The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-29
Well Known Authority Gives a Scien
tifc Opinion of Feminism-Proper
Study of Mankind Is Woman

leadership OF Mrs. Pankhurst, present a
well organize force of devoted followers.
In Germany the feminists are actively
organized, as Is shown by the publca-
ton Frducncmdnsipdtion. That their
organization must be complete and pow
erful Is proved by the recent formation
Of League for Combating woman's
Emancipation. which already has 10000
members and holds regular meetings
and Will hold a great congress this sum-
ner to drive a last blow into the coffin
of emancipation.
I'm France the term feminsme' orig
mated Their organization Influenced
President Poincares election. In our
own country the feminists are Just or
sanizing. Last week two meetings were
held-at the Hotel Astor and the
cooper Cnion-and more are promised.
The irreprcssible conflict Is on, IL
we may judge from these facts"
What connection has suffrage with
feminism?" Or. Baruch was asked.
Here again. said the doctor, II
prefer to give you the opinions OF those
better qualified to reply. The woman
statesman of the suffrage party tells
us that the suffrage movement In one
phase in the great woman's movement
Of the world. This agrees exactly with
the statement of leading feminist
that suffrage is the political side Of
feminlsm And the feminist writer
In the century article holds that so
called suffrage is a tiny part Of the
feminist movement
THE alarming thought obtrudes itself
here: If tiny part OF suffrage pro-
duCes the violent cOmmotion by the
suffragettes and the more restrained
but all pervading activities of the
sunragettes. what may happen when
the whole of feminsm gets into active
operation The whole situation re-
minds me forcibly Of the secession
movement begun 10y John e. Calhoun.
Suppressed by the strong hand of
Andrew Jackson. 1t smould, red until
the election Of Lincoln. when IT burst
forth into a flame that threatened to
destroy the republic.
Susan II. Anthony and her coura-
geous coworkers were suppressed by ridi-
Guile, but the agitation has smouldered
and Is now reaching an acute stage,
which appears To menace us with the
cataclysm predicted by Professors Sedg-
wick and Bergson. when the Johns
Hopkins professor writes that the
movement is not WORT getting excited
over and other II meaning persons
regard the peculiar claim of extreme
femnists as mouthy. vaporings / am
reminded of hearing "A United States
Senator say in 1860 that he would
drink every drop of blood that would
be split in this war
MY observation as an active partici-
pant in the secession movement, In it's
battles, in captivity and during the
,r tor ,,f = IL,
days imhues me with sense Of serious
ness in this age long conflict of the
sexes My attitude is one Of cautious
conservatism. | would counsel the
suppression Of emotion and the domi-
nance of logic and experience.
II would urge serious consideration
Of the Declaration of Independence, upon
the first lines of which the suffragists
base their just claim that they are OF
The People and which contains the
following wise counsel:
Prudence indeed will dictate that gov.
eminent long established should not be
changed for light and transient reasons,
and all experience has shown that man
kind are more inclined to suffer while
evils are sufferable than right themselves
by abolshns the forms 10 which they
are accustomed. But when a long train
varably the same object evinces design
To reduce them to absolute despotism it
is their right and II is ;hc.r duty to pro-
vide new guards for their future secur-
ity.
IF women to-day are mons slaves or
servants. or are 'fr,ghtfully oppressed
then by all means they and we should
provide new guards for their future
security. The nation cannot exist, as
Lincoln himself said half slave and half
free Let both men and women
earnestly ponder If this justification
exists.
Rather than act hastily, however, let
us continue tn try the experiment now
in active process in ten States under
our own method of government In its
true spirit until it is at least demon
stratrd that the new guards for future
security Will bc beneficial To the people
at large. Being a physician | believe
in seeing a new REMEDY tried in the
hospitals if possible before prescribing
ii. Ii will certainly do less harm To
suffer while evils are suffcrablc than
change "A government long established
for light and transient reasons"
DR.. BaruCh summed up the matter
as follows:
aft"rthought Of nature as the fem
iu!sts claim and h" j. typiHed in the
animal world 10y the hull that paws.
by tn" Rooster that crows, and the
drone that fuses, and the female is
tHpited by the cow, Ia" hen, and the
bee, which quietly do the work then
III" male deserves the fate of the
spider which Is destroyed by the fe-
male after being fcrtiliZcd.'
Economically. II man, rs the Amer
lean leader of the fcminists holds. has
been taken in as kind Of extra child
by the woman who roars, cooks and
scws To keep him alive, then the lord
Of creation should be RELOCATED to a
subordinate place, and the wife and
child should not he forced to take his
name
POLITICALLY. If fcminsm is u re-
volt of women against being the slaves
or servants or dependents Of men they
are entitled Ia emancipation from the
yoke, by any means in their power, in
GLIDING the franchise.
Historically. II the uttoranccs Of