The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-24
THE WEAKER SEX,

The Wichita EAGLE is running low in its
supply of texts for harangues against the
woman suffrage movement. 1t twists the ed
itorials of other papers TO suit its own pur-
poses and even tries to terrify every unmar-
ried woman into silence by holding up TO her
the CHASTITY, grewsome future of an old maids
existence 1t assumes that five minutes at
the polls would change the laws of God and
nature and that the legislative amendments
allowing equal suffrage would undo woman
more at present, Marsh. lest we shock your
extremely delicate and fragile sensibilities,-
Chandler News
Miss Eff1e, woman is the last one to
disparage sentiment IN men, even be she
unmarried and the editor of an Oklaho-
ma paper. But we have no besitancy
in discussing the physical and material
| relations of sex, as we did in column
and a half editorial, only the other day,
ia reply to a woman who also seems in
clined to belittle sentiment.
1t has been justly said that the civiliz-
alton of nation may be measured by
the degree of sentiment and humanity
displayed by its men towards Its women.
This, Effie, presuppoSes your sex to be
the weaker and also plausible self
restraint of the stronger from ethical
considerations. Hence, the necessity for
sustaining the natural condition of CO.
operation between the sexes, each in its
sphere to the end of harmonious society:
man to combat the cold, the fires, the
blights and the tempests, with woman
his coordinate, not his competitor.
Another phaze of the material view,
- - ftr,
argument no concessions, much less
those OF sentiment and gallantry, are ex-
pected-womap, considered as a govern
mental and bread winning factor, in
competition with the man-whose nature
it is to divide with the woman-is en-
numbered with two comparative and
marked disabilities: First, inferior
muscular strength and the complicated
conditions pertaining to maternity.
Second, inferior power of mental CO.
ordination, involving an emotional SEN
sibility which generally interferes with
rational action. Fly all TO pieces, now,
if you see fit; but not desiring sentiment
these are material facts. The women
who possess no emotional sensibility
are exceptional women, one of whom
the editor of the News may be. Men of
effeminate characteristics or of feminine
natures invariably go under in this
world and victory don't save them or
even help them. Womal's pedestal is
that upon winch manly sentiment has
elevated her. Were she different, and
would be crowded down and kept there.
Just as the effeminate man is and lust as
many of the women IN countries where
women attempt mans work, are forced
down and in way brutalized; and Just
under such agencies as those in actual
operation under peaceful pursuits as in
this country. These are additional
material sex facts which may prove
shocking to Fife. but are hard and solid
ones, all the same, and female suffrage
| and an attempted equal participation in
public life with man by woman would
directly tend TO just such results.
We might so further into the physi-
cal and material views of this woman's
equal rights business, but its phase
we donot like 10 discuss. The response
bility of man 10 woman and woman 20
man in the marriage relation is officially
and morally identical but they are not
SO in fact Love. affection and suitable
| ity to each other ought to be the found
alton of all marriage contracts, with
support and protection by the man and
home comforts by the woman.
but the fact Is marital in
fidelity upon the part of the man is not
that OF the woman, who Is held more
strictly accountable, for reasons which
man holds 10 be reasonable, but which
the ballot would not alter. but rather
aggravate. Jealousy, therefore, Is held
30 be more Justifiahle in man than in
woman. The ballot won't alter that
either. The proof of these last state
ments will be found in the fact that
more women are willing to live in poly
gamy than are men willing TO live in
polvgandry.
1he trouble. Efhe, with all this pro-