NAWSA SUBJECT FILE GILMAN, Charlotte P. Women and Social Service BY Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman Published by National American Woman Suffrage Association. Headquarters, Warren, Ohio. Price 5c per single copy; $4.00 per 100 postpaid. Women and Social Service By MRS. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN Women, without the ballot, can do things that will show the unconverted what the suffragists want, and of what they are capable. In trying to reach people with a sense of the value of woman's ballot, we find these obstacles, --the old theory of government, and the old theory of woman's natural place. The old theory of government regarded it as something which governed, which gave orders, which made laws, which managed, which commanded; and people objected to having women put in a position where they were to give orders and to govern. Against that, we have to put the new theory of government, the idea which belongs to Democracy, which is part of Democracy, --that government is service. And certainly nobody on earth ever objected to women servants. As soon as we get the new view of government, that of service, incorporated in our minds, it will do much to alter the objection to giving women the ballot. Beyond that lies this consideration: Suppose you were in a country ruled by a King or Queen. They have to face the awful responsibilities of that position. You remember Dooley's magazine article on the duties of a King. He said that the King is not allowed to choose his job, and that, if he tried to get away, they would "back him in." Even if he accomplishes anything of any worth, he gets no credit for it; all the credit is given to the Prime Minister. If anything goes wrong, the King is always blamed for it. Knowing the inexorable position that stands before him, the King is trained to meet its responsibilities. The young Prince has to work, just as any other young man does, to get the proper education for his business. He has to study hard for this. Practically the same thing is required of the young Princess, because her position is the same. 2 WOMEN AND SOCIAL SERVICE Democracy is a new thing on the earth; that is, the real Democracy. We have never had a whole Democracy yet. Our Democracy goes farther than any other, however, for it takes in one-half of the people. The Democracies of Rome and Greece only took in one-half of a very few people. But we have never had a Democracy yet that took in the whole of the people. We have never yet realized that in a Democracy every man and every woman is a responsible fraction of the government, a fraction of the King or Queen, and that we can no longer unload our responsibilities on another person's shoulders; but everyone, every citizen, is responsible for the condition of the government, the fulfillment of the law, and the making of better laws if the old ones do not suit. We have never yet realized that in a real Democracy we are all responsible, with no exception whatever, except idiots, imbeciles, criminals, lunatics, and infants. If this is so, if all of us are workers in this form of government, then to be a member of a Democracy is a responsibility like being a King. Then it behooves us to study our business. And this can be done by the suffragists without a ballot. Those who are sufficiently courageous and intelligent to recognize the truth of the suffrage movement, are a little ahead of other people. If they are, it surely belongs to them to show it by their larger knowledge of civics and their larger interest in all public movements; by their intelligent opinions and actions on all matters concerning the public good. We have had it cast up at us, especially by our friends, the "Antis." that women without the ballot can accomplish a great deal. Yes, they have accomplished a great deal. But the "Antis" use this fact as a singularly pointless argument that we do not need anything else. They seem to think that if woman, as she is, within the sphere of her own feminine influence, can accomplish things, to give her the ballot would rob her of all her capacity to accomplish things. But this is not the fact in masculine affairs. Does it rob a man of his capacity of accomplishment when he enters politics? No, he has an influence of the greatest power there. If that part of the population of our country which is most opposed to suffrage, really represented the amount of intelligence and the amount of public spirit that it WOMEN AND SOCIAL SERVICE 3 claims, this would be shown by concerted action on matters of common good and public questions generally. It may seem to be asking too much of people who demand a common right that they should be expected to go without that right, and accomplish things without it. Consider the facts involved. We have been working for the ballot for some fifty years. We have certainly accomplished something in that time. During that fifty years many things have been accomplished by suffrage workers without the ballot which they expected to accomplish only with the ballot. In that time we have seen it proved, at least, not only that women have accomplished much for the public in the line of service, but that they knew what was for the public good. That, in itself, is one of the best arguments for woman suffrage. Jane Addams and others in Chicago, and many women in New York and Boston, and in every great city, have proved what they could accomplish. These things are a living proof of the capacity of women for further use in public affairs, for further public service. I should like to ask what seems to you to be the nearest, the most immediate public need? All of us, who care for our country, must feel today that it is greatly in need of something. We have been through a very violent struggle for the last few years. There has been criminal mismanagement by our public servants. We are casting about to know how to better these things. Some think what we need is simply more good people. I wonder how many of you read Dr. Ross's paper in the Atlantic on "Smokeless Sin,"--things that are wrong and make no show? These are evils which we do not notice. The thing that we need most is not merely more good people. You can put good man after good man into public positions,--men that are as honest as others--and, with almost appalling unanimity, they go over to the majority and become dishonest. They give way to the pressure, and become part of the public in which they live and move. It is a difficult thing to set one human conscience against the combined conscience of his class, his time and his associates There is a more general need than the need of more good people; something which it takes longer laboriously to accumulate. What we need is a different kind of conscience. 4 WOMEN AND SOCIAL SERVICE There are three grades of ethics for the human race. First, and lowest, and oldest, that with which we begin,-- personal ethics. Personal ethics are about as limited as anything you could imagine. Personal ethics consist in keeping ourselves clean and healthy. And very few of us are perfect yet, even in personal ethics. We are mostly clean, but not as healthy as we might be. However, that standard is within our reach. Secondly, family ethics. This is much larger, much more recent. We were members of the most rude, primitive tribes for thousands of years before the family was evolved,--the family with a male head. That brought with it new ethics. The father or the oldest son was the great leader. All the wives and the children and the servants and relatives were under the dominion of the oldest male. The property belonged to him. The family was a little social unit of immense service to the world. It carried a supreme standard of ethics for years. It slowly grew into that higher form of social grouping, the State. Please remember, when you are considering matters from an ethical point of view, that our ethics are most vitally colored by the Hebrew ethics. The ethics of Christianity have made but slight impression on our standards, as yet. The Hebrew ethics came from the old patriarchal house. Later, when the family grew to the tribe, and the tribe grew slowly to the State, then there came to be a new ideal, a new standard of duty, a new code of honor, a new line of service, the third grade of ethics. Then came the call for statesmanship. Then we began to con- sider the interests of the whole, irrespective of blood relation- ship. Then came devotion to country, which was taught for years by the simple symbol of the King. The King stood for the people. You remember a line from one of Shakespeare's plays,--"Hail, Royal England comes!" It was nothing but a man, nothing but the King. But he represented England. That is why the idea of the King carried such weight. Each King represented the whole people, and each man gave his devotion to the King, and through him to the State. Assyrian duty to the King transcended family affection. A certain Prime Minister of ancient Assyria went shoot- ing with the King. The King was fond of the chase. He drew WOMEN AND SOCIAL SERVICE 5 his arrow-head and took aim at a young man in the distance, and shot him, to show how well he could shoot. The Prime Minister proved to be the father of this young man, and such was his devotion to the King that he merely praised the King's marks- manship. That was what an Oriental despot required of his subjects. Devotion to the State was carried to a very lofty de- gree, and through all periods of human history we find exam- ples of sacrifice for the King, for the country. The highest sense of duty was to serve King and country. And when our country was nearly torn in two, all of us, almost to a man, to a woman, recognized our highest duty and gave our lives freely, gave our property, gave our husbands and our sons, gave every- thing for our highest ideal to the country, to the principle of liberty and truth and justice for which this country stood. But we all know about that. That is Fourth of July talk. But why is it that we continually forget it in our daily lives? Why do we not bring up our children to recognize their civic responsibilities and duties? We forget many things; we continually forget, in the stress and pressure of daily living, the peculiar characteristics of the human mind. The human mind is one unbroken stream, which has flowed on from the time when the first creature began to think into it. We have our brains. But the brain of every new- born child is modified by heredity; it represents the brain behind it. There is a chance of improvement in each young brain. But as fast as it is born, we seize upon it with our unquestioned au- thority, and cram into it as much of our own brain tradition, and habit, and prejudice, as we possibly can. We take the clean mind, that is as clean as a piece of white paper, and teach it shame. We teach it that certain things are things to be ashamed of. And we do not give to the child, nor to ourselves, any reason for our action. We do it just because it was done to us, because it has been the habit of our race for centuries. We teach them our own prejudices, even to the last and least that we have. We cram into their minds what we think is good. We might be a little more discriminating in our judgment. We might have some standard in all this. We might recognize that the child is 6 WOMEN AND SOCIAL SERVICE a citizen, and that he has rights as a citizen which no family prejudice has a right to limit or interfere with. Think of the way mothers struggle to prevent their sons from learning to swim! A great many of them will not let their children go near the water. Every human being should be able to swim; just as able to swim as he is to walk. A baby can swim before it can walk. There are examples of this in the Hawaiian Islands. If every child were taught to swim, not one-tenth of the deaths from drowning would occur. We don't think anything about the child's right, either as a citizen or an animal; we only think that we are afraid, and so we object to his learning to swim. That is one instance where a common standard should be set up before personal prejudice. We seem now to be carefully trans- mitting the habits of our ancestors. We come into this Democracy of ours handicapped by just these things, instead of coming into it with a knowledge of Democracy. And we still grow up in our happy homes, live useful lives, and die with a comparatively clean conscience, with- out having troubled our heads about our civic duties, or our so- cial duties, or our relationship to the State as a whole. Now what is the relationship of the individual to the State? Suppose you are a young woman in Boston, going to school, later going to college, then going to be married, and to have a nice home, and to bring up a nice family. What relationship have you to the State? When you were born, you had a relation to your father and mother, and to the people that you saw about you as servants. And, by-the-way, did you ever think of the effect on a little child of having a nurse? Of having a grown woman going around after him in the street, with nothing to do but to wait on him? It makes a great impression on a young child when his mother has nothing to do but to wait on him, but when he sees another person hired to do it,--think of the effect on his self- esteem! Think of how it must add to the feeling of importance, to have a grown person hired to wait on him! We have personal relations, and we grow up in them. Chil- dren are taught to do so-and-so with regard to their mother, their father, their brothers and sisters, their servants. But chil- WOMEN AND SOCIAL SERVICE 7 dren are not taught what they should do with regard to the State, or city, or country. The average girl is taught nothing of this; the average boy is not taught much more. Some steps are being taken in this direction. I recognize this, and I honor the magnificent steps taken here and there to better this. In Mr. Gill's "school city" the idea of citizenship is developed by actual practice,--the children being formed into different groups, and practically drilled in lines of service con- nected with the government. And in Omaha they have a quiet, clean Fourth of July. They have a juvenile police. The children are regularly sworn in as special constables, with badges; cer- tain boys and girls are appointed to keep the other children quiet. They have a regular organization, and are taught their re- sponsibility. They are expected to keep the law on the Fourth, and they do it. The children are the people. They are just as human as we are, and their standards are often above our own. Children represent the lower stages of the world's life; first as vegetables, then animals, then little savages; then they grow up through barbarism; then we have the period of the Middle Ages. It takes them some time to get to the Democracy of today. Children also represent the next generation. If the world moves at all, every generation goes ahead of the one behind it. If our children were taught civic responsibility and practiced in the idea of civic relations, we should have a set of citizens who would know what they were voting for and why; know whom to vote for and why; what things they most needed, and how to get them. We who do not vote, are apt to ovestimate [over estimate] the mental capa- city of those who do. I have been greatly impressed by the amount of literature that is circulated before election. I have several gentlemen in my household at present, and the directions they get before election are most instructive. There are pages of printed matter. Then they get together and consult. They don't seem to know who or which or why, without considerable study. We are told that in a great city all that is imperative. But I think any organization that does not make it clear whom to vote for and why, needs a change in the system. A democratic government should be clearly and vitally repre- 8 WOMEN AND SOCIAL SERVICE sentative, from the smallest local precinct to the presidential election, and the processes should be easily understood by the whole mass of its citizens. That is what Democracy ought to be, and, until it is that, it will never be clean and honest and fair. What we need is another kind of conscience,––a conscience of the mind. If it were Sunday and you were in a church, I should take for my text, "But be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God." That is a fine text. We need that more than we need anything, a renewal of the mind in the line of extension; a larger area in common use. Suppose you ask yourself about what you think all the time that you are awake; what the principal object of your thought is, in the matter of intensity and of time. Every man, of course, thinks about his business, and that takes most of his time. Women are thinking about their business, too. What is the difference? A man's business is some form of social service. Take, for instance, the shoe business. A certain man's business is making shoes. What does he make shoes for? He makes money, of course, but the shoe is not money; the shoemaker does not manufacture money. What are shoes for? A child would tell you that shoes are for people to wear. That man is making shoes so that our people may be shod; he is serving the people. Through his shoes, incidentally, he is taking some money. Perhaps he takes more than he earns. But his business is to shoe people, not to take money. A woman's thinking is confined principally to the home and family, and a man's business is some form of social service. She thinks only of the family service. He does social service, but thinks of personal profit. They are each thinking of their own business, but neither kind of thinking is right. The business of the world goes on, and we are lifted from savagery to civilization through the development of industry. Society lives, society grows, by virtue of these great processes. We grow further every year through the development of the great processes of industry. Women are just as narrow in their business as men, but no narrower. But we have a different kind of business. Our WOMEN AND SOCIAL SERVICE 9 thoughts are occupied from morning until sunset with our homes and our families. A man may be just as selfish, but, in spite of himself, because of his business, he has to think about other people with whom he deals; therefore he has developed the thing which is called business honor. He has developed the business sense; he has developed the power of organization, and by that power the nation lives. We women are not doing our share in developing in the human mind a capacity for organization. The men who run the affairs of our country, the powerful men, are those, first, of large mind,––genuine statesmen, who can see and feel for the whole country; men who represent large interests, and work for them. That is true leadership. Secondly, men animated by extreme self-interest, who take advantage of the rest to climb upon them. Now we cannot all be great statesmen, but we can all be little ones. And, if our children were brought up as citizens of a Democracy, taught by example as well as precept, taught by an occasional father as well as by an insistent mother, they would not be so easily imposed upon as the public is today. I travel about lecturing, and whenever I have the opportunity, I lecture on equal suffrage. And I find everywhere people who admit that equal suffrage is right and fair, but not important. They ask me what difference it will make. It does not make so much difference. That is not the point. Giving the ballot to women does not alter human nature. It does not modify the earth, nor the State, nor the city. The thing that must be modified is human stock, and that is easily modified in children. This is in the hands of women. If we do not like the people on the earth, it is up to us to make better people. We are the makers of men, and, because we are makers of men, it is requisite that we should be citizens of the world they live in. What is there that is practical for us about all this? Most of us do not think that anything is practical unless it can be done tomorrow. Next year is just as practical as this. Time is in inverse proportion to practicality. Anything is practical that is necessary to be done. It is necessary to save the forests of the United States, but we do not expect to do it in a day. It is necessary to pay some attention to the consumption of coal, but we do 10 WOMEN AND SOCIAL SERVICE not expect to settle the question in a day. But the practical point is not so remote if we work at it. If anyone says to you, "Where shall we begin?" here is a safe answer. It fits anybody. Begin where you are. You cannot begin anywhere else. We are all obliged to begin where we are. What we can do, separately, to advance the mental capacity of our people in regard to politics; to advance our ability to be citizens of a Democracy? Here we find the limits of the individual. There are many things in this world which are not to be done by the individual separately; they can only be done collectively. Women need more than anything else to be brought up abreast of civilization, to have the capacity for organization developed. Getting a common purpose helps to develop that power. And the sooner they can get a common purpose, the sooner they will develop their capacity for citizenship. Similarly with children. Suppose children get together to elect a committee to give a Christmas present; they work together for this common thing. This helps develop a simple, essential, basic capacity for citizenship. And, just as fast as they grow to it, larger interests and ambitions develop. Women's clubs and women's federated societies have done much in these lines all over the country. It has occurred to me that it might be a very useful thing if there could be printed in each State a State book, giving a clear, simple account of how the State stands in relation to other States; as in the case of roads, for instance. Every State could be taught by these little books just how high it stood in certain things, and just how low in other things. The State would know that it was ahead in some things, and behind in others. That would give a focus of local pride; it would be something for the whole State to work for. If this were done everywhere among our clubs, it would lead to a concerted purpose of steady enlargement. Many people object to the Federation of Women's Clubs, and think that it amounts to nothing. But some of us seem to be physically incapable of seeing the importance of public spirit. Many of us spend more time in thinking about our souls than about the common good. But if we really wish to uplift our WOMEN AND SOCIAL SERVICE 11 souls, we could do it by thinking about America for five minutes a day as earnestly as we think about our souls. We must remember that we are not exonerated from public service because we have fulfilled private service. That our children are kept clean and taught, does not exonerate the women of America from the shame of child labor. That our children are clean, does not exonerate our women from the fact that thousands of other children are prematurely dying because they are not properly taken care of. It is not sufficient for a child to have his own mother. A child needs to have, in addition to his mother, social parentage. Every mother seeks to keep her child safe from the wicked world. We used to try to keep the men at home; we have not given up trying to keep the boys at home. But this does not improve the world. Instead of trying to keep the children safe from the wicked world, the mothers ought to get together and try to make the world a decent place for the children. Children must go out from the home some time. Children want to get out. They have a right to the world as well as to the home. They are not pieces of property. They are individuals. The world is their world. And it is our business to make the world a proper place for them. What it amounts to for us is this: We must personally begin to think about public things and needs. Read up on the subject, and make up your mind what you consider the greatest need, and take hold of it. Teach your children as rapidly as possible that they are citizens; teach them to do something for their town or city; teach them their responsibility; teach them how much the city does for them; teach them to love the city that serves them. If the city does not do things, it is time they did. We are the city; we are the people; we are the ones responsible for making people what they ought to be. Train yourselves in personal responsibility and the use of organization. Train your children along the same lines. Set before you a clear, vivid, practical ideal. In 1907 our country is the subject of well-deserved criticism from all other countries. In the next fifty years we want this country to be the cleanest on 12 WOMEN AND SOCIAL SERVICE earth. Set up for yourselves a national and civic ideal, and work for it. For the last two thousand years we have been taught by our religion to love one another. But today we make a very poor show at it, for the simple reason that you cannot love people unless you do something for them. Love is born of service. That is the reason a mother loves her child, because she serves it. The crocodile does not love as creatures love who are obliged to brood their eggs. Neither does the ostrich, who does not have to sit on the eggs. Love follows service, and where there is more service, there is more love. Love is born of service. And when we learn to work for one another, then we can hold up our heads, and claim to be Christians. And what has all this to do with equal suffrage? The question will be asked by those who see nothing in the suffrage but an abstract "right," who have no large purpose for which to vote. In a Democracy, all citizens must vote conscientiously and intelligently, to keep the government clean and sound. Women are half of our citizens. 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The cripple and kill, three fourths of our tax goes to warfare's expense--The wisdom and worth--We'd start it today if we had enough sense--Why world will be wiser a hundred years hence. A hundred years hence- wait for the hope of a hundred years hence. A hundred years hence. A hundred years hence a hundred years hence. In respectful imitation of the original song, these new verses have been written and set to the same music by Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman. They were sung at the Ninth Conference on the Cause and Cure of War, January 17, 1934. A HUNDRED YEARS HENCE. Words composed by that long tried, and earnest advocate of human progress, and the rights of the family of man, AUNT FANNIE GAGE Composed by JOHN W. HUTCHINSON. Arranged by JAMES R. MURRAY. Piano A hundred years hence there'll be peace in the world, The battleships sunk and the The strong and the young are the victims we slay, The weakly and old the sur- We pile up our millions with knowledge and skill, We pour out our millions to An organized world keeping peace on earth, The people improving in A HUNDRED YEARS HENCE (written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman at the request of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, for words on Peace and War to fit the old music.) In respectful imitation of a song by that name, words by Fannie Gage, Music by John W. Hutchinson. ----------- A hundred years hence will be peace in the world, The battle ships sunk and the battle flags furled. An end to war's death and destruction immense -- The world will be wiser a hundred years hence. The strong and the young are the victims we slay, The weakly and old the survivors who stay. We ruin the race in our folly intense -- The world will be wiser a hundred years hence. We pile up our millions with knowledge and skill, We pour out our millions to cripple and kill, Three-fourths of our tax goes to warfare's expense -- The world will be wiser a hundred years hence. With four times our wealth will be riches to spare To lift the long burden of poverty's care, Make earth a fair garden without any fence, And nations good neighbors -- a hundred years hence. An organized world keeping peace upon earth, The people improving in wisdom and worth -- We'd start it today if we had enough sense -- Not wait for the hope of a hundred years hence. Chorus A hundred years hence, a hundred years hence -- Why wait for the hope of a hundred years hence! A HUNDRED YEARS HENCE. Words composed by that long tried,and earnest advocate of human progress, and the rights of the family of man, AUNT FANNIE GAGE. Composed by JOHN W.HUTCHINSON. Arranged by JAMES R. MURRAY. PIANO. 5. Op-press-ion and War will be heard of no more, Nor the 1. One hundred years hence what a change will be made, In 3.Lying, cheat-ing, and fraud will be laid on the shelf, Menwill 5521 [*83X449*] 4 blood of a slave have its print on our shore; Con-ven-tions will then be a pol-i-tic's, mor-als, re-lig-ion and trade; In States-men who wran-gle or neith-er get drunk nor be bound up in self; The pleas-ure of sin-ning 'tis use-less ex-pense. The word will be think-ing, a hun-dred years hence! ride on the fence, These things will be al-tered a hun-dred years hence. all a pre-tence, The peo-ple will see it a hun-dred years hence. 6. In-stead of speech mak-ing to sat-is-fy wrong, All will join the glad chorus to 2. Our Laws then will be non-com-pul-so-ry rules, Our pris-ons con-vert-ed to 4. Then wo-man, man's part-ner, man's e-qual shall stand, While beau-ty and har-mo-ny 5521 5 sing Freedom's song. And if the mil-len-nium is not a pre-tence. Well Na-tion-al schools, The plea-sure of sin-ning 'tis all a pre-tence, And the gov-ern the land, And to think for one's self will be no of-fence, The CHORUS. all be good Brother's a hun-dred years hence. AIR. peo-ple will see it a hun-dred years hence. world will be think-ing a hun-dred years hence. ALTO. A hun-dred years hence. A hun-dred years hence. hun-dred years hence,a hundred years hence. BASS. 5521 Charlotte Perkins Seitsm Gilwan Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.