The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-31

will be OF the highest value.
The other declaration was made by State
Superintendent Of Instruction Charles r.
Skinner In an address to teachers atRoches-
ter, n. y, last week. He declared that the
safety of the nation depends on knowledge
OF practical politics by educated people;
that the place for the youth of the country
to acquire this is in the schools and not on
the streets, and that the teachers should
show the children how political machines
are managed.
Sup,. Skinner is too shrewd man to
make, without qualification. such an asser-
ton in State where the teaching force con-
sists Of 30,444 women and only 5.147 men. or.
in other words, so per cent women and II
per cent. men $500. Therefore he said,
in conclusion Because teacher is a
woman is no reason why she should not
know about practical politics. am not
one of those who object to an educated
suffrage which would permit to the women
teachers the same right that the ones they
teach will enjoy" The published report
did not quote Mr.. Gill as making any COM
ment on the utter incongruity Of requiring
women teachers to inform themselves on
the whole science of politics and train their
1
selves are rigdy barred. From all direc-
tons comes the cry that the children in
the schools must be instructed in practical
patriotism in order that they may exercise.
when old enough. that intelligent and
conscientious suffrage Of which the country
is beginning painfully to show the need.
And yet in every State the vast majority
of these teachers are women. in some OF
them, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island for
instance, Of per cent And 80 we have the
ridiculous situation-which might we'll make
us the laughing stock of the world-oi re-
| Quiring the wise and honest Use Of the
franchise to be taught the rising citizens
of the Republic by those whom the Gov
eminent degrades by holding in state
of Acknowledgement
The sons and daughters of North Caro-
lima have just had an anniversary banquet
in New York and, as might have been e4-
pected, the ghost of the negro stalked in at
States Senator Simmons said in speaking
of the proposal to reduce the Congress
representation Of the South IL the colored
men were disfranchised;
II the right Of man IN the North to twics
| the representation Of man IN the South
Of the. negroes have been DISTINGUISHED.
or a minor in the North to twice the repre-
sentation Of woman or en- minor IN the ne south
States be the result of reduction upon the
basis Of votes. or upon the basis provided IN
| tuition.
There is the widest difference in the two
cases In the former the national Constitu-
ton would be violated; in the latter IT would
not In the framing Of that Fourteenth
| Amendment it taxed the ingenuity OF the
finest minds in the nation to word it 80 as
to let the black men in and keep the white
| women out. Charles Sumner stated that
he himself covered nineteen pages OF fools
cap in the effort. The result was finally
accomplished in the monstrosity which de-
clares that III the right to vote is denied by
| any State to the male inha bitants it's repre-
sentation shall be reduced" Here is the
| concession that the franchise is right but
the permission of the Government given TO
deny it to women without fear of punish.
ment A few generations hence this will
be regarded as the blacklist stain upon the
escutcheon Of our republic. Al the time
this question was under discussion Elizabeth
IF you continue to deny to women the pro-
lection OF this amendment, you will finally
come to the point when it will cease to pro-
tect even black men,
of century. Morally it is just as .wron
| to deprive women Of the suffrage and count
| them in the basis OF representation as " IA
| to do this in the case of the negro men. but
|
there still remains among representative
| Americans considerable regard for the Con-
stitution. The North sins in one respect:
the South in both. The reoPening of the
not without its advantages, for it calls the
attention of the public. which has progressed
considerably on this point since 1857, to the
outrage which it perpetrates against the
women Of the United States.
The address of Bishop Burgess. Of Long
Island at the convention Of the Protestant
Episcopal Brotherhood Of st. Andrew, in
Brooklyn. few days ago, contained this
somewhat gratuitous statement:
The question of the relative religious power
| of the masculine and feminine sexes need
hardly. enter into the discussion II ! were ,s
rssp %sn1' sRo I'D be erryps favor
with my audience. And yet ! will remind
jsoG al tS fact world A have ,as ips sea
founded by men. In rel ioion, as in, music
and art, women seem TO have the Initiative
developed, and when they set Out by them
selves to create a religion perhaps Eddyism
stitions il the best that they accomplish,
The school OF Hypatia seems to have about
as much value as anything religious which
has come down to US in the records OF ancient
Greece. but women PLAYED prominent nm part
dav call the pagan religions. The He
brews seem to have been the first to discrim-
mate conspicuousy against any sa creo au-
thority on the'part OF women, and the dire
slightest official connection with the priestly
services, When the Christian religion came
into existence, St Paul, its chief promoter.
nut an efiectual damper on any budding
religious aspirations woman might have had
| The Catholic Church excluded them abso-
! lutely from any direct part in church gov.
ernment. Its descendant, the Episcopal
Church carefully retained this part OF the