New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-02

,,-hathpr Sir AlmrOtn NTlSHl CloSc
rock for publishing his new book
W. W.. ,,onen because the Church Con-
H' Csc is sitting do not know. At any
20 II is a happy conjunction. For
-. church Congress, which year by
b.s been wont to debate purely
s,os;ast ical matters. has this year
oodened its outlook, and devoted a
-. 70 discussing the relations between
ua .r and women. With due regard to
'nrentionalities, these Church digni-
-. announce their subject less
,,o,v than | do. 1t appears on the
.acial programme as THE Ideals of
Torbood and Womanhood, separately
&C complementary to each other y
rsore was episcopal and archiepiscopal
action for what to old-fashioned iolk
,,yht well enough seem an audacity.
,r.e bishop Of Winchester, DR.. Talbot,
..sides The Archbishop of Canter-
NV and the Bishop of London
..oocbed. 1t was in all ways a notable
.,norinr. A Church Congress has been
Sord yearly in one or another great
,,,oIish town for more than half CEN
ny The Press reports the proceed
ZOOS at great length'-a page or two
aoiy during the week-and Of course
eomments in leading articles on what
&c eaid and done But the woman ques-
ton is foremost
II has been found possible TO consi Ter
this question in the Congress without
..fsrence either 10 Mrs. Pankhurst's
canning visit 10 the United States or to
the arrest Of Miss Marie Lloyd in New
York for presuming TO land in that
Citv Of Virtue without a marriage GER
tscate in her pocket. Have your I'M
migration Commissioners been reading
Mr. Sabatni's recent book on the Span
ieh InouisitiOn, and are they going TO
sci No a branch of that blessed institu-
ton on Ellis Island for the eXtirpat!on
~ what they or for that matter the
law of Congress, regard as social her
esy? Miss Marie Lloyd, whatever else
she may be. is an artist. She goes TO
America as an artist. Some prurient
Paul Pry Of a reporter, who discred!ts
the honorable profession TO which he
belongs, is said TO have played the part
Of informer. Do we really mean TO
bar out from the United States all
artists. male and female, who do not
conform TO the New York standard Of
pure and perfect morals? The string
Of insulting questions put to every
traveller who buys a passage ticket to
The United States is bad enough. If it
is to be followed up in the spirit Of
which this Marie Lloyd case is an eX-
ample, we shall be the only civilized or
unciyilized Power in the world which
wantonly affronts international sus-
capabilities. Not in that way is social
reform 10 be achieved
A man and a woman divided be-
tween them the hOnOrs Of debate on
the sex question at this Church Con-
gress. The man was Bishop Weldon;
the woman, Mrs. Paget. wife Of the
Bishop Of Stepney. Bishop Weldon IS
a familiar figure on many platforms.
Bishop he is no longer. and he was
never more than a Bishop IN pdf'1HS
Of Calcutta, and Metropolitan in India
for some four years. Then he came
home; was appointed a Canon of West
Minister, and now, since 1906, is Dean
Of Manchester. But the title of Bishop
sticks TO him colloquially. He is rather
free lance; upon whom the orthodox
Churchman looks with alarm; feeling
never quite sure what he may say or do
hsXt
Now he presents himself as a kind
Of Sir Galahad The text of his SER
non is chivalry. Legal inequalities be-
tween men and women in respect OF
property, marriage, divorce, and the
Ike. he would redress. But he does
not expect to establish a millennium
BY the catcall of Votes for Women.
He goes back TO the religion of Christ
which treats womanhood as the weaker
SIX. He is all for sympathy between
the sexes. His ideal of manhood IS &c
sect for women. The true expression
Of il is chiyalry and chivalry rests
Upon the gospel Of Christ. That, and
that alone, "can set the relation of men
10 women upon a firm, true, pure and
&cred basis"
1t is good doctrine, but how it is
% be practised in these days toward d
'sftain class Of women the excellent
Ekhop does not explain. / suppose IL
ought, in theory, to hold good even
iN the outragists; a word which OF
ate has coined itself, out has hardly
aade good its clam TO a permanent
pace In the English language. The
Wrages themselves will not be per-
lament The women who practise
1em are perhaps still women, but en-
u'!ed TO separate treatment; as other
Ohatics are. The gentle beings who
ais week have been clawing the faces
policemen doing their duty call the
~aee brutal because they defend
aemselves. In fact, the police
4ean the London police-are so many
~ Galahads in their tenderness to
sOmen who assault them. Said Bishop
Weldon: 1.-THE supreme asset of
NVmanhoOd is the intuitiVe respect