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UK1AH, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, JULY 7. 1911.Cardinal Gibbons Strongly Opposes Woman SuffrageBecause Father Gleason, of San Fancisco, has said something in favor of woman suffrage, the suffragettes have come out with a wild acclaim that theCatholic Church is favorable to woman suffrage. Just to disabuse the minds\of any who may think so we print extracts from Cardinal Gibbon's interview on June 22 in Baltimore. The Prince of the Church declares that the descent of woman into politics would rob the home of its best uplifting influence. Woman is queen, but her kingdom is the domestic kingdom. He says that he is unalterably opposed to woman suffrage, always was and always will be.“Why should not a woman have the right to vote?” the Cardinal was asked. “Approach the subject in another way,” answered the distinguished prelate. “Why should a woman lower herself to sordid politics? W'hy should a woman leave her home and go into the streets to play the game of politics? Why should she long to rub elbows with men who are her inferiors intellectually and morally? Why should a woman long to go into the streets and leave behind her a happy home, her children, a husband, and everything that goes to make up the ideal domestic life? Answer these questions for me, and then we inayjproceed with a discussion of the subject, but I think the average man ar.d woman will admit that it will be difficult to find reasonable answers to them. '“I am hostile to woman’s suffrage, always have been, and w-ill continue to be. Some one is always asking me why I oppose woman’s suffrage. I am always wondering why they ask me that question. I have written about the subject for years; I have preached about it, and will continue to urge that nothing be done which will take woman out; of her proper sphere.”WOMAN GAINS NOTHING “When a woman enters the political arena she goes outside the sphere for which she was intended. She gains nothing by that journey. On the other hand, she loses that exclusiveness, respect and dignity to which she is entitled in her home.“Who wants to see a woman standing around the polling places; speaking to crowds on the street corners; pleading with those in attendance at a political meeting? Certainly such a sight \vou«d not be relished by her husband, or by her children. Must the child , returning from school, go to the polls to find his mother? Must the husband, returning from work, go to the polls to find his .wife, soliciting the votes for this man or that, for this woman or that? It would seem to me that the questions answer themselves.”—o—o—
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Ukiah Dispatch Democrat
Ukiah, California, US
Fri, Jul 07, 1911
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