The herald., 1896-09-20
MANS SELFISHNEsS.

God created man in His own image,
and that man means woman also no in
telligent male citizen will expressly de-
ny, although by his acts he daily asserts
the contrary. Why then should she not
have equal rights? BY whose law is man
slven the power to decide what her
wants and what he should allow woman?
Mans law alone. Has not man in his
blind selfishness usurped and made laws
contrary to divine plan, thus holding do
minion over one-half of Gods children,
and must not all usurpation end sooner
or later? Out upon this nauseating
twaddle about mans sphere and wo-'
mans sphere! Who creates their
sphere, man or God? Soul has no sex.
Every soul when born into this world
has it's germ of destiny planted within
by it's Creator, inheriting only bodily
form and physical bent from its human
parents. Who is the greater, God or
man? Who then, should control the
sphere of soul. God-born instinct or
a mans law? If a soul of might and of
right by divine will be embodied in a
female form instead of that of a male,
whose law does she follow when she
feels and asks the right of equality with
the son she rears? What honest reason
ing man but can point to what the world
pleases to call feminine mind dominat-
ing the form of a man, and vice versa!
What has form or sex to do with it any
how? Has mind either sex or form?
If 1t has, which is greater. mind or form?
There are master minds today in fe-
| male bodies whose thought and voice
should be factor in moulding our ma
ton, free from prejudices, interrupted
| by the whisky ring, greed for gain, poll
| teal wire-pulling or the bosses, whose
| hearts beat to the throb of a civilization
that is yet dimly seen.
Woman Is the only female in the uni
verse from the lowest form of animal
| life to the highest, that is not allowed
| the freedom of her own instincts. Shame
| upon any man Of the nineteenth CEN
| fury from within she must ask it. Why
in Gods name does he not rise to the
| dignity of mastery of his own royal
birthright and lay freedom at the foot
of woman as an act of voluntary justice,
instead of compelling her to ste for
what is God-implanted right?
| Abraham Lincoln was shot down in
his prime because he stood at the head
| of a nation that demanded the abolition
Of slavery Did that defeat emancipa-
ton? Woman stands today with the
| God-given right to the sovereignty OF
her own property, children, body and
| soul. What man can. except for time,
| stop the onward, resistless flow of a
tide that has its source in divine law?
| What woman that treads this earth,
with a heart beating to the pulsations
| of true womanhood. but would rather
remain in the sanctity of her home than
lift her voice on the public rostrum or
exercise her right to vote If the unjust
domination did not extend to that, as
we'll as to public affairs? Men should
understand that the justice of equal
| rights, equal chances for development
must come. Women should feel and be
prepared for the responsibilities their
assured enfranchisement will devolve
upon them; grid on their armor, let their
lamps be trimmed and burning; learn
to be ruler of their own little world
self-so that when the freedom God
gave them is accorded by man they will
be fully able to demonstrate their worth
mess to be trusted in the state as well
as in the home.
ALICE P. LUDLAM.