Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1905 — INJUSTICE TO THE WOMEN [ARTICLE]

INJUSTICE TO THE WOMEN

Bible Translation Attacked. Because It Is Too Hard on the Fair Sex. LaCrosse, Wls., Oct. 20.—An attack upon the translation of the Bible from the Hebrew, placing upon the woman the punishment for all sins, with a voice of happiness looking forward to the day when women will have equal representation upon the board of revisionists, marked the closing of the National Purity Conference in La Crosse. Katherine Bushnell, of Oakland, Cal., a purity worker of national renown, was the principal speaker of the evening, and by a series of translations and charts showed that the true meaning of Biblical passages was in praise of the women. Mary Church Terrell, of Washington, spoke in favor of the negro race, extolling the virtues of the colored woman and denouncing her shame, caused principally by the white men In the south, and also by others in the north.