The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1912-07-12
SUFfRAGIsT
AND FEMINIST
First Types Of the Newest
Woman---9y Harold
Owen.

are appearing frs. In The LONDON Dniiy
Chronicle. T1ey have attracted so much
attention THAT they arc well worth 80
peating.
The task / propose to undertake I'm n
short series Of ARTICLES is vcry simple
one. III is not primarily a controver,s,al
task. but an informative function, being
merely TO show how suffragism rnsrens
into fominism and then at what f. minjsm
aims. In nothing that / have 10 say
about feminism will tine question .:
volts for women directly appear. n Is
true tllat IL viii be in the baclsgrou nd
all the thine, but as fcminism Is I'LL the
time IN the background of suffraeism
cannot he held responsible for the COM
position of the picture. propose, IN
deed, to look beyond the vote. and -
reg,rd 1t even as achieved, in order to
show what is the regal aim and spirit of
the womans movement.
The first thing to do obviously IS
to show by what gmdations, and then
at what point, stuff agism merees into
fcminism. and l cannot do that bet
ter than by beginning at the beginning
and first taking the most documentary
form of suffragism. which is expressed
by what / may call the material view:
a nd n. ix,. ,,i. nT -.
Is in tunr oppressed by Lady Seiborne:
People sometimes talk as il women
who desired to vote therefore desired
to do everything that men do, wheth-
er they were fitted by nature for the
occupation or not. Let me assure them
that this is not 80. a very large number
of MS are Perfectly sensible Of the lin
itations our sex places upon us. O..
We are quit content to he wives and
motIheas. We recognize that that is iii.
profession for which we are most IT.
ted. 1t contains enough to interest, AMI
enough opportunity Of usefulness, to
satisfy any ones aspirations, Rmd the
woman who bankers after other pro-
fessions in preference TO this prerIinent-
ly importana one has not. in our tudg-
ment, got a right sense of the true value
of things"
Next we have the militant suffra-
gist, who really connects us at a tpund
| with the feminist, for al,e ,Ifference
| betuGcen the suffragist and the feni.
| mist Is merely one Of expedhaaEy AM
| taa,ics. She Is tive prassbicai poltti.,i.
an" and wants the vote first as Ahe
instrNinspst of woman's acknowledgements
| and after the vote is secured is o~n.
tent to say that We shall see wilma,
self provides a representative Statement
of this grade Of suffmgist Asked ly
an interviewer whether she Thought thu;
the logical end of her camrnasn was
that woman would sit In Parliament
and @acome cabinet Ministers. she re.
piled, 81 am a pracfical .p0Lbticiax, am,
have sOt much tianc for speculafden."
The next grade Is the feminist herself
and Mrs. BillinGtoa Gmeg may .s-e call.
ed as a witness for fcmindsm, for 1,
Is aer intellectual honesty tha, SIP.
plies the connecting link between TIL,
confTete poMtical demand of suffizt.
gis1m and the spirit, aAnl and creed of
femitSsm. And after we have pass N
Mrs. Ellington Grieg we are admiat "a
whthan the pontals THAT disclose 10 al
the feqninism of bcundless horizons and
of limitless possibilities for good or III,
accounting to your decalaed.
But for the time being We need 20
no ftHsher than Mrs darlington GrIeg,
to whom the tactical eqllivoc at.ions of
The s'nfraeist seem oontemptii,le, and
to whom the spectacle of Mrs. PAM
hurst marrying such an elementary
question as whether wamen are going
to get into parliament seems aitogetn-
sr unodrying. I'VE deaiderilv 10 not
$500. Nv sh'ise Siie las sfnu
In one place. Ito the false siinpAic.ty
OF plea for saich a little thing as a
Note.' We want a great dsssl more ehan
that aa'd everybody knows we do And
'scalin. ''Women must face the music
Of their freedom on the platform Of
unnnSlileged common humanity. They
have claimed Sights--tlley must abandon
pldNiheges."
Now. from the point of vdaw of truth
and honesty, Mrs. Rillimston Grieg Is
absolutely right. She merely expresses
what THE tactical suff,ayist eOnceals.
But from the point of view of tartics
she may have been amprudont. For the
stffraeist s quite dela to begin TO
walk before she heghs TO run. Mrs
RillinItcn Gr'ee says. Ia, effect. "Nev-
ar mind talking 80 much about ahe vote.
Hsain to say something a4bosyt what yo,i
are going to do with 1t when you've
got h?' And ahe saffragisf Is quite
right. from her point Of view, 10 rs-