The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-07
NIl]lllelEaale
NJ. NJ. MURDOCH, Editor.
THE CRY OF THE CRANK.
ON the 18th of July, 1897, the following To-
item appeared in the London Times:
NJ. NJ. MURDOCH, Editor.

On the 18th of July, 1897, the foliowlng ioca
item appeared in the London Times:
"oo Friday butcher exposed his wife for sale u
cItIfed Market with a strap about her wais
which tied her 10 railing. drovef was lio Pun
chaser at three cuineas and crown.
And that butcher and drover believed a.
relipiously that they had q right to buy and
coll that woman and that she would be ou'
of her sphere if she raised a row about IL, al
Marsh Murdock does now that men nave .
rioht To make all the laws for women, ana
that the women are unsexing theInseNe es
when they protest. The world has moseo
come in the last hundred years, but not SO
much in some directions, after ail.-LeaNeh'
worth Times.
The Times does the editor OF the
EAGLE great injustice in comparing
him ,o the London brute who In the
seventeenth century exposed bis wife Tor
sale in the Smithfield market. with
strap about her waist, which butchers
wife was bought by drover. Inc
editor of the EAGLE would not deny
woman in anything. but he would pro-
tect her in everything. The laws OF this
country are the crystalized convictions
of both men and women. The represen-
tatives who legislate are men, we grant,
but the laws they pass upon are as
much with reference to the we'll being
of the wife, mother and daughter
of the legislator as they are for
his brother and father. Men
build the houses, the roads, ana
the bridges and all, OF the
country, and fight its battles when
necessary. but they do all this, more
for the women than for themselves.
Women are not the losers but the gain
ers in not being called upon TO do any or
all of these things. In truth all the
triumphs of the industrial world, no less
than those of the arts and sciences,
came of mans devotion to the cause and
happiness of his gentle partner, who In
being sister, daughter Or lover, is no
less the mother, and as mother the
primary and superior controlling force
of the life of the boy, who is father to
the man. The editor of the EAGLE is
uineteerth century man, not seyen-
teenth century brute, and being a man
claims the right to defend women not
enly from the cranks of his own sex but
the misguided of her own.
Az for anything farther in the brute
line, it is that very element IN man
which attracts woman, and without
which hs would fail not only as pro-
tector but fail to command her respect,
And that is one reason why the abnormal
of neither sex should be permitted 20
brutalize woman by seeking to make
her like a man. Woman brutalized even
to the degree of man becomes she, a
mere female, in which all those qualities
that attract man, that render him her |
servitor, slave and worshipper are lost.
1t is the longing for manish or brutal
power, and not any desire for womanly
sweetness, that lures on the advocate of
fs.-.ale suffrage.
1t is to the term "man and woman"
not "male and female to which that |
progress which marks the time between |
the century the butcher sold his female |
and this hour wherein man cherishes the |
mother of his children. is due.