Los Angeles herald., 1891-10-29
POOR MAN.

inhumanity to man has made countless
thousands mourn. We have no doubt
whatever but that this is true. Just
now we are in pessimistic mood, and
we are ready to believe anything about
ANYBODY of either sex. In the language
of the introversive Hamlet, Man
pleases us not nor woman either"
But we are positively obliged to take
cognizance of the fact that man just now
is suffering in certain portions of the
United States far more from the ih-
Justice of woman than of man. 1t was
wont to be said of province of Spain
that her men were women and her
women men. The kind OF men these
women would have made would not
have turned the Turk back from the
battlefield of Tours, when Charles
Martel saved Europe from Moslem
domination, nor would it have expelled
the legions of Bobadil from Granada.
With that kind Of warhke puissance the
Alhambra would still have been in the
possession Of the odalisque and her at
tendant eunuchs.
The fact is that man is not only suf-
fering from woman but to very pcig-
nant degree. She has reached the stage
of complaining, not only about matters
and things in general, but about every
thing. With nimble fancy that does
her credit as a detective, she has found
out all mans defects. 1t would be
strange if she had not, considering how
long she has been studying man. She
has found out his shortcomings in about
every imaginable line, and the strong
minded woman is merciless. 1t never
occurs to her to allow the male any
good qualities. To her he is a monster
of indescribable malignancy and COM
plexity.
And truly it is hard to blame her !
The Hebrew Genesis starts out by de-
scribing man as sneak of an indescrib-
able character. He is made to give Eve
away, and to shrink back before Om-
impotence with a lie on his lips. This
has always been weak spot in the mar
rative of the garden of Eden. Hman was
that kind OF a creature when the prim-
rose and primavera lights Of awakening
life first burst upon him, all we have
got to say is that he has greatly inn
proved since. Even the modern mac
quereaux would decline to pose for that
kind OF an Adam.
But woman-strong minded woman
pursues her old enemy and betrayer re-
morselessly. She is ready to concede
him no kind of merit. She wishes, for
instance, to vote, and if her prettier
sisters would only join in with her she
could not only vote, but do all the voting.
Man has consented to relieve his deli
cate sister of this coarse function, just
as he has taken it upon himself to do all
the fighting in saloons, the tough jobs
on the sea and the roustabout work in
armies and navies. Yet the robust
woman of the strong minded contingent
of the sex is not only not grateful but is
positively cacophanous and consternat-
ing in the wild dissonance of the yawps
she directs unto the welkin as result
of the protection go generously accorded
her from the exercise of such disagree
able function.
The strong-minded woman aforesaid
is positively determined to accord man no
recognition whatsoever of an emollient
character. The acme of absurdity in
this matter was reached when one of
the leading woman's rights women an
nounced that she proposed to agitate
until at least one-half of any jury that
tried woman should be composed of
her own sex. Why, bless her strong
minded soul, that would be to imperil
the chances of woman villains. A
woman can make four and twenty
efforts to kill man, and succeed on the
twenty fifth attempt, and jury COM
posed of men win not be five minutes
strictly not five minutes-in bringing in
a verdict of acquittal. If she goes into
a store and steals roll OF silk or velvet,
there will be five minutes talk amongst
the men officials, and if she had a shred
of respectability she would not even be
prosecuted. Everything would be
hushed up, out of reverence to that de-
partment of the sex which is not pop
nlarly known as strong-minded.
If man in California, for instance,
makes million or ten million dollars
by energy and fnesse, and he has a
wife, everything is community prop
erty, even though the wife may have
lived in Paris while it was being accu-
mulated, and only made herself known
by heavy drains on her husband purse.
In every way in which man could dis
play chivalry, abnegation and delicacy
his laws show those characteristics in
the United States.
And still the strong-minded woman
RACES and will not be comforted. She