The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-01-26

Real Emancipation Of Woman by William
NJ. Salter, hea OF the Ethical Society in
Chicago. He r~ejoices that women are
beginning to awake from the sleep of the
ages. and ARE coming to realize that they
are members Of humanity, that they ave
the essential human rights and duties,
that they are not simply an a~ppendage
10. mankind, old on to keep II going '
Home T. dear, it Is sacred. he says, but
Il should be a place TO rest In, 10 get strength
for the larger tasks. All should have
the dignity of living, In part, for public
ends The movement for woman's
political emancipation, timid. hesitating
movement
There are probably few men who would
not ave woman from work outside the
home II they could he continues, and
yet " a woman has her living only. as n
member of a family = = then II she
has no father or brother 70 support her
she must become a wife. n this destroys
all freedom OF choice In one OF the most
solemn relations human beings can assume
TO each other" But he would never have
emancipation from marriage. only eman-
cipation in marriage. Every true mar
rage In a relation OF equals, in which the
freedom Of each Ia respected by the other
"A relation of mutual service Like
man woman needs intellectual emancipa-
ton as we'll as political and economic en-
franchisemcnt In thought and in religion"
Mr.. Salter concludes this noble discourse
with an appeal to women to strive Tor the
emancipation into larger life not only for
their own sakes, but for the sake OF a
higher humanity. we men cannot go much
farther without YOU" he says: you are
our other hall. Dare for your own sakes
and you will dare for ours. With you az
equals, "a comrades. we shall do twice
what we could have done In days gone by
With a contrast 80 severe that IL comes
as a shock Henry T. Fnck discusses the
Evolution of Girlhood." in Hdrper's
Monthly for january. Over and over again
he rings the changes on his one and only
| theme that women must not work because
It will spoil their beauty. when the men
are willing 70 let them play the role OF
flowers" he says, they clamor for their
right TO be ~cabbages and turnips.' and
he used exactly these words in an article
In the Inde pendent not long ago. He has
a way Of repeating himself which in one
lees gifted would suggest a poverty Of ideas.
The only paragraph which calls for
special notice, however. IL the one in which
he speaks OF the little girls OF ~ years,
with bent forms and prematurely-aged
faces who are employed In the factories
are persons who look on the employment
Of tens Of thousands Of girls In factories
as a sign of progress and the emancipa-
ton OF womanl'
1t does not seem possible for Mr.. Finck
not TO know that there Ia nothing which
women have fought more bitterly than
| child labor In factories. Year after year
\ they have gone with their petitions TO the
| Legislatures in States where this niquity
EXISTS, and their failure to secure pro-
| hibitory laws has made suffragists out OF
many who were not already so. as they
became convinced that women never coul
secure the legislation they. desired until
| they had a voice in electing the law makers.
In reviewing in the Womdr's Journal, a
previous article Of this gentleman, assert
ing that "a man engaged In an unmanly
| occupation loses all his masculine quail
ties Miss Alice Stone Blackwell remarks
that Mr.. Finck's own work proves this and
| demonstrates plainly that running down
women is TIE most unmanly Of all occupa-
lions.
Under the auspices OF the Anti-Suffrage
Society OF Buffalo, Miss Emily p. Bissel
citation, composed Of the alumns Of a local
institution Of that city. She began. by
saying that the modern suffragists. led by
Mrs. Chapman Gait. the National President,
want limited suffrage and do not ask that
every woman be given a vote. This In an
entire misstatement, as the national asso-
citation never has stood for anything but
the full ballot, and Mrs. Gait never has
even addressed a In favor OF a
| restricted suffrage.
Miss Bissell then said tina after fifty
years of agitation the s~uffragists have
won 20 their cause My 5000 women in
New York. She did not explain how II
happened that. In 1894, 10000 signed a petit
| ton TO the Constitutional Convention ask
ing for a suffrage amendment. The speaker
declared also that only one-ffth OF I per
cent. Of women In the United States wanted
TO vote. and then In the next breath she
assured her hearers that u they did not
Join forces and combat this movement
they would some day awaken 70 ind the
ballot In their hands.
Az the close OF her lecture the President
Of the meeting asked any one In the room
who wanted the franchise 20 rise, but not
a soul stood up" the reporter tells us.
Naturally, a. u was an invited nesting OF
'anti's" this might have been expected.
Had II been a gathering Of sunragists all
would have stood and had this question
been put 90 an a~ssemblage 81 graduatas
from Wellesley or Bryn Mawr or any ~
the great colleges for women a large pro-
portion would have risen.
one ~ the Buffalo papers In a burst Of
approval. calls for three cheers for tho
women who want 90 stay AZ home and
attend 81 their domestic affair which
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