The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-18
FEMINIsM AND THE HOME.
Quotations From suf-
 fraae Leaders.
Effective Motherhood" and q Freedom for Women"
 to Come.

to Come.
 Tn a statement signed by Mrs Or vile D. oliphant, general secretary Of the New Jersey State Association Op- posed to Woman Suffrage, there IS contained the most amazing attack yet made upon woman suffrage in this country, Mrs. Oliphant says
 Woman suffrage is the keystone 1n the arch of feminisrn, and fenainism, as outlined by the suffragists, appears Ito be a revolt against the true duties |responsibilities and ideals of woman hood. During the month of Febru- ary two feminist mass meetings were held in New York city. all the speak CTS being suffragtsts, many Of them noted leaders of the votes for Wo-s man agitation
 "At that meeting Miss Rose Young said:
 will reveal that elective motherhood. not compulsory motherhood, will in crease general capacity. When that revelation is put upon us. we shall see that the human career of wopnazl- and when I say human career, I mean the artistic career the professional woman's career, the business wornans Icareer-wi11 not be retarded or inter fered with by u1otherhood.s
 Mrs. Chrysta1 Eastman Benedict, who spoke for the suffragists before the House Committee on the Judi ciary in Washington {. few days ago, was one of the speakers. She said:
 "I am an exalted a4d fanaticaI be- liever in feu1inism. To me, femin- ism means freedom for woman, free dom of all kinds. Freedom of choice in life and in marriage will follow come before it Women will win their right Of work, of play and Of ad- Venture as well as men
 rAt a recent meeting in Trenton. New Jersey, Mrs. Mary Bennet Ware, tcorresponding secretary of the Ma tiona1 American Woman Suffrage Association, made this statement:
 < Woman have been too long ham pered by being he'd down by house hold cares. The time has come when freedom. It is unWhoIesone for any woman to be supported by any man. A pamphlet entitled tBorfdwoman' lis published and issued by the National American Woman Suffrage Associa- tion. It says, among other things:
 st The free woman's concern is to see to 1t that she shall be in posi- ition to bear children if she wants them without soliciting maintenance rom any man, whoever he may be: and this she can do only if she is earning money for herself, or is pro- VIQeQ 10F out or some common 1u11Q for limited time Fselninfsrn would hold that it is neither desirable nor necessary for woman, when they are mothers, to leave their chosen, money earning work for any length Of time. The fact that they so often do so to be worn down. In wearing it down. vast changes must take place in social conditions. in housing, nursing, kinder garten. education. cooking, cIeaninB <-- IL A.. -. 1. fessioT1s. The changes will have for their motive the accommodation of such conditions as will enable women to choose and follow a hfe-work apart from and in addition to their natural function of reproduction.'
 Max Eastman, the noted advocate lof socialism, was also one of the speak CTS. MT Eastman is the author of fthfs:
 1 woman should be made free from all the limitations of law, of dogma
 and of custom A woman who wants to go out into the industrial. the po- J litical, the artistic or the romantic
 world for fife of adventure should be free to do it The women Of the leisure classes are no longer going fo devote all their time to matters of sex and Of motherhood and Of society: | they are going to reform to grow, and I the woman of the working classes are going to carry this struggle for hu-
 man liberty to a point far beyond any that is now contemplated by the mid idle classes. idealists, who now occupy
 the platforms in the woman's move lment in this country
 s sCfce1y Hamilton, suffragist is the author Of this:
 The morality of monan is not mo- rality at all in the proper sense of ths
 word, but merely code Of naanners
 formulated in the interests Of thefl imasteFs..'s
 Mrs Oliphant comments on all tiaes, Iquotations asi follows.
 That feminism is a live and vital is Isue of the suffrage campaign is a fact because their official campaign liter ature urges and demands fernfnism
 their speakers preach fernfnisnn; thei
 Case For Woman SHffrage' praise i, lfeminisn, and the official catalSgue O the National American Woman Suff
 age Association coInnends and adver . tises feminisrn. It 6 hardly necessar, for me to say that the woman opposed to suffrage stand for the conservation of the home, the suffragists for the SC, revolution which means the disruption | l or the home. Will we have bette government under feminist ideals witt woman as mans competitor and SCI antagonist, or under the old regim, where woman's work is to form tn, character of the future citizen of tn
 public7 Shall we abandon honor, mo
 rality, civilization, at the call Of a mi .