Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-10-18
THE ANTI-SUF-
FRACE CAUSE
Continued from page A.


mean to say the Bible teaches that
woman derives her power and dig
nifty and rights, not from God but
from man? The Scriptures do not
say so. The text deals with
glory" Paul writes it. He wrote
in time when there was no vot-
ing: Just after Jesus of Nazareth
had been put to death for advocat-
ing that all are brethren and no
one is superior to another. He
did not even teach that man was
superior to woman, or over her.
Paul was laying down lot of
rules of good manners in church.
A woman must not pray to God
unveiled. If man did not cut
his hair short he was dishonored.
Woman should have long hair. A
woman must have short hair un-
less she be yelled. He justified
his position by saying that the
man is the head of the wife. His
opinions ought to be observed as
divine commands or they ought
not. If Paul is to be obcyed no
woman shall get up n prayer
meeting without her veil on, or
speak in meeting with both short
hair and a veil. If we break the
divine command of Paul as to
these, we are as guilty as we
would be if we allowed women to
vote.
Yet Paul indicates a truly Chris
tian doctrine when he says in that
same chapter: Nevertheless nei-
Their is the woman without the
man, nor the man without the wo-
man, in the Lord" The ants read
that chapter, overlook the verse
quoted above, expect US to think
of woman as good enough to go,
"in the Lord" and to the Lord,
with man but not to go to the vot-
ing booth with man. Presumably,
from this logic, the voting booth is
more holy to the man than is the
Lord, for he can take the Infer
Tor" woman to the Lord but he
can't take her to Kelley's grocery
store where the sacred man is vOt-
ing.
The whole matter comes back to
the question whether women are
people. The Mohammedans and
the anti-suffragists say they are
not; the Turk keeps his women for
pleasure of men, the ants in
Newark quote the Bible to prove
that the woman is the glory of
man and secondary to the man
and mans glory; doctrine
which is partly practiced in anti
suffrage states and fully practiced
where the C h in e S e, Hindo s,
Turks and other heather" keep
dozen or fifteen wives in a house
and never let them know they
have any right to a share in the
conducts of human affairs.
There is an explanation of the
queer phenomena presented by the
spectacle of anti-suffragist women
running around, pleading with
men to refrain from giving them
liberty. The anti sentiment has
in men basis in the fear that the
whiskey business and the vice-re-
sort buiness will suffer, a fear on
the part of certain clergy that the
freeing of women as to politics
will result in the emancipation of
women from the domination of the
clergy over women in secular mat
tiers, and a belief that woman is
naturally a mere bundle of flesh
made to serve and give sensual
pleasure to man, just as the anti
who quoted from Corinthians i'm
plies. The final basis is stupidity.
Suffrage is strong where
schools are best, anti-suffragc is
strongest where ignorance is
strongest.
The woman anti is product of
an inherited desire to be dominat-
ed. In millions of years of cave
and tree-dwelling life it must have
been the ardent desire Of the nor
NAL woman to be caught, dubbed
and dragged off to cave or hut
to be the woman of some strong
man. That fcrvent expectation
and hope of matrimony, held
through ages, persists unreason-
able in civilization. True descend
ant, spiritually and in instinct, of
the age of squaws, the anti wom-
an pleads that man may have do
minion over her now. Even the
married ones still preserve the
ape-man instinct. The rest of the
woman anti's attitude is wholly
stupid. Stupidity is the main rea-