Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-10-10
SEX RELATIONSHIP.
A CALM AND DIsPAsSIoNATE VIEW OF
1.-THE WOMAN QUESTION"

I
ponds In Great Part on the Marriage II
= lation-Lessons Drawn From the Histoi
. of Ancient Greece and Rome.
+ The rights and wrongs of women al
I, now debated with vigor and virulenc
which increase every day. Those VIII
demand for women not only all the priv
: ileges which men possess, but also cor
| tinued exemption from their respons
bilities, would carry the principle of fl
male emancipation to point which ha
: aroused opposition on the part of man
, who in every great question of the da
, are admittedly leaders of the party
progress. While the contest RACES as t
; whether women are to know, say and d
everything that the coarsest of men car
, or, on the other hand, be kept completed
in the background, people are apt to fol
get what is really the crucial point o
the whole question.
They forget that the position of WON
en-, and of men, too, for that matter
is inseparably bound up with the rela
tionships between the sexes known a
marriage; are apt to forget the impor
lance of that relationship not only to in
dividuals, but to the state; are apt t.
forget that too rigorous Subsection O.
women may bring us near to barbarism
too great an emancipation may lead IL
that corruption which has so often ii
the worlds history been the outcome OF
a civilization which has not placed due
restraint on the passions and impulses.
The prosperity of a country depends
on the proper maintenance of the rela.
tions between husband and wife ouite
as much as on its outer strength. and
however great and powerful n country
NAV seem TO he. if these domestic rela.
tons are unhealthy. if the wife has not
her nlace in the social 1olitv that conn.
try il rotten TO the core. and it's comnlete
decay and decentralization are inevitable.
Speaking generally. there are fonr as
poets or ideals of fine stains Of the wife
-four WAYS in which her position ia re-
garded by men.
There is the method of the barbarian,
that of the oriental that of WESTERN civ
ilization. that of corrupt civilization
which last is practically the degraded
form of the third The barbarian ra.
CARDS his wife as a mere slave-a sonaw
to cook his food. carry his burdens. sinh.
nit to his i'll usage. The oriental sees in
his wife playthinp TO CRAFTY his mas.
sions, to be kept in the strictest secln.
sion, and to be treated altogether as a
brainless being: regarded nv him in
fact. so far as any resnect ia concerned
much as the souaw il regarded nv tho
savage.
From the third noint Of v;a,v +be u;fo,s
position is very different. Trne she 10
the mother of her husbands cbi1dren.
true, she has duties to perform which
her husband would disdain. true her
husband is the head of the family and
she bears his name. But with ali this
she is looked upon "a her bnsband,s
equal, is the sharer of his counsels bis
intelligent partner and has a right 70 ex-
pect from him the fidelity which in tho
case of the savage or the oriental is co
one sided
The credit of placing this view of mar
ried life before mankind has been
claimed by Christian writers for tboir
religion. But although we must ad,n;t
that Christianity has done mucb RI i'm
prove the position of woman vol H.
high ideal which we have termed tbot "a
western civilization existed in - yery
strong degree in ancient Greooa stiiH,
more strongly among tbe Romons ona
the nations of western Errono u,ha,,,
they conquered and civilized lono hoforo
Christianity was preached and tho noh1o
qualities which we admire in those rocas
may often be directly traced 70 tba ~
duence of wives and mothers
But high as is this ideal history Show,
that there are DANGERS which tbna na"s
those societies where if nrevoi1s. a.
ger the outcome of that verv civili1at;on
which it has done SO much 70 nerfact
Luxury. prosperitv too oroat I;1,as IT,
want of mutual rasnac+ "a ot: ~,
striving after new sensations oro .on va.
% destroy that wholesome s+.tao - H; ap'
which has been the nalIad;,n 81 nI-a
great nation. and wa foo ofta,, y ha, 10y
IMPLIES of the fonrth ;deol r-h;ah A az ga
bringing from tbe tbird IL W s tnousil
rom it that it deserves r. ho o,. ",s.,Ic'
Itself. Where a vito 10 NJ ~ ,o Ha'saseu Wy
ent with taking her shave n tbs III oo,i-
q jfo - ," 'iei SNARE IN the battle