The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-01-16
SAYS WOMEN GAN
BOSS HUSBANDS
DOMINION Is THEIRS, DECLARES
METHODIST PASTOR, IF THEY
STAY At HOME.
MUST ESCHEW POLITICS
BOTH MADE Equal. AND "THAT
RIB BUSINESS is AN ALLIE
CORY" HE ASSERTS
MUST ESCHEW POLITICS

| ANY woman can be the complete
boss Of her husband If she wants to-
/ home.
'If she leaves home and enters poll
itics, watch out" -....
That's the way the situation looks
to Rev. DR.. S. c. Hatcher. pastor of
Broad street Methodist church, who
discussed The Young Woman in Pol
itics or the Modern SufTragist.' from
the pulpit of his church Sunday
night.
Or. Hatcher is positive that God
made man and woman equal, and, as
he expresses 1t, that rib business is
nothing but beautiful ailegory.
Therefore, woman need not entertain
the belief that she is inferior to man.
Dr. hatcher did not enter upon his
discourse without preparation. lii
fact, he said that since the announce
ment of his subject ten days ago in
The Nirginian, he had been flooded
with equal suffrage literature from
all parts OF the country. He had read
every line of this literature, but he
was still OF the opinion that woman 5
place is at home and not in the po-
litical arena.
! Law Protects Women.
| First. The argument Is often made.
and not without force. that taxation
ought to carry with II representation.
The women of our country hold Ia
great deal of property and yet have
no voice in the levying of the taxes on
their propsrty. This has been the
man suffrage mwf INF m mhrd hrd
argument that as induced some OF the
States to consider favorably woman
suffrage. it, however. has not brought
any special blessings in this field to
her, for taxes. whether levied by the
votes of men or the votes of women,
will always be equal. and 1t is i'm
possible to suppose that men will ever
so degenerate as to try to impose upon
their mothers and sisters burdens that
they themselves are not willing to car
ry In fact, while the law has always
put them on an equal footing, senti-
ment has been very lenient toward
women.
Wants Higher Education.
She may say that in matters OF
education the State has not done as
much for women as for men. The
reply is that the public conscience as
to the need of woman In educational
lines Is being constantly auickened
When | was small boy an aristo-
cratic old aunt repeatedly said at So
cial functions and on occasions when
she was expressing Der views on
things in general that women had no
real need in educational matters be-
yond the basis of an education and
the ornamental touches that could be
acquired at finishing schools. Our
women do not now hold this theory
and our men are rising to meet their
larger ideals. Ii gill not be long In
Virginia before a university for wo-
men on an equal footing with the
University of Virginia will be erected
God speed the -day4ef Its coming
r and this IL the desire OF every true
man. Our women want IL. they have
a right to have 1t.
Hurts Her Influence.
Secondly. / make bold 20 state tina
she damages her influence and de
tracts from her personality when sh,
enters politics. There Is in the mind
of many people in this country, espe
cially among the educated and refined
classes, and stronger among womer
than men. a feeling of propriety tina
would be offended by the promiscuouI
mingIing Of women with men in th'
conduct OF public affairs. That chiv
] airy of the days of knight-errantr,
that made her strong because she wa
weak Is offended when she comes on
| of her castle of strength and down
into the low plains where men strug
! gle to fight their own battles. Whei
! she deserts the true woman's plac'
she liz obliged to lose that high regars
in which true women should be held
There are many spheres in which
she can effectively move. She has
! without the ballot helped TO emanc,
: pate our children from ignorance
/ at ff,,l Axt,T
away the hlights of pestilence ant
: disease, and l here quote Ida NJ. Tar
bell as she expresses what to my ngint
= III n real fear when she says: II fea
suffrage will take the attention of wo
men from what / conceive 10 be thei
pressing civic duties. engrossing then
in the political game when they shout,
be giving their time to definite need
which they are already we'll equippe'
to handle
Thirdly woman harms the caus
that she politically espouses. / rea
HE that In this statement 1 am max
, ing a strong assertion. and yet / thinl
that If you viii dispassionately con
slider the matter you viii be brough
, to admit its correctness. When ou
women come to US to-day they com
as advocates with all personal motive
eliminated; they come unbiased b,
petty considerations that might NOV
them IL they were in the active gam
of politics. They come pleading rattle
than demanding, and their entreatie
. are far more eloquent always thai
their demands. At the game, IL playe,
pure and simple. men could be align
/ ed, and with them under IA suffrag
system could carry enough women 4
always insure the results they desire
but no chivalric man ever thinks o
barring his bosom against the SOB
) shafts of entreaties when they com
|, from our fair women. They are GU
! superiors without the ballot and w
Z must obey / am not giving expression
Il ta a vain sentiment, but to facts o
legislation. TO facts of actual his
tory.
Duty IL at Home.
Fourth. When woman enters tn
political arena she quits her throne O
power and place OF greatest useful
ness. Women are home-makers. Go,
intended that they should be goo,
hame-keepers. hut they should give t
their husbands, brothers and chiidrel
| those attentions and inspiration
, which alone cam come from her han
, and heart. Over domestic life 1t !
. 1.-THE duty. dignity and happiness o
!, woman to preside. and am constrain
ed to think that most Of our womel
, are well contented to WELD this poten
/. influence, the most ar-reaching, mos
: compelling. as well az the most benefi
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