The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-16
THE FARMER: JUNE 16, 1913

I permanent resident physician in Amer lea was Dr. John Pot, who settled in
 Virginia in 161O. Dr. Samuel Fuller,
 who came over on the Mayf1ower in | 1920, was the first in New England. | Most of the early physicians were | taught the healing art by practition-
 CTS to whom they were apprenticed for
 from three to seven years. The first ] law for the regulation of medical prac- | tfce was passed in Massachusetts in l 1649. The first hospital was opened 1 in Philadelphia in 1756. Mine years I later the University of Pennsylvania established its medical department
 The term doctor" was first applied l to American f'physitians'' in 1769. The
 first medical journal, the Medical Re-
 pository, was issued in 1771. Eliza
 beth Blackwell. the first woman physi- elan, graduated in 1849.
 The first man to sing the immortal hymn, Lead, Kindly Light was a boatman. the place an orange boat
 becalmed on the Mediterranean off the island of Caprera, the time eighty years ago today, June 16, 1883. John Henry Newman. afterward the great Cardinal, was a passenger on the boat. III in body and mind, he was 1dling
 in the Mediterranean in the hope of recovering his health. He was es- pecially depressed on that day when ! the orange boat was becalmed, and sought to soot1e his spirits by com posing a hymn. The result was Lead, Kindly Light" The composition oc- cupied but a few hours, and the boat 1 man, who spoke English and was pos sessed of a fine voice, was asked to sing it. As the day melted into dark ness a breeze sprang up, and the be- calned voyagers were guided by the
 kindly Hghts'' along the Caprera shore into a safe harbor. The com
 poser, with health restored, soon re- turned to England, and became a lead CT in the Oxford movement until in 1845 he went over to the Catholic church, which later regarded his abf1- ity and devotion by the bestoWal of the red hat.
 "God has determined that woman should be inferior to man."
 There is far too much un-Christian
 infide1 sentiment connected with the suffrage movement for any one who holds Christianity to set aside.'
 'SThe next step will be that woman
 will demand the same rights and au- tl1 ority in the church as man.
 These statements, recently made by
 Archbishop Sebastian G. Messner of Milwaukee have aroused a storm of protest and derision that will reach it's
 climax in. impassioned oratory at the seventh biennial congress of the In ternationaI Woman Suffrage ASsOcia- tion, meeting today in Budapest.
 ''The Relation of the Suffrage Move ment to Christianity is one of the, topics on the program of the conven- rtion to be held this week in the Hun
 garian Capital. It is likely to result in 8 heated diseussian, for, while many suffrage leaders are Christians, it is probable that the majority have not yet forgiven St. Paul for his selec- tions on bhe intellectual capacities of the fair sex.
 It cannot be denied that the genesis of the suffrage movement was decided ly antt-Christian. The demand for won1an's suffrage, declared Archbish- op Messmer, started with the appear ance of the French infidels and found it's first expression in the French revo- lItion.'' The brilliant and gifted Mime. Roland, who paid for her devotion to liberty with her life, and who was one Of the first women to demand equal political rights for her sex, was a pro nounced agnostic.
 Tn England the suffrage movement was launched by free thinkers. Mary WoI1stonecraft, author of "A Vindica- tfon of the Rights of Woman was de- cidedIy unorthodox in her religious views. Her daughter, Mary, who be- came the wife of the poet Shelley, was, like her famous husband, an atheist. John Stuart Mill, the great economist and Philosopher who fathered the lat ter-day suffrage movement, held herettcal religious views. Charles Bradlaugh, George Jacob Holyoake, and other eminent English freethink- CTS, were also among the early advo- cates of equal rights for women
 In America the suffrage movement may be said to have commenced with Thomas Paine, the deistical author of The Age of Reason" who was prob ably the first American to write in favor of granting the ballot to the fair sex
 Of the great trflmnvirate of the American suffrage cause-E1izaIbeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Matilda, Joslyn Gage, joint authors of '+The History of Woman Suffrage and leaders in the organized movement all were unorthodox in religious mat ters. Mrs. Gage, in her last work, woman, Church and State,'' decFar- ed that '%the church has enslaved wonan,'' and sought to show +'of how little value Christianity has been and iA to civilization" Mari1Ia. M. Kicker, the famous New Hampshire suffrag1st, lawyer and humanitarian, has spent large sums in placing the works of Robert G. Ingerson in public libraries. Col. IngersolB long the eloquent spokesman for freethougElt, was an ardent advocate of woman suffrage
 It is to be noted, however, that re- ligdous radfcalisn has usually marked the beginning of all reVoIuttOpS. The ''inffdels'' of France, started con f1agra ton that worked dreadful havoc; but, along with much that was good, they destroyed the Bashlle.
 Sunday marked the twenty-fifth an- niversary the silver jubilee, of the accession to the throne of Wilhelm IT., For a week Berlin has been in gala attire, and for a week to come the festivities will continue, until every tourist has been separated from his