The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1884-08-30

VANS CLAIM TO A HEADSHIP RE.
VIEWED.

| nOtlCeu III your paper VI lnC SI'l ~O''
,ribution headed "Man's Claim to Head
,hip.' am sorry have not the exquisite
pleasure of an acquaintance with the
worthy contributor, but tie that as il may,
desire to make reply to that article.
And first, will say to- u s." hope YOU
ar, a single man. no, tha, | am personally
concerned. but because it would be an un-
happy reflection to know that any one
endowed with such superior mental ability; /;
one who has, by nature, nothing to bar
him from the possibility of becoming
Newton, Shakespeare, a Bacon, or
Locke should be obliged to associate with
Dnc ''whO is not even conscious OF the
fact that she has made a failure in every
thing she has undertakcn: "onc whose
t'exibil,v of mind di>qualties her for any
thing yrcat or Important "onc who was
intended, by nature for Your inferior. l
say this woul,; be AT unhappy reflection to
NC because know that man grows into
,he image OF his associates, and | tear 'hlt
even YOU, in ali your excellence might be
brought 50 tar down in the scale vt intel
.cc,ual degradation that, in time, you might
become unl., Il fit associate tor woman.
But knowing your due appreciation OF
woman'> inIeriority, | am persuaded that
NAV rejoice in congratulating you sin
s;c man, and in giving you my wholesome
dvic,-evcr remain thus.
IL your argument, it such you call it,yon
made the affirmation that woman's being
created after man was incontrovertible
uuooi that she is inferior to man; if so,
then mans being created after the beasts
Of the field is incontrovertible proof that
man is inferior to the beasts of the field,
according to your own logic.
The 10Th verse of the lst chapter OF
Genesis, to which you refer in order to
verify your position Of ofsupcriority and dom
ination, reads, land God said let us make
man in our image, after our likeness; and
,et them have dominion over the fishes Of
the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and
c-er the cst.le, aud over the Garth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth" say that if you can furnish
ne with geological! classification which
places woman among the fishes of the
teld, or the creepcrs upon the earth, you
might con>truc your reference to give man
dominion over woman; but until then il
does not touch ON the point in question.
And again l object to the term man being
used in the restrictive sense, but hold that
ii is generic term embracing woman.
tongue can 40 man tame" | should like
10 ask you, whether or not, you think that
statement equally applicable to woman. If
you d" not think so, you differ from most
men on that subject.
DO you not forget, when you say that
there are no great women whose names
have been handed down to us in the Bible"
that Deborah reigned forty years. and that
among the fifteen Judges OF Israel She had
few equals and no supcriors; not even in
Samuel, Il Gideon, or ! Samson? Doy
no, forget Queen Esther, than whom none |!
noblcr have ever fallen upon field Of
battle who. at the risk of her own life,
came into the presence of the king to make
'n,ercesson for her people, with these
words resting upon her lips: "lf perish,
7trish:' DO you not forget that it was
women who stood last at the cross and
first a, the sepulchre, and who first pro-
claimed the grandest revelation ever made
by God to man? DO you not forget that
while a ~seraphic Isaiah,' weeping Jere-
'n'ah," and a "Godlv Ezekiel" could only
oFe'el! the fate Of Jerusalem fallen, and
while David, conscious Of his own trans
sression>, could only pray: "Lord, restore
unto me the 10Y of thy salvation" that it
was reserved for woman, in her innocence
| and purity, to become instrumental in the
hand OF God in giving to the world the
eliminating blessing OF heaven, in the per-
son of Christ? Then why say, in the face
OF so much contradictory evidence, that
God has chosen man as the peculiar me-
dunn through which he has made all great
communications to the worid:' II man
we're thus peculiarly favored why is It that
twenty men to one woman constitute the
street loafers and the inmates Of the peni-
'entaries' Why is it that thirty men to
one woman commit suicide? Why is It
that ten women to one man constitute the
p'ous church workers Of this nation5 How
ungratetul man must be to make such = |
aesecration OF his superior ability! |,
Women do not, as you have accused US,
aesire ITO antagonize mans rights" neither
90 wish to "wrest from him singular
;'onor" which has been reserved for him;