The New York herald., 1871-09-02

"Where is the woman?" was the invariable
demand of an old French judge, long ago,
whenever male criminal was brought before
him. He held the theory that woman was
at the bottom ofevery dsaster-that woman
was the immediate or remote cause of every
act of crime or folly committed by man. On
examining into the causes of most of the great
catastrophes of history we are forced to ad-
NIT, in measure, the justice of this opinion.
Even if we come down to the immoralties,
frauds and crimes of our own everyday life,
we find women in one way or another largely
responsible for them. Thus women, naturally
fitted to be the guardians of purity and mo-
rality, through an imperfect and vicious edu-
cation, become ministers of evil. The greater
number of women shirk their holiest duties as
wives, mothers and conservators of morals
in order to give themselves up to the vanities
of fashion, the designations OF society or the
promptings and pursuits of false and per-
| nicious political ambition.
What is the verdict of the com munity when
looking on man of genius delivered into the.
bonds of some overmastering weakness?
ioOIuo WOudu uuS TutucU w udL buyb tuo
divine when he reproves in solemn tones the
sins of extravaganza, display and social de-
moralization ?-''the women are to blame"
The condemnation is not undeserved. 1t is
undeniably true that in nine cases out of ten
women are the chief workers of ruin to men
and nations. This seems harsh judgment,
ladies'; but, unfortunately, facts support our
assertions. 1t was the extravaganza and
licentiousness of the cour.ly intriguantes of
Rome that undermined morals and brought
about the destruction of the Roman empire.
We have not the space to prove how many of
the bloody wars in history resulted from the
jealOuses, intrigues and culpable ambition of
women. Charles the First lost his crown,
and, what was worse, his head, through being
influenced by pretty wife. The result was
the dominion of Cromwell and the oppression
of Ireland. Louis XIV. struck crushing
blow at Professionalism. liberty and the COM
mercal greatness of France by the revocation
of the Edict of Nantes-the work of the
bgoted Nine. de Maintenon. The over
whelmingly evil effects of this act, instigated
by an unscrupulous and narrow minded
woman, have overshadowed France even to
this day
The extravagant conduct of Marie Anton-
cite, her reckless expenditure while the poor
of Paris were in an absolutely starving con-
dition, her openly expressed disdain and con-
tempt for the just demands of the suffering
people and her fatal influence over that weak
but good man, Louis XVI, were the direct
causes which precipitated the horrors of the
French revolution and led to the deaths of
the King and herself-''the hated Autri-
chienne."
1t was through the intrigues of Josep phine
and her powerful influence with Barras, the
chief of the French Directory, that Napoleon
Bonaparte was raised to the command of the
army of Italy. Thus was laid the foundation
Of his after despotic caseer and Of the terrible
wars which accompanied it.
II is well known that Louise of Prussia, the
mother of the present Emperor of Germany,
was the instigator of the disastrous war which
Prussia waged against Napoleon l., war
which led to the victories of Jena and Auer-
stadt and the dismemberment of Germany, and
planted the seeds of vengeance which in
these later days has laid the fairest provinces
of France in ruins and sacrificed the lives of a
half million of men.
And now as to this Franco Prussian war;
Would Prussia ever have found her opportu-
nifty had not that woman of questionable
morals and feeble understanding, Isabella H.,
placed the very one wanted at her disposition
Isabella, Queen from childhood, had it in
her power to make herself beloved but she
had so wearied and disgusted the people of
Spain by her shameless behavior that one day
when she took it into her foolish head to
leave her capital for an airing in the country
they rushed into revolution in order TO get rid
of her.
The Spanish revolution being unpremedi-
tated, its leaders were unprepared. They
grasped suddenly at the chance given them
by the absence of the Queen, and all the world
beheld them month after month foundering in
sea of indecision and incapacity, unable to
make use of the liberties they had so promptly
seized. Had the revolutionary leaders been
capable of founding a republic Europe might
have remained at peace; but they went about
begging for q strange master to come and
rule over them. Fear of the certain displea-
sure of Napoleon III. prevented all European
Princes from accepting the Spanish crown,
until-Prussa being ready to meet that dis
pleasure with Krupp guns-the intrigues of
Prim with Bismarck fixed upon Leopold
of Hohenzoern. This gave to Napoleon
and Bismarck the long -wished-for opportunity
to cross swords. For years these two men
had been rivals for the mastership in diplo-
macy of the world. We have proved in these
United States and by long war that vast as
are our domains they are not big enough to
support two Presidents. Bismarck for long
time has been aching to prove to everybody