Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-03
THE BISHOP AND The WOMEN.

THE BISHOP AND The WOMEN.
I In a lecture delivered before the ma,
tional conference of charities and cor
rections at Detroit that noted Roman
Catholic prelate, Bishop Spaulding, OF
| Peoria, advanced premises which mosl
men will be quick to Indignantly deny
Bishop Spaulding practically charged
the sin, depravity, crime and poverty in
America to the American woman. III
the women of the land We're more large
minded more thoughtful, more intelli :
gent said the bishop, three fourths OF
| the depravity and sin that curse
present day life would disappear. The
seat of the development of the child is
| in the home. To her man must leave
the training of the boys and girls that
are to be the fathers and mothers of
the future. Shall woman be false, I'M
grateful and traitorous to the trust that
our homes decide how we shall build
and furnish our houses" said Bishop
Spaulding. "They determine what we
shall eat, and wear. and read; they Sc
lect our friends, and even decide the
important questions of religion. They
put words of the native tongue into the
mouths of the children, and influence
them powerfully in their growth to
manhood and womanhood"
Men who have been nourished in
childhood and guided in youth by good
mothers-and there are few men will
ing to bear witness against the good
ness and tenderness of the mother who
bore them-will reverse the bishops
threefourths of the honor, the gentle
less, the charity and high aspiration of
their souls was implanted and cult
waited by the mothers of whom the
bishop holds such remarkable opinion
The man who fails to remember a
childhood guarded by motherly wath-
fulness and 2. young manhood guided
by maternal hope and admonition is
unfortunate in his memories and a no.
table exception to the rule. The aver
age man remembers how his mothers
teachings and prayers kept him many
thought of the effect upon her of any
criminal or immoral act of which he
might be guilty controlled and quieted
natural tendencies toward reclllessness
and vice. His evidence will be dia-
metrically opposed to Bishop Spauld-
mg's arraignment of women. He will
continue to attribute to his mother and
his wife the implanting and cultivation
CT most that is good or best in his man
hood.
There Is no reason why the woman
should not decide how the house over
which she is to preside and in which
nine-tenths of he'd life shall be spent is
10 be built and furnished. If they de-
ttrmine what we shall eat they also
prepare the food. If they select what
we shall wear it is because Of their bet
ter taste to which men defer. There ia
10 reason why they should not have a
voice in the selection of our friends and
our religion, for the friends of the man
must be the friends of the woman and
bis faith her religion. If the woman put
the words of her native tongue into the
mouths of her children it is rarely the
Language OF profanity or obscenity.
That the bishop charges the women
Ct America with political responsible
ty that he insists they reform or de-
stroy political system OF demagoguery
and spoils is confession of inability
and weakness on the part of the domi-
nant sex and high compliment to the
one we have been led to consider the
weaker sex. That the bishop asks this
as moral movement is evident, as he
offers no suggestion toward woman's
acquisition of political powers The re-
quest recognizes the influence of the
sex as a moral force and makes his
previous charges paradoxical.
The good bishop resembles Paul, not
only in piety but in his utter failure to
Understand women. The bachelorhood
OF the one and the enforced celibacy of
the other which have denied them
knowledge make their cases more I'M
fortunate than bamable Few will ac-
cept the responsibility of women for so
much of the worlds depravity as
Bishop Spaulding would impose upon
them. In his knowledge of his own
weakness and the moral strength of
Womanhood the average man knows
better.
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