Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-23
OF WOMAN IN The NINETEENTH CENTURY

| disorganize society and carry the world
| Lack to original chaos
| Today two-thirds of the colleges and
universities of the United States. includ-
ing every state university west of Ohio,
are open alike To men and women
thousands OF women are college gradu-
ateS, hundreds are regularly ordained
ministers: scores are practicing lawyers
| Women are engaged in a great variety
OF trades and professions which require
skill and intelligence. They have Sc
cured the right of public speech. They
are potent factors in literature They
are writer's for the press, editors and
reporters for the newspapers. Seven
eishts of all oud teachers are women.
They are organized in clubs-better still.
they unite with men in many associa-
tons. literary. artistic. reformatory
social and political The play golf and
ride the bicycle. Never before in the
worlds history has so radical and bene-
licent reform been so rapidly and
quietly accomplished
While the political rights of women
have been the most difficult of all to OBJ
tain. owing to the fact that it was
necessary to get the consent of all the
men (both wise ana otherwise). before
any radical change could be made
women now have full suffrage in four
states. school suffrage in twenty four
states municipal suffrage in one and in
two states tax paying woman can vote
upon all questions submitted to the tax
payers. Today women are hiding po-
litical offices of every description, they
are serving as Legislators and even now
one is being talked of for speaker of the
house in Colorado. The have been serv-
ing successfully as superintendents of
public instruction in state and coutny
with most satisfactory results This is
long way from the time when the trus-
tees would not allow shes in a public
school.
This progress has come because wo-
men of larger mold. loftier ambitions
and nobler self-respect than the average
have been willing to face the opposi-
ton of the world for the sake of lib
orty. More than one such as these de-
serve the rank of martyr. The suffer-
ing. the doubt, the obloquy which has
been endured by the pioneers of the
woman movement will never be fully
known or understood. For sixty years
and more vigorous agitation has been
waged in the United States to establish
equal rights for women and men, I'm
ership of brave men and women the evo-
luton of woman's rights has moved on
without a break.
1t has been said that the greatest
achievement of the nineteenth century
is the discovery of woman" Now that
she has discovered herself, the prophecy
of the president of the National Suffrage
association that before the close of the
q will
office of president of the United States
is not at all unlikely. although with few
exceptions. the newspapers all over the
country seem to consider it a huge joke
which has been made the text for many
and cutting editorials. The
editor of the Augusta. Ga, Herald. in
an editorial headed Women in the year
2 ,000," says regarding this prophecy:
should the grand revolution come off
on schedule time, the 21st century will
find the men in the kitchen and the sew
ing room and the women in the count
ing house and the Legislative hall. The
women will shave their upper lips.
swear. wear pants. and vie with each
other i'm gallantry. counting the favor Of
the shy and shrinking men who will
wear wells and traits and seldom venture
abroad for fear some particularly ar
in spite of all the women made laws of
the land
If we mistake not, when the history of
the Woman Suffrage movement is re-
viewed in the year 1000 this choice edi-
torial Will strike the readers of that day
about as ridiculous as the advice of DR..
Gregory in the 18th century strikes the
people of today where he advises girls
to carefully hide any good sense or learn
ing they happened to possess. as soon
locked with malignant eyes upon a wom-
an of sense or learning.
The Goth century will belong to man
and woman and by it's close the veXed
questions of woman's rights will have
passed beyond dispute and in their place
will be the demand for human rights
without regard to sex.
ELNORA MONROE BABCOCK.
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