Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-12-04
PAIikHURsT AND THE WOMEN

According to the current report
from New York d. Parkhurst.s
Thanksgiving sermon against wom-
ana suffrage has stirred a good deal
Of feeling among the New York sunra-
eettes.
DR. Parkhurst took his text from
Genesls-eIn the Image OF God crea-
ted He him. male and female created
He them and ne proceeded 10 ask
why il W. = that God created mankind
male and female. Was it simply 4
physiological contrivance for the pro-
duction Of population
Having thus suggested hat there
might BE- "a reason tor the two sexes
that had nothing l. do with reproduc-
tion he went IN TO say that, as far ~
our knowledge at present went. pro-
gress lay ia g further development Of
his originally fundamental distinction
between sexes Instead OF In its oblit
Grafton:
biologists tell us that the high
or we go IN the scale of animal
life ,he morc tie respective func-
tions % the tvs sexes become d.
ferentiated-morc and more
widely separated from each other
in their quality. APTITUDE aud mis-
sion. From which we have to
conclude that the finer the type
OF human civilization The more
widely apart mar and woman
viii become in all that rclates to
the ingredients of their PERSONAL
IS n therefore % their interests
ana their respective spheres of
service.
He added that the first criticism to
be passed on what was now happening |
that is, the suffrage movement-was
that 1t was not being conducted on
the basis of principles that have been
thoroughly %canvassed that an attempt
WAS being made 10 accomplish some
thing without first discovering wheth-
ef it fits into the framework OF socio-
logical principle and historic trend
The absence of AN such crGft was
20 him. he said, the distinctive fea-
ture of the recent meeting at Carnc-
gle han which did not deal in fund
omentals, but was simply one grand
accumulated feminine sob for the ball
~ which might aptly be char
acterized not as o. movement. but
as an eruption.
Il is possible that the sunragettes
might have passed AN this over IN ST.
lence and scorn. But Dr. Parkhursi
was yery far from thinking the sub
iect exhausted with an argument
the preceding lines StiH re-
to the Carnegie haE meeting.
'e proceeded ~ indulgo IN some poini.
d references which must be l|.sard.d
ls polite undertaking
What may have individually
transpired between ladies in that
audience and members OF the oth-
rr s,V that rendered them So
chserfully responsive 10 rcflec-
ttuus and ~innucndoes inflicted
upou members OF that other sex
! DO not know. OF course. / do
know that there Aas one woman
VERY copsricuously present on she
platform who htd herself chang
20 husbands $50 l suppose there :
must have been something in her /
ease that might give point 70 her
obiurgauons Nts, aud ther.
was another "a there. too
prominently connected with thr
movement - mean the eruV--
lon-.h1- also belonged 10 the mi.
gratory sisterbood / do MOI
mean az ali that this agitation he
in the interests OF what might b.
called tandem ~polygamy but
cur ladies because Of the deli
tacy with which they are sup
posed u T. possessed and witn
whieh. rs 2 rule. they certainly
are rosaested. should d. rl8le
thoughtful BY acts OF that Kind
md shoriu he assured that the
underlying spirit 81 any revoIu-
ton Is likely to De more or less
accurately rcpres. Hted Ia the per-
soual quality of the leaders Of
that revolution.
Further remarks left no doubt In