The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-19
Views on Women
Both ingalls, and Ella Wheeler
Wilcox on the Subject.

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| Two very bright people. John J, ingalls,
! and Ella Wheeler wilcox have essaysd
the old and ever new subject Of women
/ Ingalls,. in the New York Journal. desig-
/ mates her a mans enemy and rival
/ Ella Wheeler Wilcox writes Of the dan
| gers OF woman's new ideas
| Both articles are interesting lngalls
/ article is first and is as slows:
| In the stupendous evolutionary process
| through which society IS passing no COM
ponent is more significant and impressive
than the elevation and emancipation OF
/ woman For SO many centuries the VIC
tim. the piaything or the save OF man.
| she. has at last become as rival. his COM
peitor. and MS enemy
1t is, perhaps, not unmannerly 10 say
that compared with man al his highest
and best, all women are inferior and de-
/ fective Physically, Intellectually and
morally they are infirm- They lack initia-
tive, they originate nothing, their weak
ness Is their shield and armor. Their ap-
peal IS 10 the generosity and ma gnanini-
y OF the strong. For courage, they have
craft and compliance Their victories are
those OF diplomacy. not those % the bat
tleheld. They view politics from the per-
sonal standpoint. They support a. candi-
date not for the principles he represents,
but because he dresses becomingly- In re-
Hgion they are emotional. They establish
no faiths They write no creeds- Even in
those caIlings considered peculiarly their
own. the yare surpassed by men. Men
are the best cooks. the best musicians,
the best composers. the best nurses For
its great gravies. its immortal sauces and
dressings FOR terrapin a Ia Maryland.
chicken marengo and lobster Newburg.
the world Is indebted 20 men.
Perhaps the strangest feature Of this
movement Is the fact that from the time
Eve left Paradise till The advent OF Miss
Anthony, woman was apparently content
with her subordina ton She bore child
rem and reared them. kept house for her
tyrant and performed her other domestic
duties without murmur or protest She
demanded no rights and raised no stand
ard Of revolt She was not aware that
the Declaration Of Independence, in az
frming that all men are created equal.
meant that all women were created equal,
and that they were also created equal 10
men.
Hardly Jess surprising Is the extreme
rapidity with which the revolution has ad-
vanced and the immense proportions II
has assumed. The statistics are incom-
plete. but it is estimated that not less than
four million women in the United States
are wage-workers. earning wholly or in
part their own livelihood in vOcatons that
fifty years ago were occupied exclusively
by men. The female doctors. surgeons,
dentists. lawyers and preachers number
about ten thousand. Painters. sculptors
and architects above sixteen thousand.
Journalists and literary and scientific
writer's nearly four thousand Municipal
and corporate officials, seven thousand
Bookkeepers and accountants, forty-five
thousand. Stenographers and typewriters,
sixty thousand. Secretaries and copyists
more than one hundred thousand.
In the subterranean regions Of unskilled
labor the invasion Of women is, to the
student OF industrial problems. more
amazing still.
Without entering upon the open question
OF the Iabor-saving machinery. wages and
employment, * is sufficient TO say that its
Introduction has resulted in an enormous
displacement OF labor and structural
changes in our Industrial system. The ma
chine FOR the manufacture Of barrel slaves
does the work OF twenty-five hundred
men Every Mergenthaler machine throws
five conpositors out Of a Job BY the in
vention Of machinery ninety out OF every
hundred workmen employed In the manu-
facture OF paper were displaced; IN rubber
goods. niuety-eight; in wooden fabrics.
ffty. in silk winding. ninety-four; in. SOAP
making fifty. and so 70 a greater or less
degree in every field OF activity.
II IS impossible to be exact. but Glad
stone declared that machinery had dUpli-
Gated the energy Of the entire population
OF the earth
The machinery In the United states rep
ressnts a. least five million horse power.
and Il operated By not much more than
three million workmen. TO perform the
labor done by these machines would re-
Quire not less than twenty-five million
people. which would represent a poplat,on
OF one hundred and asty million or double
the entire number Of the Inhabitants OF
the entire country.
Nearly one-third OF this machinery Is
operated By women and children az wages
less than half those paid TO men for the
same employment. They receive less be-
cause they are not worth 50 much and
because they are willing 10 work for Jess
They are weaker and more helpless and
less capable of resistance
The claim that women should receive .
the same pay as man for the same work .
IS futile. There IS a vast surplus o. IN
skilled labor The supply II greater than (
the demand The invasion % woman adds 4
70 ne redJndsnce. She lowers n entire
standard ~ wages n every vocation she .
enters Should she demand the same com I
pensatIors she would cease n be employ .
Ell In the bitter struggle foT existence (
woman IS the im7lacahle enemy q man {
Ard not the Jess 20 because many wives .
ard mothers and daughters strive Win .
u7congenizI and repulsirs toll 20 piece out .
the earnings e husbands and fathers f.
that are insufficient FOR the comfort ~ .
the wretched home ana the support O the 4
helpless family
But there Is a very large cisss. esoe- +
cially En- The higher ca1aazs Ebo work
from choice and no from comPslasa-. 4
They have homes where tasy miEht I'vs j
In comfort. 5at they weary % TIRE mon
o.87y and dra6zsry u 5cmessic lie Thsv f
want pe-snisry lnde2en3snce- Restraints 1
ara irks0ne. They desire more pleasure .
ard recreation. 61er rat1seat. travel So
-.ety. ard - seek pi55ic and private en-
each Gre zeo szecee5s d.
placing SORE natural bread v4auer.
The admission o. woman iu,o ere varI-
ous department. a. Wzsai-Etor vas sn
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