Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-06-29
PROFESSOR PECK P|lLORED
BY 4 Woman's Scorn--One Of the
Gentler Sex.

VERSITY MANTLE ERRORS OF
HIS WAYS - ALICE STONE
BLACKWELL COMES BRAVELY
TO THE DEFENSE OF HER SEX.
From the Pitsburg Dispatch.
Professor Harry Thurston Peck, OF
Columbia University, has been "contri-
buting to the gayety of nations by a
series of si%ngularly reactionary ar
ticles, in which he protests against all
modern ideas. First he declared him
self opposed to education for the ma
jority of men. In Modern Education
he lamehts that in America education IS
free to all, .for education means am
bition, and ambition means discon-
tent
Professor Peck holds that education
should. produce "a small and highly
trained patriciate," which should dom
mate and control the destinies OF
States, driving in harness the hewers
OF wood and drawers of water who con-
stitute the vast majority of the hui
mar race"
Having thus condemned education in
general, Professor Peck, in another ar
ticle, seriously discussed 1.-The expedi-
ency of asserting to the demand which
women are nov making for access to
the higher education and decided
against it. He seemed not to be aware
that women have already obtained ac-
cess to the higher education, and are
now taking it all over the country.
BLIND TO MODERN CONDITIONS.
In his latest utterance on "The Won
an of To-day and Tomorrow" Prof.
Peek shows the same curious blindness
to modern conditions. His article is
nomipally aimed against the economic
independence CT women, but is really a
diatribe against every attempt to alter
"the position held by women in the eX-
listing scheme of things"-or, rather,
the position that was held by her a few
I'LL I'D GOOy lol llOl. L YIN C0tl ACt
get his eyes open to the fact that that
position has changed. Indeed, his
main argument consists in an obstinate
assertion that woman's place is and
always has been substantially the
same in all ages and nations; that it
has never changed, and, therefore,
never can change. But the condition
of m differs enormously to-day in
different parts Of the world. 1t varies
all the way from complete servitude in
China and Turkey to full enfranchise-
ment in Colorado and Wyoming. In
ou W country it has been revolu-
tionized within the memory Of persons
now living.
Prof. Peck says: The place of wo-
man in this world of ours has been
lrked out for her by man, and he
SC marked it out for her with a
perfect knowledge, in the first place,
of his W necessities, and in the sec
ond place Of her nature, her endow-
ments and her limitations"
MI "A DOObI VIVA L Y Eli.
Wiser men than Prof. Peck have
sometimes doubted their ability fully to
comprehend women; but Prof. Peck
has NO doubts whatever. He contin-
ues: I'm that place she is bound to
stay, because for him, and, it may be
added, because for her as we'll, it is
wholly best that she should do so.'
The majority Of the women of this
world live in India, China and Turkey.
The place that has been marked out for
them by the majority of the men of the
world is a state of ignorance and COM
plete subsection. The Chinaman, the
Hindoo, the Turk, devoutly believe that
1t is wholly best for them, and, Incl
dentally, Tor their wives also, that wo-
men should hold this position. But the
men of the West, being more progress
sive than the Orientals, have found out
that it is not best, either for men or
for women, that the mothers of the
race should be kept in ignorance. They
are also finding out that to a free man
a free and intelligent helpmate is
worth more than an ignorant and sla-
wish companion can possibly be.
Professor Peck holds that men are
Immensely superior to women, not only
mentally, but morally. He boastfully
declares:
1t Is man who is the finest and the
nobiest and the most God-like figure
in the wrold wherein we live. The
earth has been given to him. 1t is his
own
MASTER OF THE EARTH.
The Bible says: Male and female
created He them, and gave them do
minion;" but Professor Peck is con-
WINGED that the earth belongs to man
alone. He is its master, and in him
are found implanted all those qualities
that have made his mastery unques-
toned in the past and that will keep
1t indestructible in the future. He has
the physical power to work his will,
and this alone is a lasting badge of his
superiority" This test would equally