The San Francisco call., 1909-02-10
HOME DEFENDERS
VICTORS IN
DEBATE
Cabaniss, the Daring
Man, Who Summed Up
the Arguments of
ClubWomen

G EVERED families. race suicide,
weeping. worthless husbands, ne
elected children. avaricious wo7
manhood and kindred evils We're
SO forcibly portrayed by the neg
ative side Of the California club
! debate, Resolved, that married wo-
men should be economically indie
pendent held yesterday afternoon,
.nat Judge Cabaniss, to whom fell the
oash or summing up and deciding the
questoh, pronounced unhesitatingly
against the entrance of women into the
world OF business if some man had en-
uoWed them with his worldly goods
mere We're few ramifeatiens of the
subject which were not reached by one
slae or the other. Mrs. Orlo Eastwood.
VINO was absent through illness and
whose paper was read by Mrs w H
hammond, spoke on the affirmative
sue She sees great cause for rejoicing
/ IN the present situation because she
says woman now is compensated for
ner work with a reward like her
brothers. Formerly she slaved for-fe-
licity She will never again. Mrs. East
WOOD Is sure. be compelled to work for
compensation according to the temper
of an overload
DR.. Caroline Rosenberg also spoke
Tor the affirmative, although she ac-
khoWledged that working womens
ehlldren were fewer and died. many of
them. before reaching the age of 5
years.
On the negative side there was
decided disposition to regard a husband
as kind man. doing his best for
ms wife and famiiy-having his faults,
OF course. and needing management.
but on the whole, rather nice adjunct
a VIA GaI
tirely as ''the tyrant man."
Mrs. Charles w. Moores, first speaker
Tor the negative side, did not feel that
woman need feel degraded or on
lower plane than her husband because
she stayed at home and took care of
her house and children. She was al
most indignant that any woman should
hold this view. Husbands, she acknowl-
edged, were not always all that could
be desired as regards money. but she
thought most of these just needed edu-
cation, which they were probably get
ting If they had intelligent wives.
Women suffer, Mrs. Moores thinks,
If they must add money making TO
their other cares and duties. Too much
importance is laid on the money ques-
tion in these days, the speaker said,
and 1t is desire for more that leads
women to neglect their homes TO go
out and earn more than their husbands
can give them.
Mrs. F. III. Abbott. who meant every
word she said. according TO DR.. Kibbe.
was one of the strongest speakers of
the afternoon and she made a power
full plea for the rights of the husband.
She told several stories of men she
had known who had been made mere
idlers by dominating wives who per-
sisted in assuming most or at least
part of the financial burden.
On the other hand, she told OF wives
who had made happy homes for their
husbands and acted as helpmeets to
ence for married woman, Mrs. Abbott
said, took the responsibility from a
man and caused him to lose his pride,
energy and self-respect.
National reports show, she said. that
economic independence increases di-
vorces-dress makers. for instance, Sc
curing divorces at the rate of one in
every IL and milliners one in every IL.
Dr. Minora Marshall. in closing the
debate. declared that economic indie
pendence is responsible for an appalling
record of infanticide among the mar
ried women of the upper working
classes. Women, she said, may dress
better when they earn their own money.
but a symposium of doctors declared
recently against economic independence
for married women. The race must be
continued and there is no way out of
it; women must be mothers. Married
women working also lowers the stand
ard of wages, as they are able to ac-
cept less compensation.
Judge Cabaniss in summing up the
debate deplored economic independence
as encouraging the money craze and
also as destroying the home influence
for children. which he considered far
better than any day nursery that might
be conceived.
The Women's public health associa-
tion met yesterday morning and dis
cussed various matters concerning the
sanitary conditions of the city.
Mrs. Arthur Cornwall reported an in
terview with Manager Black of the
United Railroads, who promised to co.
operate with the association in every
way and TO clean up the cars oftener
and to wash the windows as we'll.
Mrs. Angelo said request had come
from Rev Mr.. Ford of the First Chris
tian church for stereopticon lecture
on the welfare work which is CON
Quoted in connection with the associa-
tion, Mrs. Joseph Sloss being chairman