Show Woman W pm an Must Perform Duty t c d. d ci i c col S l 1 i 1 I V 4 4 w Must Oppose All Violence B By Lady Daughter of oC Herbert Asquith who Is h expected to follow tollow Lady Astor lJ by winning th the next parliamentary seat for lor women London JAndon May ay IE ln In In tho the past as ns I Isco Isco Isea sea It woman has beon been either en enslaved enslaved en- en slaved or enshrined I I foil toll temple to use the word which ha obtained popular currency sinco th the controversy y as to tho the fate fato of oC Constan She Site drudged ed or liko 0 the tho pope sho lived a n. prisoner In tn great state stat radiating Influence wielding power yet ct shorn of oC all nil temporal temporal tem tern privileges and rights often orten a tyrant trant in tn her weakness sometimes a n ax x victim in her strength th always alwa's a n. cap- cap live who from birth was taught taus-ht that thatto to burst her bonds would bo be to break bruak th tho spell spoil by which sho she ruled Those bonds are aro burst that burst that spell Is broken The Tho slaves are aro freed tree J the popes pOleS unfrocked tho the mediaeval mista are clearing and woman faces woman and ind man too in tho the light of ot common da day And in that honest light sho sees a world which politically she aho had bad no hand in making She sees wrongs Injustices things out of or shape things thinS's out of or tune tunc And In nor her untried hand she hc finds a n. ilow now ow and powerful pow pow- erful instrument of ot redress How will sho ho use it 4 Sex I hope I confidently predict that very every woman will use It differently just as 18 every man has done One Ono of ot the tho ho best and healthiest results of ot the tho enfranchisement of or women is 15 In m my opinion pinion that wo we shall lose iOBe sight Bight of oC as ns a mental or moral frontier as sex se ex a line itne or demarcation in tn u UI point of or view The Tho sooner this Is accomplished ac- ac the better botter I fell feU It will willbe willo be o for tor men for tor women nn and ami l for tor tho the community Women omen have ve been driven cn by hy- hya a sense I I or of f tho Injustice lone done to them thorn Into a aI I sort ort of oC trades union based upon their wrongs as ts a- a sex and until the they have I I been beon con brought up abreast of or men mon InI in I political development as well as in political po- po rights a certain political sex sex- consciousness and solidarity sex will remain But nul once this is accomplished one no hopes that the tho unreal atmosphere created by inequalities win will be finally I exorcised and that the association of I Imen i men and women on equal terms in I j very every field and plane of ot life lite will m lead not ot only to a much freer and truer re- re between them but also to toa n. n much juster and clearer vision Islon of or orth th the IP problems thc they will t tackle le sido b by I ide side There should be he no omens I It sex sex blinkers ers in poll poll- I t subjects and no r tics and no rele relegation atlon of or women b by m men melt n to certain limited areas arcan of the political political political po po- po- po field feld Warped d Product T r have ha always ys regarded feminism as a a. warped product born of oC Injustice and tending toward It And I fell at times that some somo of ot m my who took an active and glorious part partin in the struggle for tor the emancipation of or their sex sox bear benr on their minds to this er very cry day tho the honorable scars of or battle and that the passion and the eloquence with which the they pleaded tho wrongs and denounced tho the oppressor oppressors sor sots sors of ot their nex ex have havo left their voices even no now a n. little hoarse The younger young young- or er generation of ot women for whoso rl rights the victory has been fought and t won b by their predecessors will t get a truer perspective e Will Stand To Together th r rI I believe ah I r have o said In the gradual disappearance of or se sex as a de deciding do- do factor In political questions but I r should like to make one gre-at gre exception to this general rule I r hope and 1 I believe e that on ono one stand to together together together to- to question women will always alwa's gether that they will always ahva's throw all tho weight of ot their political power powe into tho the balance against all forms of or violence a against any of or force whether It takes the form of or a I war abroad or a general strike at ath I h home a me Hatred mistrust of ot for fore force e I Is almost I a 1 physical instinct with woman It has been implanted in her soul by centuries of or weaknesses and amI b by the fact that ever since the beginning beginning- of oC time timo she hc has has' been creating sheltering protecting rearing tho the young life of or orthe the world with nothing but hut her arms between It and the tho rude battery batten of ot cl circumstance Women throughout tho the world will prove proe tho the surest sate safeguard of 01 Its peace tho strongest est bulwark of ot tho state against class conflicts here at home What hat special faculties what new gifts of oC heart and head will women bring with them Into our public life First and perhaps most valuable of or all the freshness of an open mind I unencumbered bo by the thc mental conventions conven tl ns anti and the m mental traditions of ot the past part The They will approach the old problems from a new angle anble Minds Move Ioe While men tramp along the hard hl high h road women omen will vill make mako their own cut across country country- and often forestall forestall fore fore- stall them at the goal Their minds from Crom mens men's less move mo differently surely less reliably reHab but often oCten far more moro rapidly and more directly But the the great the torturing question which must confront each one ono of oC us on th the threshold of a political career the question which lies at the root of oC the problem of or the enfranchisement enfranchise how Ho Hoshall shall I r strike ment of or women is the right balance between tho the claims of ot m my public and m my private life The right time to go into politics is It between 25 5 and 40 10 when life Is at tho the tide flood when our blood Is running and md not creeping in our veins before the tho eyes Ces of ot youth have ha l lost Rt their vis- vis slon sion of or perfect lines and truo true proportions proportions proportions and got sot used to tho deformities deformities ties of at tho world worM as ns it Is Is before custom custom cus tom torn lies upon ais us with a weight heavy as frost trost and deep almost as as life Ufe When hen Tics TIcK Arc re Strongest But ut It is during these er very years oars that we pass through our OUI most vivid tId p personal experiences and that huma human human hu hu- hu- hu ma man ties are alo at their strongest and most imperious And these may prevent prevent pre pro vent tie the most human and the tho most representative e types of or their se sex front from taking an active part in public life lIep or at an any rate from rom entering entering- p parlia parlia- ment I It was this dilemma which In inspired doubts in many thoughtful tho people durIn during during dur dur- In ing the suffrage controversy ersy and not as ts sonic some supposed the o obscurantist and reactionary view vIe that women wonton belonged be- be Jon longed ed to a n. lower stratum of oC animal development dC and not mentally ca capable en- en caI I pablo pable of or re registering a vote ate or of or discharging discharging dis dis- charging the duties and exercising the rights of citizenship Own Onn Child It l Its li-c a a. a to problem which woman must face and decide for herself a herself a have hn yet yetto ct f to decide It but It-but but of or ono one thin thing I Ind am ant nd I certain tain that It wilt will profit a woman woman nothing to savo sayo lh the whole world It if itse se Kho lose her own child nd And ad o of another of-another also r am nm sure that w whether hel they so go Into go-Into into parliament t or orI I I not flot women no longer can live 11 In ar nr enclave o of oC sheltered personal 1 and t well being Wo Wa 0 need not not w we must not not sacrifice sacrifice our homes bu bul their windows open on tho the world And whon when its sights and sounds Bounds pout In iii we wo cannot turn away from front appeal Tho The challenge of or Its great greal needs need must be bo met now as It was ot ol old by a woman with t a n. child in her arms arns |