The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-04-21
EDUCATED WIVES.

To the Salt Lake Herald:
Judge Baldwin's hostility to woman's
attaining an education as far-reaching
and elevating as the one he presumably
favOrs for man, Parades the fact that,
to an alarming extent. his mind gener-
ates a platonic system of reasoning.
He entertains a preconceived notion
tan heirlOCm5 of what woman's posi-
ton ought 20 be: he ina gines that the
motto. Love, honor and obey your
liege lord" in all he may do or ash,
should fetter all her physical and in
tellectual aspirations He makes facts
conform 10 his ideas. however vision
airy they may be. He ignores. or puts
a barbaric construction on. the fact
that the saying. Equal rights to all,
special privileges to none" must, IN
the name Of justice, throw its mantle
of protection about woman as effect
ually as it does about "the lord OF
creation The ''preconceived notion"
Of wOmans inferiOrity that testers his
mind must give way 10 the fact that
right says exists, viz: that woman IS
mans equal. This method of thinking
gives no gifts: it unfolds only a world
O. fiction. He seeks not to refine with
the elixir of progress the mind of wO-
man; he would wish that the thoughts
voiced by the lips Of the mother to
train the mind of young America to
an appreciation of true American citi-
zenship should be branded with the
iron of Intellectual worthlessness; he
would like his wife to stand appalled,
at the unfolding of his own stock Of
knowledge The world is becoming
more friendly towards wOman's ambi-
tons. however, and mOrtals Of which
Judge Baldwin is typical species are,
consequently, becoming extinct W T..
Gladstone. IN distributing prizes among
the pupils Of a school il England, said:
We'll, ladies. you who belong 70 the
favored half Of the human race, enor-
nous changes have taken place in your
position. not only in your actual but
also in your prospective. positions as
members of society. II is almost ter
rible to look back upon the state OF
women sixty years ago, upon the man
ner in which they were viewed by the
law and the scanty provision made for
their welfare. and the gross injustice.
the fiagrant injustice. the shameful in
justice. TO which, in certain particU-
lars they were subjected. Great
changes have taken place, and still
greater. / viii not say. are impending.
but are much discussed
Luther's ninety theses gave no men
ton of woman's natural or religious
equality with man. Some prominent
man Of his day one time said that no
gown or garment worse becomes a w0-
man than that she viii be Wise''-and
maybe it was at the shrine Of such a
genius as this that the judge dragged
onto his feet the hob-nailed boots with
which he tramples on the rights Of
educated women The Puritans used TO
say.
she that knoweth how to compound
q pudding is more desirable than she
who skillfully compounded poem"
What a shining light in the lives Of
these old c0lonists would have been the
woman educated enough 10 compound
both these luxuriesl The glutton could
have annihilated her pudding. and the
dyspeptic could have found solace in
devouring her poem such a woman
could have stilled the cravings of any
grade Of appetite Women hrst en-