The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-06-16
"GREETING TO Mr.. GRIaGs."
The New Woman" Sends 1t to the
Georgia Representative.
Correspondence baltimore Sun.

MessTe. Editors I'm reply to the vigorous at
tack upon the new woman" by Representative
%oud remind bim that thousands I'd Of the class he
Is supposed to refer to meet annually in Wash
ington city; that their halls are crowded with
enthusiastic audiences; their proceedings occu-
Ply columns in the daily papers.
That their cause has the sanction of thinkers
and patriots from Plato to Lincoln, that they
have made history and are prepared to throw
new light upon the great questions which the
gentleman (whO seems to have neglected his OPP
portunities) takes issue.
We would venture to say that he will find none
among them so unlearned in the logic of human
nature as not to be able to inform him that the
new woman" has no existence. The gentleman
has spent his force upon a term which has no
representative personality, and which Is simply
the outgrowth of modern prejudice; that the
love of liberty and the right of citizenship can
not change the human race, that it rests upon
higher power even than civil government to
revolutionize humanity. God sees to that; that
the good old-fashioned woman with whom the
gentleman is well pleased. still comes from the
hand of her Creator with inherited characteris-
tics from her first mother.
That the woman of today has simply developed
her powers and possibilities to meet the new de-
mands of the age in which she lives.
When man adapts himself to new and broader
conditions we do not consider him new man !;
no one believes that he has completely changed
his nature and departed forever from the de-
sign of his Creator because he has tried the ex-
pertinent of sef-government or applied the
lightnings of heaven to the uses of modern life.
%ond be
worthy even of that short-sighted philosophy
which breads her falling out of her sphere to the
confusion of the stellar universe.
The gentleman quotes Scripture. He is better
with the MODERN Nv woman. While we commend
this fact we take the liberty to question his APP
plication of the texts of sacred history.
He quotes THAT 1t is better to dwell in the
corner of housetop than with brawlng wo-
Though the woman in questionable NEW wo-
man." the woman who wants the BALLOTS max
ing b Today the ecno II wncn mag oe
of applying the above text to her than we would
think OF using it to illustrate the eloquence of
the gentleman from Georgia.
Again, he says of Israel's great poet: IF he
were living now the declaration, There is no
new thing under the sum- would have been for
ever locked In the recesses of his own breast.
That there is comfort in the thought that his
loss is our eternal gain"
TINS ProIo iado ana Original
phet-"there is no new thing under the sum
nor man, nor woman. nor even the argument of
the gentleman from Georgia, who has studied
extinct types and christened them with modern
term used only by the unthinking
In reference to law the honorable Represen-
tive says: 1T cannot be administered by senti-
ment nor enforced by love 1t is the majesty of
force, the dignity of power" The conclusion is
that in this government OF might woman can
have no place. She is too good for it, neither is
she needed to make it better. There is no refer
ence to equity or justice in the gentlemans
logic. Iii Shylock VINO wants his pound Of flesh
and not Portia who administers justice temper
ed with mercy; it is the letter and not the spirit
of the law which the gentleman adheres to. He
has not quoted the text which says: 1T is the
letter which killeth, the Spirit which maketh
alive"
from Georgia to the memory of those immortal
jurists who have put a higher construction upon
civil law.
While he deprecates war and all its horrors and
says that man has not found the ballot panacea
for the evil of it, yet he would not give the bal
lot to woman because she cannot fight. 20, con-
sistency thou art jewel!'
The gentleman is pleased with the bread win
ming woman. He approves of her enthusiast
cally, and says: LET all doors be open to her."
while at the same time he would pile up before
mount. while he mourns the fact that justice is
not done her. He would deprive her of the
means of doing justice for herself.
He rejoices that she has entered college and
taken her place beside man in the learned pro
81 not How da she Get b ask bhe the
question il it was by any help of the Represen-
tative from Georgia.
1t was by long years of patient, unwearied toll
and sacrifice of women who have conquered
prejudice and persecution, coming through it all
with grace that the newspaper of today calls
In this the evening of the nineteenth century
the cause of equal suffrage Is in the hands and
in the hearts of sincere and earnest women who
love their country well enough to claim voice
in its destiny and who believe that citizenship
will no more change lifes sacred duties in Amer
lean women than sovereignty has changed them
These are not new women although they do
want to vote. Many of them old women
there's no denying it. The woman who wrote
the Battle Hymn of the Republic has just
celebrated her eighty first birthday, and the wo
man who fought the battles of the Republic for
her sex and for humanity upon the moral battle
field of equal rights for all celebrated her eigh-
tieth birthday last winter in the nations Capital.
These are the women who have blazed the way
up to that higher level that broader pathway,
where the smile of the gentleman from Georgia
beams upon her like the sunshine, and upon
which all All S Women st, stand TO-DAY