, 1874-06-17
THE WOMAN QUESTION.


70 Tho Editor ef The Chicago Tribune:
/ In an article contained in your last Sundays
iseuo, nadical" Offers Bomo remarks in de-
Tense Of tho yiews OF 31r. Mill on the aboye
question, which, in my judgmout, do not toucl.
| tho actual roots Of the same. The opinion Of
Mr. Mill may shortly be slated, as follows:
That man has hitherto held woman in sub
1ocsion; and that tue peculiar qualities of tho
famale sex, as contradistinct from those of the
male sox, are the results Of that subection only
and that, auch being tho case, tho establishing
OF legal equality between tile Boxes would ro-
suit in thoir actual equality In strength, char-
acter, and capacity.
II tho above concise statement of mr. Mills
vic" bo corroctit certainly contains an "extraor-
dlnary fallacy." It Ia supposed to bc MI axiom
that there is no effect without q causo. This
axiom applied to the case, it ought certainly to
bo shown how the subsection of the female to
tho male was brought about as it's origin. For,
IT tho assumption that tho existing diforonc cs
aro but tho consequences OF tho aubjection be
true, 1t certainly implios thai, previous to TINT
state Of aubjection, woman WAS tho oqual Of
man. # she ever was, whnt cas,so produced tho
effect called "subjeotion"2 Was 1t, perhapg.
an accidont7 That is, I'LL extranoous md su per.
natural CAUSE, not operating under tho common
law OF Nature aud honco unfit to DO argued up-
on by the common process OF logic Rucl aa, for
instanoo, tho advocates Of tho nlonopoios
Of .,to,tae tue preset ,pre9sept day. being. unable to
ttions,, suppose. IN support of their clans.
that tlo property rights or tho nouopolios are
superior to tho power OF tho aoyereign people,
because, ~ they say, they aree grant, partiou
Was it, therefore,, direct interference OF God
Almighty Himself that produced tho offoct oaod
tha "snbjoction Of woman, III oil tho different
racer Of man. whorayor tAoy oxiatod2 Or, WAS
4nd operating ut my. 'time evo1, Ut tho present
! SUPPOSE every logical mind will agroo
TINT it H. natnral and porlnuiient
Satufo for tbs bearing Of oiildren, which pro.
ducos luck OF tho elononts Of powor iu tlo
female. This concession is equivalent to lie
assertion Htn that Nature herself has created ito
tlon Of the feulalo to tho 1uale, instead ct beng
tue cause, Ii tho consequence Of the existing
actual difference. As tho same natural CAUSE
operates ~ mich day es 1t ovor did, it is dill
can bo avoided, unless woman changes
tho nasural conditions Of hor oxistopce
by abol'shing herdelf as fona|u. As long as
sue remains female, that is being especially
spring. Tho qualitios given her for tho perform
auce Of TINT function will continue to koop hor
tho infcrtor Tin powcr) Of 1nan and will, oonne-
luontly, loavo her .ucpendont upon htA good
willie Auat oscu u tlIo G0ou.WlM OF TIC nnl0 H0x
should indeed bo won 10 far by rho pleading aud
coaxiug which IL now heiug carried on, AZ to re-
suit in tllo granting Of equal rlghts political or
oslorwtso to tue felnalo so1, thouo rights will,
by and during t4e graoo OF the uialo sox,-tAo |
latter having tho power (do faoto) at any time to
deelaro null aud void whatever may have hoen |
granted, and tho foulAe sux being utterly pow- |
erloss 10 proyont any repeal Of tLoir rishtB,
whonoVor the tyrant man ohoosoa to onforco hiB ]
plaasuse rasotvingit. JouA II. DEoKEa,