ily. His statement is a clear indication of the effects of Suffragism on the family.

"But these Socialist and Communist publications contain also a critical element. They attack every principle of existing society. Hence they are full of the most valuable materials for the enlightenment of the working class. The practical measures proposed in them, such as the abolition of the distinction between town and country, of the family, of the carrying on of industries for the account of private individuals, and of the wage system, the proclamation of social harmony, the conversion of the functions of the State into a mere superintendence of production, all these proposals point solely to the disappearance of classantagonisms which were, at that time, only just cropping up, and which, in these publications, are recognized under their earliest, indistinct and undefined forms only."-Communist Manifesto, page 55.

Marx and Engels, founders of Socialism, through the authorship of the Communist Manifesto, announce that principle of attacking every existent form of society, including the family, on the wrecks of which Socialism shall be built. This explains why all Socialists are Suffragets. Their deliberate aim is to destroy the family, and they are able assistants to the suffrage movement.

II.

IS WOMAN'S VOTE NEEDED AS AN EDUCATOR?

Suffragets claim that voting will be an educational assistance to them, and that without their vote they cannot know everything.

Knowledge is not always educational. Knowledge gained may be to the injury of the learner. One may learn to be a counterfeiter or a burglar. While he has gained knowledge, he possesses no true education.

For the general problem of education is how best to place instinct and passion under the control of reason and conscience of higher motives, that men may learn to find their pleasures and happiness in doing what brings health, knowledge and virtue.

A leading Suffraget says:

(Mrs. Parsons): "The enlightened public opinion of today finds the chief, if not the only warrant for universal male Suffrage in its being an educational means. In this view women need the Suffrage at present even more than men." -Socialism Positive and Negative, note on page 101.

But education may be useless and inefficient unless systematically attained and practical for use in some good way. This is well illustrated in the following:

Everyone who has read Charles Dickens' "Bleak House" will remember the famous character of Mrs. Jellaby. She had a passion for works of amelioration over the whole world, and, as the story goes on, she engages in schemes for the regeneration of the tribes on the left bank of the Niger; and,

while she has dreams of raising coffee plantations and of educating the natives, her own home is going to rack and ruin.

That is a sample of those who reason themselves into false sentiment. Her sentiment ought to have been in her own home before it went traveling through the African continent.

If every American mother does her duty, it will take all her time to make a happy home, and if she trains her boys to honesty and her girls in virtue we will have a model nation. And such a nation as could not be produced in a thousand years by Woman Suffrage "education."

It is true that the family training to some extent is inefficient, but this inefficiency cannot be bettered by thrusting on woman many duties which will take her time and distract her attention.

Quoting from a Suffraget, Geo. Elliott Howard:

"Because of inefficient family training, as already seen, the State has been forced to hand over to the teacher, a very large share in the nurture of the young. For this the father is most to blame. Absorbed in business, he has practically abdicated his function as domestic teacher.

"He has laid that task on the shoulders of the mother, thus doubling her burden. The boy should be trained for citizenship; for the wise conduct of the person entrusted with the ballot. As things are, so far as the young boy in the home is concerned, the needed training must come chiefly from the mother. Yet the mother's prestige is crippled. She is not a full active citizen. Not having the ballot, what can she know of its proper use? That is the psychology of the 'suggestion' in the case. The ballot will give her prestige equal to that of the father in her boy's mind; and so it will actually lighten her task as chief family teacher.

“Her burden will be lessened still more, if the father may be called back from the office to the home to take his proper share in the training of the boy. Two things are urgently needed in the process of socialization: That_the woman should have an opportunity to do a full share of the world's work, and that the man should take a full share in the work of the home."

He argues that to put further burdens on the Mother will give her more time to educate her son. It is probable that the professor is not a teacher of mathematics, as this solution of the problem would appear to be, present duties, 1, plus forced duties, 1, equal 2, leaving the mother no time at all to instruct her sons. The professor claims that enfranchising women would raise them in the estimation of their children, when it would certainly have the opposite tendency; but, as he says, the great needs of socialization demand that the woman shall go out of the home to do world's work, and the man should be forced to do more of the home work. This is one of the lessons which suffraget women can read in their literature as indicating an intent to revolutionize the home and put it on a sordid, Socialistic basis.

There is no doubt but that a Suffraget, in her new relations with the world, does learn a great deal, but what she does learn is not educational. She has, perhaps, already learned to march in a parade or to ride astride of a horse in public view with the purpose of attracting the attention of lustful eyes.

She has perhaps attended the Suffraget Conventions and attempted to learn parliamentary rules. But the rules of order which she has attempted to learn have usually been rules of disorder. In the election of delegates at Chicago to the National Convention she observed a president nominate all the delegates and ride rough shod over the will of those present.

If she attended the Nashville Convention, she saw more time taken up in quarreling than for any other purpose. If she remembered the Scripture, "Oh, how pleasant it is to see brethren dwell together in unity," she certainly despaired of seeing the sisters do the same.

Yes, she learned much, and that is, that women are not