The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-06
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least hope OF better cay in politics.
In recent number of the independent.
Samuel M. Jones describes his election
for the fourth time as Mayor OF Toledo.
Ohio. He WAS a candidate without the
AID OF any convention or party machine.
but simply in response 20 over 5000 petit
tons. He had not a single committee in
one election precinct. no support from
any kind OF organization, ana had the
opposition OF the entire daily press of the
city. He disclaims any personal victory.
but declares It was due simply to grow
ing spirit Of independence among the
voters and a revolt against the dictation
of party bosses"
The point in all this which has par
ticular interest for women is that the romi-
mating convention and the political in
trigue which precedes it are cited as strong
objections to granting women the suffrage.
1t is said, with good deal of truth, that
they would prove very embarras sing, II
not actually demoralizing, to women. This
used to be said, in the days Of the open
ballot, of the presence of women at the
polls, but that situation has been almost
entirely removed by the adoption Of the
Australian ballot. II now the nominat-
ing convention can be abolished or made
respectable, women may attend, when
enfranchised. without fear as to the con-
sequences. What is perhaps of still more
importance, they will be accompanied by
a class of men who are much needed in
politics. but who will not mingle with the
elements now in control nor be identified
with the present questionable methods.
The Indian Mirror, published in India,
declares that american womanhood is
admittedly the finest, the very best, physi-
cally and intellectually, Of all the woman
hood Of the world. An ideal American wo-
man is the ideal OF the worlds womanhood.
This could not be unless the American man
himself wcrshipped a high ideal.
American women are among the foremost
propagandists Of Hinduism and Buddhism.
An American league with numerous
branches is now in existence which has for
its object the social amelioration Of Indian
women"
1t is indeed true that the Hindus and
Buddhists who come to this country find
their most Jealous converts and devoted
supporters among women. If 1t depended
on the men they would get short shrift
and an early opportunity to return to the
land of their beloved cult 1t is women
who take these Orientals into the privacy
Of their own homes. crowd the drawing
rooms to absorb the mysteries OF these
pockets of their expounders. 1t would
be well for them to pause and consider
what thousands of years of this religion
has done for the women of India. III
the American woman is the flower of the
worlds womanhood because the Ameri-
can man has worshipped high ideal
why have not the wise men Of lrdia, with
their concentrated knowledge of the ages,
worshipped high IDEAL and brought their
women up to this lofty standard? On the
contrary, nowhere in the world is the con-
dition of women more pitiable more de-
graded, more hopeless. by their fruits
We shall know them" Instead of opening
their hearts and their homes to this re-
ligion and its priests ana forming societies
for the relief of those wretched Indian
women, let American women send these
Hindus and Buddhists back with enough
Of the religion and the civilization of the
United States to lift their own women out
of the Hades where for countless genera
tons they have lived in torment.
The woman who has been detailed by the
Civil Service Commission to inspect the
post Offices of the country and see if they
are violating the laws might travel along
with that other woman who has been sent
out by certain large insurance companies
to learn what kind of risks their agents
we're taking. 1t is hard enough on Govern
ment and company officials to have man
come prying into their business, but for a
woman, one of the inferior sex, who is not
even Of enough consequence to vote, to
do such thing is adding insult to injury.
1t is to be hoped that the woman invested
with this responsibility will resist the
temptation to stand on the fence and crow.
Another woman has passed the necessary
examination and secured a license as steam
en- gineer in the District of Columbia. She
will run the engine that supplies the power
for her husbands bakery, which in fact.
she has been doing for the last two years
Now, here is a fragrant case of a woman
crowding some man ont of his Iob-but
or the other hand. what is the man doing
who is baking pies and cakes?
Down in Richmond, Va, there is woman,
and a negro woman at that, who has been
made president of bank and invited to
ioin the Bankers Association. And in
Montclair, n. j., woman has been adj
mitted to the Master Carpenters Associa-
ton and is putting up some of the most
attractive homes in that city. All of which
goes 10 show that you never can tell what
a woman will do next
Tho women of Vermont will be pleased
at the promotion Of Judge Henry c. Ide of
that State to the Nice-Governorship of the
Phil ppines. 1t was through his efforts
In 1854 that the law was secured which
granted to married women the right TO own
and control their separate property ard the
power to make contracts. They will here
that his II rong sense of justice will imLel
him to secure for the Philippine wcnen
at least as many legal rights as they en-
loved before they became a part Of tho
United States. condition which at present
is seriously threatened.
The London School Board makes official
complaint that "the average professional
life OF the women teachers is only eleven
wears, because Of the havoc wrought by
matrimony among this remarkably at
tractiye class of the community" New
York and other cities have called on the
courts to compel Il woman teacher to give
no her school as soon as she marries. Chi
caGo contemplates requiring all teachers
to sign a pledge that they will not marry
during the scnool year. The Agricultural
College of Colorado reports that il educa es
girls for teachers, and then they marry as
soon as they are graduated. The Govern
rnent IL irving to discourage rratrimcny
bv dischargug the guilty woman employee.
One class mourns because educating wo-
men will destroy their taste for marriage,
another class grieves because the educated
women insist on marrying: third c!ass
insists that going into BUSINESS will make
a woman so unattractive that she cannot
marry. and fourth declares that she shall
lie punished il she does Oh, the joy, the
l., Japap don pe in helm o. man for in his