The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-12-12
MASCULINE LOGIC.


Woman occupies a position superior 20 man.
She is endowed with nobler nature. Her
character might be represented by the delicacy
and tenderness OF the dove, and that OF man by
the power and harshness or the lion. The dove
Is not expected TO struggle with the lion. It
scars aloft and leaves him contending for his
prey Politics Is an arena. II Is field upon
which the battles OF political lions are taught,
and woman would be descending from her sta
tions OF dignity and honor were she TO mingle
Ia these broils. The class Of women who are
contending for tho rights OF suffrage are the
most ignorant Ones-those thar are not capable
OF realizing their superior poSltlon.-lAn the
Papers.
Now, We knights of the pencil and
paste pot, who sit at ease in carpeted Of
fees, ,scribbling ideal nonsense about your
lion like ''power," while your wives are
bending their delicate gentleness" over
the wash-tub to cleanse your dirty linen,
will you please TO tell us what the 'su-
perior position" is that you say "woman
occupies >" Does it consist in the fact
that she is politically on a par with
criminals, idiots, insane persons and
Cinnamon Does it consist in the fact
that political subjugation gives her half
pay for equal work with man, slams
the doors Of the highest institutions In
her face, compels her in nine cases out OF
every ten to unremunerative toll, or to
a life Of shame as her only legitimate(?) p
sphere rs a money maker? Does 1t
consist in compelling her to pay taxes
to support a system of government
which upholds and protects the systems
Of iniquity that debauch her sons and
so often lead her daughters into ruin ?
Does it consist in depriving her of a
voice in making the laws for the pro-
lection on her own property? Does il
consist in denying her the legal guardi-
anship OF her own children il she finds
her husbands rule unbearable? Doe.
it consist in mans taking legal posses
sion of property which she has earned
in case of her husbands death, and
dOling out to her One-third of the re.
mainder, after lawyers and judges fee:
have been deducted, and apportionlne
the balance TO her husbands nearest
relatives, whoever they may be? Does
it consist in becoming some mans
mistress, as so many women arc
compelled 10 do because the avenue.
of dignity and honorn which the poll.
itieal rights Of man open up TO him are
closed and barred against her? Bu
enough; these questions could be pro
longed indefinitely.
No wonder that women who care not
capable eofrealiziug' these superior con
ditions" are classed by this writer among
"the lowest and most ignorant" And
what is worst Of all for these "lion like
humanitarians who know so much bet
ter than their mothers can know what
the true and superior sphere" of woman
ought 10 be, these women will con,
tinue to grow more and more Ignorant
and unappreciative until their superior
position" as defined by him, shall hay,
been swept from the face Of the earth
and she shall take her rightful place a
"a co-lawmaker in the Nations anC
thereby so purify the political atmos
phere that it shall no longer have powe
to faint the "arena OF politics" with I'M
seemly "broils."