The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-12

man who is to be her husband. She
Is not as good as he Island Ii takes
gold to make the inferioIity of the girl
equal to the superiority of the man.
But If this sort of degradation is gall
ing ITO THE woman. what must 1t be to
the man? He knows what he Is, and
he knows he is marrying the girls
money. and takes the girl as a PEN
ance for the gold. There can be no
emancipation so long as this sort of
thing lis possible.
bah! One true woman is worth a
whole continent of these men who sell
their manhood and their love for the
sake OF leading life of idleness, and
living on the money they had not earn
ed, but married. / thank the Lord for
not making dowry hunters of Ameri-
can men. Were / man. 1 certainly
would take the girl 1 loved. df / were
sure she loved me. and marry her, ana
retain my sef-resDect and my dignity
of manhood, and my wife's respect and
love by earning our Joint living, and
being a woman. l say to every other
woman, take the man who you can see
Is young and strong and full of health
and not afraid of work. who says TO
you, / want you and 1 will take you,
and 1 will provide for you, because l
love YOU
"And should Ut be your fate to be in
suited by The pretended love of a pre-
tended man, who bargains with your
father as to how much money shall go
with you, i say get gun. There Is
no woman on the face of the earth
who does not know that she has equal
natural rights with man, and who does
not feel 1t her prerogative to jointly
govern with man.
rs she not jointly with man, In an
equal degree. the mother of the next
generation as ne Is the father? Are
not her children as much hers as they
are his? WHY then should she have
no voice i'm legisfa'ting for their good.
and how could her mothers heart, or
her woman's maternal instinct, help
longing for the right to Jointly legts-
late for the good of the children she
loves, and who are the joint result of
her and her husbands love?
This new woman question is not
one that boomers and bicycle riding
will solve. The total emancipation of
women will not be brought about by
wearing male apparel. or riding horse
back. man-fashion. nor by woman suf-
frage and vote clamoring women. 1t
will come. not wreSited from man by
woman. but yielded by him to her.
vested in her by him. with a declara-
ton of ITS Justice and an apology for
his Hardness in seeing the truth and
right of her equality. 1t will be
brought about when all women, like
all men, will become wage earners and
producers.
"Emancipatlo means freedom, and
there can be no freedom for women
so long as they are dependents.
THE man who lives on his wife's
earnings is not one iota more emanci-
pated than the woman who lives on
her husbands earnings.
when daughters. wives and moth
ers become wage-earners In the same
degree that sons. husbands and faith
ers are. then. and not till then, will
they be able to eniov those rights with
out the sacrifice of their womanly
modesty and their woman character.
"Woman's rights. like mans rights,
mean self-support; self-support means
rights and voice in the family govern
ment; and rights and voice in the fam
lily government means rights and voice
in the government of the nation.
And 1 boldly say. that the wage
earning and not the prohibition-preadh-
ing woman. will be the archangel who
will bring in her work-hardsned hand
woman's emancipation and equal
rights with man to all her other wage
earning and producing sisters"