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A HOT REPLY.
Cleveland's View of Club
Women Resented With
Murh hu Mice
max.aa i^pil ?/y I IOO
Alice Stone Blackwell.
Editor Evening Post, Sir: ExPresident
Cleveland has written
an article on "Woman's Mission
and Woman's Clubs," which is
so extremely reactionary in tone
that it will make the average
: * , reader smile.
Mr. Cleveland is an honest and
courageous man, but he has always
had a streak of narrowness,
and this shows itself especially
on the woman question. When
some Democratic women years
ago organized a club to work for
the success of that party, and
wanted to name it the Frances
Cleveland Club, Mr. Cleveland's
wrath was almost comic, as was
his pompous announcement to
h these well-meaning Democratic
P ladies that he considered it most
Unbecoming for a woman's name
, ty be brought before the public
! ^Hfi^ttLas an adjunct to her husi
\ru f Jj-Vt
v * and safest cfuK for e woman tcJ
v patronize is her home.^ If she
* joins even one dub, she is in
danger. "Membership in one
such organization induces toleration
and defence of club ideas ingeneral."
The club woman
should remember that "she may
be directly responsible for marred
happiness in other households
and that as an aider and abetter
of woman's clubs she must bear
her share of liability for the injury
they may inflict upon the
domestic life of our land."
Mr. Cleveland thinks women
join clubs largelv in order to
punish their husbands for neglecting
them, but "as agencies
for retaliation ?r man's punish <v
ment, woman's clubs are horribly
misplaced and miserably
vicious."
The great majority of married
women are on good terms with
their husbands, and have no wish
to punish them. The United
States now has thousand of women's
clubs, with hundreds of
thousands of members. It is abV
- 3 A- >1 *
i\ sura to suppose mat any considerable
portion of these women
joined the clubs for the sake of
wreaking vengeance on their husbands.
Women are merely learning
the lesson men learned long
ago, that organized effort is more
effective than isolated endeavors,
and that whatever they want,
whether it be amusement, in?struction,
or the accomplishment
of charitable and benevolent
work, they can attain to it best
by 4 'getting together.'' Let any
unprejudiced person read the
long list of practical good works
that have been accomplished by
the women's clubs of our country
to say nothing of the broadening
of women's own minds and the
brightening of their lives, and
he must be convinced that the
X club movement has been an enormous
benefit, with some incidental
evils, and not, as Mr.
Clevelapd thinks, an enormous
evil with some incidental rood. I
The incidental evils certainly
exist. There is no doubt that
Some women join too many clubs
and devote too much time to
E** them. Mr. Cleveland seems to
think this has something to do
i > . with woman suffrage, but he offers
no proof to show that excessive
indulgence in clubs is
more common in the equal suffrage
States than in those where
women do not vote.
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es of Deposit. j
j Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, the
j president of one of the pioneer
women's clubs, and also an early
advocate of equal suffrage, while
she heartily approves of the club
movement in general, nevertheless
warns women not to let
themselves be "clubbed to
!death." What Mr. Cleveland
calls the "club habit" is quite as
common among women who oppose
suffrage as among thos who
favor it, if not more so. One
prominent member of the Massachusetts
Association Opposed to
the Further Extension of Snf
frage to Women, Mrs. Kate Gannett
Wells, is popularly reported
to be an officer in fourteen different
women's clubs. Any good
thing may be carried to excess;
but that does not prove that it is
in itself bad.
Mr. Cleveland says: "And discontent
on the part of woman
' with her ordained lot, or a restless
desire on her part to be and
to do something not within the
sphere of her appointed ministrations,
can not appear otherwise
than as perversions of a
gift of God to the human race."
Mr, Cleveland regards man as
restlessness and rebellion.
Mr. Cleveland insists over and
over again on God's intentions as
to woman's mission, and finds
women's clubs opposed to the di- ;
vine purpose. But women do
not believe that Mr. Cleveland
has had any special revelation as
to the divine purpose. They
think that some of the women
who have rejoiced in the club
movement?such as Frances
Willard for instance?were quite
as likely as he to guess correctly
at the secret of God's inten
uons. i
Cherbuliez puts into the mouth
of a rough old Russian noble the
blunt statement: "The great ,
misfortune is that in the design
of nature, careful for the per- '
petuation of the race, woman is ,
only a means, and she cannot I
help considering herself as an
end. It reminds me of a poor \
greyhound that was employed to
turn a spjt. She was never able
to persuade herself that the roast
meat was not for her. Every
day it was a fresh disappointment,
and I must add that the ,
roast was more than once in dan?;er.
Therefore it would be well
or the roast, i. e. for society, to ,
take precautions against the ap- (
petite for happiness of this
creature at once weak and violent,
and quite incapable of un- ,
derstanding her true destiny.
And I know of nothing better
than the captivity of the Byzan- ,
tine or Mussalman harem to re- (
mind the daughters of Eve that <
they have not the right to live on
their own account."
It would be unjust to Mr. ;
Cleveland to say that this ex- i
presses his view: but a jefined i
and modernized version of this i
idea underlies his whole article.
He is as far as the Russian was from
realizing that women are "
half of the human race, and that ,
their welfare and happiness are ?
as important as those of the other
half. 9*till less does he realize
that a woman can do more
for her husband and children
when she is not wholly absorbed :
in her domestic affairs, but can
see beyond them.
A narrow and somewhat coarse
view of woman's mission is apt to ;
characterize men who have fed a i
profigate life. It remains like a
scar on the soul, even after the
man has reformed. Let Mr.
Cleveland preach to men against <
political corruption; on that
subject he is entitled to be heard
with respect. But when he undertakes
to lecture women on
purity, morality, the sanctity of
the home, and the duty of abstaining
from all amusements
that may set a bad example or
have an injurious influence on
domestic life, then women will
be apt to tell him that in view of
his record, there are subjects on
which it is not appropriate for
him to preach to them.
Alice Stone Blackwell.
Dunkirk, N. Y., May 6.
COTTON
Its Marketing and Equalizing
Supply and Price. *
Cotton is a subtropical plant.
In the tropics the bugs and
weevils destroy it.
In cold climates the frost destroys
the immature boll and the
plant; even in a temperate climate,
sometimes a drought in
summer or an early frost will
very materially effect the production
per acre. If the drought
and the frost are * cumulative the
result is disastrous in proportion
to the square of the damage of
either.
If good seasons of rain and
sunshine in summer and fair
weather in fall and early winter
combine, the production is immense
and beyond requirement.
If in one summer t.hprp is a
damaging drought and in the
fall of the same year there is an
early frost, the crop is very short.
If in summer tnere are fair
seasons and the fall is open and
fair, there is a big production.
If a minimum crop, because of
weather conditions, precedes a
The famine year ruins the cotton
manufacturer.
The fat year ruins the farmer.
In the years past we heard
that the cotton farmer needed a
Moses. The cotton farmer did
need a Moses. Look at the record:
111. the first decade after the
Civil War the cotton farmer
made 2,5000,000 bales of cotton,
for which he got 24 cents a
pound, which yielded $300,000,000.
In the second decade he made
5,000,000 bales, for which he got
12 cents a pound, which yielded
$300,000,000.
In the third decade he made
10,000,000 bales, for which he
got six cents a pound, which
yielded $300,000,000.
rnree decades were enough to
show that he needed a Moses.
The cotton factory was his Moses.
It took labor off the farms and
turned them to spinners and
weavers.
It took competitors and made
them patrons of the farmer.
The factory so reduced the
competition and so increased the
demand for cotton that in the
fourth decade the production has
been about the same as in the
third decade and the price 12
cents instead of 6 cents. The
result is that the crop of the
fourth decade remains the same
as that of the third instead of
double what it was in the third
?instead of the crop doubling
the price doubles and the same
old 10,000,000 bales brings not
$300,000,000, but $600,000,000.
Yet in this fourth decade a
10,000,000-bale crop yields the
farmer $700,000,000, while in the
succeeding year a crop of 13,500,D00
bales yielded only $450,000,300.
The farmer's Moses has been
found. He is the cotton factory.
What thef farmer now needs is a
Joseph. Listen to what Joseph
J J -
Luu;
"And in the seven plenteous
vears the earth brought forth by
handfuls.
And he gathered up all the
food of the seven years, which
were i? the land of Egypt, and
laid up the food in the cities; the
food of the field which was round
about every city laid he up in the
same.
And Joseph gathered corn as
the sand of the sea very much,
until he left numbering, for it
was without number.
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And the : seven years of plenl
teousness ttfAt wag in the land of
Egypt were^nded.
And the seven .years of dearth
began to come, according as
Joseph had saidi and the dearth
was in all tlrnds; but in all the
land of Egypt there was bread.
And when-all the land of Egypt
was famidhed the people cried
to Pharoah for bread, and Pharoah
said unto all the Egyptians,
Go unto Joseph, what he saith to
you do. : v-' ;
And the famine was over all
the face of tjie earth. And Joseph
opened^all the storehouses
and said unfb the Egyptians; and
the famine} waxed sore in the
land of Egypt.
And all countries came unto
Egypt to Jofcenh for to buy corn;
because thai the famine was so
sore in all lands."
As the development of manufactures
vtas the Moses to lead
the cotton farmer out of the wilderness,
sb^the development of
Commerce ^must be the Joseph
who is tb^taerage the production
of a seriefiNff years and thereby
meet the world's demands and
steady the--price.
We ha#|?all appreciated more
or less thijfeeed of some means
to averqy the conditions - to
average-ttH^ quantity of cotton
(1 e 1 ivoredthe factories
pi ovidej^^>??ycty. the' SUTfi|tt6 j
from full yeifts \
built, btfl|^H?ibB|fithdtVlB^l
house ro^ 'ftSl li, factor in i
the refdMt naaufed Mo tWeou:-1
merce
ton nt'n-4
company? Therefore the
receipt of a local warehouse for
cotton is not negotiable in Europe
for this reason alone. But there
is another reason still more important,
and this is that the spinner
cannot take the risks of
grade, of weight and of many
other features of the quality of
the cotton. Therefore, in order
to bring the surplus of an excess
crop within reach of the investment
money of the world, all of
the conditions must be worked
out and brought to be available
at once. Part of them do not
advance the purpose to be accomplished.
The warehouse room
necessary to carry 3,000,000 bales
of cotton is not sufficient. The
cotton is too cumbersome and
unknown about to make a basis
of credit and trade exceDt bv
passing the cotton itself. To the
man who is willing to buy part
of the surplus and carry it for
future use the cotton is too cumbersome
for him to ship it and
take charge of it. A warehouse
receipt guaranteeing the proper
storage and delivery of a bale of
cotton is not sufficient.
What is needed to make cotton
a basis of general trade and
credit is a combined storage receipt
and guaranteed certificate
of classification, grade, weight
and other points affecting the
working quality or value of the
cotton.
This would require a guarantee
company which woula have in
its employ a corps of expert cotton
graders. One of these would
examine and determine every
factor affecting the value or use
of a bale of cotton. He would
fill out a certificate with the
facts about a bale of cotton and
the guarantee company would
become responsible for every feature
of the cotton as specified in
the certificate, including storage,
insurance and , delivery when
called for, as well as classification,
grade, weight, etc.
A certificate so filled out and
guaranteed would become a negotiable
commercial document.
The spinner, European or American,
could buy these certificates
when the surplus was depressing
the market and lay them away
in his safe until the cotton was
wanted to spin. The local warehouse
would be benefitted because '
purchasers would in most cases
prefer not to move the cotton |
' until wanted. There would be
no reclamations. The spinner
j Qould buyhiacottonbythefigures 4
P. M. PARR, President,
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in the certificate, and this could
be done in Europe as well as if.
the cotton was there. It would*
relieve the banks of the South
from the burden of carrying the
cotton crop for the farmer, aha
would relieve the farmers frprty
the necessity of fordffig ga'esN
because he could getifor his o^h
cotton guaranteed!' certificates,
which would starts for a . Ibanigr,
New York or elsewhere tKiftlare
South. jt
It would gtfVe a natural com-1
mercial nfeans of ecjuaihffhg
market^ and prices, and wbula
makeAour commerce with* the
^^^^mc^tmiva3tly more
an advantage to both. P
A guarantee company could do
its business in existing warehouses
and in compresses. It
would improve the businesses of
these.- D. A. Tompkins in
Manufacturers' Record.
A white World and a
Black World.
The Rev. Richard Carroll, of
Columbia, South Carolina, has
been making himself very offensive
to some of the people of
his race by his plain speaking as
to the position which the colored
people should occupy in this
white man's country. He has
admitted frankly the superiority
of the dominant race, and has
expressed the opinion from time
to time that the welfare of the
negroes in the South depends upon
the negroes living on terms
of the closest friendship with
their white neighbors. By his
methods he has managed to accomplish
a great deal of good for
the uplifting of his race, but now
we are told by Archibald H.
Grimke in the New York Age
that Carroll has only proved by
his course that he is "a past
grand master of the art of
'crooking' the pregnant hinges
of the knee that thrift may follow
fawning." The correspondent
of the Age declares that any
colored man in the South like
Mr. Carroll is "Janus-faced.
The face turned over to the white
South is the face of a slave,"
but that this face is only the
black man's stage face,
"Men like Mr. Carroll never
uncover this other face to the
white world. In the black world
this other face is seen oftener
than is seen its mate or mask, is
known better likewise than it.
The black world knows the black
world, it knows the white world
too, but the white world knows
only its own world, and flatters
itself that it knows besides the
black world, but in that under
world the blacks laugh at the
baselessness of this belief of the
whites and' hold their conceit and
ignorance in derision. This is
what the oppression of the white
South has brought upon itself.
This is the natural effect of its
caste brutalities, its cruel distinctions
and discriminations
against a race on account of its
color. The South is doomed ever
in these conditions to have eyes
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J, D. ARTHUR, Cashier. Q
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niers National Bank, I
iness at the "Old Stand." |
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noiiuttxnr to moo too. O
intordBUi on dcpositR,? B
ion inspected by an officer, R
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VLL the 1'ankB in Union combined. p
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wljlch cannot See, and ears which
e^tiriot hear what goes on beneath
them in a world on which
foundation of their world
pvuw rest. And when out of
jthif nether world there emerges
lhtd.' the upper world of the
Suites a denizen of the lower
Tpfr*; like Mr. Carroll, men like
t' Hey ward, Mayor Gibbes.
. Gonzales and the heads of -
hern banking houses will
themselves as helpless a9>-;.. >
blind Isaac when his
b deceived him- They wwl
not be able to distinguish
fake from the true, eithei^igC
word or act. The hands
seem to thnem Esau's; anu^yffife
voice Jacob's. Bat the
tion, the ,sorry tricky will$ttc oeed
with^hem evqry t^eCjwstTrv
las it succdroed* do rftanw^htu?:
ps'ago^^x blind o
Kwever may ' haVe J& j
pronged jRi^ev. Richard CarToll
and ^s j^k}d^kiUntio^^t^^y^
moral pluvot; > > mu- .* j - - '
w.v-,unuii. aiic mea or a iTTSJ
black world and a white world"" *' '
is an idea which has not been
considered by those who exercise
the mastery in this country. It
would appear from the theory
advanced by Mr. Grimke that
there is a great gulf fixed between
the races.?News and
Courier.
A SILENT TONGUE.
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There Are Times When
it is the Part of Wisdom
Not to Talk.
? q
The best of us talk too much.
"The essence of power is reserve,"
said a man who knew.
Many a reputation has teen
built on silence. Many a one is
spoiled through rushing prema
Lureiy and volubly into speech.
It is safe to be silent when
your words would wound.
"Faithful are the wounds of a
friend," says the old proverb,
but one wants to be mighty sure
one's friend needs the wounding
and that we are qualified to administer
it.
Keep still when your words
will discourage. It is infinitely
better to be dumb forever than
to make one fellow being less
able to cope with life.
Keep still when your words
will incite to anger or discomfort.
An incredible amount of
breath is used in the evil practice
of trying to make our friends dis
like their friends.
Never speak when what you
have to say is merely for the
purpose of exalting yourself.
Shut your lips with a key when
you are inspired to babble incontinently
of yourself?your ailments,
accomplishments, relations,
loves, hatreds, hopes and
desires. It is only to the choice,
rare friend that one may speak
of these things without becoming
a fool.?Philadelphia Bulletin.
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