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Socialism, Feminism, and Suffragism, the Terrible Triplets, Connected by the Same Umbilical Cord, and Fed from the Same Nursing Bottle, by B.V Socialism, feminism, and suffragism, the terrible triplets, connected by the same umbilical cord, and fed from the same nursing bottle, by B.V. Hubbard SOCIALISM FEMINISM AND SUFFRAGISM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS RARE BOOK COLLECTION CHAPMAN CATT SUBJECT Section V Woman - Sociology No 27 SOCIALISM, FEMINISM, AND SUFFRAGISM, THE TERRIBLE TRIPLETS CONNECTED BY THE SAME UMBILICAL CORD. AND FED FROM THE SAME NURSING BOTTLE By B. V. HUBBARD Chicago: American Publishing Company 1820 City Hall Square Bldg. Copyright, 1915 by B. V. Hubbard DEDICATION To the innumerable multitude of motherly women, who love and faithfully serve their fellowmen with a high regard for duty a veneration for God, respect for authority, and love for husband, home and heaven, whether such a woman is the mother of children, or whether she has been denied motherhood and bestows her motherliness upon all who are weak, distressed and afflicted. This book is also dedicated to the man who is, in nature, a knight and protector of the weak, the defender of the good, who shrinks no responsibility, who has a paternal love of home, a patriotic affection for country, veneration for moral and religious precepts, and who has the courage to combat evil and fight for all that which is good. CONTENTS SOCIALISM Chapter Page Introduction 9 I. Socialism Defined—Immediate Demands Not Socialistic—Ultimate Demands Real Socialism 13 Socialism, feminism, and suffragism, the terrible triplets, connected by the same umbilical cord, and fed from the same nursing bottle, by B.V. Hubbard http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbnawsa.n6027 II. The Materialistic Conception of History—Consequences of the Materialistic Conception of History, Denies the Natural Rights of Man 21 III. Socialism Evolutionary—Holds That Industrial Destiny is Fore-Ordained and Cannot Be Prevented by Individual Actions 31 IV. Socialist Science Spurious—Jumble of Incoherent Vagaries 37 V. Socialism Atheistical—Socialism and Religion Cannot Exist Under the Same Conditions—Christian Socialism a Misnomer 49 VI. Socialism Without Morals—Divine Law on Which Morals are Based Rejected by Socialists 67 VII. Socialism an Enemy of the Family, Favors Free Love—Children are the Wards of the State and not of the Parents. 79 VIII. Socialism Revolutionary and Unpatriotic—The Great International 97 IX. Socialism Enslaves and Provides Unjust Compensation—The Social State the Only Employer 107 X. Socialist Failures 121 XI. Glossary of Socialistic Terms 125 XII. Moses and Marx 137 FEMINISM I. Feminism Defined—The Hybred Sex 141 II. Feminism Atheistical 159 III. The Bestiality of Feminism—Motherhood Degraded 167 IV. Sex Slavery and Its Feminist Remedy 179 V. Race Suicide—Its Suggestion and Approval 187 VI. Consequences of Feminist Ascendency 195 Socialism, feminism, and suffragism, the terrible triplets, connected by the same umbilical cord, and fed from the same nursing bottle, by B.V. Hubbard http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbnawsa.n6027 VII. Feminism Akin to Socialism 201 VIII. The Complaint of Feminism 207 IX. Feminist Frenzy—Its Remedy—The Degradation and Peril of Feminism 213 SUFFRAGISM Introduction 229 I. The Demands of Suffragets—Principally That They Shall Fill Places of Both Men and Women 233 II. Is Woman's Vote Needed as an Educator?—Education Obtained by Suffrage Debasing 245 III. Is Woman Suffrage Needed as a Protection Against Man-Made Laws?—Man-Made Laws are for the Benefit of Woman 251 IV. Will Woman Suffrage Purify and Elevate Politics?—Results Have Been Degrading to Women 259 V. Futility and Impracticability of Suffrage—No Practical Reforms Accomplished 269 VI. Results of Woman Suffrage—Larger Expense, a Baser Average Vote, and Religious Bigotry 279 VII. Kinship of Suffrage to Socialism and Feminism Established 286 VIII. A Suggested Remedy—Less Feminism in the Schools and Greater Discipline and Efficiency of Pupils 293 9 INTRODUCTION Thoughtful people, who have observed the trend of events during the last generation, view with great alarm the situation in our country. There has been a violent revolution of the sentiments and ideals of the life of men. This revolution of moral sentiment has been almost coincident with the revolution and change in the commercial world. There is a persistent and ominous demand for the divorce of religion from morals and education, and that religious precepts shall not be taught; for the lowering of the ideal of marriage, and the Socialism, feminism, and suffragism, the terrible triplets, connected by the same umbilical cord, and fed from the same nursing bottle, by B.V. Hubbard http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbnawsa.n6027 substitution of a temporary contract for that permanent union, which is necessary for the nurture and education of the next generation; for the commercial employment of married women, resulting largely in the neglect and disruption of family life, the displacement and unemployment of men, and the reduction of the wages of both men and women. This moral change came with the advent of the trusts in about the year 1890, and has been continuously intensified. The ministers of religion have not had the stamina to resist, and many have given up spiritual teaching for corporal works of charity, and are now trying to influence men exclusively via the stomach instead of through the heart. The charity done in humility, “Letting not the left hand know what the right hand doeth,” has been turned into a vainglorious way of “settlement” work, maintained by endowments from the rich corporations. United charities have taken the place of the personal contact, the individual charity which included all brotherly love and sympathy. The modest love of God and man, which was 10 displayed by the widow who gave her mite, has been displaced by egotistical feminists, whose chief assets are pride of an advertisement of the accomplishments of physical relief, which bear no relation to heartfelt and true charity. Charities have really been trustified and expend the larger part of their incomes to high paid officials and investigators. They have assumed a monopoly of charity and have their agencies for the purpose of crushing out all individual efforts of persons to relieve suffering, hunger and distress by personal contact and independent giving. The business man gives his check for $25.00 to a United Charities collector (who retains $10.00 as his commission), and the giver gets a pack of reference tickets to direct the indigent to the head office. He does this to escape the brotherly contact with the poor, whereas he might have personally bestowed 40 per cent more financial relief and 100 per cent more charity by personal encouragement and cheer. This method is but a per cent better than Dives compelling Lazarus to remain outside the gate with only dogs to lick his sores. The trusts, consolidating many industries into one, displaced many workers and reduced the relative wages, while increasing the cost of living. Family life was displaced, as those living in cottages exclusively were compelled to join other families, more than one family living under one roof, or in one small flat. The head of the family being unable to make a living for the entire family, women were forced into work and commercial life outside the home, and the ties of home became weakened. Socialism, feminism, and suffragism, the terrible triplets, connected by the same umbilical cord, and fed from the same nursing bottle, by B.V. Hubbard http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbnawsa.n6027 With these home ties weakened, idealism decreased and humanity, instead of looking upward for an ideal state, commenced to look downward to the earth on material things only, and the golden calf was the only image portrayed in the mind of man. From this cause sprang distortion of the ideals of the 11 family, of the duties of the father and the mother toward the child, and of the independence of the women. Socialistic conceptions of only the material, eliminating the spiritual good, and Feminism and Suffragism arose in the place of womanhood and motherliness. There must be a revulsion from this condition, or else the world will be chaotic. The material interest of man alone will not suffice for his well-being. Remedies must be applied so that the burdens of material life shall be lightened, and man shall be made free and his vision may be diverted from a mere material goal of life to the greater good, and be lifted up from the golden calf to an image of life which is higher and more sublime. To meet these emergencies nostrums have been proposed instead of remedies. One suggestion is Socialism, which proposes still further to reduce the individuality of man, to deny him personal accountability, to assert that the evolutionary trend cannot be resisted by him, to deny his free will and to prevent him from owning private property; to make him entirely dependent on the Socialistic State and to promise in turn to feed him up to the highest capacity of animal existence and to reduce his labor hours to six or three per day. Feminism also is proposed. This is a twin sister of Socialism, and has all its “unmoral” principles. Feminism proposes the financial, industrial and domestic independence of women from men, —“to be free to give love wherever it is natural,” “To be free to choose the father of her own children”—“Not to submit to involuntary motherhood,” and “To satisfy the maternal instinct and to voluntarily bear children whether married or unmarried.” Votes for women is another proposed remedy, commonly called female suffrage. Both classes, Socialists and Feminists, are universally and without exception suffragettes. They claim that Socialism and Feminism will be brought about by 12 means of Suffragism. Suffragets claim that “Votes for women” will overthrow “man made laws” and give woman such a larger liberty that she will no longer be a “sex slave;” and, by means of a romantic imagination, the suffragette pictures that her ballot will correct all the evils which afflict women and children; that she will get “emancipation” as expressed by G.
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