The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-15

that women had found an excellent foot
ing In Journalism. Among other things
she said:
What I have said about women in
journalism IL applicable 10 fhe sex in any
other profession walch they are physically
~ 20 enter. The iaw, medicine. education
every walk in life requiring intellectual
rather than manual force Is vide open 70
the women of America, and can be entered
without sacrifice Of seli-respect or loss OF
public approval.
This Is woman's golden era. 0bsersa-
ton and thought, ART, literature, Law and
science. both theoretical and applied, the
whole great world of activity are calling TO
woman to cooperate with man in all his
duties. and this cooperation IL coming
harmoniousiy aud benefieently. And the
great beauty OF II ell is that neither the
attainable information nor skill units
womsn tor home aud Its sacred duties"
II this is all true It is well; II is difficuit
TO believe that II ia all true. for the CREST
est of independent. liberal thinkers among
English philosophers, Herbert Spencer, Is
so deeply convinced that IL is not ali true,
and therefore not well. that he no longer
advocates the women's rights movement
OF which he was once a champion. The
abIest English as well as American tn ink
ers see clearly that the ultimate aim of POI
Iitical emancipation is the admission Of
woman to every department OF labor now
monopolized by man. The London Spectator
contends that the free competition of
women with men in every field Of labor
wonld result In cutting down wages one
half. The waass paid today represent in
any industry the amount necessary to
support, according 10 the standard of the
craft and country, two adults and from
two 20 three children. The wages con-
temps ate the discharge of household duties,
including the care Of children by the wife.
and do not suffice for the hire OF a servant
II both wife and husband labored in the
work at present reserved for men, their
united earnings would not be greater than
those of the husband alone today. So 1t
would be still impossible to hire a nurse or
servant, and the Spectator fairly asks what
would become of the children and the home,
and il might further have pointed out the
obvious consequence that with wages paid
In any given employment reduced one
half tho marriage rate would be greatly
reduced; single men would be less able TO
afford marriage; there would be fewer
marriages; fewer homes; fewer women
who we're true homemakers and main
tanners than there are today.
The truth Is that, while many good
women do not see It. woman's rights
when won must ultimately end In social
lam. for in socialistic state parents are
to be relieved from all responsibility for
the care and training OF their children.
In no other kind of state could we meet
ton of wages one-half by the admission OF
women 10 all the employments ordinarily
reserved to men, and socialism would not
relieve US of the moral consequences of the
practical extinction of the family with its
coniugal companionship and the blessed
| formative influences connected with the
| training of children by the parents.
Socialism would ultimately extinguish
the family. This is what lies at the end
| of woman's rights when it is absolutely
realized and pushed to its inevitable
logical ultimate, the admission of women
| 10 all the calIings of men.
The cut in wages one-half would cut the
marriage rate down fearfully, undermine
the blessed influences OF the family and
increase the decentralization of society.
| Any person who watches women in tho
mass as they pass from home makers and
maintainers into the callings generally 70
served TO men cannot fail to notice the re
| suits of the change: the exceptions only
! prove the rule. The stage illustrates il
! oil industries where women are cut ava,
/ from home aud herd together In the call
| ings that they crowd into in the cite.
! illustrate it, fhilanthropisis who de no
know whereof they speak will deny this
bat every man of the world who evel
lived in large industrial eommunitie,
knows that IL is true.
Is is the consideration Of these econom.
zeal consequences OF the woman's right.
movement which has transformed Hsrbert
Spencer from an advocate into an ONO
neut and arrayed the strongest brains In
the Engiish-speaktng world against il
These economic consequences are ever
visible today.
In the Canadian Masasins is a notsb,,
article by J. I. Hayne on '.n.spiacement
of Young Men. lie points oat that tn,
girls are so much more clever as clerk,
than men that the male clerk is doomed
% extinction, and thinks the results ar,
most disastrous 20 women and men
| Two young women enter the department.
at Ottawa and Washington City 10 on,
young man. rhe same Is true of al
branches Of business where clerks are en-,
rlayed. Into ali lighter branches of labo
women are entering 10 the exc. usion o
/ men.
Ii the next twenty years witness tn,
| same relative increase in the number o.
working girls and women IS has taken
place since $50 in Canada and the United
! States the young mea will be doins
/ Homework and their sisters and mother,
IN all the clerical eslllngs. Marriages ar
On the decrease IN proportion 30 popula
| 'ton. Mr.. hsyne shows by statistics
First That she proportion of marriage.
on the part OF Young men between ths
/ ages Of > and 10 had materially declined
| daring the past twenty years. Seeond-Thai
me natneer Of unmarried persons in rela-
ton to the total reputation had very ma
'sriaay increased. And be further holds
that the increasing number Of working
| giFls, and the falling of in the relative