The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-27

never is contemplated: The people IN
general are entirely satisfied With T.. All
these fine spun arguments Of the Eas.arn
.antis' are simply laughable-a moro
twentieth century version Of Don Quixote
and the windmills.
The Milwaukee Sentinel contains an
dent Of the Women's National Republican
Association. in which she Is quoted as say
ing: Woman suffrage 10 not one OF tho
objects Of our organization. Education
in politics, especially OF the Republican
party, Is primarily our work. We en-
courage and help womens clubs. In TACT
party - One Of our chief aims Is
to influence the first voters. We do this
by gathering the mothers into our clubs.
They are enlightened and In turn they
transmit their knowledge to their sons.
Did any first voter ever get his political
training from disfranchised mother!
II there is one such it would be pleasure
to hear from him. The boy who has alb
soltte confidence in his mothers opinion
on all other subjects has perfect contempt
for it in politics. and so has his father.
What could be more natural, when she is
held by the Government politically be-
meath the Indian, the negro, the most de-
graded foreigner who has touched these
shores, even the Chinaman, il he happened
to be born on this soil2 To educate the
mothers in order that they may influence
the first voters is as great a waste OF tlme
as could be made. As to this associations
helping the Republican party. y would pe
interesting to get the opinion OF the party
leaders, all bitterly opposed to women
in politics And yet why oppose them!
Politically they are harmless as Kittens.
Party organizations of women have not
been much Of success, and this is to the
credit OF women. 1t is impossible to under
stand how they can organize and eiectioneer
and raise money for any OF the OLD parsiess
| which in all these years never have reached
out a hand to lift them to that plane Of
dignity and influence which would enable
| them to express their opinion on candidates
| and policies, and have it counted. Self.
respect and righteous indignation should
prevent their becoming mere hewers OF
wood and drawers Of water, and since their
purity is held to be of so fragile q character
| that 1t will not bear the contact Of the
| ballot box, they should carefully guard 1t
from the communicating influences OF the
! campaign.
Politics is growing warm in Stamford.
Conn. The leading Methodist minister,
the Rev. w. j. Cady, ended vigorous
sermon on local conditions by saying: i
ask you to throng the primaries for the
purpose OF demanding the nomination OF
the cleanest, purest and best type OF Ameri-
can manhood that can be found: II we
! fail to do this, then our nation will die
There will be great many such lmpas-
stoned appeals as this from the various
pulpits OF the country during the next few
weeks, but they will be made to congre-
| cations the great majority OF whom have
no right to go to primaries and whose , d e,
| mand for the nomination of any kind OF
| candidates would merely be laughed at.
| The church census which has recently been
| taken in a number Of large cities has shown
that only one-fourth or one-ffth OF the
attendance was Of the masculine gender.
Is it not dangerous thing for ministers
to implore three-fourths Of their congre-
CATION to do something which, if they did.
| they would be arrested for?
| A tale comes from Kokomo, Ind, OF a
number OF prominent women, who, hav-
| ing failed to persuade their husbands to
pay for some greatly needed repairs on the
church. have arranged to go into canning
factory and earn the money themselves.
| 1t is said the husbands are indignant. but
the women are determined to do it unless
the funds are forthcoming. But how is 1t
| that these women have no money OF their
own? Do their husbands hold them to the
old common law that their services in the
|
clothes? Instead Of neglecting their home
work to go into a canning factory It would
be much more sensible and dignihed for
| each woman to demand her share OF the
| Joint earnings for the last year, and then
apply such part Of it as she deems best to-
| ward repairing the church.
The board of trustees Of Columbia Uni
versity have just appointed the first woman
professor on the faculty Of that institution
Miss Margaret E. Maltby. who will take the
chair of physics This will be greater
blow to the pride of the boys than having
the Barnard girls use their swimming tank
Columbia will now present the anomaly OF
woman teaching classes which Other
women are not permitted to enter.
The newspapers recently have told of two
women-Miss Annie Peck in Mexico and
Nine. Imminck in the Alps-who have
climbed to higher mountain peak than
was ever reached by man in those coun.
tries. This is all right. so long as only ar
occasional woman does it but If at any time
there threatens to be more women thar
men performing this feat and it Is in danger
of becoming 4feminized,' then the womer
must he segregated on their own mountains
and only allowed to climb to certain height
IDA Hustled HARPER.
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