Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-20

Give Us Far Elny.
If there is any one article III free
born Americans creed strenuousiy
urged, it is 10 give each fellow chance.
1t is also q maxim in Jurisprudence that
every one charged with 0ffenses against
law shall De tried by Il jury of his peers.
These two assertions tho reader will
please bear in mind while a diversion is
made tina; Widow Beiost might term
"meandering. -
Did YOU, reader, dld you ever make
special effort TO ne runctual at church on
an unpleasant day or toht woman1ully
{mantully ia not permltted) against some
particularly seductive temptation and
then were rewarded for your efforts BY
being compelled 20 listen to berating of
those luckily absent, and a general up
braidIng Of sinners, without crumb of
comfort dropped TO you who had so sue
cesstulIy battled. IL you have, you can
symDatnize with ladies who have read
the receu: harsh judgment passed upon
the sex as .'manueress, - ''ruthiess,
marrow - ''selfsh'' and ''cruel.
another privilege the alleged crimi-
nal mas il, II i can be proven that i'll the
court where The case is brought his cause
is likely TO suffer through prejudice, he
Is allowed u change OF venue.
Woman has not been rated by man as
his peer, therefore her trial by him is IN
fair. That this is true il is only neces-
sary to read the opinions of men as set
forth in their writings. Hudibras grants
the possibility of her having n soul, but
makes 1t the minimum Of her endow-
nents. Back of him IN the dawning of
Christianity Paul in lOrdly spirit settles
her metes and bounds, and down the
ages TO nineteenth century enlighteD-
ment woman, III mans esteem, holds
she lower rank. In republic created
by men who found ''taXatiou without
representation - sufficient warrant for
rebellion. She pays tax, but ranks with
imbeciles when ballots are TO be cast,
and in a review that for more than three
score and ten years has aspired 30 be the
leader OF advanced thought she is pro-
nounced not only mans inferior but as
possessing traits which in the opposite
sex would make the meanest of mean
men.
Right here Is emphatic protest.
Woman shall be tried by women and her
case presented IN her own courts where
there is not prejudgment. If mans
proper study is man, and he is man,
then let women and not men find their
proper study In women. Let what is to
be said or and TO her come through chan
nels peculiarly hers, and not find pub
hcIty in journals above the gauge of her
accredited powers of comprehension and
which therefore most naturally she must
be supposed not TO read. But in this
latter, as in their estimate, men are mis-
taken. and if Mr.. Oscar Fay Adams, or
his like, thinks women do not read the
North American Review he is as mis-
taken as he has been in other gaugipg.
That there are cruel, selfish, narrow
women no one Will deny. SIX thousand
years in bondage is calculated 10 develop
these traits. That women are thoughtless
and some are absolutely mannerless is
equally true: go recent emancipation may
be i'll part responsible for this. Let her
critics give her time, or at least have
enough of Justice, if comparison must be
Instituted, to select representatives from
the sexes approaching each other more
nearly. There have beeu cruel Gather
ines. bloody MHrys, poisoning Borgias,
male and female, and cruelty where it
was so little anticipated gave these
women Infamous notoriety. Scan the
pages of history and are there not there
to be found names of men whose lives
surpassed any of these in blaokness?
Shall it be said for this, that all men are
cruel, selfish aud narrow?
In the beginning God created man III
His own image, and it is Immediately
added. ''male and female created He
them, - aud this warrants the belief that
sex was the principal distinction made
Ly the great Designer.
The carplng of some male critics, we
are generous enough TO refrain from the
use of the generic man. reminds
of scenes with which mothers are fRmil-
lar When Ben has committed some
outrageous breach he is prone TO try 10
overshadow, If not parallel it, by some
equally gross violation Of mother 8 law
on the part of Sue. Men and women,
despite the critics, are mankind, and it
is against the injustice of making some
women stand for the sex, and of declaring
because woman q sex may not have
yet reached possibilities, that therefore
woman IS ''cruel, selfish, narrow,
thoughtless and ruthless.
Let Mr.. Adams and critics of his sort
remember what il ID that has made
Fnome'i aud mother the sweetest
words in the English tongue; let him call
up the names of women illustrious in
politics, arts. science and philanthropy
before he hurls his adjectives so freely,
and let him ponder well the behavior of
men segregated from women ere he des-
ignate as the 1.-The Manne-ess Sex. -
mothers, sisters, wives and sweethearts.
Then while he thus pouders, and critics
like himself refrain from detraction,
women will strive TO mend her manners,
curb her evil tendencies and exert her
mental faculties TO secure such moral,
spiritual and intellectual development as
shall enable her TO reach some brothers.
hand who will be grand enough to stoop
from his dizzy height and lift her still
nearer to his plane.
Women In MrnscipaI Affairs.
The New York Nation halls as an
suspicious omen that women have inter-