Show W I 1 I 1 A WOMAN mrs caroline r corbin senator beairs blairs woman suffrage 1 argument with a startling letter the brilliant womac had said that neither the man nor the woman Is individual I 1 ly the representative of the genus homo but chati according to nature and revelation the two ted make one A na that to bacill constituent of that union certain distinct powers and properties belong each dependent upon the other in a minor way for pro pe now 18 to this profound arx sensible sentiment that it upon this a account woman Is to be delfied suffrage then man equally should be dented the ballot if his and final estate is to be else th A 1 a me Inal vidual in mrs na orbitt or bilt P she scorches 1 the senator her words are w orthy I 1 of perusal by every on 0 interested in this question ifer logic is an unanswerable criticism of the idols who meek boundo natures decree in rela I 1 alon of the sexes 4 marriage is that partnership upon I 1 which the right order of society and the right to perpetuation of th 8 depends the question Is whether each partner shall keep to that line of calior which nature has marke dout or whether of women shall demanded not only her own share of the labor but also a large martof that r which belongs td war for let us notice that while it kiy be granted that woman has the physical capacity to cast a ballot malt aw not the ghys phys ical capacity to near and nourish chil dren nat tire oa a made it forever im possible poe sible that he should perform that office 11 therefore e demahy of bar that she shall participate in those external and general duties such labor for the support of the home a n d 11 for the direction of the state which we natural constitution physicist and intellectual fit him for while he cani not by any possibility relieve her of those most necessary offices and duties which nature demands ou her he commit 11 palpable and monstrous injustice nor does matter to sayas boudo that bemuse comans womans nature is purer b and nobler than mans the state would be bene fitted by her in political affairs if men are not ca pable of managing the of the state according to the and best ideas of the race that Is of both men and women will you permit me respectfully to inquire what proper and adequate share of this worlds 4 4 work men can perform what is iAb elir natural place in the order of society are they merc howl rs of wood and drawers of water they cannot bear citizens they cannot ca r 0 for them in infancy and rear them to manhood it they cannot govern them with wisdom and jjustice when they are produced ready made to their hands what is their I 1 1 t 89 WL stands up in the united states sen ate and makes such a ent as that in regard to the anoll of this republic it appears to me that he I 1 fl promises his own self respect and the respect due to the dignified and hon arable body to which he has been ele faed I 1 hold doffies and assume the working duties incident to political campaigns I 1 it appalls from the published records of your lif e th a u commenced your I 1 I 1 political career 0 baut the age af 30 for the next ten or fifteen years you were actively in politics now will you tell me if you think it would have been convenient or agreeable during those years when you were laying the I 1 I 1 foundations your success to have been also engaged in earing and rearing a family could you you found it feces iffery to do politically and at the memo time have attended properly to yoga duties as wife and mother louwill may that the very estion Is in delicate and I 1 agree with you but the fault is the situation as proposed by you the duties and offices of bood are all sweet and pure and holy when kept within the sili cred pre cincis of the home brought out into the aarish light of publicity what I 1 do they become you say in your report that there are many women who are not wives and mothers very true and when I 1 I 1 1 I 1 women vote and hold office there will be more of them atrue for the best interests of society de mands that their number shall be re natural and reason ab 8 muns but when Il rewards I 1 are altered as an eo of boryle so ryle in public life do you not believe that many and those not of the weak and I 1 ignorant but of the more gifted and intellectual will be tempted to forego marriage and motherhood for the sake them woe betide the land which thus offers its political premiums for childless wo ameal society are car bupt rupt enough now what do you sup 4 I 1 pose they will become when not to be married not to be a mother to the prerequisite for a comans womans success in a chosen and tempting career I 1 speak advisedly and in the light of thirty I 1 years of profound and prayerful study of boc P problems rob lems when I 1 say that th a direct tendency of w oman Aul would be to form it ell of women such as held high court in greece in the days prec i eding its downfall women brilliant and intellectual but wholly wanting in that steadfast faith and abiding virtue which characterizes the anglo saxon ideal of womanhood I 1 may say the Chri fittan ideal as well the wife and mother are american 4 men prepared to relegate the 1 I 1 atves and mothers of this I 1 republic to i secondary and 1 subservient place and share the pol lotical leadership leaders hp of this great ad iree country with an oligarchy of 1 I 1 I 1 partials pati als you may that you have only pro posed tibie see asure because aou ion I 1 I 1 hao saw oia to do it the same plea I 1 arm in ado by couf progenitor progo in A 0 barden of bm 14 did not z 1 V I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 11 I 1 L 14 1 I V moreover in the case of adam ak wits true siance the plea contains but the mint mum of truth there are fifteen milen ilona of worn in this country 1 I quote your ollan statistics of voting age will you kindly inform us what proportion of that fifteen have heard from you say that these women are being governed without their consent is it possible that you can sincerely believe that fifteen millions of amerlean women could be governed A ith out their consent feel that if a bare majority of that number did not consent for what appear to them to be good and clent reasons to be governed by ludw rather than direct representation would be a revolution within fuenty four hours evary right of agitation at their command which man possesses free free assembly the right of petition a press ever ready to disseminate their views a ad many privileges of courtesy bo sides that men lay no alarm to abat power could withstand the moral force of any demand which these IS should make with what show of reason do you compare freeborn free born american women to the degraded and ignorant slaves on southern plantations and speak of men as their masters I 1 asa matter of fact the power of roen over women Is not greater than that of women over men nature lays the infant man a helpless er baturo in the ile asin her power for life or for death and for the first ten or fifteen years of his existence and thai dal ing the forming and do ter mining period of his career a pe too in he Is answerable to no other aw than of bis home her power oven him physical intel and moral is so nearly 0 that no power which lie can arrogate over hez in later years can overbalance it under ordinary cir the faithful intelligent mother may make of her son in all the essentials of manners and whatsoever she will if amerlean Amerl Van men were today to day narrow minded tyrannical vicious creatures they are ill arged with being by the woman suffragists unfit ted to be for the whole nation it could only be because their mothers had misunderstood or neglected the opportunities which na puts into their hands such a charge Is a tremendous indictment against the motherhood of the gatlon and it it could be sustained ought oi itself to bar woman croul all legislative functions until they can better fulfill fulfil that whish nature demands of them in childbearing child bearing and rearing moreover it I 1 is the function of slaves Is this nations pride and boast that in no other country that the sun abines oil are there so many bomes supported by the loyal and untiring industry of men where women are deptin in order that they may give their time to the higher duties of rearing and planning and carrying on enter sea of charity philanthropy and reform and the influence of these homes upon public sentiment li the one power in amerl can social and political life it 1 bo tl b ik u e n ly g t 0 p u ue t aj t ra VII f som a rooster of a dentist would lay for her be in L g a in his cap by drawing it we taink this a foul ruse ter draw u 1 a discussion f a poultry r tees arll are enuch to crow over stich accidental acci dental occasions are not an egg of what the press should deal with they bavor too much of tue mak that has a goodly number of potatoes store d securely under the soil nowadays now a days is not to bg pitted himself but rather I 1 4 anz bobbin Is just about half wound up |