The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-03-22
MONEY OR MARRIAGE
viii WOmen'S Business Decrease
Marriages.
OPINIONS OF NOTED THINKERS
May Wright Sewell Predicts Love Matches
Under the New Regime-Lillie Dev-
ereux Blakes Ideas

WASHINGTON, March 10, 1S91.-TSpecial
correspondence of THE HERALD. Year by
year the unmarried women of the United
States increase in number. There are
more than eighty thousand unmarried mar
riageable girls in Massachusetts, and the
coming census will show that fewer mar
riages are contracted now than ever before.
The females among the government clerks
at washington say they prefer independent
single blessedress at 81, 900 year, to de-
pendent matrimonial existence at hard work
and no pin money, and it is question as to
whether the new openings in business and
professional lives are not going to drive
the wives and mothers out of existence.
During the past winter nearly every noted
independent female thinker has visited
Washington. l have met most of them and
have questioned them on this subject
SUSAN B. ANTHONY ON MARRIAGE.
My first interview was with Susan B.
Anthony. She said:
''Our business and professional life will
of course affect marriage. 1t will lessen
bad marriages, and it will guard women
from i'll sorted ones. 1t will take from i'm
moral and unworthy men the advantage
they now have over some women as their
only means of support and will give them
the freedom to choose Cor themselves. On
the other hand, good marriages will be in
creased by the present condition. When
women achieve real independence, and
have their political, industrial and financial
equality, they will nolonger sell themselves
TO a so called husband for so-called home.
They viii not be satisfied with board and
and lodging in some mans house and as
much else Of his worldly goods as he
chooses. Financial dependence is the Sc
cret of this women's rebellion for it is the
core of her domestic unhappiness. When
men recognize women as equal factors in
human government, as creatures of hnan-
cial independence and apace with them
selves, then women will not only be wooec
as real sweethearts, loved as wives and en-
ioyed as companions, but they will be re
spected as self respecting human entities
The woman of the future is going to clint
up where she can take g look over this field
She is not going to snatch at anything tina
passes for man because ii draws a salary
and the man Of the future will be just a,
apt to select a woman who is mentally de
veloped for companiouship and morally
fitted for motherhood, as one whose physi-
cal beauty has enthralled him, or whose
form is especially adapted for showing Of
line rags
ONE CT ANNA DICKINsoN's CHANCES,
Miss Anthony pointed her argument Will
story related of Anna Dickinson durin.
the time she was nightly earning $3.50. Silt
received at this time proposal of marriag,
from S40-a-month Yankee school teache
who stipulated that such marriage must b.
followed by her retirement from publi
life.
MAY WRIGHT sEwELL.
"Too many marriages are made becaus
women are driven to marriage for support,
said May Wright Sewel, president-elect o
the Woman's National council. "As women
enter the industrial world, acquire highe
education and are admitted to the profes
sion, they will be fitted for self-support ant
able to maintain that self respect whicl
forbids unchaste marriage. The man o.
the future is to be envied, he will be &C
copied because he is loved, not as mer
means of living. Men now have little as
surance that they are accepted for low
alone when there are so many other mo
tiyes impelling women to matrimony. Ed
vocational and Industrial freedom will per
init a woman to give her heart with he
hand. These larger activities will improv'
domestic life, also intelligent scientih
method and order have already been ap
piled to domestic work, and more than this
a current SANDER that suffragists were ne
Glectful housekeepers has put that class oil
its mettle and the best housekeepers in th
country to-day are these same progressive
women
FRANCES WIZARDS POETIC IDEAS.
''When / was child,'' said Frances VIII
lard. Il lived in the country and close Il
ba of !, I oil aol ife
and unconsciously became student of nat
ural laws. 1t was there, idly watching
the mating of birds and the association o
the animate creation generally, that
learned the fundamental principles of sex
Though my eyes were keen in those days
] saw nothing of what we call domesti
fyrany, nor Of marriage based upon any
thing but natural law. The father an
mother birds TO be, first sang together, fley
together and then together builded the nest
Except in tribes that betrayed sex b.
plun&ge, [ was always puzzled as to whic
was which. When the nest was full of eggs
even then they shared the long loving ser
vice of bringing their family into the world
Each of the birds sat upon the nest, an
when the children had Clipped the shel
both parents brought them food, sang t
them and taught them to fly. Nor did
ever see manifestations of superior or in
ferior relations between horses male an
female or other of the nobler orders of th
animal kingdom. They worked and rested
ran and nibbled together in apparent eoual
ity The cattle grazed harmonicusly in tn
same meadow and the fishes swan side b
side. Nature is democratic. Nature ais
arranges that her children shall go two b
two There are no ''go-it-alones'' in Tn
field of wood, and if l felt that tue enamel
patton of women would interfere with thi
diyinely appointed union, l would be u
tally against the woman movement. But
see in woman's physical, mental and spiri,
url advancement, the only road to nature
standard of harmony to the human race.
Prieye over this unnatural division of th
sexes into apparently antagonistic group.
We would ursurp ne rights Of men. w
are willing to concedo man his half of tn
world but he must give US ours. To-day
transition period in the history of woman
critical stage in the great cycle of huma
development and the light that never shon
on sea or shore is that by which we mus
move forward il we move in safety TIL