The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-22
WARNING 70 sUrERAOIsTs.
Unless Militant Ism 1s Ne Jected the Cause
IN This Country " ~ Stsfver.


To THE EDITOR or THE SuN-Sir: Doubt
less the great majority of THE SUNS male
readers show respect to all women, DEFER
ence to many, and reverence to some. IL
Is one Of the traits that disringtiis,i W
from, say, tho Botucudos OF Brazil. win
the mounting Of the centuries II has be.
come syrnboiixed In the words "chivslry'
and "ga,lantry." both of which connote
sundry manifestations of the underlying
sentmen ts, none OF them discreditable 10
the mon, and all OF them, for these many
centuries at least. distinctly convenient TO
the women. That the latter have 40 un-
dcrstood, the shelves OF our libraries inc
walls OF our picture galleries ana the
stones OF our graveyards bear witness
These conditions. exhibited In mani
fold ways In the daily practices OF lie.
constitute the "privi1eges" OF women 10
which THE SuN alludcs In Its encour-
aging editorial article concerning the
experience Of DR.. Devon ut Glasgow. NOW
y privilege IL a boon given and receives
Gratitude may be neither expected nor
conceded, but the fact Of "A beneft notori-
o,isly received. utilized and turned to profit
cannot be blinked IL denied. the palpa-
bic results arise to confound the too rash
Sapphiras. A sense Of obligation is al all
times onerous. yet II may be borne grace
fully as we'll as otherwise. Elizabeth be-
headed Sir Walter Raleigh. but not be-
cause he laid his cloak IN the puddle for
her convenience.
To revive at this late day the primeval
doctrine that one may have ones cake ana
cat IL too implies courage and faith OF
high degree. but is deficient In acumen
and devoid of all sense of humor. Siinplici-
ter IL cannot be done. Shall we. who M
Boy Scouts help old women across the
streets. or as gray haired men crcsk our
weary bones to give a pallid shop girl
seat, stand by and let pctticoated RUIZ
nan desecrzte churches and work her ran
tastic plans OF destruction without resist
aucc? Still more, shall We let her sister
slash us across the face because she DIFF
fers from our political creed, anS merely
,nurinur. "Our mothers too were women {!
I trow not. Privilege. like rank. carries
it's responsibilities when We abdicstc
either of our own free will We accept the
consequences. whether men or women.
There is an axiom In the laws jargon
which classes the beneficiary OF a certain
kind of crime with its perpetrstor, and for
Two thousand wears the washing OF hands,
however ostentstious. has been thought
scant absolution for sharing the adNan-
tages of wrongdolng. When the many
earnest and single minded " omen who have
oman suffrage At heart persuade their
notoriety loving associates and the mass
OF their followers to rspudiate utterly the
militsnts and all their works, and come
out Nat footed for the supremacy of law
and order, they will secure more adher-
ents among thinking men than by any
number OF meetings and psrades. II they
are not prepared TO go 80 far. II is only
a question Of time and chance when III,
Psnkhurstian tactics will be introduced
here In The making OF that Onelet
many Eggs are bound TO be broken. for
privilege does not include license any
more than the forms of respect indicate
tho existence Of fear.
III, hoo t,a
who burns one candle to God and an
other to tho devil wastes two good lights"
Ii is not a. silly as IL sounds. Z. /. NJ
MoRrisrovN. y. j., March 81