The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-11-18

called for, for number of the Catho-
lie clergy to lecture to Catholic educa-
tional institutions for young women
against equal suffrage in this day and
ACE, when the greater percentage OF
women have to be in the business
world and not in the home, which TACT
makes it imperative that their inter-
ests be protected?
The clergy are condemned because
they do not stop the war and they
are also condemned the moment they
make move in things political. 1t is
well that they have another master
than the tickle public. This question
of equal suffrage is admittedly ques-
ton of political economy. Why may
not a priest or prelate as we'll as a
layman or woman express publicly MS
personal convictions on such a ques-
ton? Is it because the human race
should be divided into men, women
and priests; the two former possessing
political liberty, but no suffrage for
the priests? If the priest remains
silent how can he teach what he be-
lieves to be the Gospel OF Christ?
The effects of woman suffrage, he be-
lieves, enter intimately into the divine
message. Because the command is on
him to preach the Gospel, he believes
that he must make practical appllca-
ton of Christs teaching to questions,
such as woman suffrage, that arise
from day to day. Should the priest
state that the Church had specifically
condemned woman suffrage, before
she had actually done SO; then, there
would be occasion for criticism OF the
priest. On the other hand, ii the
priest should follow the wishes of the
inquirer would not those opposed to
woman suffrage be equally justified
in condemning him? Nor can the
priest hope to please the two parties;
for he cannot serve two masters. He
is blessed then in the divinely ap-
pointed authority that he is sworn to
serve. A very practical rule We. all
should try to follow in such matters
is: In essential things, unity; in
doubtful things, liberty; in all things,
charity" Though we may have firm
convictions personally about the mer-
its or dement's of woman suffrage thus
far we all, l believe, can class the
question among the doubtful things in
which liberty is allowed to each.
We will presume that the greater
number of women are engaged in bust
0f kYr,Jt Of fhiC Trvn
are not satisfied; but, granting this,
does it follow that woman's interests
can be justly protected only by her
personal vote? Will not the business
mans interests be the same? Besides,
a very great number of women, en-
gagged in gainful occupations, take
such positions only as an avocation,
not as a fixed state of life. School
teachers, for instance, it is generally
recognized, to follow the profession for
two, three or four years and then re-
sign to get married. Because in their
single blessedness they can live on a
much smaller wage than is necessary
to support home, very few men are
found in the teaching profession. For
a similar reason men in other occu-
pations complain that they do not re-
ceive wages sufficient to support a
home even in frugal comfort. One
reason of this, we claim, is the fact
that women, who often eat at their
fathers table and sleep under his
roof, voluntarily do the mans work for
a lower wage. One result of which is
more spinsters and bachelors and adj
vocates of woman suffrage. The home
loving woman will be content and hap
py in the state to which God has called
her, the joyful mother of children;
and she will cheerfully leave to man
the task of providing for the home
Would it not seem, then, that the very
spirit that advocates woman suffrage
is the real cause why so many women
are forced by circumstances to earn
their own livelihood, the spirit, namely
of discomfort with the plans of the
Creator?
Is it not fact that in spite of WON
en- having to spend their time in the
business world, they have lost none Of
their feminine qualities, why Their
should the vote be the means of un
dermining them?
We believe that the theory of WON
en- suffrage is an evidence that woman
has lost some of her feminine quail
ties: namely, modesty, love for hel
home, love for children. The rude
reception deliberately planned by ad
vocates of woman suffrage for the
president of their country on the &C
casion of his coming recently to Chi
cago, is no evidence of those feminine
qualities that we love to attribute to
woman. The turmoil that resulted
from their plans may have been ar
accident, but the reception itself, we
claim, was no argument in favor Of
putting woman in public life.
Please publish the names Of Catholic
hospitals, or training schools fol
nurses in the cities of st. Paul anc
Minneapolis.
st. Joseph's Hospital, st. Paul; st
Mary's Hospital, Minneapolis.
A friend told me that an old maiC
will have higher place in HEAVIER
than one who is married, or religious
providing she is faithful to her re
Iigion?
The state of CONTINGENCY, practicet
through a snnernatural motive is il