The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-12

applying them To men instead Of women. Tho
result was TO cover the original bill with ndiculc
~ the International conference lately hcid az
Geneva. Switzerland. by the opponents of these
special regulations and restrictions Tor women,
Mrs. Josephine iiutlcr read the following letter
from Herbert SUcnCer
"NiV DEAR MAD ANIL Learn with pleasure
that you and some others are opposing the adop'
ton uf COctcive methods Tor achieving moral ends
Bricily stated. my own views ON such m"''cfS nro
these:
NEARLY all thinking about political and social
affairs is ,tiated by Ignoring all elects save save
those Immediately ,ntemrlatcd Men anxious
To- stop an evil or obtain a good do not consider
what viii bc the collateral results Of The govern.
mrntal agencies they employ, or what will be the
remote RESULT, They do not recognize the fnct
that every new fundamentally established Tor
controlling diNiduHl conduct becomes pfccr
dent for other such nstrumcntHites. that year al
tel year philnnthropists with new aims urge on
further cucrcvc agencies: and that so, iitilc ny Nv
a type which no ono 81 them contemplated when
he was urging on his parcul ar plan
The highest aim, ever to he kept IN view ny
Legislators and those who seek Tor legisaunnls
the formation Of character. Citizens OF n high
type are self-rcgulGtng and citizens VINO nave
allow type Men, like all other creatures, arc ever
being moulded into harmony with their conditions.
II, generation nftcr generation. their conduct ~
all its details IL prescribed for them, they VIII
more and more need official control III oil things
Assuming that the governmental control ~ SUM-
Glen, 10 maintain social security. me more men
the benefits Of good conduct and the evils 81 mis-
conduct the more will they acquire the selfregu-
lnung nature .
"Thc anal outcome Of the policy In favor with
philanihtopists and legis ators Is form of society
likr that which existed In ancient l.cr,,i whcrc
every tenth man was an official controlling VIC
other nine, and where the regulation went to the
extreme OF inspecting every household 70 sec thnt
"rdeT S and ND the Children propsrly managed and
where the effect Of this universal regulation Of
conduct was the production Of a character such
that the enicchlcd society went down Ike mouse
Of cards before handful Of SpaniardS
Il am, faithfully yours, -
"HERBERT SPENCER
The recent biennial meeting In Chicago Of the
Association VI Collegiate Alumnn has called at
tentun 10 the fact that the association already mas
about two thousand members yet these are only
United states. President Eliot Of Harvard un-
dorcstimated the facts when he said the other day
that We had not yet data enough to show now col
legiatc education would effect women oy tue nun
~ tue National Unitarian Conierence Lately
man Of BROOKLYN said. in an address on the power
Of Organization: 49,,
The ideal organization toward which We are
surely moving will he composed OF both men ana
women each sex the complement oil tho Other.
furnishing 10 each that which the other lacks
Tht; is q the , %sn pGn vi have
the qualities that make up both do We get the per.
feet whole Not till then are We able to see all
learn Of the other The ideal man never torgcts
10 he practical We must women. strive al
WAYS 10 weigh matters In the scales Of common
sense and We will hope that men will not feel that
thev stoop n they do things In delicate refined
and sympathctc way Let all foolish talk erase
about woman's sphere or mans sphere We
must rather consider the sphere 81 the indiyidua
which Is surely the doing 81 that which the m an
or woman Is the best fitted"
The growing hospitality Of the press toward
equal suffrage IL illustrated by q point orough
out AT the recent annual meeting OF the Maine
Woman Suffrage Association The State chair
, man OF press work, Mrs Sarah e. Crosby OF water
VILE mentioned that a wear ago there were only
four papera in Maine which would print articles In
favor OF woman suffrage, but this year one hum
dred papers arc doing ~.