The Washington herald., 1914-06-21

II is humanitarian. Feminism itself aims
TO destroy all of the surviyals In law and
custom Of what may be called the old
charter Of women this bundle of
special privileges and limitations"
Further, he states that women have
gained the opportunities TO indulge their
predictions in the way of a career out
side the home; and they are now gaining
an opportunity TO hasten and secure such
gains by political means. And II any one
asks what women can do with the vote,
will reply that they can repeal the law
which. by penalizing the spread Of infor-
nation in regard TO the prevention of
conception, attempts to enforce upon
women the tyranny OF accidental and un-
welcome pregnancy"
In regard TO socialism, he declares: IF
there is no necessary connection between
feminism and socialism, II may yet be
found advisable TO invent one. Otherwise
the socialist movement stands to lose the
enthusiasm and energy OF some thousands
OF young women Of the growing genera
ton"
"Feminism." says Hutchins Hapgood
In a recent number of Life, is destined
to do good to men without their knowl-
cuBS OI COnscHAt NbpCNldAlg
their consent. Feminism shocks the in
herited and institutionaliZed morality
and taste OF the male - he is
no longer exciting or stimulating to
the woman. He shall see woman ris-
ing in fruitful excitement against those
steriliZed prejudices which he calls mo-
rality, virtue and taste. At the root
of feminism lies a largely unconscious
impulse destined to AFFECT every insti-
tuition and social form. II strains
against legal and respectable bonds
and bounds, and hence is, in the high.
salubrious sense a criminal instinct"
Here we have the observations of .
brilliant suffragist, two prominent edu-
Gators, and two feminists all leading to
the conclusion that the feminist move
ment is robbing woman of everything
that made the name of mother and wife
respected, while glorifying criminal in
stincts and giving her new male vices
that will ruin her health and that OF
the coming generation.
Abolish Coming Generation.
But, as Mr.. Dell pointed out, one of
the chief things that women will be
able to do with the vots will be to
legalize the universal practice of race
suicide, and under feminism there may
be no coming generation.
The woman's suffrage party Of Cook
County, ILL.,, addressed an open let
ter to the legislature of that State
which states: Under the regime OF
sanctity. 80 per cent of the race have
become weaklings. The sanctity OF
is meaningless"
Under the regime of feminism, cigar
cites. and votes for girls, there will
be no weaklinss, for that 80 per cent"
of the race will not be born! Miss Jes-
sic Ashley. who was treasurer OF the
National Woman Suffrage Association.
cago, said that BY its false standards
of morality. its cruel mandates OF 'vir-
tue it's harsh rules of ostracism for
the girl who is not chaste, its wage
system, and its marriage system, So
ciety is itself the criminal"
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman declared
in a New York address that the home
of today is a permanent check on the
growth of humanity" and Mrs Florence
Wise demanded the emancipation OF the
mother from the home life," and "chil-
dren taken care Of by others than their
own parents" And Miss Jane Olcott,
of the New York State Suffrage Associa-
ton, said: Free love is a misnomer
1t should be called the freedom of love.
Love should be set free. man or a
woman should be free to give love when
ever II is natural. Love Is volatile, and
when 1t goes believe It Is immoral for
man and wife even to appear to live
together except for the sake of their
children In that case each should be
free to bestow love elsewhere by mutual
agreement"
Mrs. Wise, who is secretary of the
Women's Trade Union League, has also
said: Il believe in voluntary mother
hood anyway. Many unmarried women
want children and there ought to be an
opportunity for the expression OF their
innate mother love. There are any num-
Der Of women who believe these things
but are sfraid to say them"
shaw Indorses MiIitan-y.
And two statements this week by the
head Of the woman suffrage party in
America, Rev. DR.. Anna Howard Shaw.