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Tbo triennial convention of the Pro
testant Episcopal church is now in
session in Minneapolis. Lately it has
been proposed to change the name of
the church to the Holy Catholic church
and it is the intention to discuss this
proposed change t tha convention. I
asked Rev. John Hewitt for his opinion
on the proposition and ho made the
following reply:
"As a member of the general conven
tion of 188G when the question came up
I voted against a change on the ground
that it was inexpedient. Since that
timo the desire for a thorough revision
of the constitution of the church has
grown so strong that it has been de
cided to undertake it at this general
convention. It is therefore a convenient
time to consider a change of the name
of the church. Then again alongside of
this, interest in the subject of church
unity has become very great and very
general. I was one of those who helped
to organize the Church Unity Society
in 1836 which brought about that fam
ous declaration of principles by our
House of Bishops that year on the basis
of which it was thought church unity
might be reached, and which other
Christian bodies have had under serious
consideration. These facts have in
fluenced me to believe that the proper
time has come to consider a change of
name, I think the church ought to
have a name which will more accurate
ly express its status in this country
than that it now has. 1 prefer "The
American Episcopal Church" because
the word "American" describes its
habitat, and the word "Episcopal" des
cribes the scriptural and historic form
of government as distinguished from
other bodies in this country which are
recognized as churches. At a time when
church unity is in the ascendant and
dogma or non-essential doctrine is on
the decline, it is not well to wear a cap
feathered with protests. The appella
tion of "protestant" was assumed at a
time when the Roman Catholic church
was a state church Papal denomination
was irksome, and subversive of civil and
religious rights. In this country the
Roman Catholic church stands upon an
equal footing with all other religious
bodies, and to call ourselves protestants
as being opposed to that church is no
more necessary or reasonable than to
call ourselves protestants becauso in
certain matter" we are opposed to other
churches. It is time for every church
which can show clearly that it requires
acceptance of those articles of faith only
which thetirsteix general councils of
the church require, and that it has re
tained in continuous succession the
form of church government which ex
isted at the first, to drop all appellations
which d d not characterize the primitive
church. I am therefore in favor of
dropping from our name the word 'pro
testant'." To Mr. J. R. Sutherland,
Secretary of the State Board of
Transportation, Lincoln, Neb.
My Dear Sir: Tuesday, October 1,
you succeeded Mr. J. W. Johnson as
secretary of the state board of transpor
tation. Mr. Johnson is an able man
and was an efficient officer. Nearly
eight years ago you were a member of
the state senate, and you have for years
been prominently identified with the
public life of the state. You have
earned a reputation for integrity and
ability that yields the promise of con
spicuous success as a secretary of the
state board of transportation. Now Mr.
Sutherland, the public expects much of
you. As long as I have been in the
state you have been an active anti-mon
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opolist. Your county, Burt, is strongly
anti-monopoly. You have attended
recent state conventions of the repub
lican party as a Rosewater anti-monopolist.
You havo, from first to last, been
loud in the advocacy of a reduction of
railroad rates. Your selection as a
member of the state board of transpor
tation was, I take it, a formal recog
nition of the anti monopoly wing of the
party. You have at last been placed in
a position where those anti-monopoiy
vitiWs of yours can be evolved from pre
ccptB into examples, and the people of
the state have their eyes on you. You
can now do what for years you have
been asking Bomebody else to do. Will
you do it Mr. Sutherland? Will you
show to the people that anti-monopoly
is something more than a hollow cry?
Will you prove that you are consistent?
With much respect, and with best
wishe for your success as an officer of
the state, I am, Yours truly.
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I NOTES AND QUERIES
Do you think the article called "The Ca&e of
Woman" by Mr. Robert Grant in tbo October
Scribner's a fairly good presentation of the
case? C.
Robert Grant in "The Caso of Wo
man" in the October Scribners tries to
relate the trouble to the readers of that
magazine as far us it lias gone, as well
as to predict what to expect in the
future. Mr. Grant's stjle is easy, joe
ular, so jocular, that it is difficult to dis
agree with him without appearing
cranky. He disarms feminine suspicion
in the first paragraph by saying that
"a great many men, who are sane and
reasonable i n other matters, allow them
selves, on the slightest provocation, to
be worked up into a fever over the as
pirations of woman. They decline to
listen to argument, grow red in tho
face and saw the air with their hands,
if they do not pound on the table, to ex
press their views on the subject which
by the way are as out of date and old
fashioned as a pine tree shilling.
They confront the problem of woman's
emancipation as though it were ju6t
being broached instead of in the throes
of delivery."
Perhaps it is not possible for a man
to treat the new woman subject serious
ly and without condescension. In some
aspects she h absurd. She is a great
boon to the comic papers which, since
her advent, have given the mother-in-law
and the boarding house a rest.
Still si visa fact. She has evolved herself
iu spite of painful ridicule and opposi
tion. She is going onward and upward
even if men saw the air and "holler"
when they converse about her. Her
entrance into politics is certain. She
has taken root in the business world
and is spreading and growing like a
green bay tree. In spite of her proven
ability to direct affairs Mr. Graut sajs
that he, for one, "before the right sf
suffrage is bestowed upon her, would
like to be convinced that she is really
earnest minded." It seems to me this is
beside the question. Women do not ask
for the ballot because they think it will
benefit humanity, but because they are
individuals in the compact called the
state. They form half the community,
pay their taxes, and are unrepresented.
If there is no reason for a property or
educational qualification for the suffrage
there is still less for a sex qualification.
Mr. Grant is a finished writer. I feel
when he is writing of the sex to which
I have the honor to belong that be
makes me a long, sweeping, slightly
sarcastic bow. He is polite as a courtier
and he is generous, but not exactly just.
He writes down to us and women do not
like it, though we like bim. He is like the
nicest men in our own circle nice men
and lovable but prejudiced by their sex
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and environment. Under existing phys
iological conditions woman will remain
the wife and mother. That is, most
women, but in a world aB big as this
there will be millions of exceptions.
Single women aro too many and too
sharp to be classed with Indians and
idiots any longer. What they want is
to be treated by the law as equal toman
and to fight their lonesome battle under
the same rules. If the right is to be
fought under Marquis of Queensbury
rules why Marquis of Queensbury it is.
Only let the rules be applied to both
sides with equal severity or leniency as
the case may be. A legal disqualifica
tion takes the heart out of anyone. It is
not so much the right to vote women
want as it is the desire to have tho
ban removed.
Is there any feminine leader of society in
Lincoln? If so who is it?
F. A. R.
In another column of this paper is a
discussion of the composition and tenets
of Lincoln Society. The statement
therein that society here is without a
head or dictator may not, at first, be
accepted. If there be one, who is it?
There are no claimants to the position.
In nearly every place even those as
young and Bmall as Lincoln there are
one or two or three members of the
smart set who claim to make the pace
for the rest. The easy speed of the
leaders and the breathless rush of the
field after them keeps society moving.
Their existence altogether is to be en
couraged. I have often thought that
the inertness of Lincoln society is due
to its lack of leadership. There is ma
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terial enough. So far no one has take
Minnio La I tit's place, which during the
years of her prim icy was unques
tionably first. She ib Ihv'fhly dowered
with tact and grace, p I nature ex
ecutive ab.Iity. .Ma.-riage with
her. as with most people, has been an
abdication, but she will come to her
throne again. When she does her salon
will be as crowded as it was before, with
older men and women perhaps, their
hearts a trifle slower-beating, but just
as fascinated by their hostess as in the
dajs before she married. Minnie Latta
was preceded, with a hiatus between, by
Nannie Cobb, who is now Mrs. McFar
land. She was the first real dictator,
and her reign was a one-woman rule.
If there had been a Notes and Queries
department at that time no one would
have asked the question that stands at
the head of this column. The maids in
the kitchen knew it was Nannie Cobb.
Iler rule kept society on the
qui vive and her followers had to look
alive. Abdication has followed mar
riage with her also. So Lincoln society
has had two rulers and the throne is
empty now. La Seine est morte the
rest of the quotation is rot applicable.
Supposing it bo perfectly convenient for
either the gentleman or lady to do so, whose
placo is it to provide opera glasses for the
evening's entertainment at the theatre?
J. X.T.
If it be convenient for each to take
opera glasses they would both better
take them. If neither possess them
they will be forced to go without.
It is not a question of whose
place it is.
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