San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-06
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THE DECAY OF CHIYALRY.

| 4 we'll meaning and chivalrous gen
tleman in Chicago has started what
he is pleased to call "a crusade OF
courtesy" in other words it is his de
termination to make men Of that city
show more gallantry and respect for
women by surrendering their seats in
street cars to the softer sex. We do
not know of harder spot in the III
! ted States in which to inaugurate IL
campaign or a Crusade of courtesy"
but it is hoped that the crusader will
succeed and a battery Of artillery will
signify the event by firing a salute on
the lake front, but we are inclined to
believe that he is doomed to sore dis
appointment, because of the material
he has to deal with and the fact that
the times have changed. Comment
ing on this fact the Chicago Dispatch
says:
The male biped who keeps his seat
in street cars while women stand is
not necessarily a hog. He may be
simply a very tired man.
1T is one Of the deplOrable features
of latter day civilization that women
have voluntarily surrendered the con-
sideratiOn shown them n generation
ago.
They have gone into the industrial
market and have bid against their
brothers for places of profit, and their
brothers have very properly come to
recognize as a force to be recognized
in the struggle for eXistence-nothing
more.
IF the men of this country cannot
support its life; if female labor is eS-
sential to the development of indus
tries, then it would ill become man to
affect a superior strength by surren-
dering his rights in public conveyance
eS or anywhere else.
''Th person who acknowledges his
own incOmpetency by setting his
daughters to work as soon as they are
as high as a big mans knee cuts a
grotesque figure as a cavalier.
Women who fret under the yoke
tllcy nave pldCtu Ou llltlISelNeS nave
the remedy in their own hands. Let
them cOnfine their efforts and their
sphere to domestic life, as they for
merly did, and they will be treated
with marked courtesy as they former
ly We're"
1t is true. as the Dispatch says, that
a good deal of the bloom has been re-
moved from the rose by women enter
ing the business walks of life and
competing with men. This cOmpeti-
ton has grown at such pace within
the past twenty years that men have
been crowded out of occupations for
merly belonging to them and forced
to join the rapidly increasing army of
tramps and as a result women are not
respected as much now as they were
when they illuminated home and not
the business office with their presence.
But we are glad to know that "cru-
SADIE of courtesy" is not necessary in
New Orleans, and we hope never will
be. While female labor has supplant-
ed male labor in many industrial pur-
suits in this city our men, we are proud
to say. hold women in the highest res
pect because chivalry is Unborn and
cannot be acquired. The gallant. cour-
teous and respectful treatment of
women has made the southern gentle
man famous the world over, and he
may never fall below the mark set by
his ancestOrs-the cavaliers.-New Or
leans States.