The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
DR. c, |, F|TCH'S OPINIONS
His Pamphlet Soon to Be
Issued Will Contain
Plain Talk.
a FEW INCIDENTAL STATISTICS.
Arguments Laid Down on the Lines
and Man Another.

eyes, am preparing pamphlet touch
ing upon woman's rights, and will at
tempt to show that she has gone too far, !"
said DR.. George L. Fitch last evening.
Formerly woman was slave-yes, a
slave-to man, but he in his goodness and
manliness raised her up from a life of serv-
itude so that she became his companion,
his associate and his beloved. He made
to guard his home, and be to him what
God intended her to be-the guardian of
his family and his domestic happiness.
Lecky, the English historian, says: The
family is the center and archetype of the
state, and the happiness and goodness of
society are always in a very great degree
dependent upon the purity of domestic
life'
'That is the basis and substance of
voman's duty, and upon those lines the
world will some day conduct its great fam
lily. I will attempt to show that the ap-
palling death rate, very greatly the result
of woman's absence of womanhood, is the
one threatening and damning cloud that
hangs over civilization.
woman failing to be what the Creator
intended her to be is causing the white
race to diminish rapidly. In Sweden the
birth rate is one-fifth less than the death
in Prussia one-fourth; in Russia, Spain,
Germany and France one-half. In France
alone the death rate, independent of those
killed in battle or dying in the army, ex-
ceeds the actual births by an alarming
percentage.
Fright here in America, New England,
the native-born death rate is greatly in
excess of the births. Marriage is simply
dying out, and at the present time four
fifths of our men at Is are unmarried, at
80 1898 per cent are unmarried, at 35 $3.50
per cent, at As 1915 per cent.
''What will be the result? 1t needs no
argument. The nation whose death rate
exceeds that of its birth rate cannot live,
and the end is clear. have but one thing
to show, and that is that woman has de-
serted her duty as wife and a mother
and has usurped the duties and occupa-
tions of man. l go on to show that man
made for another. 1t i. the old story of
two jobs looking for one person and two
persons looking for one job. That's the
way it is now. There is but one job, and
there should be but one applicant for it.
That applicant should be man
"You hear people say that women are in
every way equal to men. 1t is fact that
the average weight Ot u WOIldH DIdiu IL
forty -four ounces, and it is also fact that
the average weight OF a mans brain is
forty-nine and half ounces. Physical
conditions permit man to enjoy the use
of his brain at all times, and there are
times when woman cannot.
Woman is the connecting link between
childhood and manhood. Beyond that
her functions are limited. There she will
find that the spark of love and affection
which should live in the breast of every
woman will be to her the solace of life, and
the pleasure it will give her will be stronger
than any satisfaction she can secure out
side of her appointed sphere"
when will you be prepared to put this
work before the public?"
when Susan B. Anthony and Anna
Shaw return to this City to begin another
crusade against the heads of the house
holds. l will then give it to the public.
and l hope it will show that the woman il
mother and wife, and not a reformer. [
will be very plain in parts of it, and will
say spade is spade when it is spade"
what remedy will You set forth to
change those conditions that you consider
detrimental to civilization"
Man should take back to himself his
lost manhood and be true and pure and
manly and act as the head of the house,
and insist upon his wife performing the
duties of a woman. That will be my
remedy. The time will soon come when
man will be called upon to say whether or
not he will stand at the head of his house
hold and earn for his sons and daughters
and his wife an honest living and a home
Of peace and manliness and love-"