THE AMERICAN NEW WOMEN.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 1 August 1901, Page 4

THE AMERICAN NEW WOMEN.

The Christian churches have come in for a severe harangue at the hands of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the prominent woman suffragist and writer. “ The greatest block to-day in the way of woman’s emancipation,” she declared, “is the church, the canon law, the Bible, and the priesthood.” Following this statement, she demanded that an expurgated Bible be read in the churches, and said that such parables as those referring to woman as “ the author of sin, “an inferior,” “a subject,” a weaker vessel,” etc., should be left out and looked upon as mere allegories. At another meeting Miss S. A . Blackwell—who is regarded by many as the logical licit* to the dominance of Susan B. Anthony, honorary president of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association —made the statement that hereafter the American woman must cease to be a hen, which docs nothing but crackle and scratch ; that she must cease also to bo a mere nightingale that can only feed its young and warble; that she must rise above these limitations and be the eagle mother; and her slogan must be “ Woe betide the male chicken hawks which swoop upon her offspring! This sentiment “ took ” well, and its utterance was followed by a vigorous waving of handkerchiefs and by screams of approval.