Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-17


Tho persoual liberty Of the individual. IL
,vnvner were admitted TO political power
these laws would be multiplied indehnte-
IN and necessarily. Such meddling legis-
Iation as the Sunday closing act, IN En-
GLAND. and the Maine liquor laws In the
tinted States, would be the JOY and aim
of the mass OF female voters. Women
cannot understand that you can make no
nation yirtuous by act OF parliament
they would construct their acts OF parlla-
meI,t on purpose TO make people virtuous
whether they chose OF not, and would not
sec that this would be form OF tyranny
had az any other. The average |
man Ii not an intellectual nor neble be- I
ing neither Is the average woman. But
| there are certain solid qualities In the
male creature which are lacking from the
female; such qualities as federation ana
calmness In Judgment, which are OF Inn
mite value, and in which the female cnar-
acter is almost invariably deficient;
lack in her which makes the prophecy OF
Dumas that she will one day I'LL judiclal
and forensic duties, most alarming
prospect, as alarming as the predlctloh
OF Goodwin Smith that the negro popula-
ton will eventually outnumber and ex-
tinguish the Aryan race In the United
States"
Ouida thinks "there are men with
womens minds, women with mems
minds.n Mr.. Gladstone's, she says, us a
woman's mind, Mrs. Somerville's was
mans mind. But such exceptions are
exceedingly rare" The younger Dumas,
"woman's special pleader," is quoted by
Ouida as holding that woman will bring TO
/ - nd no in.
difference to suffering which she has
shown in so many centuries in the hallu-
cinatlons and martyrdoms OF religion"
She twill hold torture as OF
no account II 1t solve an enigma"
and twill give herself to the beasts
Of the field not to prove that Jesus lived,
but to know If Darwin was right" This
same spirit she will bring into politics
and legislation. "Whether the female
legislator would imprison all the people
who do not go TO church, or would not
attend scientific lectures, the despotism
would be equal; and 1t is certain that she
would desire to imprison either one class
or the other"
Ouida evidently believes in "free
Speech" II not in democracy, as the fol-
lowing statements evlnce:
GAS we again and again see the women
expecting from her son the purity OF man
ners Of maiden, and making no account,
because she ignores them entirely, OF the
: imperious necessities of sex, so we should
: see her in matters of national or universal
import similarly disregarding or Ignoring
all facts OF which she chose to take no
note. Science, indeed, presumes
that in educating her 1t would strengthen
: her reasoning powers and widen her mind
into the acceptance Of true liberty. But
what proof is there that science would do
ANYTHING of the sort2 1t has never yet
showed any true liberality itself"
"The woman is the enemy Of freedom
Give her power and she is at once des-
potic. The enormous preten-
lions to the monopoly of mans life
, which women put forward in marriage
are born,of the desire to tyrannize. The
rage and amazement displayed by the
woman when a man, whether her lover
or her husband, is inconstant to her,
comes from that tenacity over the man as
property which wholly blinds her to
her own faults or lack of charm and power
: to keep him. A very clever woman never
! blames man for Inconsistency to her;
( she may perhaps blame herself. Womer
J az rule attach tar too great value tt
! themselves. A virtuous woman
!, is above rubies, has said Solomon; blu
y this depends very much on the quality o
y the virtue; and the idea prevailing
. among women that they are valuable
u admirable and almost divine, merely be
cause they are women, is one of the mos
mischievous fallacies born Of huma
vanity, and accepted without analysis"
ain marriage, moreover, the innuenc
"a of the woman, whatever popular pre-
JUDGES plead to the contrary, 10 cor
I stantly belittling and Injurious to the In
- telligence of the man. How many grea
a. artists since the day of Andrea del Sart
u have cursed the woman who has mad
IS them barter their heritage of genius 70
ID the pottage OF worldly afiluence? y
ls To most women success Is measured
B. the balance at the bank, by the appleHs
r, of the hour, and nothingis esteemed whic
Is has not received the hallmark of th
N worlds approval Not infrequentl
what is called with pious praise a goo
T. woman, blameless in her own condui
III aud devoted to what she conceives to
r her duties, has been more fatal to tn
y, originality, the integrity gaud the intelle'
d, tual brillianoy of man than the wogi
az courtesan could have been. The injul
lie which women have done the minds
IN intu iuhy ihtTiy % SET Oh against LnOE
to social and physical injuries which me
rs are said by M. Dumas to inhict so ut
ng lessly on women.
ca women wili not find happiness in he
IL, tility TO men, even II they obtain vicso
,ss in 1t, which is very doubtful. Women
,g- genius have never hated men; they ha'
he perhaps liked them too well. To Il
les woman of genius love may not be the so
iv- thing on earth as 1t is to Gretchen !. 1t
In only one among the many emotion
lat charms and delights of life; but she new
the denies its attractions, its consolation
It's supreme ecstacy, its exquisite symp
thies. Helolse and Aspasia can love b,
ore ter than Penelope"
lay Ouida concludes her article with II
be highly conservative sentiment:
so, 81 confess that l., for one, dread {
the day which shall see this further develc
i've ment of that crude and restless charaet
lag OF the nineteenth century, which, w
sublime set-contentment and self-cC
the celt, 1t has presumed to call Progress
be Mrs Mary A. Livermore has written
'os- reply to this article, which is announC
g. 49,