The Washington herald., 1914-06-21

shed Q vivid light on the alliance be-
tween votes for women" and all these
tenets Of feministic rebellion against vir-
ture. morality. and Christian mother
hood. Here 10 one: What II the objec-
tive point OF the militants' outragesr
she asked. IT they made war on the
government. destroyed the houses OF
Parliament took revenge on Mr.. Asquith.
there might be a reason in their turmoil
II one believed such methods would gain
recognition Of their cause.
They are burning churches and abbeys
ard destroying pictures TO no purpose"
In other words, DR.. Shaw thinks that
Iawless outbreaks are foolish as they
do not gain recognition OF their cause
but the criminal Instinct IL perfectly
moral IL It gets what It seeks by these
methods!
And an editorial from the New York
Sun, June ls. has this: The Rev. Dr.
Anna Howard Shaw. president OF the
National Woman Suffrage Association,
speaks OF the marriage service as q poll
parrot affair, and calls the marriage
ceremony in which It is used without
solemnity, dignity or character
Doubtless these opinions of a dis
tinguished feminist, who. like so many
PCNdNOdl BaIlOlOBlbl1s mas Qu1ll-
fled by keeping single, will be read with
sadness and self reproach by the mil
lions Of unemancipated married women.
There seems TO be good reason to believe
that marriage itself is q doomed survival.
unit to breathe the rarefed air on the
mountain peaks Of modern female
thought. Hear DR.. Shaw spank that
most obnoxious, tyrannous and intolerable
verb Of servitude in the poll parrot at-
fair: No woman obeys her husband.
No man with common sense asks his
wife to obey him. In fact, It Is a greater
disgrace TO expect than to promise such
thing.
Therefore. think that it Is posi-
lively wicked to use this word in the
marriage contract Not merely ridicu-
lous, mind you. but positively wicked.
but the whole subject Is merely archae-
logical" concludes the Sun, Even
emancfpated modern children object to
the command. and II is generally admitted
that marriages, even with all the modern
improvements, Is obsolescent or played
out"
Women Who Respect womanhood.
Does It never occur to the enthusiastic
advocates Of votes for women" free
dom of love- voluntary motherhood"
equal rights to smoke" etc, ad nau-
scum, that the 100000 women who might
be qualified TO vote, IL feminism takes its
course. the census shows that 20, 255, ,555
are married and living in 1850, ,s45 dwell
ings that they call "homes?" Does It
never occur to the faminist leaders that
after the age OF twenty-five. less than
II per cent OF the women, and thereafter
an ever-decreasing ratio, remain single?
And that of those who do. the vast ma
jority are earnest. Christian, virtuous
women who resent the feministic impu-
tation that no distinction shall be made
between the worthy mother, or the hon.
est single woman. and the woman Of the
streets?
Verify. this rebellion of q few women
against tradition, religion, morality. and
the sanctity Of marriage and the home,
is sufficient warrant for Mrs. Wilcox's
statement "Woman's greatest need to-
day, above all other needs, is practical
common sense-the ability to reason from
a common-sense standpoint and the will
power to put such reasoning into daily
use"