanged, inexorably
fixed is human nature.
THE same yesterday, today and for
ever"
So far as forever applies to humanity.
The general man is today the type of
the race No whit has humanity altered
in its essentials. in its characteristics, in
all the centuries that lie between Adam
and ourselves.
Men and women are essentially the
same as when the first pair, the start
ling point of the race, stood with down
east faces to receive the decree of Danish
ment from that Eden, which wo-
mans sin had forfeited. The same. ma
ture remains in the representatives Of
each, the same sentence is unrepealed
that sent the man far afield; and babe
the woman bear children; the same
laws govern now as then.
And the law of nature, which is but
another name for God, will govern as
ii has always governed the~ great ma
jority of men and women.
1.-THE Lord is King, be the people
never so impatient" marks an unbroken
relation as true today as it was two
thousand years ago when the Shepherd
King ehanted it in the royal Judean
court.
Women as a sex. will not be very
far from the instincts of nature. Ihe
mothers of the race may be trusted to
be as true to the best intents OF their
sons as they are TO their own.
| charge it deliberately upon the wo-
men themselves that there is any need
for legislation upon the subject. Had
they taught their sons as they should
have done. their duty towards women
it would all be recorded to day in the
statute books.
The woman who gives color to her
child's first conscious thought has herself
TO thank for it, if that thought when
written out by him in manhood is
contemptuous one of the sex to which
his mother belongs.
And if the mothers of today would
quit agitating themselves on the politl-
cal enlargement. and devote themselves
to training their sons to take a gust,
tender and truly manly view of all ques-
lions that affect the rights of women.
after one mere generation the question
would be finally settled, according to the
best interests of both sexes.
So intimately are the sexes united
in the identity of interests, that what's
best for women is best for the whole
human family.
And the women, with all just rights
of person. property and offspring secur-
ed to them, would no longer clamor for
public recognition as a political factor
in the work of the world, but be content
to keep their God-given sovereignty
over the hearts and homes of man and
look out upon the world from
's'The safe sweet corner of the household
fire
Behind the heads Of children"
/ must not be understood as one OF
the foolish ones who cry, Peace, peace,
when there is no peace" ! know that
certain laws stand. on our statute books
that do grievous wrong to women as
an individual entity, as maiden, as wife
as mother; but | do not think the ballot
box is the place, nor the electoral ticket
he weapon with which to fight them.
The whole unraveling of the tangle
of life lies in so small compass il
so simple rule that marvel much
that so few seem to see and apply IT.
As Captain Cattle would say, Over
haul the catechism and when found
make a note on the final clause OF
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