The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-14
women Remonstrate.

At the hearing Of the woman's sun
rage question before the senate COM
mittee. yesterday, remarkable docu-
ment was read against the granting Of
suffrage, the remonstrants not being
opponents of that proposition Of
the male sex, but the Women's
Association Of Illinois opposed
To the extension Of suffrage to
women, ana it is we'll to pay some at
tentlon to what they say. In the exor-
dunn Of their petition they relate that
ut is now nine years since the Illinois
remonstrants against woman suffrage
had the honor to lay before your honor
able body the plan Of coalition be-
tween the sOclallstic element of the
labor union and the woman suffragists,
and to enter a protest against such
coalition being exploited in the halls of
Congress. At that time the suffrage
leaders denied that any such purpose of
coalition existed, but driven from one
position after another by the anti-suff-
ragists In many states of this Union,
they have at last, IL the public prints
report correctly. been constrained to
accept the very tactics which they at
first 30 very vigorously disciaimed."
The remonstrants claim that in view
Of these circumstances It becomes nee
essary to review the facts which con-
stltute continual temptation to the
suffragists to appeal to revolutionary
socialism for aid. I'm the first place"
say the petitioners, I'VE wish to call at
tentlon to the fact that, while every
woman suNrasist is not Q socialist,
every socialist is a woman suffragist,
the doctrine of the equal and identical
rights Of men and women,
and their equal and identical
responsibilities towards the state. being
the foundation OF the entire political
scheme Of the Social Democracy. It 10
the avowed aim Of this form Of social
ism to overtuER all existing institutions,
home, church and state.
This revolution, 1t may be stated in
passing, is not only confidently looked
forward to by foreign propagandists,
but is accepted as the inevitable result
Of soclallstlc agitation by such Amerl-
can leaders as Professor George D.
Heron, who has recently resigned his
position upon the faculty OF Iowa coll
Iege because his teachings were found
to be revolutionary, and who has since
that time avowed in public that the So
clal revolution is inevitable.
Now church and state might be over
turned by military force, but the home
Is that bulwark OF civilization which
cannot be carried by any assault short
Of one which abrogates the lmmemorial
right of woman to maintenance and
protection within its sacred precincts,
while she is carrying forward the work
on which more than any other. tho
strength und perpetutty OF the state de-
Ponds, viz, the bearing and right rear
ing of citizens. That this Is not too
strong statement Of the worth Of her
work, the condition OF France and Great
Britain today forcibiy demonstrates
the former nation by being reduced to
the extremity Of offering premiums for
large families by her impending retro
erosion In the rank OF nations, and the
latter against at tho possibility of losing
her great colonial empire for want OF
civilized citizen soldiers. II there were
homes in india instead Of haroms and
zcnanas, and thoso homes were Loyal