Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-02-27

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suffrage is as useless as ne himself is
worthless. | set over against him the
personality OF Jane Adams. Without
the ballot. her womar's soul and her
womans work ncutralize and over
come and confound the votes of 10000
Jack Johnsons. We have but to turn
to the verdict Of the centuries, have
only to know the history of the race,
need but to review the thrilling story
of the ascendency Of man in nature,
need but to remember the influences
upon civilization that have made Tor
its splendor and its power. TO be sure
that woman's part in ii all has
been immeasurablv greater than could
! it have been had she he'd the ballot.
| The great paintings in the world of
mother and child have mad lar greater
influence upon the course OF human
history than any Part that woman
might have had in the control of gov
eminent ana in the questions of state.
The great names among women stand
out in history not because these women
were great in war. not because they con-
! quered empires. not because they estab-
| lished or overthrow governments not be-
cause they fomented revolution and pre-
| cipitated riots, nor because they asurped
mans place and did the work of men,.
| These women's names are household
words and sources of highest inspiration
| because those VINO bore them took Il
woman's part, filled a womans place ana
did a woman's great and particular work
! These women could have done no more
and would be less we'll known and affec-
| tionately remembered had they sat i
| throne or led armies or established gov
ernments or fought with men for political
supremacy.
Woman. unarmed with the ballot. has
yet won justice for the race, though with
out the power to dispense justice In a
great sense she has been law giver in
times of moral crisis or social stress. YET
has made no laws. She has determined
tire issues of war as affecting herself.
her children and her men. vet has un-
sheathed no sword. neither led soldiers
in battle Woman has had her well
recognized part in the great moral move.
ments of the world The right of suf-
frage could have added nothing to the in
fluence of Harriet Beaeher stowe She
could not vote. she did not kill, she made
no law, yet she wrote Uncle Tom: and
who shall measure her influence upon her
time or later times, portray her part
| in the emancipation of the slave?
The position of woman. especially in
Anglo-Saxon lands and under existing
laws, is higher than ever before. No
right or privilege or protection is denied
her No door of opportunity is shut. The
| field of the higher education and OF the
| broadcast culture, the world of literature,
music art and science awaits her. Great
moral issues still confront the world. So
cial ills await solution.
The ballot is not the remedy. This
world connot be made righteous by law
Men are not reformed by force. Virtue
is better taught by example and preeept
Prohibition has failed since the age of
the Commandments. Personality and
high endeavor work reforms. Love and
| sympathy lead men who will not be
driven. Not the ballot. but organization
for moral betterment and social justice is
the agency propelling the world towards
the millennium.
Woman's peculiar genius is best applied
not at the polls. not at political caucuses
and primaries nor in official position
The genius of woman is best applied i'll
the charities OF the world. ntne field OF
education, in the spread of a practical
| Christianity. in the work to save botn
men and women from their own waste
and folly, in the building and endowment
of hospitals and reformatories, In the
moral support of wise legislation, In the
training of children, in the restraining OF
men intent on wrong doing, in the keep
ing of the home.
When both men and women are too
busy and too much engrassed with the
affairs of the world to keep the home, 10
make il warm and light and sweet,
resting place. a shelter, a family retreat
and fortress. then God pity the American
child. or in his probable absence, the
chidless parents
Some genius is needed at TINS hour 10
portray womanhood An artist should
sketch for us a picture of the American
family surrounding the mother and ehiio'
MD we have such portrayal and such
picture. the answer would be ready an
eloquent answer to every argument au-
vanced or to be advanced in favor oil the
passage of this Resolve.
Again i'm the name of woman ana OH
habalf of 200 900 women in Maine who seek
M additional rights and have no part Ill
this agitation l lodge my protest against
tho submission of this question to the
legal voters of this state
If this Legislature is to take TINS faui-
cal step, and by this Resolve Is TO puis
forever the old-fashioned woman ASK
III. privilege to write a simple epitaph
for her tomb stone. Once gone she VIII
raturn never. At least she is worthy It
monument and this epitaph.
AN EPITAPH
The old Fashioned Woman
tta,. name was Woman; her chiefest
glory motherhood; her sphere woman
kingdom
Her record is made up both III ea'u
and heaven. The angels know her name
ona oil human institutions reflect the
olorv Of her moral genius. She heipeu
hear the burdens of the world, nor tal-
tered in duty. She gave soul to ciViiiza-
t;on while i'm her keeping has ever been
fine destiny of the race.
In love she begat children gave them
birth in patient suffering; and, I'M
asba,,ed fed them at her breasts