Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 112, 27 February 1910 — Page 12

PAGE TWELVE. THE RICHMOND PALLADIU3I AND SUX-TELEGRA3I, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1910.

ANCIENTS AIDED BY COL. HARVE

He Quotes Religious Writers tc Prove That Women Have Souls.

DECALOGUE FOR MEN ONLY

WELL KNOWN EDITOR ATTENDS WOMEN'S CLUB MEETING AND MAKES SUCH A HIT HE IS INVITED TO TEA.

New York, Feb. 26. That women really have souls was what Colonel George Harvey, editor of the North American Review and Harper's Weekly, set out to prove at the Woman's University club. It was the regular monthly reception of the club, and Colonel Harvey was the guest of honor. The one hundred women present did not know what side he was going to take on the question, and after he had come out so strongly in favor of the theory that women have just as much soul as men, he was invited to stay and take tea and shake hands with the audience. The press committee denied that the Women's University club had had any doubts on the question, and that Colonel Harvey had been asked to reascure the members. The press committee, through its representative, said that Col. Harvey had been invited to say something to the club, and had said It. They were pleased, however, by the turn his remarks had taken. Back to Greek Dictionary. Miss Elizabeth B. Cutting, president of the club, in introducing Colonel Harvey .said that, no matter what he might argue on the question, still the members of that crganization could always go back to the Greek dictionary and find that the gender of the soul was not masculine nor common, but feminine. Considering the authorities on the subject, Colonel Harvey first noted that Genesis does distinctly place tne

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woman as a subordinate and dependent of man, denying her a soul. That being so he set out to demolish Genesis as a thoroughly reliable authority on that or any other subject. Genesis was a composite of stories full of in

consistencies and contradictions, de

clared Colonel Harvey. More, it was of Babylonish origin, coming into being after a large number of colonists from Babylon had come over into Israel. Women Worked on Sunday. The lecturer called attention to the fact that the Commandments apply to man exclusively. The fourth, for instance, prohibits work of a Sunday to all the members of the family except the woman. The head of the house is told that even the servants must not labor on that day. Folks must eat a fact that even the Bible concedes and so the wife wa3 delegated to see to that or any other necessary work that had to be done on Sunday. It has been argued, went on Colonel Haiyey, that the "thous" in the fourth commandment includes both the husband and wife, and thus the writer didn't need to specify the woman in the prohibition. That could not be true argued the lecturer, because the ninth commandmenr, which also uses "thou," does not. include the wife; for one of the things that the man is not o covet among the property of his neighbor, is his wife. Colonel Harvey could not bring forward any of the most ancient authorities in relation to spinsters. In those days, it appeared, every woman was married, men having as many wives as they could take care of or get. Hence, nobody said a word about old spinsters one way or the other. Spinisters Not Considered. In the Decalogue, the lecturer pointed out, there is no recognition of woman's possession of a soul or any inherent rights. She did not have to suffer any punishment, however; the head of the house had to stand all that. In spite of this biblical authority against women having souls, Colonel Harvey, sweeping through science and religious writings, other than biblical, found plenty of warrant for believing they have inherent rights and souls just as much as a man. Persian, Parsee, Hindoo. Etruscan, and many other ancient religious writers the speaker quoted to show that at the creation men and women were born simultaneously and with equal inherent rights. (No applause. It was said there were no suffragists present.) Nature, too, recognized man and woman as equal and with the same inherent rights, went on Colonel Harvey, and it would be strange 'f here the laws of God and the laws cf nature stood in opposition to each

other. They so stand thus nowhere else, he Faid.

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(Harper's Weekly.) In so far as the administration has shared in the main fault and dereliction of the party, it ought, of course, to share in the reprobation. Its share in the fault we take to have been this: That at the outset the president decided to trust and co-operate with the established leaders of congress, men opposed at heart to any real reform of the tariff, instead of the men who, though without such power, stood sincerely and unequivocally for revision downward, and that he stuck with only too much loyalty to his original alliances, throughout the special session and afterward. While it may be true that the concessions he thus obtained were about all he could have obtained from such a congress, the country feels that by a more uncompromising stand he could have won at least as much for the cause immediately, and left it in a better way for future struggles. This error, originally of judgment, is also the first item in the account of those who, as Republicans, express dissatisfaction with their administration. The other principal items are a3 follows: The president, havirg appointed BaHinger to his cabinet, has been too loyal to him, as to Aldrich, and too loath to see and act upon the evidence which tends to show him an unfit mat. for the place. He has thus made himself largely responsible for any damage Ballinger may have done to the cause of conservation, and possibly for injustice to Glavis and other tnthusiasts for that policy. During his prolonged absence from the capital he permitted the painful Crane episode to occur a thing which, though little un

derstood, is vaguely resented for this and other reasons the state as well as the interior department is under fire. In the matter of appointments, it is charged, too great i-ower has been given to Mr. Hitchcock, and there has been a disposition to discriminate against progressive congressmen and senators, besides other sorts of manipulation. On broade- lines the dissatisfaction culminates in the accusation of luliewarmness toward what are known as the Roosevelt policies particularly conservation and the effective control of combinations. Putting the case for the defense still more briefly, the last charge may be dismissed as simply untrue, unless it be conceded that violence is the only true devotion. The question of Mr. Hitchcock and the patronage Is undoubtedly an open one. and more light on it is heartily to be desired; but judgment must be suspended until there is more light. The same must be said of the Crane episode; and while there is ample ground for criticising Mr. Knox's course with Nicaragua and with Japan and Russia, it is by no means clear that we must pronounce him a failure as the head of his great department. The appointment of Ballinger may at once be pronounced

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