Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-20

HUMAN PROGRESS, KEY NOTE
yvonan's Place. Possibilities and Her
Inherent Equality in The Great
Scheme of Life.

and even smaIlii but from her
personality radiated amagnetism and
thoughl-forre which swept her audi Y,
cnce as with an electric 5cnrrent, aho
X held ii as suchscurrentsSd do.
In 4 little volume called dreams Isl
WRITTEN bs Olive schriner years age
q there Is an sallegory of wonanss long
rest in the conditions Of limitation
and bondage in which she has pee'l
Kept bylluinan tradition and pleeJiutu.lic'set
aSe upon age. s. 81, (,
sd ell-bearer, stretched prone j n INT. 4 {,
desert sand which centuries have plled
$on her rccumbent form In slnoth erlhR
heaps. ,.s,..
Occasionally ilepatient beast iifth
$its head from the sand, ssEes WIS.,,
gully toward the blue horizon. anu iI
Ghen hopelessiy and patiently slnks
back into the drifts After long cen,
turtles She stirs again, lifts hef4 hea -
moves tho long-fettcred limbs. ana an.
5wonderingly. and half fearfully stanus
upon her feet. III,
Last night realization OF that MA
picture was suggested in the ms p li.l,.
lion which came from the speaiher;s
lips. Woman's place and possibilities
OF progress, ana herSinherent eqhaitil,.1 y
& in the great scheme of life. was It's
KEYNOTE and Witty, with flashes OF
cutting, yet good llumored sa rc &: .'i y
and again with touches Of pathos. M To- ~.
Gilman pictured the upright ~ lire 2,
Il woman as it shall be when. Wa ai.tsi ~
from her long Iethargy, she STANDS
erect in the full stature Of possible
IL
555..sPAsI. PRESENT AND Ftlrll = e.
4j5s Her lecture she said III beginning,
& might be called q. z Past, Present and
4. iJstlturc,' and She spoke. Of the time
when the matriarchial system prevail X
sod, With woman doing most of 1.-The
worlds work; then the patriarchtal
SSt,nei ii, which men led, and the present,
4$irf; which both struggle upon almost
equal planes--tllat is,5 out side the M
t5itation put upon women by her u'l i
equal training. s$ u
The idea of training women for ines =
al work SO far done by nlett5 $ no st ii.
Il had brought forth the argument that
! .st,eh training would nnsex liei. This
she said. was d psychological and So
Sclal mpossibility;YI sex II is !. a princ1ples
Scinbedded, deep under all conditions
and can not be effaced. She drew q
striking picture of the harm ana
hindrance of uusnual training Tor lile
& sexes. If all the women We're 10 die,
she said, the world could move pon:
renience until the race died. Men can
cook, sew, and perform all domestic
+ tasks as well ass3Spomen, while the
realm OF all the other sciences ~ al
u so under his command, But fancy,5
she said. ii world without men: the
& Wheels sof all eartf's industries would
4 i top & the hum of mills and fac tories,
: the swilirl Of railroad trains across cons
6tinents: and tread Of steamers upon
highways OF the seas; the output of
mines and all other. oils of commerce.
Mould cease to flow. and things go back
TO the savage state with only those.
things accomplished possible to wo-1
mans training. j. Il
sifsS The lesson In all this is the appeal
j for equal training 1t means more.
than all vital thing to the child We
{ want civilized mothers for our chill
sdren; we can only have them by train Z.
Z ing our mothers up to the progress
attained by man. ~ The false idea PFC
walls that humanity is divided INTO
two parts, feminine and masculine.
but humanity cannot be divided men
and women make humanity. ,5
FINAL. HUMAN VALUE.
an We do not make the distinction OF
seS in speeches. In breeding horses we
do not think Of this sdi ffefence. We want
cautility, not r,asculinity nor femtrin-
y ity; with sheep it is the same; the
Interest is not, lin tile ram nor the
Il eve. 1T is In the wool. This final hui
man value should obtain with the
sexes: there should be no Specialize
ton In the training Of humanity '
must be equal There Is nothing that
is not farcial in the appeal made for
4 tile inherent helplessness of women.
Both women and men have hypnottzed
themselves with this thought, whose
results are before US today,
Men lay great stress on the humans
king effect upon. their inasculinfty OF
,$mnisterImg to this elemeh of helpless
4 ness in women 55f,If that thing in Itself
s;,lppeals to them why not put all women
In bed and Walt upon them ceaselessly.?
The theory is killed by many, Examples;
5Rin the honesjof the poor where women
work longer hours than men at tasks
requiring great physical. mental ana
spiritual strains and endurance. On
this cherished theory of womanls de-
licndance upon man. we see strange
things. u have watched men IN board
& ing a street car take q 5wofnan's elbow
md poke her on to the platform, often
when the woman WAS bigger than he
This false sentiment IN regard to We-
mans weakness must go down before
the vital demands OF character in oul
mothers. What wrong ls there Il u
please you, in training Women 10 cour-
age, and Individual independen'
achievement Do you really see any