The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-25

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 party, and that his policy must be
 municipal policy in a municipal govern
 ment for municipal purposes.
 1 This large view of the case Is in part due to the broadened intelligence and to enlightened conscience of men. But i their intelligence was broadened and
 their consciences were enlightened by
 the protrusion of the sanctity of the
 home into the issues affected by rela-
 ton to the recent election. And the
 sanotity of our homes became itself
 either an issue or a rallying cry, be-
 cause of the awful revelations which
 were supplied of the consequences of
 the alliance of government with brutal
 lty, with laWlessness and with unnam- able industries of the under world in
 our city. Those revelations stirred the
 brain and fired the heart of the best
 womanhood of this imperial city. Too
 much cannot be said on behalf of such
 organizations as voiced the womanhood
 of New York in the late campaign.
 But much more could be said of the in-
 fluence, not of organized womanhood. in
 leagues and councils, admirable and mo-
 ble and Irresistible as it was, but on
 behalf of the womanhood of the church
 es and of the homes, and of the educa-
 tional clubs and organizations with
 which the life of our city is replete.
 Looking back, the successful cannot
 but see that they had on their side the
 moral forces to which no thoroughly
 aroused American community has ever
 been unresponsive Looking back, the
 vanquished can bet see that those nor
 al forces were right as well os irresist-
 ible. The beauty of this result Is that
 it commends itself to the best of all
 tlike. The winners are, of course.
 unit of appreciation, and the right. minded among the losers, who for the
 time put partisanshlp above principle, and who may have done so conscien-
 tiously though mistakenly rejoice that they did not win. They recognize now that New York has been raised to a higher reputation and to higher duty. They recognize that the result must be made not only strong, but long, and that it must be so preserved from mistakes and must be so insured against woeful divisions among its friends that the possibilities of reaction or recoil shall be reduced to mlni- mum.
 In this view of the case, the woman hood of New York have an interest to maintain and part in which the edu- cated womanhood of New York must lead. They have accepted the respon sibility for the betterment of govern mental conditions affected by a relation to the home, and that responsibility ex- tends beyond canvass, beyond an and into an administration of public affairs. A newspaper cannot | tell them the best way to discharge | that responsibility. But we all know | that clean streets are a morality as we'll as a sanitation.t We all know that | social settlements are d sanitation as | we'll as a salvation. We all know that the expulsion of favoritism, of caprice, | of unintelligence and of political par | .isanship in every form from our school policy and from the teaching policy in f 1ur schools is among the greatest of our moral as we'll as of our intellectual ne- We all know that the diffu- sion of libraries the prolongation of the education of children by free schools. [ n the day time, into the education of ,dults, by free lectures. In the night | lime, on economic, historical scientific md municipal subjects, must be re- yarded as essential to the completion # the scholastic idea. We all know hat this can be done without violence o the fundamental principles of our government It involves no socialistic It requires no forced ] ,aternalism. It prescribes only the of all on whom govern nent rests as participants in its bless ngs as we'll as in it's burdens. It sug- rests only the infusion of humanity, of of sisterhood, and of the principle of love into the use of exist ng conditions, into the enforcement of xisting laws, into the spirit of existing government. It would all be accom-
 lished by the raising of rule from q ordid to a spiritual plane by consde- ation of the same rights for all and of | privileges for none, by a consideration | f the best Influences. instead of the owering ones, in our general life.
 It is of the first importance that this e done It cannot be done, If all re- possibility, all interest, all control and II action in our municipal affairs for he term to come. be left to men only. hey will again become partisans. hey will again fall back into old align rents, or will undertake new, To them he powers of office will be more likely , prove dominating than Its moral ob- gations. To them the use, or misuse, powers in their hands, in such way g to command a new lease of them, i'll be more attractive than the propo tion that right for the sake of right, nat boldness for the right and that all
 sks for the clear right will be the : 'isest policy as well as the highest isdom. Our ideals of government in le trying times to come will be pre- erved only by the cultivated and con- ,ientious womanhood of the city of ew York. They can be preserved only that wa% Out of the heart are the which God In His Word and in His | svernment and in His Providence first o nd most appeals. And the heart of 0 omanhood and the home of woman 8 pod are the temples of ideals, whether .
 art or in action, whether in princi-
 es or in politics, whether in govern g ent or in life. The womanhood of | CIV York must insist upon the preser- Il ition of ideals in our municipal life. u
 they do insist upon that those ideals a i'll be preserved If those ideals are l D