, 1874-01-25
CASTE.
Are There Such Things as Freedom
and Equality?

An Argument on The Negative Side G
the Question. .
Further Discussion Of the Servant Ques
tion from the Standpoint Of
the Mistress.
| Liberty, Fraternity, Equality-words that have
cost rivers Of blood, and in the end
| HAvE MEANT NOTHING.
! IA bas 1'aristocrat!' shouted the ouyrier Of
! Paris when the guiuotine Was doing its deadl,
| work. ''Lerel all distinctions; letuo nau Of
| woman be better than another cries the would
| be leyeler. "Divide your wealth with Us
| you have no right to it, was the
demand made by d mob OF Communists OF the
millionaire Rothschild. "Certainly, gentlemen,
What is the population Of F1ance?" The num-
Der stated, it was found that two francs each
Tas the sum which the banker was called upon
to beatow upon these astoniahed and not over
wel1-Eatisied would-be sharera Of his wealth.
And what had the result OF it all been7 Are
there fewer c1iques, less do haut en- bas-iam, it
We may use the term, now than before the mob
rose in its might to destroy, not to distribute ?
Probably moi. Chambord and the Bonnet-Rouge
are no nearer an equality Of position or feeling
to-day than they we're when the white flag Of tho
Bourbons symbol1zed the party then ruling the
nation, and tho Bonnet-Rouge had not as yet be-
come an emblem Of another phase OF power.
And how is it with us? Liberty is our watch
word, and NC assert that upon our soil ali are
born free and equal. Was there ever a greater
fal1acy2
THERE Is NO SUCH THING
az either Freedom or equality. Miss Ki1mansegg
wakes to realization OF life as golden vision.
aud is reared, and pampered, aud praised
Tho daughter OF old Sal ChiHonier, down in Rag
Alley, e1erts her lungs for the first time in the
midst OF squa1or, dirt and disease. The former
has all that wealth can buy. She may
have teachers and learn ali that they
can impart; she may be clothed in
purple and fine linen, and every unpleasant
sight and sound will be carefully excluded from
her vision and hearing. The latter must. il she
lives at al do it in spite OF all that poverty can
deny. She, too, will have her teachers in
strange languages, no doubt: the polyglot Of
the street, the nrgot OF tho thief, the
oaths OF the drunkard. All loath~
some sights will meet her eyes, all vile sounds
her ears, all noiEome odors her olfactories. Is
she FREQ, born to an Inheritance of shame and
crime? Are not her fetters riven before her
birth ? Is Miss Ki1nansegg any more so? Has
not her position its bonds also?
AND now ABOUT THE EQUALITY
Placed up on the Same footing either exalting
the one lersling the other, what possible point
of attraction would there DO between these two
people, born alphabetically free and equal?
Both women, they would be so utterly separated
By their differing accidents Of birth, education,
aud outward surroundings, that the very placing
them together would prove the fallacy Of tho
proposition.
Ex:reme cases perhaps, but existing ones, with
true. admitting the mentality OF tho women to
Ee the same, and wealth, with is possibilities
and probabilities, the only caus3 Of the inequal-
ify. Tako another type, however; tile daughter
Of noble or . learned race, whose motto has
been that of Dayard, ''SAna leur ct sans re-
proche - whose culture has Increased with each
generation, until fair exotic, reared under |
glass to tho Perfection OF rare hot-houso plant,
is the result
HOW .1rcH STRONGER
would be the contrast here. even it immense !
weal:h did not add its weight to the balance. |
She, too. would have the etiquette and p1eiu-
dice Of her class to bind her to its forms and !
duties; and she would not be free, except inas-
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