The evening world., 1911-10-06
CAN HAVE NO CONTROVERSY
WITH CHURCH OR PRElArE.

WIN SHOHCh OK PHElA1E.
am very sorry that Father
vaughan thought II necessary to leave
tn meeting At which he had co~nsentei
to 90 - my chairman Mr.. Phillips
toS0 me yesterday. but I can nave no
with him nor with any
on0rohmAn nor with any church. All
onHrdhss lead back to Christ. who was
tn greatest emancipator OF women that
ssee hvsd. And II ministers are blinded
60 NE real meaning of the gospels they
- to interpret. I an not presumptive
eoou9h 70 feel that l could say my
thmS 70 enlighten them. believe that
~ portion Of my lecture TO which
Foehsr Vaughan objected most strongly
wao my definition Of marriage. I said
thNe while no one held a higher view
Of marriage than I. that men and
womeo are not married by the formula
whtch p~ronounces them man n wife.
but BY the chumship. the palship. the
mateship that may. but does not al
vAys. result from II.
u believe that mentally, phys. :.
ioally m morally men and women
are equal, and no marriage can be
really happy whore tie man does
not ooncsds this TO be a fact.
Generally speaking, mea 90 con-
eede IL in tho case of nu individual
woman, but they refuse to be just
10 women - . whole.
whether from polly or conviction, a
man does not often entertain his wife
with his views on her inlor.)rity to him.
He Is satisfied to feel himself superior
to all other ome
"But women have rot TO stand
together, just rs wocklnen tan
together. The whole women ques-
ton would be settled IN twenty
four hours X women realized the
power that 10 IN their hands.
"eTRIkE OF A SEX" WOULD WIN
THE BALLOT.
Suppose every wife in England who
wants the vote should refuse TO cook
her husbands dinner unless he inter
ested himself in getting the Govern
ment TO grant her political rights?
Suppose every unmarried girl should
refuse to become engaged. or perhaps
to kiss her fanoee. luntil he set to work
20 remove her political disabilities
How long do you think no men would
hold out?"
"Ths sort OF hunger strike I
believe in 10 not for the women to
starve themselves. but to starve
ne other fellow-starve the mep-
Mem are Just al dependent upon
women as women are upon them.
1.-THE two sexes supplement eacl
other, as Father Vaughan says. bu
that does not mean that one Is inferior
p to the other, The clinging Victorian
woman Father Vaughan describes hai
no influence in England to-day. Thu
women who count politically and so
cally are the women who accomplish
things and they are practically all new
women II does no good to caricatur'
them, TO call them the shrieking sis
tsrhood.' Father Vaughan is a beauti
ful phra se-maker. but the makers o
phra Sos have never lone any damag
20 the makers OF history"
You defined marriage a while ago a
.palship. chumship. mateship,' sug
gested. What have you to say TO tn
contention that the triumph of the New
Woman will carry with 1t the neglec
OF the homer
a 'In ~England--I don't know how It !
Narcotic home is neglected already.
| Mr.. Phillips answered. 'necessaril'
j~lneglected by the women who must sup
[ plement the small wages OF the hus
l band by going out to work. deliberately
I cNminally neglected by the societ
} women whom Father Vaughan has bee
loudest In ACKNOWLEDGEMENT tgresses
Anan hunters / believe he called them