The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-05-17
AUDIENCE FILLED The
LARGE AUDITORIUM
Pays Eloquent Tribute to Mothers and
Daughters Of State; Other ACle Ad-
dresses Were Heard Yesterday.

state and there see its officers and
large force OF employees daily engag-
ed. transacting the routine business
or the government. see the multitude
Of visitors that daily pour into those
offices to submit matters pertaining
to the affairs Of the state for consid-
Grafton and disposition, you might be-
come impressed that in the capital
resides the government Of the state;
that there les the forces that determ-
Inc its destiny; but not so. Nor does
the projection Of this nation depend
alone upon it's standing armies. its
forts and arsenals: nor will our posi-
ton as a world power be determined
By the magnitude Of our navy. Out
yonder III those humble homes. where
the busy house wife at evening tide
gathers about her knee the children
Of the home and teaches them the vir-
tues OF the ten commandments: and
teaches them that good name is
more to be desired than riches; over
yondcr Ia those modest school rooms,
where stands In this nation an army Of
over three hundred thousand women
teachers. are the modest and unassum-
ing forces that make government pos
sibIe and FIX the destiny OF our nation
before It's armies are organized or its /
navy manned Order. peace and good
are not maintained BY
fear OF the laws unishment enforced |
by civil or military officerA. only the
few are restrained by that influence.
The great mass OF citizenship are con-
trolled by their ideas OF right and
wrong. There is no dynamic force in
the world so powerful as an idea 1t
can and has overturned governments
with their armies and navies. Men,
who know no physical fear. quail be-
fore the censure and condemnation OF
public opinion When the mercenary
soldier has fled. ne who is fighting for
a principle and an idea remains in
to shot and shell It is the
women Of our state who as wives,
mothers and teachers in our commoa
schools. fill the minds OF our children
with the ideas and impressions that
will be the acts of the citizens Of to.
u = = ..ii.cy who teach them
honor courage and patriotism. when
heir characters are most easily form
"a Whatever enriches their lives.
slevates their character and Increases
heir power, eleyates and strengthens
he citizenship OF the state and nation.
5ive to them trained and logical
mind with which to think; healthy
body and a developed Christian soul
With which to act: and while men may
play the leading parts in our national
irama and may write the nations
history. the women win write that
irama and make that history
"Womans Sphere"
oRtaNht6 Va AhS tuNhAc pidCc OF WOf Il
nan in society, Judge Hayes said
After all. woman as sex will CON
niue to occupy sphere different from .
he sphere OF men She will continue
o preside over the home. with that 4
harm OF which her sex only is cap. /,
lble She win be its chief physician Il
ind nurse in sickness, the inspiration
ind comforter to the husband and pro.
'ider In this sphere she will always
'e the superior Of man; nor would she.
{ she could, surrender to him her do
ninion thereover.
BY far, the greater number OF VIC.
men will prefer in the future as they Z
lave in the past the work of the school
Dom and the home; and large ma.
ority Of them win continue to engage
n those two eallings. There Is no 4
more danger Of women abandoning
hese callings than there Is that men. .
Who are untitled by nature for
reat part Of the work in the school