The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-10
THE WORLD MOVES.

legal consistency in this business, as nearly
Two years ago the HERALD predicted they
would eventually do, showing the incontro'
Vertlble logic and rationale Of the progressive
movement. Equity knows no difference IN
Tue sexes, and so likewise should it now be as
II will yet be with law itself, The intellect
ual and the moral sense exist alike in the
feminine and masculine mind. Let him who
can, disprovo it, and herein failing let him
who thence deprives'.a woman of her rights,
stand accused as not only the weaker but
the meaner vessel of the two. Upon those
who deprive onehalf the human race of
equal freedom with themselves, lies this
onus probandi of the justice of the course.
now, either women have no rights at all, or
their rights are not so great as those OF men,
or they are equal to these. Few will have
the bardihood to assert the first proposition
in this day and generation among the
CIV ll'2ed, though where the dim twilight of
I freedom is scarcely recognizable such doc
trine may and does obtain, as where
tho lusty Turk may plunge with
out penalty the offending Circas-
sian woman into the Bosphorus, or even in
a state in Europe which permits man to
beat his wife in moderation, or in another
where woman is fobidden TO sit at tho table
with her lord and master. The demurrer to
the second proposition must set out, if he
can, what Is the ratio between the claims of
the sexes He must give us scale of apror-
tionment. lie must disclose the why and
the wherefore of the distinction, not on
grounds Of expediency but of justice, moral
ity and civilization. On some definite, phi
losophical principle he must make the reas-
oning good or keep his lips sealed, for logic
and philosophy have no patience nor tolera-
ton with lot ofsickly, silly sentimen.ality
as that thread-bare abstraction, that worm
out absurdity that "woman's mission is
purely domestic one" and that all ques-
tons beyond cher sphere" must be settled
by us, the big Indian chiefs of all tho knowa-
bic; U.S. the lords of creation" As has
been asked, who shall say what that
"sphero is? She has moved and shone
among the brightest of humanity's
bright intellects in all the sphere,
OF life. In war and science, in
literature and art, in government
and politics, have beamed resplendent the
names Zenobia and Boadicea, Maria
Theresa and Mrs. Somervile, Madame De.
Stael aud Madame Roland, Queen Elizabeth
and Joanna Baillie, Miss Martineau and the
Lsndons and Brownings. and myrisds of
Others in all of life's walks. But few
years ago, in the streets of Philadelphia
'ndy was stoned by tho medical students of one
OF the colleges there, because in graduating in
medicine she had "gonH out of her spherc.
And only recently one was hooted at he.
cause she undertook the practice of tho law.
because self constituted "lords of creation -
tho monopolizcrs of all Of earth's wisdom
mad asserted "she had gone out of her
sphere" We well remember the time when
:. was not the thing for a lady to 60 even to
the postollice to receive or deposit letter,
and yet to-day she has place sancti6ed to
her presence and to bew tied on by her own
sex. Who, then, shall say what this sphere
is, what its nature or extent, If we are to
make ratio us to the respective amounts
anti character Of intelligence between
The sexes, who shall have the right
% sit as arbiter and decree the
Npportionment, for many women at
twenty years of age have Qusdruple the |
The sense of some OF your male voter, at
forty! Then who all grade the meas
are of capacity to square with tho measure
Of rights! Who shall say when tho ignorant,
ponniless negro, or the recently adopted for.
oigner is in filter condition to impose by |
law taxes on the poor but cultured and ele- |
CANT widows little homestead or property
That she rents for living, as we'll as on the
and pure citizea? He who urges
the second proposition, we insist, must salts.
factorily respond to all of these problems.
The man who says, "our women are too
GOOD to have all these rights, is an organz,
ed hypocrite when he says it, and in his
heart he knows it. The truth is the "lord of
creation" is afraid of tie loss of his sefim.
portance, and by the subsection in which he
would keep his wife or daughters or sisters,
manif, SITS not merely an aggressive jealousy
but pays poor compliment to her whom
he has selected to bear and rear and
educate the future young "lords and ladies'"
The argument of the impracticability
of an equality of rights between the
sexes is not merely selfish, bu,
superficial. Is there any alarming conflict
because of q variance on some other subjects,
such as q difference of religious views, diff
ference of sppetites at the same board, diff
ference of perhaps social associations, " diff
ference of tastes in literature, art, or some
things else There is in reality no cause for
in this direction. One of tho
most celebrated writers of this or any other
age has said, that "whenever society shall
have become civilized enough to recoc-