The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-09-25
Men and Women.

a class of writers persist in represent
ing the advocates of Woman Suffrage as
man-haters, opponents of men, enemies
of the present order of society. They
draw a caricature of a woman devoid of
all womanly instinct, sensibility, refine
ment and grace-a monster who bears
about as much resem blance to the repre-
sentative woman of our cause as the IA
bulous hippOgriff to a real horse-and
hold it up as true portrait Of the typ
ical woman of the suffrage movement,
and triumphantly ask, Is that the sort
of creature that you want to rule over
you? Is that the style Of woman you
would marry? Is that what you would
have your daughters become? No
Woman SuiIragist in the land would be
such monster herself, nor do anything
to make her daughter such a one.
1t is hard to emphasize without SEEM
ing to antagOniZe. Undoubtedly in set
ting forth the injustice of our present
customs and laws to women, and ap-
pealing to them to assert their rights as
human beings, and to put forth the en-
ergy of action and resolve, latent in
their souls, it has sometimes seemed
that we have set the rights of women
over against those of men, as though
there was a necessary conflict between
the two. All this is mere seeming. 1t
is the meTest accident of speech. The
sexes do not stand to each other in the
relation of the two buckets in the old
fashioned we'll, so that when one is up
the other must be down, and when one
is foil the other il necessarily empty.
Really, there are 10 such things as
"Man's RightsnaDd "WOman's Rights"
separate and distinct from each other;
only Human Rights. WOman's Rights
are simply Human Rights. The sexes
belong together. Man was created male
and female in order that there might be
ties, sympathies, relations, affections, a
Joy and helpfulness otherwise impOssi,
BILE. Their unlikeness makes them
more sympathetic and helpful to each
other. All their interests, joys, hopes,
welfare and aspirations are inseparably
inteTtwined. What benefits one blesses
/ the other; what elevates either uplifts
I both. In seeking the rights of woman
we seek the rights of human nature
the welfare of the world.
Woman needs man in the home. She
wants his counsel, sympathy, support
and aid in managing her house, training
her children, and making domestic life
beautiful. The more husband the hap
pier the home; the more father the bet
ter the children. When man and woman
join their hands and hearts in buildinga
home according to their best ideal, each
suppleu.enting the gifts and graces of
the other by others different, yet not
unlike, Eden comes again, and the race
is reborn. But neither can do alone
what Nature Ordains shall be the work
and inspiration of both.
1t takes man and woman to represent
humanity. 1t takes man and woman to
construct home; it takes man and
woman to complete the joy and fulfill
the purpose of human life. Only when
man and woman are bound together in
perfect love, does approving heaven drop
another jeweled soul into this earthly
casket, and out of the holy instincts of
parenthoOd weave the issue of an inn
mortal life. Only as man and woman
stand together, self-respecting and re-
specting each the other, each strength
ened and strengthening the other, each
giving and receiving life in return, is
either completely beautiful, or strong,
or holy.
These admitted facts are the basis ofour
argument, the inspiration of our proph-
ecy. Men and women together must
make the state. Man with his logic, and
woman with her love; man with his un-
derstanding, and woman with her intui-
ton; and man with his sturdy sense,
and woman with her refining sentiment;
he with his strength and she with her
grace, must cOnspire together to create
the perfect commonwealth; and out OF
the toll and travail of the two, each
prophesying to the other, each calling
/ the other to new heights of promise anu
of victory, will come the new clvilize-
/ tion, and race that will need no second
/ birth.-Age.