The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-14

| on the ripe red crimson of her lips, to
note the gentle rising of a blushing
| breast curved as the pencil of artist
never drew.
And yet she got him into trouble
within one week. The first man
found ii impossible to say mo" He
was not there, he said, to revive an
old ard ancient scandal. She was
curtous, perhaps, but Adam was a
: coward. He attempted to saddle her
with all the blame. yet she was till
death his ever true and loyal friend
and comforter. I'm ashamed of
Adam" He offends my family pride.
But nothing can shake my loyalty to
! Eve-'with all her faults I love her
STILL" God has long ago forgiven
| her, but man never Will.
The "new woman" of which he was
| to speak, was not the radical woman.
| The latter shocks the world and
shames herself, and the pure concep-
| lions of her sex She is a wretched
copy of wretched man: she reeks
| with the bravado of the politics of
| the ward. She goes about disgracing
| the temple of her body by the shame
less license of display. She is prog
ress on a descending scale. lie quoted
sam Jones, who stated that if one of
| these decollete women should ask him
to come and talk religion, he'd take
off his coat and throw it over her
shoulders so that he could be religi-
Gus While he talked. 1t has come to
the pass that these two classes of new
women vie with one another for the
palm of indecency; there is the
woman with the neck and the woman
without one--the one goes staggering
about displaying her shoulders" the
other haranguing the hustingS in bill
1oWy boomers that beat the furious
air.
With eloquent fervor he depicted
the happy mean the mothers OF the
present generation, the girls of this
day who maintain their heritage. He
described their sweet humility, their
tendency to give the praise to man
while ministering to his mistakes;
while they held the silent passes of
their hearts with courage unequalled
by those who defended Thermopylae.
Her bushes cover the heart of her
lover as the day-spring floods the East
with glory" There is always a
prince going about with a golden
slipper seeking the old-fashioned girl
the girl whose palace is the home.
mo skillful housewife" he declared.
lever stormed stomach in vain.
1t is this kind of woman that keeps
God in her heart and her husband in
her home.
But the real new woman will not
debase her heritage nor disgrace her
self. She is no longer a sentiment,
but a problem-we must grapple with
her or surrender.
He quoted the words of an old
timer who had said: II am opposed
to women changing their natural
state. l am opposed to a mans head
on a woman's shoulder or "A woman's
head on a mans shoulder. How
many here will agree to that PROPOSE
tom" queried the speaker
Woman has been struggling for
years for recognition to attain to a
higher standard. She is now in the
arena ready for crosses and laurels.
Mr.. Graves went on to speak of the
success of their struggles-in educa-
ton, in attaining to the schools. He
combatted and ridiculed the old idea
that woman were of a lower grade of
intelligence than man; that the size
of the brain had anything to do with
it's effectiveness. According to that
theory an elephant or a whale ought
to out-think the world. Two Ameri-
can women recently carried off the
highest honors in the University of
Berin-yet, despite old prcjudices,
1--WE love her STILL There is no limit
to her capacity, no barrier to her
future. She has gone at independent
work. There are now 725 different
employments of trust and profit filled
by women. You find them in the
public offices, in the professions-an
typewriters by the thousand. In
New York alone there are $1,000 wo-
men who are supporting by their Ia
Dor the bipedS in breeches who are
supposed to be their lords and mast
ers.'
Woman has the right to labor and
the right to love. He referred to the
great temperance movement set on.
foot by Frances Willard for the rescue
of the home and the redemption OF
the race. He touched upon the ques-
ton of social purity: u man can no
longer himself live two lives and force
the woman at home to live but part
of one The great heart OF the sex
says NO"
Woman is the orifamme of revulu
ton. If she continues the progress of
the last two decades, think of what
the sex will have developed into!
In taking up the future, Mr.. Graves
announced that he was woman suf-
fragist; that her right to vote could
not be answered by argument. The
opposition was merely kind of specu-
lative apprehension. He told of the
old negro who claimed to have car
ried water for Grover Cleveland in
the Confederate army and yet claimed
the right to vote on account of his
masculine qualifications" He fol-
lowed out the reasons for giving the
right fully and clearly and closed
finally by stating that the light of her
destiny was born of the provident in
telligence of God.
1t seems almost murder to try to
epitomize or paraphrase such a speech
1T is murder--yet it had to be done.
Mr.. John Temple Graves is 81 years
old, native of South Carolina and
editor and part proprietor of the At
lanta News. His life has been de-
voted tc editorial and lecture work
and, sometimes, to politics. He holds
today the admitted palm as the
greatest platform orator in the coun-
try-a development that is not sur
prising when it is considered that, on
his mothers side, he is a grandson
of William, the eldest brother of the
famous John G. Calhoun.
Mrs. j. Il. Graves Death.
Especial to News and Observer
Wilson, n. c., July 12.-On Sunday