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218 & 17 may 1898 article. The offending passage read, “In a chapter upon marriage and divorce she makes a frank avowal of her sentiments. They will be shocking to the ecclesiastical and conventional moralist, and few, we hope, will range themselves beside her in her contention that the state has nothing to do with either marriage or divorce, and that if only ‘divorce were made respectable and recognized by society as a duty,’ there would be no further trouble.” Although his review was “not entirely to your satisfaction,” Chadwick later wrote ECS, Garrison gave her an unusual opportunity to right the situation by publishing this letter. “I didn’t not mean to misrepresent you & am sorry that I did,” Chadwick continued in a double negative . As ECS observes here, nothing in her chapter supported Chadwick’s charge that she wanted the state removed from matters of marriage and divorce; nearly the entire chapter argued for legal reform. Nevertheless, Garrison also assigned Chadwick to review Ida Harper’s biography of SBA. (J. W. Chadwick to ECS, 7 April 1899, Film, 39:688–90.) 3. Address of Elizabeth Cady Stanton on the Divorce Bill, before the Judiciary Committee of the New York Senate, in the Assembly Chamber, Feb. 6, 1861 (Albany, N.Y., 1861), Film, 9:1101–9. Daniel Cady assisted ECS with legal citations for an earlier address to the legislature in 1854,but this is the only place where she claims he helped her with the address of 1861. Cady died in 1859. 4. She wrote the letter in 1860,not 1861.ECS to Editor,New York Daily Tribune, 30 May 1860, Film, 9:685. 5. Noah Davis (1818–1902) was at the time a justice of New York’s supreme court. (DAB.) Their debate on divorce in the pages of the North American Review apppeared in 1884, not 1882. ECS, “The Need of Liberal Divorce Laws,” Film, 23:951–62. 6. ECS, “Divorce vs. Domestic Warfare,” Film, 28:324–33. 7. In chapter fourteen entitled “Views on Marriage and Divorce,”ECS grouped the debates of 1860 and 1861 about divorce with the McFarland-Richardson case of 1869 and 1870. (Eighty Years, 215–33.) ••••••••• 92 • Article by ECS [21 May 1898] War or Peace. Competition or Co-operation. Many women feel aggrieved just now that they have had no voice in declaring war with Spain, or in effectively protesting against it as those in authority. 1 They seem to think that if they had the right of suffrage they could exert an influence in favor of arbitration and still further attempts at ^ 219 diplomacy. The men who are opposed to the war all have the suffrage, but what avails it when the popular enthusiasm of the few is at white heat and carries all before them? I do not share in this feeling, seeing that our civilization is still wholly on the war basis. Some good people talk peace and hold national and international conventions to promote it, but until we have justice, liberty and equality between man and man we can never realize “that peace that passeth all understanding!” 2 We are still struggling in the competitive stage of human development,governed by the law,“Each man for himself,starvation and death take the hindmost.” 3 There is no love and pity,no peace and prosperity for all, under this law. Our government, religion, industrial and social life, are all based on the competitive system. The war with Spain is but a pictorial representation in the panorama of human experience. Why feel a greater interest in an event that may happen once in a lifetime, in the horrors of war, than in the prolonged cruelties and outrages under the system of wage slavery? Our boys in blue are sheltered, fed and clothed in camp and hospital, stimulated with the virtue of patriotism, with prospective deeds of glory, a name on the page of history, trained as soldiers with martial music day by day, and gathered round their watch-fires at night in cheerful talk of victories won and others yet to be achieved. They voluntarily left their homes and loved ones, enlisting for the war, knowing that the struggle would be but for a few months or years at the most.But what of the boys in rags,working ten hours a day in mines where the sun never penetrates; in crowded factories, keeping time, not with martial music in varied manoeuvres, but in one monotonous round with pitiless machinery, forced...

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