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^ 381 among his friends treated him with marked coldness.Like all other martyrs to the truth of science he paid the lifelong penalty of being ostracised by many who should have been proud of his confidence and friendship. U Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Y Boston Investigator, 19 January 1901. 1. Leonard Huxley (1860–1933) published the two-volume Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley (1900), about his father (1825–1895), the English biologist and philosopher. 2. Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882), English naturalist and evolutionist, published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859. 3. Thomas Huxley is credited with coining the words “agnostic”and “agnosticism ” about 1869, when membership in the Metaphysical Society obliged him to define his personal philosophy. 4. Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), Scottish essayist and historian. ••••••••• 173 • ECS to the Editor, New York SUN New York, Feb. 2 [1901]. To the Editor of the Sun—Sir: One of the most important lessons for the people of a republic to learn is respect for and obedience to law. Here, where we have no king, queen, or royal family to revere, law is the only monarch for us to reverence and obey; all resistance to its behests threatens the safety and stability of our government; but to secure the faith and support of the people, all laws must be in the interests of justice, liberty, and equality. The Woman’s Temperance Association of the State of New York may be right in taking no action against saloon keepers here, who entice their husbands, fathers, brothers and sons into the haunts of vice, because our laws permit their existence, but in condemning this present war in Kansas they must remember that the women are trying to uphold the laws against the sale of intoxicating drinks, and they are sustained by the best men in Kansas, who helped to pass these beneficent measures. Under the present circumstances, what would be mob law in New York is justifiable war in Kansas. 1 But, say some, it would be well enough to empty the liquor into the street, but why smash the glass and gilded ornaments? Because they help 19 january 1901 382 & to make these places attractive at the midnight hour. As women of Kansas have only municipal suffrage they have by their votes helped to make these laws and are determined to see them executed, as the officials elected for this purpose are too timid or wicked to do their duty. 2 Mothers having gone to the very gates of death to give their sons life and immortality have seen them degraded and demoralized in these haunts of vice, which are protected by law. Men in high places tell us home is our sphere,the rearing of children our highest duty, yet deny us a voice in the laws by which to protect our homes and make the outside world fit for our children to live in. Woman’s life in too many cases is one of prolonged misery, dissipated husbands, fathers, brothers and sons making home a pandemonium of horrors, and filling our asylums, jails, hospitals and prisons with idiots, paupers, invalids and criminals. The women of Kansas have taken the initiative,and unless they speedily have a voice in the laws they will not sit with folded hands much longer; and instead of prayers and petitions there will be a general movement inaugurated in every State that will compel attention. Men need not flatter themselves that women will not fight, for the temperance crusades in Ohio years ago and now in Kansas abundantly prove their courage and capacity. 3 Woman’s work as wife and mother is more sacred and far-reaching in its influence than any office in Church or State; with her rests the protection of all the virtues, and the time has come for her to assert herself. If those in authority will not listen to reason, then woman’s emancipation will be achieved by force. 4 A class of women have tried argument for nearly a century, to which men have paid no attention; if they will not listen to reason and argument, another class of women will try more active measures. Y New York Sun, 4 February 1901. Not in Film in this version. 1. By constitutional amendment adopted in 1880, Kansas prohibited the “manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors,” but enforcement was uneven and saloons operated openly. Across the country, meetings of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union debated...

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