Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-07-02
A STRANGE ADVOCATE.

A STRANGE ADVOCATE.
Nothing could be more dissimilar to
the line of argument usually followed by
those who profess to express the feelings
and aspirations of the gentler sex than is
the article contributed by Miss M. A.
Hardaker to the current number of the
North american Review. This writer
puts forward no such claims as those
which Susan B. Anthony and her col
leagues are never tired of presenting.
Indeed, she surrenders the whole case
which the apostles Of woman suffrage
have for years been laboriously engaged
in framing. No masculine opponent of
the strong-minded female and all her
ways would have cared or dared to base
his arguments upon such premises as
those which Miss Hardaker admits. She
makes such allegiance to the superiority
of man as it is no longer the fashion to
require. She acknowledges not only his
intellectual but his moral supremacy, and
frankly avows that if ONE are follow
ers and not leaders, if they copy but DO
not originate, nature, and not he, must
be held accountable for the circumstance.
Miss Hardaker is really too compliment
ary; it is quite embarrassing. Yet facts
are stubborn things, and upon facts her
statement rests. But while the majority
of the female reformers go to one ex-
IRENE, Miss Hardaker rushes to the
other. 1t is true that since time began
the work Of the world has been done by
man, while woman has remained in the
background, engaged in family and house
hold cares. But because of this it does
not follow that the dormant member in
the firm is the inferior or less useful part
ner. Nothing more can be said than that
the functions of the two are different.
Their capacities and their duties are SO
distinct that it is not possible to draw
any reasonable comparison between them.
They each represent one-half of that hu-
manity to the rounded completion of
which both are essential, and the modern
endeavor to draw parallels between them
is no less absurd than mischievous. This
is a very enlightened century, but we
have not yet been able to get beyond or
rise above the Pauline philosophy of the
sexes. Were a little more common sense
brought to bear upon the relations which
mutually subsist between man and his
co-helper, the controversy upon the SUBJ
ject would quickly cease.
If women have not been active agents
in the development of our civilization, if
they have not as a class attained to emf
nence in the arts and sciences, the reason
is not hard to find. They have been
otherwise engaged. Duties even more
important than those in which man is
occupied have demanded their attention
and engrossed their energies. They have
not labored side by side with man in
equal fellowship, because if the race is to
continue, children must be brought into
the world, and having been thus brought
in, must, with an affinity of pains, be
watched and cherished. Such is woman's
sphere, and such until the laws of nature
are changed it must remain. Maternity
nov, as ever, is the chief end of her ex-
~istence. and it is an end which excludes
that entry upon a larger field for which
disappointed spinsters clamor. 1t is not
because her mental power or moral
strength are less than mans that she does
not grasp the reins of State and carry on
the,business Of the world. It is because
she is a woman.
A STORY which would make the founda-
ton tor q frst-class novel comes from
Canada. It will be remembered by many
that, two years ago. n Antoine Brisbois
found murdered in his trapping hut,
in Ontario. His furs and money were
missing. and so was his partner, Patrick
Hennessey, upon whom the crime was
laid. Hennessey was never discovered.
Lately Felix Raicot and Cyrus Green
over, lumbermen, were crushed by a
heavy log. Raicot was told that he
would speedily die. He then confessed
that he and Greenover murdered both
Brisbois and Hennessey, concealing the
latter's body. Those who heard this rev.
citation hurried out to fetch a justice, and
in their absence Greenoyer crawled from
his couch, though dangerously hurt, and
pulled the bandages from the dying kai-
cots wounds, so as to silence him in death
before the official came to write out his
confession.
chilli wants Peru to pay over two
hundred million dollars as a war indem-
nifty. 1t would be as reasonable to ask
for q billion. and Chill is as likely to get
the n sum a. the other. Blood cannot
be gotten out Of . stone, and q nation al
ready on the verge of bankruptcy, with
its undeveloped and burdened
with the cost of unsuccessful hostilities,
cannot be expected to pay any such sum
as that demanded. Evidently. however,
the Chilians appreciate the situation.
They propose to hold the extensive pro-
vince of Tarapaca until the indemnity is
paid, which, of course, means annexation.
It is hard on Peru, but to the conqueror
belongs the spoils. There do not appear
10 b any grounds for interference.