The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-02-06
<.>npndous Stake That Women Have
b World secrrs Almost Wholly
Ignored, Says Famous wcman
Pastor.
I'VE Don't Want ALI the Offices, Not
4 Tenth Of Them; We Want To
Be Taken Seriously"

@rcII and Columbia-sts., friua! hitei
.oon. the Rev. Caroline Bartlett Crane
,nstor OF the Universalist church, in
<alnmazoo, Mich, gave some inter
sting reasons why women should De
Lowed to vote and told OF the I'M
rortant part woman plays in the ev-
rv-day life OF the world. IL was her
&Im 10 show her audience the part
FL oman should take in the conserya-
|on movement and IL was the con-
ensus OF opinion among her many
,enrcrs that she succeeded admirably,
Ter address; in part, was as fol-
~Today wish TO speak To you OF
movement which has the approval
IA ali good men and women. IL grows
II Of the conviction that II is the
Xuty OF each generation, before de-
16rting, to set the next on more adj
5untageous stage, the condition prece-
<rnt TO this state being that we shall
Isl have used up or wasted the capt.
III which should be passed on 10
helm. Wcmea surely have here an
ol,al stake with men. for whenever
generation robs those generations
rhich are TO follow, the loss viii ac-
<rr1e TO all individuals alike. There is
Is seq distinction i'm the penalties for
*xhausted soil ON the old homestead
xrm. as there was no sex distinction
K the hardships and heroism that
1fSf planted the home in the wilder
css. The loss is loss to men and
<0uen alike
HBut today propose TO speak not
Ia that stake which woman have IN
3mmon with men, because they are
.ne-half OF the human race, but, rath-
IA womans special stake in those
:lngs which lie peculiarly : in her
MERE, and am the last person In
"a world 10 decry the idea of spe-
.1nl sphere for women, as ! would be
||1u inst to bid woman tfesPass on
|nv domain which belongs exclusive
"a Ito man. Woman, by virtue OF her
erv organization. has had assigned
~ her the bearing and rearing of
Is children of the world, and the
enc was created as the place in
10 perform this great work. IL
ways has been so; believe ( al
avs will be so: and. also, ] believe
|1of no normal. sensible woman.
(shcs II otherwise. So today shalf
||cnk Of the stake which women
AVE. not as onc-hais OF the human
1cc. but rather as mothers OF all
&c race. They are In peculiar
mae the givers and conservers oil
Hc human life, and II is OF the
Ink most intimately touching on
.I>l1an life in tho home wish to
tak on today.
I'll woman sights or despises her
rk. II must be because she is not
Mistress Of II. or does not compre-
Ind its vital connection with the
tll-heing or her family and the well
re OF the world. ] am speaking of
average woman; not the average
BIB woman or the average society
oman, but Just the real average wo-
1u, who makes 99-100 OF the roll
Womanhood. who, In her home,
the farm or In the city. works
<h her hands as her husband
~, and has no protection OF an
Kht-hour law in her extra-hazardous
Hing OF collaborating and rearing
IA nursing with night vigils and end
- self-denials thrown I'm for full
tasure. We tell such woman that
UueehoId economy Is great virtue:
34t a penny saved is a penny earn
Economy Is, indeed, raised to
|e position of a very high virtue In
.Ig era OF unprecedented high cost
living. And woman Is rightly
xuccted 20 do her best with that
lit OF her husbands income which
confided TO her for the mainte-
nee or the home. What do they have
IS do In shaping the conditions that
elevated pricesi The beef trust
u investigated by congress % years
10. and practically the same facts.
Illegal combinations and freight
1criminations were discovered and
Dorted. as we have had reported
4 sIs this year, and still we arc rink
ing az these shings, not very sure
arriving anywhere The farmers
the country are disheartened By
artificial market manipulations
Ricll tempt them To ship for high
ICES which suddenly collapse as
uu ms the stock begins 20 flow 70.
<us the packing houses. So the
ing OF food-animals is discourag-
~ America. and now the cry II
~ we must take the tariff on OF
e1fn cattle and hogs. that the In.
liable cold storage plant may have
I'll, ia spite Of the American far,
New take the very important cues
IA O. weights and measures. | keen
pair or scales In my kitchen. III /
o>uT aimed every time I receive short
c,t a packages. would be regarded
rFen more OF a crank than some
/<piiS lit0tcss TO regard me now
We women know that homes are
bod. in the aggregate of immense
1s. by failure to strictly regulate
<nfs and measures. and we thinl
n women had something TO SAY
1llt II. the wrong would be speedily
Our social education about thes.
[crs III Fundamentally wrong Doe.
never occur TO YOU that all this Il
1(HC II IL n mans world, and be
~ our educational systems ant
and courts and business are al
I<cd from one point OF view
the point Of view OF humanity
o{ only one-half OF humanity
nof only that. but women have
<ered A prime virtue WHOLLY
.1ordinatc themselves and thei
az view 10 man. both becaus'
&@<o been and are economical,
1~nf on men and because the,
&n1n --mosI Of all. because. the
.|.|1n and <iah 10 fnIifll the Ideal
11< 1'oEAan Hut We ncve