Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-17
aIgE MEN CrlsIsSPC BECAUSE
WOMEN ARE Ex CsAVaGANTl

WOMEN ARE Ex az AVAGANT|
And now that under masculine rule
the nations government in all its de
partments, AID the nations ca; iial II
all its purlieus, have become full OF
corruption, there are fonnd men who
from coward hearts. with lying lips
cry out "Tae women did 1t The
women DID it all !"
These creatures would have us be Ieye
that women are rXtravagant, that
men are weak and therefore that steal
ing il a law Of nature We p,otest
against the SANDER. All the good III
this world is with the women; what
evil they know they learn from men;
almost Is it trne that while men are
evil by Ia ure, women are evil by edn
cation. 1t was not until tho man had
blamed the wumau that the woman
blamed the serpeI t. But men have
been coward and crafty too, from
Adam to Belknap. When Adam said
to the Lord God 1.-THE woman whom
thou gavest to be with me, she gave
me Of the tree and I did eat" he was
crafty as well as coward, III that he
flung into the face OF Jehovah himself
the responsibility for his fall-'the
woman thou gavest to me" said lie,
gith all it implied.
But even if it be not strictly true
that ali evil is masculine and all good
feminine, it is certainly true that We
cannot get along here below without
the womeu folk. 4 friend, and II gen
tlomau OF fine discrimination aud Just
appreciation, by the way, said to us
"Whcn the last woman goes [ want to
go too" Ap0the., with some taste Ill
versification aud some skill iii hymn
OF tgy pits 1t thus:
Il !, ouI mot live alw,vs, tx 10 MT stay,
| when the las, woman gsts out of the way"
Bat whether it be pnt i'll prose or in
verse, the sentiment is the same and
IS true, we cannot get along without
/ the women folks.
But is it true TINT corruption comes
| because women are extravagant by
nature and men are not, but only
weak? Upon whom do the economies
al life fall, and are there not econo-
mics aud seIfdenials incident to every
station in life ? 1t rarely happens that
| ihe demands upon the family purse do
not increase Ill full proportion with its
contents, and this necessiLates some
self donia, aud economy in some OF
those who draw supplies from that
| purse. Upon whom then does ex-
| periencc prove that those economies
fall? Cuiyairous man goes forth into
the world and INDUCES his whim
whether ii BE- Iegltim tie business. spec
u'ttjol, politics, cards, sport, c'
pleasure in some other form, or even
mere jdlcfess while the women folks
+ man! 1T home TO cook, to wash, t.
scrub, 7. rliaps; to patch, to mend tC
make worse appear b tier side. o.
u. rFiaps it may be they have only to d.
without something of necessity or com
fort, or it may be oulyo luxury. Wher'
i the truthful man who can put hi
hand upon his heart and deny tina
alt the little, mean, punching
at.d savings that destroy the Yer,
pleasure Of :iving almost and yet til
are absolutely necessary, fall to Tia
lot Of thc wumuu? Where is the mIn
not IA 3 7ik1.ap, that recalling motEe
aud wife and sister ard daughter AL,
their daily sacrifices and economic
dures talk about the extravaganza O
women as the cause OF corruption ]
meI? How few men there be VIII
l:Hn say they are tine most economic;
members Of their families!
Of course there are exceptions t
every rule, but we men know that i
this matter "f extravaganza we are nc
merely weak but that we arc at lea.
, equally guilty with the women, and VI
there be some calling Themselves me
with hearts coward enough to max
their lying lips say the corruption c
man is due to the extravaganza {
woman. Shame on then! Let Il
guilty man ESCAPED