The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-17
THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MARCH.
Its Latter-Day Advocates Regard
Man rs Their Enemy.
From the New York Auti-sufragist.)

(From the New York Anti-Sufragist)
The soul of a movement marches on
to its ultimate destiny Outlines its ar
dent followers believe themselves to be
moving in one direction when the relent-
less trend of circumstances is bearing
them toward an opposite conclusion. Tne
final intention of a movement may gen
orally be found embodied in it's carrier
utterances. Time passes, events play
about II. people come into II from differ
ent boules. and for different reasons. but
the great undercurrent that gave it birth
moves steadily on, unheard and unseen,
perhaps, until like certain rivers that be-
gin in torrent. sink into subterrauean
ways, and rise again with an added i'm
pulse the spirit of the movement stands
revealed and its ultimate object can BE-
known of all
The woman suffrage movement has
reached such an hour of revelation. Care
full study of present conditions in our own
and other lands will show that old pur-
pose has reasserted itself, that new pur-
pose is trying to build upon another
Foundation than the old, while the open
declarations of political life tell whittier
the movement tends and what point 1T has
attained.
pulse more than a hundred years go in
the extravag CANT teachings of Jean
Jacques Rousseau. 1t came into being in
this country amid the upheavalS that
from the radical wing of the abolition
movement. and its soClalistic allies that
founded communities were individual lib
ertV expressed diSiOydlty, and was often
carried so far as to iuvalidate the mar
riage tie French women. imprisoned tor
political crimes, appealed to their Social
list sisters OF the woman suffrage move
meut, and foreign radicals. both men and
women, visited this country TO proclaim
the abolition of the State, of the Church,
of the marriage relation. and the estab-
lishment of woman suffrage as neceS-
sary correlatiVe.
The movement stands today at it's first
real turning point. It's old leaders are re-
verting to some of its earlier utterances
and conduct. They have published a
bible that reveals the soul and intellt-
gence of the movement Law and religion
are attacked. and man is denominated
"woman'S enemy Another leader in re-
yerting TO the early type is organizing a
crusade against country that grants
woman far more legal privileges than
man. The new leaders, meantime, have
thrown aside the old arguments, and
ceased TO utter the ringing war cries that
confused the battle and misled the IN
wary.
Politically. also, the movement has
reached a turning point. The places
where its attacks have broken down the
barriers that hedge about the Constltu-
ton in Republic are those where Nor
monism and Populism have made a stamp
ing ground. The Populists, the Prohibi-
tionists the Free SilVerites. and the
Social Labor party have had woman sui
frage planks in their platforms Some of
these have called halt. At the last
.momentous election the Populists and
Prohibitionists omitted the famili lr de
mand The latter party compromised on
an appended resolution, thus calling at
tention to the omission. The Social
Democracy and the Socialist Labor
parties were true to the declaration that
has marked their platforms in every land
whose peace and order they imperil.
Such IS the social and political attitude
, Of the suffrage movement today, and 1t
behooves every woman to consider her
personal relation to II. If she believes IN
suffrage il should receive her aid in the
hour Of it's trial. If she does not believe
in suffrage she should give help to those
who are striving To lay to rest the haunt
| ing presence Of a figure that has doomed
| athwart the patch of wsmans rroiI IS.
10, these many years