The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-19
THE CAUSE OF WOMAN.
YI.sFyIToR IN0<LLs EXPRESSES HIS
POOR OPINION or OMEN.


Conarms Lord Mayor Talion's Views on
u,m.n Suffrage In Irrland--wom omen as
sobooi and Poor Board Commissioners.
ex-senator John J. Ingalls, Of Kansas. who
,,.,,nqui.hod himself few years ago by declaring
ma, the possibility Of keeping the Ten Command.
,.,o,s and the Golden Rulo in politics was AN
,sd,sosu, dream" has now given to tho world
a.. oo,nion Of women. lie says:
eli Ia perhaps not unmanncrly to say that
.,nn,red with man at his highest and Dos. all
,-om,n are inferior and defective"
I, NAV be noted that man at his highest and
~ never makos any such assertion. Woman
= d,a,tcnt from man: but II Is only the lower
so. of man who believes that difference nocos-
.,lv implies infenority. A man who happens
a, h, Of arrogant temperament naturally regards
h,mself a. the standard and every one who differs
s,or him a. "defecuvc"-as Queen Elizabeth Is
..,o,,,d 10 have said when told that Mary Queen
- SCOT, was little taller than herself. Then
a. ia TOO tall for | am Of Just the right height"
A mare Is different from horse. but sho may
4. ius, a. perfect creature, and woman At her
Srhe,, and best Is a, perfect In her kind as man
:. N, hirhos, and best Is in his
Mr. ingalls, continues physically, mon
s.,Iv and morally, they twomeD are innrm."
u,,, again Is the deusion that difference i'm.
,il,s infetority Women lack some physical
..n,ci,i.s tha, men possess but they possess
others ,hs, men lack woman cannot lift a
,oo. hound weight but neither can a man bear
!. child. As for womens being mentally in
Ann ask the young men in coeducational col
L~,s whether the girls do not take their full share
Il the pribos
pu, perhaps the most extraordinary asser
~, ia tha, women are morally inirm.- Mr..
tpr,l, should glance over the prison statistics.
According 70 the census Of 1890. the percentage
A women In the different State prisons was as
follows emitting fractions
In the District OF Columbia women constitute
II Der cent OF the prisoners: In Massachusetts,
and Rhode island, IL per cent: In New York,
L. Louisiana. IL: Virginia IL; New Jersey,
10 Maryland and Pennsylvania, 0: Connecticut
4 Alabama New Hampshire Ohio and South
Carolina 7: Florida, Maine, Mississippi. New
Mexico and Tennessee. o: Georgia, Illinois, In
diana kentucky. Michigan. Missouri, North
Carolina and West Virginia. 5. Arkansas and
Delaware, l. California Minnesota, North Da-
ko,A Texas and Vermont 5: Colorado. Iowa,
Montana Nebraska and Utah. =: Arizona, Kan
sas, Nevada and South Dakota l: Washington.
rshtven tbs OF per cent: oregon and Wisconsin.
four..erihs Of per cent Wyoming and Idaho.
nona The small percentage OF crime among womeD
u
barred from q vote and shielded from political
smp.auons: but IL will 30 observed that in the
sniranchiscd States the percentage Of crime among
women Is even los than the average.
Mr Inxall, says -'They originate nothing
II ne had made that assertion before 1905 he
would have been e1cusabie: for up To that tune
no woman had patented an invention But in
the quarter Of century following 1908 women
tooS OIL, a.pen patents; in the next quarter Of a
century uiny-hve. a the next l, sos: and he
twren 1884 and 1895 when the reports Of tho
Pat nj office were Last published women took
OUT patents for 5 so5 inventions some Of hem Of
great value. ieiM ingalls, says they originate
nothing"
lie continues: For courage. they have craft
AMI compliance Men undoubtedly have by
naiura morr physical courage than women: and
u { cr.it8indr~ct lnnurnce--was the only
pr1per ant woinany way for them 20 attain their
endS HUT no one has shown great'r courage
ailh- Red Cross nurses AMI the Sisters Of Charity
In times oi war and p-stll-nc" look at the martyrs
honoraI" when it is a victory over naturally
under heavy ar-, AMI one, r-"-ing that The o,hrf
you arc 'nghrnc,.r" The other answered en-
phsgcAly. I am: anil II you were hail as much
,hinE ,wc- beforg hey deny the possibility Of
hLgh courage to the Sex that produced tic mother
OF the MaccabecS
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TOW N. n.rsrnaI .t,ndnoint~ Common =,
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ne hnd ~ Iirrrt inrn.nc. Tor in E.rsss wnr,s,
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r,ndidn,. NO, Tor The phncitl-s he ycpr,senta
inv S,,temen, would he ,eceiyrd With ;in",tn
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