Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-24
NOT ANXIOUS 10 VOTE
Annual Meeting Of Association 0p'
posed to Extension Of Suffrage
to Women.
President Caroline T. Corbin Pre-
sents Her Annual Report-Aims
Of the society.
Doctrine Of Industrial and Political
Equality Of Women Akin to
Social Democracy.

s Chicago, Nov. 24.-At the annual
meeting Of the Illinois Association OPP
posed to the Extension Of Suffrage to
Women, held here today. Mrs. Caroline
F. Corbin, the president. presented her
annual report. It was in part as fol-
lows:
I'VE wish to say distinctly that we are
NOT in the field to handy personalities
nor trivialities with anybody, but for the
simple purpose of discussing calmly and
fairly the relation of women to the
state. We believe this question to be at
this time one of the most important that
can engage the attention of statesmen
and politicians, as we'll as the people at
large. 1t is very serious fact that the
doctrine OF the industrial and political
equality of women is an offshoot from
that social democracy which uniformly
insists that women shall be units and
factors in the state equally with men;
| that men shall thus be absolved from all
domestic obligations, the state caring
for such children as may be born Of the
utterly unfettered and promiscuous re-
llations between the sexes.
/ THE influence of such teachings diff
fused thru society is felt not only in the
| loosening OF marriage ties and the neg
lect Of home duties by a large class of
cur women, but in our legislative halls
lin the tendency to overlook the mission
of the home, and to lay upon the state
such burdens of support and control as
belong primarily and indefeasibly to the
! parent. In nlonarchical countries social
democracy is the avowed and recognized
enemy Of the state, but in this country,
where anything that smacks of a larger
4 License has a vogue with certain classes
land where popular sentiment in the end
4 decides everything, it is a more insidi-
4 Gus and therefore more dangerous foe.
Il Its tenets destroy the home at a blow,
4 and the mutual relations between hus-
4 lband and wife. of material dependence
d on the one hand and of affectionate and
a spiritual dependence on the other. from
which the ripest fruits of civilization
the ideals Of duty, Responsible lity, purity
!. land unselhshness flow, is utterly abro
gated.
: I'VE stand. therefore. for the right.
and duties of humanity in the home. TIL.
1slright of women tosloving maintenance
j, and projections. the right of men to ma.
III teral comforts and affectionate sympa-
IL thy and cooperation. the btrthright o
Ichildren to sound physique. affection
ate care and such moral and spiritua
/ intruction as are calculated to max
them worthy men and women and goot
Z citizens: such instruction as is scarce
!, ly to be found elsewhere than at tn
& mothers knee.
!. For these great ends we believe 1T i
, expedient that women should yield I
:. men the reins of civil government.
government necessarily founded upo
force, and accept in return the protec
!. ton which, in the hands Of our father
! and brothers, our husbands and sons.
lis sure toNafford US, and such moral an
] spiritual influence as fows to us freel
4 lby the operation of the higher law 9
= love.
We believe this social order to /
q founded upon sound morality, and to /
ol supported by the experience of Chris
g tian civilization.
g I'VE shall continue. therefore as &c
1T gives us strength and opportunity,
,e make our appeal for womanly wome
IL! and the Christian home