The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-26
WOMEN WILL FURNISH SOCIAL
 MOTHERL NESS Senator Helen Ring Robinson Was Treated ssJust Like
 Gentleman Senator ; THE THREE PARTS
 OF MODERN SOCIALISM John spargo Tells CIaautauqua Audience About Glass
 Consciousness.

Mrs: Helen Ring Robinson, the first woman senator of Colorado, and na- turally. an ardent advocate of the equal franchise movement in this country. was the first speaker at the Cha.utauqua yesterday afternoon. A appearance. Her subject was 4eThe woman Movement,
 The Feminist Movement. ]. said Senator Robinson. lis just an effort to read5ust conditions. just an effort to allow woman to realize her nature. Womanss educational status. has been changed, her Industrial status has changed and her social position is far different today from what it was 100 years ago. The movement today is but a natural desire to Change her political position.
 claim that the Sufragists want every woman to work. That is not true. If a woman wants to spend her time in playing bridge and dry nursing the poodle we have no objection.
 STATE TAKES OVER JOBS. '-rhe state is taking over the wo- man s immemorfal job, the three C's' or as the German Emperor puts it the three .K's's children, church and cook ing. It is doing more. it is taking up on itself also, the three Ds, the care of the dependents. of the defectives and of the delinquents The women arc simply following their in1memor- ial jobs.
 women are more and more deter mined to protect their homes and to care for the poor and needy. They VIII contrfbute social moth eriiness to the state"
 Mrs. Robinson told of breadth of thought which comes to a woman when she has power and a voice In politics, and of what they have done out in Colorado where the men stfld do the big things and where the wo- men do the little things
 "A question which am always ask ed." she concluded. "is How did the other senators treat you 2 What Is meant is Did they treat me as an equal or as a woman I am very happy to say that they treated me ex- actly as though I had been a gentle man.
 MEANING OF SOCIALISM.
 As a prelude to the second lecture. Miss Virginia Powell gave two very inter esting musical rnono1ogt1es John fSpargo, the noted socialist, spoke on .gThe Real Meaning of Socialism. z The real trouble with Socialism is that it is so little understood and has been and magazines
 There are four distinct points of view to Socialism. First the criticism Of the existing social order; second. the theory Of social progress: third, the social goal and fourth, the move ment toward the attainment Of that goal.
 Socialism, whether you like it or not is the movement Of aScIass the protest of class.
 1aThe Socialists are not stirring up a class struggle, they are merely pointing out the fact that such a struggle exists. has always existed. And the most dangerous man in Bridgeport Is the wrong headed righteous man.
 ONLY CONSTRUCTIVE PROGRAM .fConcerning all of the present eco homie problems, Socialism is the only creed which has any constructive program; it is the only one not wholly destructive. As to the trusts the Socialists propose that they ought to be collectively owned and managed Competition is wrong, therefore, do not destroy the trusts and attempt to bring back competi- ton By this proposition the Social ists do not mean the abolition of pli- uate property. What they want is that all property should be held by Individuals in only such proportion as they are able to use to the benefit of the community at large.