The National tribune., 1895-04-18
THE NEW WOMAN DEFINED.

DAISY BARNES: 1 was reading in The Ma.
TIoNAL TRIBUNE of March IA of the new
woman. You say her discoveries have failed
to define her will do so for them:
/. She will be a woman who will protect her
own honor Instead of depending on the superior
sex, and the consequence of the protection will
be q decrease OF the illegitimate children which
ill our land.
g You will find a woman whom man cannot
plumber of her own hard earnings. i am busy
now teaching couple Of men that lesson.
g. The cry Of woman having to propose to
men is the cry of some shiftless, worth ess SCAMP
who is afraid girl would never propose to him.
a. The clear brains Of woman will make the
laws TO protect the widow and orphan, which
the whisky bemuddled brains of man, with
their hoastcd superiority, have never done.
5. They will grapple the great monster Secret
Society, which is bringing disgrace upon our
land, by the throat, and choke it to death.
OF course, you do not expect man will ad mire
q woman which he cannot kick as he would a
dog; that ia where his superiority is.
Men who cannot make laws that will protect
widows and orphans do not deserve wives. It
is hard to teach patriotism to children who will
saw Mamma, / would have more courage to
work il knew they would not take everything
away from me after you die as they did after
papa died"
claim that when q man has no property
when he marries then the accumulated prop
erty, let it he little or much belongs TO the wife,
who helps to accumulate it. j have noticed
that when women did tho managing that bust
ness was done on solid basis
i have never yet read of a woman making
an assignment to cheat her creditors. and
thereby bring honest people TO restitution
That they invariably leave for that superior
being, man.
You hear the cry all over the country how
man is caring for the soldiers THAR do MO
and orphans. The thought has never entered
their superior brain that the FIRST year after a
mans death is the time woman needs assistance
il ever, AS her health is generally broken down
from the care of her husband, with children
often young and no way open to her of earning
a living. The widow and orphan has a good
chance to starve before the Government does
anything for them, If they have no relatives,
which good many have not.
i claim that the husbands pension should be
turned over to the widow or to the dependent
heirs until they have an opportunity to provo
their identity.
In the meantime, what does the country do
for those widows and orphans which may some
day be mothers OF soldiers and wives Of soldiers.
Let us hear from you who want wives and
children and homes.
j can assure you that under the present laws
there is no protection to tho widow a nd orpban
and woman had rather support herself in single
blessedness than III the bonds of matrimony to
bring children in the world to sui fer the privs-
tons brought on by the now existing laws.
These thoughts are the results OF experience
and observation. If q man and woman become
one when they are married their property
should be as one.
Another of the existing evils is the bankrupt
law. Ii should be made States prison crime
for one man to trrsi another mans property.
There is no need OF Las present credit system.
Il 4 a x.g nat -,tn
out getting trusted and support herself and
anywhere from one to one dozen children,
there is no use in man getting trusted Does
the family get the beneft2 No. The mans
wages too often 60 to the rum shop and the
gambling den Helen Z. Huntington.