The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-07-05
HOW SOCIALISM
AFFECTS WOMEN
Miss BlascOer Talks on Appeal
Of Party to Eternal
Feminine.

Before an audience that comfortably
Allied the auditorium Of the parish
house Of Central Union Church last
evening the general topic Of "what
stand should I. as Christian, take in
the Nation = Crisisi' was discussed by
David l.. Wilmington, Wade Warren
Thayer, DR.. Farley " Wilcox, and Miss
Frances Blascoer.
Probably ninety per cent Of the audi.
ence were women. Possibly for that
reason Miss Blaseoer's paper talk on
1.-The Appeal to Women of the Ideals
Represented by Mr.. Debs and the
Socialist Party seemed more thought.
full and less trite and commonplace
than those Of some of the others, who
consumed most of their allotted time
in discussing how little time was at
their disposal TO deal with the broad
subjects presented.
IT appeared that Miss Blascoer had
been asked to speak on the subject an
nounced because she had, to use her
own words, 'more or less disiOinted
acquaintance with Mr.. Debs during the
past twelve years.
81 have been wondering" said Miss
Blascoer. "why Republicanism is
argued against Democracy or Progress
siveism with their respective bearings
on the tariff, while Socialism is at once
set off against Christianity. Why should
not one method Of conducting our ma
tional life have quite as close bearing
on religion as anotheri
ha N
socialistic book on the woman question
is Bebel Is "Woman and Socialism. +"
This book contains some FIVE hundred
pages, $50 of which are historical and
the remaining $40 are devoted to the
working out of Mr.. Bebel's social pro
gram. One brief chapter of eight
pages is devoted to women in the
Future, and this one paragraph sums
up the socialistie ideal for women:
" In the new society woman will
be. entirely independent, both socially
and economically. She will not be sub
ieeted to even trace of domination
and exploitation, but will be free and
man s equal, and mistress of her own
lot Her education will be the same
as man s, with the exception of those
deviations that are necessitated by the
difference of sex and sexual functions.
! Living under normal conditions of life,
she may fully develop and employ her
physical and mental faculties. She
| chooses any occupation suited to her
wishes, inclinations and abilities, and
works under the same conditions as
man. Engaged as practical working
woman in some field of industrial ac
tivity, she may, during a second part
of the day, be educator, teacher, oil
nurse, during a third she may practise
q science or an art, and during the
fo6rth she may perform some admin
listratiye function. She studies, works
benjoys pleasures and recreation witt
tother women or with men, as she ma,
choose or as occasions may presen
themselves
Powerful Illustration,
ta.Jn striving to form picture whicl
could present to you Of the appea
to women of the ideals represented b.
Mr.. Debs and the Socialist party, M.
acquaintance with these ideals present
no more powerful illustration than TIM
paragraph affords-that they conside
her very briefly as woman per Sc, and
on the Otber hand, that they consde
her most essentially as human beinj
in every human relationship and poin
of. contact; as being concerned wit
the entire Socialistic cosmos and no
with any given segment of it neatl.
fenced Off and placarded Woman
Sphere
'"This was brought out most forcibl
on the occasion of the suffrage parad
in New York about two months age
The Socialist party members who wer
: members of other organizations parti'
ipating in the parade debated long an
earnestly whether they should mare
with their respective divisions
whether as professional women, bus
ness women, members of one or III
other suffrage clubs, college sorOritie
or what not-and it was finally decide
4 that as the socialistie ideal embrace
n each and all of the individual acti'
!, tiles, party members places were
> the Socialist division, and as there the
I marched, college women, factory girl
t lawyers, clerks, stenographers, wal
!. lresses, doctors, sociOlogists, and laul
q dresses, and a glimpse of this phalan
= would have shown You more eloquent
than anything can say to you the a.
e peal to women of the ideal of Mr.. Del
+, and the Socialist party
a Protection for WEAK Brain"
!. Miss BlascOer then related an inc
;. dent told TO her by Dean Schneider I
the University of Cincinnati when 81
. stopped of there on her way to Hon
8 lulu. Dean Schneider was eonduetiI
J, a seminar whose subject at one NEE
J. ing was the discussion of a s0ei
Y problem. One of the members a
vanced this proposition; Once strOI
s Arm acquired everything he could fro
= Weak Armj then with the gradual a
Y yancement of civilization this WAS M
! tolerated and Weak Arm was protect,
e from Strong Arm and things we
g eqnalized. Then came the time wiz
2, Strong Brain Is entitled TO grasp q
y no can from Weak Brain. "NOw,
I said the student, "wban will the tin
+ come when things will be equalized Il
u Weak Brain, aud protection will
y given him from strong Brain, even
Q Weak Arm is protected from stroI
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- President Dabney 0f tho Universal
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