Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-12

point that you can fool ''all of the people
part OF the time" When an eminent
biologist calls upon the science he rep
resents to prove his point he should real
ize that his statements must be accurate.
DIR. VIM. H. Howell, professor of ply
sioiogy at Johns Hopkins u " Ter ~
l.. George is as abhorrent to me as u is
| to Dr. Sedgwiek but the suppression or
marriage and the Institution of free al
| lance" is an eventuality so improbable
| that ii does NOT seem worth while TO
grow excited over 1t or to make uncer-
| tain deductions from PHYSIOLOGY TO prove
| it's danger and unpractfcabiiity. Wheh
| however the argument from physiology
| is used against the granting of suffrage
| to women or against her privilege OF pre-
| ferring adequately to make an independ-
ent living it must be recognized that the
few facts of physiology which can De
supposed to have a bearing on the ques-
ton are not in themselves signiiica; nta,t or
gence is concerned there is surely no
known psychological fact which would
Justify any suspicion that woman VIII
net be able to measure up fuliy TO tne
best standards that man can hope TO at
tain"
To take the word Feminism and apply
it to an ultra-sensational phase OF the
woman's movement was the prerogative
of w. l.. George. AS matter OF 1act
feminism represents the spirit or re-
volt which. In the heart OF the early
woman was smouldering resentment
against certain expressions and when IN
the woman of today has become re-
ligfon. at is born of the instinct witnih
every natural woman's soul that Goa de-
signed her as the equal, the worker.
the comrade of man and not his slave OF
his plaything. e.,
and act in the terms of today II one
would keep hold of today" Inc oiu
order of things passes and that person -
effective who carries into the new tay
only such things as will be of use IN that
day. casting aside whatever hinders OF
obstructs. d. ~
There is no more reason why the
Woman's Movement should be eontfotiea
by the order of 30 years ago than that we
should travel from Portland to Boston py
stage coach instead of by trains. Inc
woman's movement must Keep aors ssans "a
the times and to do this certain cnahses
from the old order are necessary. 10 the
suffragis enc change is the right OF Rotz
ing This does not mean tnat peSaas0
women have found that .indfrect lhilu-
ence'' is slow and uncertain and WISH 10
take the direct way of impressing their
convictions upon government thar tle
ing to totter and fall. 1t simply means
that they would conserve energy py usins
more effective machinery, Even II we we
amendment passes ana the men sie -
women this tool which they nave per-
sistently assrued us is useless ana when
nevertheless some OF them oplect So 70
sharing there Will always De enough VI
the conservatives among the VoIIns W.
Ven IN keep the ultra feminists from
hrinpiney the country to perditlon:
One Of the saddest phases OF TINS lem IN
;n;st discussion seems to me TO DE the
faci that the anti-suffragists have &C
cepted SO unqualifiediy the low ana . ue,
Graded picture of womanhood these ~
men have drawn and instead OF protes,S
Ing that il is unfair to measure the w nois
sex by abnormal examples nave ~ 49, -
their own epithets of petty aIreaSv
..;nsineere" "disloyal, TO the aiieo"'
.oyer-burdened feminine sex
If the ants believe that their SCI - tnay
uaak and unreliable and immoral as .nss
nretend to it is no wonder they hss ne NJ
70 trust the country in their hanus 49, w
how can they Justify themselves IN aiio IA
ing these self same women 20 oe>'i civ
t~ain the citizens of the future -,
When one prominent ant-sufrasisst sen
go SO far as to imply that Jane Auu ief the
tbat ,,-ornan who has won the ioVs 81 VIZ .o
xybole country by her unselFsh emu u ;,,,1
betfer the condition Of the po9It..I, 80 ~.
n1v that she is not without ampiuOils che
~ tbe 1ravoralty of Chicago, rs az
,eor,ss for the ballot for the liilnE t;
yror,an and another prominent at,
s,1ffrarist can cite the case OF a -
s.a+a ytsoYran who tisregarding the MAJ ~
sisssa lies welcomes without shame i tne
birfh of an niegitimate ehild as 80 IN
49, ~. - fetuinfsm has put its hated lsoe ="
f1nrtIand il shows that the sense % =
,ortIon has been lost in faetiohai eii'i'"
siasm. .a,t,, denies that