The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-31
NOrWaIk Meeting Largely At- tended---Edi ZuebIin'S
 Address
Attorney General John H.
 Light Presides Over I'm portant Event of Trolley
 Campaign.
Especial to The Farmer.1

enC6S Indl nave STS0lSu lIl6 SpCdASIS in the Equal Suffrage campaign, MT Charles Zueb1in, editor of the Twen- tieth Century Magazine, delivered an interesting address on Man and Wo- man. in the Pleasant Hour Theatre here, last evening. Many who had | attitude affixed their signatures to the forms circulated through the audi ence for a declaration of belief in the principle of woman suffrage.
 Attorney General John H. Light pre- sided over the meeting. He spoke briefly on the principle of equal suff- dress introduced the chief speaker, ! Mir. Zueblin. MT. Zueblin is a well | known publicist with facile expres- 1 sion and engaging delivery His talk held the earnest attention of the audi | ence.
 Miss Emily Pierson spoke briefly on the purpose of the present campaign: The audience included a number of | Bridgepor ters, among them INIT. and Mrs. Richard T. Crane. Sd.
 In part, the address of MT. zueblin Bridgeport today before the Thursday | Morning Reading club His subject will be Complete Democracy, using
 William Dean Howells as his nlustra- tion.
 Here is MT. zueblin's address,: We are told that we cannot have | certain desirable things without l changing human nature. This would
 seem to be a good argument for | changing it. It is our privilege to | change human nature. We have done | so much to improve fruit and cattle
 and poultry that 1t is wonder we l have not done more to improve the l human race.
 We all value the peculiarly feminine. | characteristics which distinguish wo-
 men from men and make woman's | special work possible. Physiological
 knowledge has advanced and shown
 that the sexes are complementary, and | that their great function is to observe
 complementary relations to each oth- | er- Till lately 1t was supposed that
 men had in intellectual advantage over
 woman because they have larger | heads. Now we know that the larger l animal may have a larger head with | out necessarily having better brains. | about women which we do not allow | to guide our conduct. As Havelock | Ellis says, we still act on the notion I that "a woman is a cross between an | angel and an idiot.'' This is still the | instinctive attitude of many men, and the attitude still demanded by many women
 In the course of physical evolution, manifestly men and women have de-
 we oped together from common par 1 entage; and sex qualities, so far as production, must be the result Of use and must be largely developed during life. The sexes do differ, happily, but the difference expresses itself each time in personality and the chief con- cern of society is that each of these personalities shall have the greatest possib.ei latitude consistent with so- cial welfare The intellectual diff
 ferences may be pronounced without
 any suggestion of superiority or in
 feriority. Men exhibit greater var
 liability, women are better balanced; 1;
 men are more courageous, women
 more constant; men discover more
 and forget more. One of the charac- .l teristics of evolution Is the require l In
 it is necessary for the individual who
 has been at a disadvantage to mani fest Superiority, in order to attain equality Women were not supposed
 to be capable of education and on
 this assumption obstacles were put in
 their way which compel on their part,
 achievements unriValled by men, in or der to enjoy the same facilities which
 have long been conceded to men. The i consequence is that boys and men
 make poor showing in classes with
 girls and women, where there is no
 such sex limitation as to make com petition impossible. It is difficult to
 persuade some of the more conserva- tive races which come to this coun-
 try that their daughters should enjoy
 a higher education. They represent
 the attitude of the American of fifty
 years ago. The American on the oth- CT hand, has so fully accepted woman s | education and she has so freely res
 bonded that momentarily insufficient provision is made for the education 1 of men,
 l The movement for woman's economic freedom is necessarily part of a ] larger industrial revolution. One must trace the course of industry from feudalism through the domestic, sys- tenn to the factory system, with it's in
 cipient democracy, prophetic Of the 1 future organization of industry, in or | der to understand why live million
 women should be industrially self supporting in the Limited States. The most conspicuous cause of her en- -Ts- ,Tr,-, ion of the household activities by improv-
 ed industrial processes. There Is no longer work for her to do at home. She must go forth either into industrial | or public life; if she is to fare well 1 in industrial life it means that she go also into public life. The question of her effect on industry is still open
 to discussion, as is that of industry.
 cn her, but her right to enter the in i dustrial world is unQuestioned.
 It is contended that it will interfere of the education of the future citizen, if women enjoy political rights. The supposition is that the o'd-fashioned mother had a saIutary influence over 1 the citizens-her husband and sons which the enfranchised women still lack. If the woman with the ballot shall in the training of her sons make | a worse mess of it than the mothers l of the past generation, then are our hopes for self-government very slen-
 der.
 The SCOCk are O1- ten trite on both sides, miss the mark l because debaters have no vision of the great democratic state which is in process of evolution. A Southern statesman has recently echoed the sentiment of Mark Hanna: 'If woman 1 gets down to the level of ward poli ticians, as she will have to, that would
 be the finish of her influence" and | '.Women can't do more than one | thing well at a time, any more than men can. You can't make homes and
 rear children and run a government That accomplished woman who has | proved the right of women to equal 1 partIcfpation with men in every de
 partment of life, Jeannette L. Glider, says: t'In politics I do not think wo- men have any place. The life is too public, too wearing, and too unfitted to the nature of women. It is bad
 enough for man and it would be worse for women-"
 The suppositions of all these people | is that politics is dirty, the home clean, and that business and the home