The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-05-09
MIR. CLEVELAND ON WOMAN'S
CLUBS.
Wonan's Best Club Is The Home
The Lash For Wife Beaters.

OF the OllteQ SldteS. Ids eii di l'e4N
on "Womars Mission and Woman's
Clubs" in the current number OF the
Ladies' Home Journal. He says, IN
part:
"One who can remember mothers
love and mothers care in childhood,
or who has known in later days the
lows a devoted wife brings 10 the lite
of man, ought to be able to calculate
upon general experience so largely
tallving with his own that he need not
fear protest or dissent in treating OF
the scope and character Of womans
mission. It is melancholy tact,
however that our subject is actually
one of difficult approach; and it is
more melancholy fact that this ap-
proach is made difficult by a dlslo-
cation of ideas and by false perspec-
tives on the part OF women them
selves. To those OF us who suffer
periods of social pessimism, but who,
in the midst of it all. cling to Our
faith in the saving grace OF SIMPLE
and unadulterated womanhood, any
discomfort on the part OF woman with
her ordained lot, or restless desire
on her part to be and to do something
not within the sphere Of her appoint
ed ministrations, cannot appear
otherwise than as perversions OF git
of God to the human race.
"The restlessness and discomfort to
| which I have referred is most strong
" manifested in movement which
has for a long time been on loot tor
securing to women a right to vote
and otherwise participate in public at
| fairs. Let it here be distinctly under
s4ood that no sensible man has fears
of injury to the country on account OF
such participation. 1t is its danger
Gus. undermining effect on the char
acters of the wives and mothers OF
our land that we fear This partlcu-
lar movement is so aggressive, and so
extreme in its insistence, that those
whom it has fully enlisted may we'll
be considered as incorrigible. At a
verv recent meeting of these radicals
high priestess of the faith declared:
No matter how bad the crime Wo-
man commits, if she can't vote, and IS
classed with idiots and criminals and
lunatics, she should not be punished
hv The same laws as those who vote
obev.' This was said when advocat-
;ne united action on the part OF the
assembled body to prevent the eNecu-
ton OF woman proved guilty OF the
deliberate and aggravated murder OF
her husband. The speaker is report
ed 10 have further announced as ap-
Darentlv the keynote Of her address:
IF we could vote we'd be willing to be
hanged.' 1t is thousand pitles that
all the wives found in such company
cannot sufficiently upon their minds
to see the complete fitness OF the
honelv definition which describes a
good wife as a woman who loves her
husband and her country, with no de-
sire to run ether and what blessed
thing it would be if every mother and
every woman, whether mother, wife,
>oinster, or maid, who either violent
! " demands or wildly desires for wo-
men a greater share in the direction
OF public affairs, could realize the ev-
erlastirg truth that the hand that
rocks the cradle is the hand that
rules the world
There IS comfort in the reflection
that. even though these extremists
NAV not be amenable to reformation
there is a fair prospect that their
manifest radicalism and their blunt a
vowal of subyerting purposes will et'
fectively warn against dangerous
wide acceptance OF their theories.
The real difficulty and delicacy o1
our topic becomes most apparent
when we come to speak of the les:
virulent and differently directed clut
movements that have crossd the ever
tenor of the way Of womanhood.