The record-union., 1898-01-23
"A QUESTION THAT WILL NOT
DOWN.


Press" complains that there are strong
evidences daily manifest of decline of
chivalry among men, indicated by the
conduct of the male. sex towards
women in public. This deteriora
tion Of fine courtesy she deplores with
tears in her lines, and we join with her
in 1amentation, though it is not lachry-
NOSE. While this accomplished woman
writer complains so loudly and justly
she declares her inability to understand
what is the inspiring cause of this de-
cadence.
The woman who is unable to perceive
the cause is indeed living in darkness
though moving in the blaze of the sun
light Of civilization. She sees the lack
of Difference on every side, but con-
fesses to blindness as to the fountain
Of origin, when the source is just as
boldly present as is the offense. The
cause Of the correspondent tribulation
resides in the conduct of women and
in the permission they give to a class
of their sex to make demands for them,
such consent either being by silence or
open affirmation
The demand for business and political
equality is so far meeting with consent
ing response that women are now in
business walks just nine times in 1898,
where they We're once seen in business
callings twenty-five years ago. They
t,xr X II,
the professions and in politics; they are
infinitely and Extensively more to the
forefront in the busy world Of outdoor
strife than they were forty years ago.
We are perfectly confident in adding
that they are not the better, but are
greatly worse, for it.
The position the Record Union" has
occupied upon this subject for years is
due not so much to regard for the rights
OF men and the justice that makes them
care-takers and providers, as regard for
the nobleness, domesticity, exclusive
ness, sovereignty and lovableness of
womankind; her queenship, so to speak,
in a realm over which no other can
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and child-kind benefit.
Cropping for a reason in her blindness
for the deplorable decadence OF manly
courtesy. the writer suggests that it
may be found in lack of home educa-
tion. In this she Is partly right. For
the trend Of the modern woman has
been so largely away from the home
that it is not surprising that there is
lack Of home training. We can scarce
ly expect boys to grow up with the old
time respect, amounting 10 more than
Difference, chivalry and civility to wo-
men. when they are accustomed TO the
sight OF girls jostled In the warehouse
bruised in the marts Of commerce, and
subjected to the indignities and coarse
ness of understrapper bosses, floor
walkers and Superintendents in great
and lesser stores, shops and shows.
Enough of this sort Of thing is to be
seen in San Francisco any day to make
the heart of a true man stir within him
Indignantly There Is not a falzir show
on Market street that has not some
poor girl chained in the ticket office;
cigar stands lock her in pocket boxes
10 be leered at; dsngy offices find hel
cramped over the desk; as the hammer
ing typewriter in the smoke -begrimmec
and sunless offices of hotels she is
prominent She is throust behind
counters TO be bossed by men whose
brain lockers rattle with emptiness, ol
she is pars1ding floors as sub-superin.
1endent with .shaven power that sits il
upon her shoulders.
She is cashier. bookkeeper, peddler
clerk. me ssenger. ticket-taker, superin-
tendent, reporter mingling with iltf
and besrnirehed with prison CRIME; sh'
is snirking and smiling TO late hours
from behind counter and desk at sucf
small pittance of wage as 10 excite mor'
than surprise as TO how she lives. sh'
Is weaving her way between casks IL
liouor houses. or bunting her natufa
.ensibility in the counting-rooms o