Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-12


dies TO the capital to plead for it, and
mas been acknowledged by friends and
foes alike as the cause of every victory
In state after state the experience has
ben the same. NJ
When the Women Club of Buffalo pc
titioned the New York legislature zsto
make fathers and mothers equal guar
dams Of their children. it sent to every
member a pamphlet giving series OF
cases of hardship arising under the Old
law-cases quoted from and credited to
the Woman's Journal, a paper which has
upheld the standard Of equal suffrages4or
more than thirty years.
Here is case that happened under the
old law giving the father the sole guar
dianship- law that still prevails in 81
out of the As states of the union. A
Chinaman had married a respectable
Irishwoman. When their first baby was
three days old, the husband gave it to his
brother to be taken away to China and be
brought up there. The mother through
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children, appealed to the courts. The
judge promptly decided that the husband
was within his rights. He was the sole
legal owner of the baby. he had the sole
right to say what should be done With ii.
to the Extension of Suffrage to Women
has published over its imprint a leatiet
| defending this law.
In Boston the average pay Of male
teachers is s. 517 per year; of fenlae
teachers. 1898. and when it was proposel
! to raise the pay of the women teachers, a
| prominent anti" herself a Woman} of
| wealth, promptly wrote to the papers pro
| testing. A few years ago, BROOKLYN
anti wrote pamphlet claiming that c
| New York had such law as Wyonling
| where women vote-a law that women
| in the employment af the state shall ra-
ceive equal pay with men for eq ualw orll
| -"scandals' among the teachers WOu
result. In Chicago, when the principal
ship of primary school became vacant,
and it was proposed to promote the first
| assistant. who was admitted to be COM
| petent, Mrs. Corbin wrote to the paper
protesting. on the ground that 1.-The high
err positions in the schools ought to be
| reserved for men," She was not wilin e
| that a woman should be principal of Il
school even for very small children. Yet
Mrs. Corbn would have us believe that
it is the Ants who have exerted them
| selves to secure equal rights for women
in every thing but suffrage.
| Mrs. Corbln says that those devoted
missionaries, Harriet Newell and the
wives Of DR.. Adoniram Judson. would
have abhorred suffrage if they had ever
heard of it," Possibly they would; bu,
they would have been quite as much hor-
rified at score of things which the Ants
do today without shudder. 1t woule!
have seemed to them most unwomaniy
for women to speak to mixed audience,
and argue before congressional and leg
lslative committees, and travel about tho
country making public speeches to Prov
that woman's place is at home.
The pioneer educator and suffragist
Mrs. LuVnda H. Stone of Michigan, VIII
with her husband secured the admission
of women to Michigan University. wen
abroad in charge of party of young Wo
men on trip to the Holy Land abou
the time Vassar College was started. O.
the same vessel was party Of ladies 60
ing out as missionaries. Their leader,
, woman of unusual culture for those day
spoke of Eassar with horror. She said
The very fact that it is called a 'colleG
for women is enough to condemn it.. On
thing l am sure of: no refined Christia
, mother will ever send her daughters {
Vassar College," That was the genera
, sentiment. The early missionaries wer
doubtless excellent women. but thei
, | opinion is hardly to be taken as final O.
| | all questions.
, Mrs. COrbin accuses the suffraS
= | lists of teaching that men an
I | women are enemies. Mrs. Mary \
/. Livermore, president of the Mas
4 sachusetts Women Suffrage Associa
ton, says: woman have no Antagonist
. toward men. We love men quite as We
as we ought to, and often better. The
, only need to beckon at any moment. an
e we are ready to rush to help to the III
@ termost. 1t is this very wish to help tina
u | makes US long for the ballot"