Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-29

bounds of her own experiences.
 The home is not the greatest thing in the world. as many women and some men think. It is not the whole but only the nucleus or centre True. the whole could not exist without it's centre but the centre is not the whole The home is the starting point in life, but it is not hfe's goal, as most women and some men be- heve. There is no just. no necessary reason why any one sex should be re- legated exclusively to the home, and to home interests exclusively, after the home is the city, the state and the country The individual child is not so important as the human race, even though the welfare of the race depends upon the welfare of the child. Everyone remembers the story of the starving mother who. during one of the French wars, withdrew her fam ished babe from her breast that she might give the last drops of her milk to a fainting soldier, the defender Of her country This mother has pass ed down the year as a super -wodnanly woman.
 That maternal instinct which cen ters itself upon its own offspring and, perhaps, a few others close by, is not nearly so strong and fine as the ma terna1 instinct which reaches out to every human being. There are svme women who believe that the great maternal instinct in themselves will have freezer play, be more efficient. when they have a part in the making of the laws, in the naming Of those who shall fill public offices. Why any woman should wish to use indirectly the power of her maternal instinct and the power of her brain is hard for the suffragist to understand. The latter takes her stand with Mary An tin, who says emphatically in her in- spring book, The Promised Land, T never asked anyone to do anything that I could do myself" Woman should be desirous and proud to help to make her nations laws. In doing so she will not injure her Business Of being a woman" But if the anti. suffragist would rather stay at home and have someone else do her work. why not sit down then, when the time to vote comes. and take care of the suffragist's babies Gas Mrs. George suggested) and let the suffragist do the anti's work? Why fuss about it now? Why range the country from north to south, from east to west all the time now? Mrs. George says that it is because the antis are forced to do now what they do not want to do, so that they may not later be obliged to do what they do not want to do. Now the law does not force a citizen to vote. All that will be necessary for the antis to do in the future is not to do it. There are those among us who believe that every act of man pro- ceeds from desire What an indivId- ! ual does at any time is the thing which, at that time, he most preferres to do. We who believe this fail to find any sacrifice on the part of Mrs. George or any other anti-suffrage | We believe that if these speakers really wanted to be in their homes, l they would stay there.
 Psychologists tell women that their 
 i time is spent on the "unrealities' of l life. Perhaps they speak truly. Great l brains and hearts have functioned ] under gowns that were simplicity it. J self. It is possible to be both a vir- 1 tuous woman and good mother in a | Mother Hubbard. It might be more to | the purpose if we sewed our ruffles l and tied our bows on the mentality | and on the moral natures of our chil- l dren, instead of fitting them out with a scant little pinafore of ethics, as i many of us do. If classes in cfvics l cut out some of women's social life, l the foundations of civilization will
 not tremble. Perhaps they may be- | come firmer.
 Mrs. George, touching upon the 1 laws of our country. gave us to under i stand that the anti-suffragist stood l for the laws and that the suffragists | were revolutionists. To any thinking l person the laws of his country. wheth- | CT IeW or W00tnST SOOQ or DdQ | represent his nations greatest me- ! morial to itself. By those laws the l mental and moral grade of the nation l is to be judged If they are just to l all the people, they are great laws, | and the nation is a great nation. Are
 laws which discriminate against sex 1 or a class just laws? Mrs. George | says that the state retains the right | to give the vote to whom it chooses,
 the state in this connection meaning
 the voting males. May it not be pos l sible that the state CTS? Whole em- l pires have been known to go to the | bad Mrs. George says that suffrage | is not a question of right or justice. l It is as 9 question of justice that it | appeals to the body of younger Suffra- I gists of today. To say that it is only
 a question of policy and expediency' i is simply to state an assumption.
 This is what Mrs. George did when, at
 the opening of her speech, she refused | suffrage movement. But she did not disproye that the suffrage moyement
 has q moral basis.
 The basis of government is force its stability rests upon it's physical i power to enforce it's jaws" says the
 anti-suffrage party.
 '"The basis of government is parental
 stinct is the power which produces | the impulse to all altruism all hu-
 manfty and philanthropy, to all moral ] effort. Parental instinct is maternal instinct which has ftered into l the male throughout the world through the motherhood of woman. Common ly, we call 1t Hove, the greatest thins | in the world" If the stability of gov 1 ernment rested upon its physical pow CT to enforce it's laws, all the world i would be a court room and every 1 tenth man judge The truth of the
 matter is that government and the l laws rest upon a firm basis of ethica
 principles, resting on tEe solid body oi morals in the community. These ex- | isted before government and the law came inte being The morals of the | community created both. Only a very l small portion of the lawkeeping i.
 enforced by the use of nations phys
 ica1 power To state that this is so
 is to state a fallacy.
 Every reasonable being respects {
 just law, and resents an unjust one
 No reasonable being, suffragist ol
 ether, abuses good law. even to gair
 the franchise, in this day of enlight.
 enment.
 Some very learned professors ar,
 socialists. Why should not the sui.
 frage movement as a cause embrac, 1 socialism?
 '1ndividua1 suffrage speakers hay,
 made many utterances which do no
 represent the ideals or the desires O.
 the whole party. To fasten feminisn
 upon the suffrage party is a sensation l al use of a bi-product of the process
 of developing women for larger. plan.
 of life.
 : l .