The morning call., 1891-03-27
WOMAN AS AN EQUAL.
She Says Just Give Us the Ballot and
we VIII Regulate the Rest"

She Says Just Give Us the Ballot and
We VIII Regulate the Rest"
Editor Womdn'S Column, Morning Call:
in an article, in THE CALL OF March 10th,
by Scissors" an all-important question of
the present age is asked viz: SIS woman
the equal in every sense of the word OF
MANI"
LIDO not think she is, in fact, know she
is not But there is a reason for these
things: let us see what it is. When God
made man and placed him in the beautiful
garden "to dress it ard to keep IL" he said
sit is not good thai man should be alone,
| will make him an help meet for him.. 30
God took one cf Adams ribs and made Eve.
God could have taken bone of Adams
foot and made woman just as well, and he
could lrave said. Il will make man some
one to wait on him or some one to amuSe
him when he is tired from dressing and
keeping this garden" But such was not
Gods purpose. He made woman from
man side and placed her by mans side TO
be a help meet for him. and such is her
true sphere to this day. TO be help-meet
for him; TO be by his side in the home, in
the state, in peace and IN war.
4 Then says an 0hJectOr Ii such Is woman
sphere, why is she not filling 1t? why has
she been deprived of her privileges through
out the ages? Woman has been
UNDER A CLOUD
Ever since the fall in Eden. Man put the
blame on her and she did not deny it, Since
that tine man has been continually putting
the blame on her aud she has been bearing
it. So man has been elevated while woman
has been depressed.
Somewhere in the clark ages " woman
began to dress in a mannel that was calcu-
lated to dwarf her physically. Whether this
was the fault of man or herself does not
concern us now; but 1t was probably the
fault of both, Tor we find that man was
dressing much tile same way. However, as
the world became More enlightened man
threw Off these cumbersome garments and
selected these more suited 10 his needs,
while the woman continued to dress worse
and worse. But, asks some one, WI hat has
dress to DO with the question at ISIS sue? 1t
has everything to do with it. Look ut the
way woman Is dressing to-day. See how she
congresses her waist; look at the burden oil
skirts she carries, with the weight on her
spine and the spine carries 1t to the BRAIN.
Then think of the fact that this has been
going OIL for ages and you Viii see how 1t
affects the present discussion. OF course
she is not mans equal; how could she be
under such circumstances? Let the man OF
to-day don his wife's attire, then seat him.
self and attempt TO apply his MIND to some
weighty problem and note The result.
YET WITH SUCH DISADVANTAGES
w oman, Win tue dSSlSldHcb VI great
hearted men, has reached plane where she
is asking for equal rights with men. And
Scissors says she has no claim to them, be-
cause she never journeyed to strange lands
ana made conquests. Ii Scissors Will refer
TO history she will find that 1t took more
than 100 years after the discovery OF Amer
lea to establish permanent English settle
ment, and the explorers were all men.
Finally, in 1907, the jamestown Colony was
established, but three years after they were
just ready to abandon the enterprise when
the new Governor arrived with more set
tiers, mostly families. From that time on
the future OF the colony was assured.
Woman did not pTecede man, it is true, but
it required her presence to make the settle
ment lasting. Such has been the history OF
every new country siace the world began
Woman could not settle country alone,
neither could man. Useless each without
the other"
Scissors says: "The great desideratum
seems to be that she (wOman) is not prop
erly respected and worshiped." Woman
does not wish to be worshiped or TO have
man admit her nearness to the angelic
What she wants is equal rights under the
law with man. She is not trying
TO PROVE HER SUPERIORITY,
Or that she is more deserving of respect
than man. am sure that man has every
reason TO be the equal OF woman physically,
mentally and morally. We are not COM
pldiHilb VI LICK Oh respect, We are iitIiuS
our voices against taxation without repre-
sentation, just as our revolutionary fore
fathers and mothers did. Let us remember
that it was through woman that we enjoy
American civilization to-day. Columbus
had journeyed from court to court, from
Italy to Portugal, from Portugal TO Spain,
where Isabella heard him and offered 10 sell
''her bands Of gold that adorned her person"
to furnish money for the expedition.
Scissors says OF women: They love III
sic, but they neither excel in composition
nor performance" They love romance, yet
they have no authors whose names will live
like those of numerous men she mentions.
Where is the man who ever charmed thou
sands with the sound of his voice like Jen-
ME Lind or Patti? What man ever p0r-
trayed character better than George Eliot,
or who could draw a truer picture OF life as
it is than Marietta Holly?
True, woman is not mans equal in every
respect, but give us the ballot and we will
regulate the rest. II. NJ. G.
March 90 1891