The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-15

clothed with political power tho legisla.
! tors might feel compelled to change these
ume-honored and long-enjoyed statutes.
The Chicago Tribune calls attention to
the fact that the new National Religious
educational Association, organized at the
great convention recently held In that
CITY, has started out as an exclusively
to do with the convention It says; mo
woman Is recognized In the new list OF
ofhcias. About everything else In the
rehgious educational world Is expected TO
pe unified. A for the woman educators
they var, are apparently to be allowed to travel
Yes. and they will be expected to start
on their travels at once to collect the funds
with which the male saints are to unity
| coPal General Conferences OF California de-
affairs. This year II decided to take it
away away It also resolved to build new
sisters levy on the public for the funds.
As soon as the order was received the beg
calling.
Sympathy in such cases would be wasted.
Whatever may be the situation With women
] In general. those In the churches certainly
have the game In their own hands So
long as they are willing to be made use OF
merely to fetch and carry. to kneel at the
altar and worship the masculine gods
perched thereon, to wash the brothers
feet and wipe them with their hair. that
is all they are fitted for. They are joined
to their idols: let them alone.
1t IL a fine thing that bill just introduced
in the Pennsylvania Legislature by the
father Of eleven children to substitute
large families and provide gold medals
7 o. 81 !, ,otk 81 h., H. 81
to have $40 In cash and $40 medal; of nine.
$40 in cash and a $40 medal; OF twelve.
SIS and S25 medal; Of fifteen $50 and
$50 medal When she goes beyond fifteen
monwealth. II the husband is so drunken
and abusive that she is compelled to secure
a divorce. then she gets nothing for her
numerous progeny. She ought to be
punished for S having family yhs by s%ss
children.
This bill has much to recommend IT,
The cash payment would insure each child
at least one pair OF shoes before 1t was
old enough to earn any. And when the
fourteen were crying for bread and the
fifteenth was at hand the mother would
derive great comfort from gazing at her
medal. Probably. however. 1t would be
Only one thing Is needed to make it per
feet = II should provide some penalty
for the father Of the family
The Montreal (Can) Stdr says: Women
are going to get their chance now In Au-
stralia. - The male voters outnumber
the female by 100 900. 80 Moral reforms
should not go begging for support. II
Australia does not become as dry ana
drinkers point Of view as i was lately
from the cattle raisers'. it will be because
the ladies themselves are seriously divided
on this question.
more men than women and yet II the saloon
is not abolished at the first election Il will
be the women's fault. Women must not
have the ballot because 20 many bad women
franchised, moral reforms will not 60 beg
cling for support. Women do not want the
suffrage and will not use it.. Then when
they get II the calm assumption that they
will go en- masse to the polls. Consistency.
thy highest expression is man discussing
woman suffrage.
The action Of the Pennsylvania Lesisla-
ture in refusing to fix minimum salary
of so per month for the time actually en-
ployed in teaching in the public schools
l. attracting wide attention. IT would
be duplicated, however. in fully three
! fourths Of tho States II the came attempt
were made. In the wealthy State Of New
York, with its magnificent school appro-
pris tion. there are many women teaching
for SIS per month In the Southern State:
many receive less than this. There would
filed by sy'i mems II Voters were compelled
to accept such pay the Legislators would
neither eat nor sleep until 1t had been raise d
at least to a notch where political candidate
would dare to look them in the face.
Ithaca Is ono OF the eleven third-c Lass
, cities In New York which by their charters
r Of taxation, and they have just voted on
the municipal ownership OF che waterworks
, II IL said that they showed the livelicet In.
, terest, getting voters out to the polls and
. sending their own carriages when -neces-
, sary. In cases where women were very old
, or feeble the ballot box was taken TO the
, carriage The result was an overwhelm'
r ing majority In favor,
, Now will any one dare assert that thest
Z womsn were doing an unwomaniy thing
. that they were out OF their sphere, that
they were neglecting thsir sacred do
msstic duties, when they were exerting theii
influence In a direct and legitimate way &c
. secure a pure water supply and save theii
city from another terrible epidemic OF ty'
, phoid frver1 l. there a greater danger to {
, city from impure water han from the saloon
the gambling den and the brotheil And
, yet men In general and many OF thcss
very women would stand aghast a. tbs
, idea Of their voting for the ohioer who
. sre intrI-ted With the moral health Of ths
, municipality. Tn. hrst evil may count
its victim, on th,s on" oS S sn"a. py oo1s
of thou-ands. and there u j,St one way e
reach them. viz. through the ballot bof.
There u no tendency 81 modern Tins
which gives greater csuss for fejolcint
than tina, Of wealthy women Go bseio~
. THAR money On girls' collee.-. The gar b,
Mn. flizals-th Milbank Anderson ~ u oD.
0D 20 barnard " . CASE In point !, cal
nov have lie own swimming pool and o~r
campus, and the it'll. Columbia under
. gradual.. may 80. tbs day " Ism the,
will IT, y.,ry glad Ia no over aud play IN IA.
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WONFN AM MN TEAfHERs.