The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-01-14
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certain moral questions has been en-
dorsed By the Woman's Club and fur
ther commended by h Shakespeare
Club. We realize the need and value
of woman's work as a sustaining NOR
al force in every function of society,
education and government, and ap-
| p~reciate more than words can tell
the approval of these two ~organiZa-
tons of intellectual womanhood who
have turned aside from the mod
err deluge of novels and ten-cent
magazines to study history n the
works of Shakespeare.
The women of the Shakespeare Club
especially, who are engaged in the
by ION intellectual cea whose
touched all the shores of thought"
need not be told that among men the
greatest literary genius of the world
found not a single hero without ser
ious faws-in fact mis- strongest male
characters were the greatest failures
in virtues that modern imagination
magnfiies. Shakespeare was true to
life, and ascribed all virtue and hero
ism to woman. If there was anything
of worth in a man it was because his
mother was a good woman. AS John
Ruskin said, There is hardly a play
1 VI SlldhSopCdIS CIoI hdo hoL a pCi ISSI
woman in it, ~steadfast in grave hope,
and errorless purpose; the %catastro-
phe of every play is caused by the
folly or fault of a man; the redemp-
ton, if there be any, is by the wis
dom and virtue of woman; and fail
ing that there is none"
King ear wrecked his own life
and brought ruin upon his kingdom
by misunderstanding and disinnerit-
ing the one daughter who was wor
thy of his love.
Of the two or three wicke women
limned by Shakespeare, Lady Mac
beth is the worst, and she stands out
as a terrible example, all the more
hideouS because exceptional.
There is no darkness but ignor-
| ance," declared Shakespeare, and it
is to woman that we owe the teach
ing of sound morals and the instruc-
ton of the young to the end that a
free and clean government may be
preserved in Roswell as well as in
the Territory n the Nation. 1t is
related that Bonaparte Ice asked
Madam de Stael in what manner ne
could best promote the happiness of
France. h replied, Instruct the
mothers of the French people"
While the contests of the political
l WOTIu Hldy De considered 100 GROSS
for the delicacy of woman, yet her
moral perception is both quicker Inc
more just than that of man.
AS Daniel Webster said, our secur-
ity for the duration of civilized insti-
tutions depends upon habits of virtue
and the prevalence of knowledge and
of education. The attainment of
knowledge does not comprise all of
education. The feelings are to be dis
ciplined; he passions are to be re-
strained; true a1d worthy motives
are to be inspired; religious feeling
is to be instilled, and pure morality
to he taught.
Mothers are indeed, the affection
ate and effective teachers of the hui
man race. The mother begins ner
process OF training the infant in her
arms. 1t is she who directs it's first
mental and spiritual pulsations. Moth
ers who are faithful to their duty
will tell their children that neither
in political nor in tn other concerns
of life can man ever withdraw him
self from the perpetual obligations
of conscience and of duty. They will
impress upon their children the truth
that the exercise of the elective fran
chise is a social duty of as solemn a
nature as man can be called to per-
FORM; that a man may not innOcently
triie with his vote; that every free
elector is a trustee, as well for others
as himself; and that every man and
every measure he supports has an
important bearing ON the interests
of others, as well as his own. 1t is
in the incubation of high and pure
morals such as these, that, in a free
republic, woman performs her sacred
duty, and fulfls her destiny"
A good example of what poor he
roes men may prove in time of panic
will be found in the story of the Boy
ertown theatre fire published in to-
days paper. Think of men fighting
own wives n children il try
ing to escape, when by remaining
they might have prevented the loss of
many lives. Then try to imagine. if
you can, even the average mother
deserving her child to fee from
names or any other earthly terror. |
She might madly plunge to death in
the midst of fire trying to ave her
child-but desert him to save herself
never.
Back IL the states a farmer has
TO cultivate at least $50 acres in order
10 make a living, and that is about |
all he can make off 160 acrac uaro