Evening journal., 1891-07-27
HeRoINEs on MARTYRs2

When woman writes a letter 10 a
newspaper she has something to say
What she says may not be important in
self, but she Gays 1t as II It were
A woman who writes letter to a
newspaper Is always in earnest she
does not write to amuse herself, or to
please other people. She has an object,
and though that object may not appear
perfectly clear till the last sentence In
the post script, there is no mlstaklng the
fact that the letter was not written for
fun.
Mrs. Mona Card has written a letter
to the Manchester Guardian. England,
with all the virulent vigor Of woman
who has something to say and is deter
mined TO say It. She has written the
sort Of letter that makes one feel like
saying: "Look out, boys, there she
comes again, as they say at stock fair
when a COW gets separated from the herd
and goes charging wildly, head down,
here and there. through the stampeding
crowd
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once; she charges into the first group OF
men she sees and never let's up till they
are scattered and at full run.
or course she is after the men. She
attacks them for all Of their sins In a
lump, bat particularly for their In
humanity to women.
She says women are suffering; that
they are the victims OF an "evil which
gnaws at the very heart OF society and
makes "of almost every woman the
heroine Of silent tragedy" That seems
a strange statement, for though women
are often heroines, they have never been
accused Of being silent. II Is
possible that Mrs. Caird has used
the word heroine by mistake for
martyr A woman who is forced TO be
silent would likely consider herself more
Of martyr than heroine, though she
might not shrink from either title, II she
were short-haired, divided skirt woman
auffrsgist with an ambition, accom-
panied by fully developed talent and
tongue to be a general mother in-law for
a whole commonwealth, or. on pinch,
for the entire United States, including
the Indians
Mrs Caird SAYS there are but few
contonted women and that those ex-
ceptions are women Of very placid
temperament and very little sensibility."
they cannot speak right out in meetin
and make the shingles rattle at the
gable ends. While those blessed creatures
Of more highly wrought nervous sys
TENS aud imaginative faculty, in nine
cases out Of ten are secretly intensely
miserable" She does not stop to re-
mark, however that they are getting In
their work on those about them and
having some intensely sweet revenge by
making their menfolk miserable too,
The remedy for all this appears to be,
according to Mrs. Caird, to give the
women votes and make them perfectly
equal with men in every respect, physical
and social.
Several years ago when the negro
politicians, the bloody shirt wavers and
the women suifragists all seemed to be in
a general and preconcerted rampage
at once, Charles Dudley Warner
said that we would never have
peace in this country till we
made colored woman President Mrs
Card ought to try TO be calm; It is cur
rently reported that the millennium is to
arrive in 1899, and while we do not be
lieve that, we think she might wait
without prejudice to her cause. and with
great comfort to those Of us who are not
excited about woman suffrage, or who do
not believe in the millennium that win be
ushered in with negro woman Presi-
dent.