The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-02-04
ECONOMIC system
CONCEIVED FROM
MANS VIEW
REV. q. n. CRANE.
Tremendous Stake That Women Have
In World Seems Almost Wholly
Ignored, Says Famous Woman
Pastor.
1--WE Don't Want All the Offices, No
a Tenth of Them: We Want To
Be Taken Seriously"
REV. G. u. CRANE.

Speaking before the members OF
the Detroit Equal Suffrage club, In
the Twentieth Century building. With
erell and Columbia-sts.. Friday after
noon, the Rev. Caroline Bartlett Crane
pastor OF the Universalist church, In
Kalamazoo. Mich, gave some inter
esting reasons why women should be
allowed to vote and told OF the i'm
portant part woman plays In the ev'
ery-day life OF the world. II was her
aim 10 show her audience the part
woman should take In the conserva-
ton movement and Il was the con-
sensus OF opinion among her many
hearers that she succeeded admirably.
Her address, In part, was as fol-
lows:
To-day I wish to speak to you OF
movement which has the approval
OF all good men and women. II grows
out OF the conviction that II Is the
duty of each generation, before de-
parting, to set the next on q more ad-
vantageous stage, the condition prece-
dent to this state being that We shall
not have used up or wasted the capi-
tai which should be passed on TO
them. Women surely have here an
equal stake with men, for whenever
a generation robs those generations
which are to follow, the loss will ac-
crue to all individuals alike. There is
no sex distinction in the penalties for
exhausted soil ON the old homestead
farm. as there was no sex distinction
in the hardships and heroism that
first planted the home In the wilder
ness. The loss is loss to men and
women alike.
"But today / propose to speak not
OF that stake which woman have in
common with men, because they are
one-half OF the human race, but. rath-
er, woman's special stake In those
things which lie peculiarly In her
sphere, and am the last person In
the world to decry the idea OF spe-
cial sphere for women, as | would be
the last to bid woman trespass on
any domain which belongs exclusive
ly to man. Woman, by virtue OF her
very organization. has had assigned
TO her the bearing and rearing OF
the children OF the world, and the
home was created as the place in
which to perform this great work. II
always has been so; / believe it al
ways will be SO; and, also, l believe
that no normal. sensible woman,
wishes IL otherwise. So today / shall
speak OF the stake which women
have, not as one-half OF the human
race, but rather as mothers OF all
the race. They are In peculiar
sense the givers and conservers of
the human life, and IL Is OF the
things most intimately touching on
human life In the home | wish to
speak on today.
IF q woman sights or despises her
task, il must be because she is not
mistress of II, or does not compre-
bend its vital connection with the
wellbeing OF her family and the well
fare OF the world. I am speaking Of
the average woman; not the average
club woman or the average society
woman, but just the real average wo-
man, who makes 99-100 OF the roll
on the farm or in the city, works
with her hands as her husband
does, and has no protection OF an
eight-hour law In her extra-hazardous
calling or collaborating and rearing
and nursing with night vigils and end
less self-denials thrown In for full
measure. We tell such q woman that
household economy Ia q great virtue;
that a penny saved IL q penny earn
ed Economy is, indeed, raised to
the position Of very high virtue I'm
this era of unprecedented high cost
OF living. And a woman Is rightly
expected to do her best with that
part of her husbands income which
Ia confided to her for the mainte-
nance OF the home. What do they have
to do in shaping the conditions that
so elevated prices? The beef trust
was investigated by congress 20 years
ago, and practically the same facts,
of illegal combinations and freight
determinations were discovered and
reported. as we have had reported
to US this year, and still we are tink-
ering at these things, not very sure