The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-16

still honestly profess to both love and respect
them, and who are not ashamed to own that
they rely on their better judgment in all i'm |
portant matters of life, and look to them for
counsel and protection generally. The
modern man .hater does none of these things.
If she has husband she holds him as her
enemy eg o6iciO, and undertakes home life as
a state of declared warfare, where she
must be in antagonism if she would
not be enslaved Has she money? it
must be tied up safe from his
control, not as a joint precaution against
future misfortune, but as personal protec-
tion against his malice; for the modern the
ory is that husband will, If he can get it,
squander his wife's money simply for cruelty
and to spite her, though in so doing he may
ruin himself as well. 1t is our new reading
of the old saying about being revenged on
ones face. Has she friends whom he, in his
quality of man of the world knows to be
unsuitable companions for her, and such as
he conscientiousy objects to receive into his
house ?-his advice to her to drop them is an
unwarrantable interference with her most
sacred affections, and she stands by her un-
desirable acquaintances, for whom she has
with the constancy of martyr
defending her faith. If it would
please her to rush into public
life as the noisy advocate of any nasty SUBJ
ject that may be on hand, his refusal to have
his name dragged through the mire at the in
stance of her folly is coercion in its worst
form-the coercion of her conscience, of her
mental liberty; and she complains bitterly to
her friends among the shrieking sisterhood of
the harsh restrictions he places on her free
dom of action. Her heart is with them, she
says, and perhaps she gives them pecuniary
and other aid in private; but she cannot fol-
low them on to the platform, nor sign her
name to passionate manifestoes as ignorant as
they are unseemly, nor tout for signatures to
petitions on things she knows nothing about,
and the true bearing of which she cannot
understand, nor dabble in dirt till she
has lost the sense of its being
dirt at all. And, not being able to disgrace
her husband that she may swell the ranks of
the unsexed, she is quoted by the shriekers
as one among many examples of the subjec-
tiOn of women and the odious tyranny under
which they live. AS for the man, no hard
words are too hard for him. 1t is only enmity
which animates him, only tyranny aud op-
preston. There is no intention of friendly
guidance in his determination to prevent her
from making gigantic blunder, no feeling
of kindly protection in the authority which
he uses to keep her from Offering himself as
amark for public ridioule and damaging dis
cussion, wherein the bloom of her name and
nature is swept away for ever; it is all the
base exercise of an unrighteous po yer, aud
the first crusade to be undertaken in these
latter days is the womans crusade against
masculine supremacy.
Warm partisan, however, as she is of her
own sex, the modern man-hater cannot for
give the woman we spoke Of who still believes
in old-fashioned distinctions; who thinks that
nature framed men for power and women for
tenderness, and that the fitting, because the
natural, division of things is protection on
the one side, and reasonable measure Of
we will not mince the word-obedience in
the other. For indeed the one involves the
other. Women of this kind, whose sentiment
of sex is natural and healthy, the modern
man-hater regards as traitors in the camp; or
as slaves content with their slavery, and
therefore in more pitiable case than those
who, like herself jangle their chains noisily,
and seek to break them by loud uproar. But
even worse than the women who honestly
love and respect the men to whom
they belong, and who find their highest hap
piness in pleasing them, and their truest wis
dom in self surrender, are those who go step
further, and who frankly confess the short
comings of their own sex, and think the best
! chance of mending fanlt is first to under
stand that it is fault. With these worse
than traitors no terms are to be kept; and the
man-haters rise in a body and ostracize the
offenders. To be known to have said that
women are weak, that their best place is at
home, that filthy matters are not for their
handling, that the instinct of feminine mo-
desty is not thing to be disregarded in the
education of girls or the action of matrous,
are sins for which these self-accusers are
accounted creatures" not fiji for the recog-
milton of the nobler-souled man-hater. The
gynecian war at this moment going on be.
tween these two sections of womanhood is one
of the oldest things belonging to this odd
condition of affairs
This sect of modern man haters is recruited
from three classes mainly-those who have
been cruelty treated by men, and whose faith
in one-haf of the human race cannot survive
their own one sad experience; those restless
and ambitious persons who are less than
women, greedy of notoriety, Indifferent to
homelife and holding home duties in disdain,
with strong passions rather than warm ,affec-
tions, with perverted instincts in one direc-
ton, and none worthy of the name in another;
and those who are the born vestals of nature,
whose morale falls below the sweeter sympa-
thies of womanhood, and who are unsexed by
the atrophy of their instincts as the other
class are by the peryersion and coarsening
of theirs. BY all these, men are held
to be enemies and oppressors; and even
love is ranked as mere matter of the
senses, whereby women are first sub bjugated and
then betrayed. The crimes of which these
modern man. haters accuse their hereditary
enemies are worthy of Munchausen. great
part of the success gained by the opposers of
the famous Acts has been due to the mon
strous fiction which have been told of mems
dealings with the women under consideration.
No brutality has been too gross to be related
as an absolute truth, of which the name, and
address, and all possible veriication could be
given, if desired. And they have not been
afraid to ascribe to some of the most honor