The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-31
WOMAN IN ACTIVE LIFE.

| 1t is becoming more and more a feature
of the claims of those who are regarded
as the special spokesman of labor, that
the employment of women in the indus
trial callings has resulted in serious dis
advantage to their brothers who follow
productive callings. Members of labor
organizations are heard almost universal
| ly deprecating the conditions in industrial
life which send women into the factory
and the office to compete through her
labor with men. Indeed, those who set
| themselves up as advanced thinkers are
usually especially emphatic in their con-
demnation of the hiring of women at all
In Industrial callings.
| All those who set themselves up to
speak for labor or for the more radical
thinkers on social and economic problems
are not In agreement, however, on this
subject. Mayor Jones. Of Toledo, for In
| stance, has just made a contribution to
the Woman's Journal, of Boston, in which
he takes the opposite view of the
problem of woman in Industrial life. He
meet on a plane of actual equality In all
the relationships of life; should have the
same part in the control and conduct of
government, and that there should be no
distinction whatever between men and
women in the conduct of the worlds af-
fairs. He uses this language in the
course of his article:
| The outlook is bright with promise for
a better day for women as We'll as men.
and 1t is to come about in the only way
| that 1t can come-through the develop
ment of the spiritual life Of the woman,
| which is to lead her to take her place
| alongside Of man as a complete and per-
| feet equal. and to step out into actual,
| stormy life.
The stepping out of woman in actual
stormy life is no nearer realization today
than 1t was before the present era of
feminine typewriters and stenographers
| Women do not as a matter Of fact want
to step out into actual stormy life. It
does not mend matters for Mayor Jones
or any one else to claim that in refusing
to assume the burdens of life outside the
household woman is bearing toward man
the relation of mistress rather than WIFE
The sentiment falls on deaf ears. AS hui
man society Is organized and In view Of
the relative capacities Of the sexes, the
woman is not destined to engage In the
stormy side of life Nor will she for
generations, If ever, so far as can now be
judged
1t is much more likely. in view of eco
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the immediate future withdraw from the
strenuous duties and obligations of life
than that she will ever engage in them
| on an equality with man. In the active
| callings the services of women are be-.
ing dispensed with in favor of those of
| men. There are so many qualities of fit
ness on the part of men which are alb
sent from among the other sex that those
charged with the conduct Of great en-
terprises find themselves every day forced
In the more exacting calIings to dispense
with women and place their reliance on
men. This is one of the great features
Of the industrial evolution of our time
Neither Mayor Jones nor the other radi-
CetlS oA poiluCdl me Gall dtAeCt IL III tAo
| slightest. 1t is not until woman herself
leads the way in the movement of COM
plete equality with the other sex that
the movement in that behalf Will ever
reach a condition of advancement which
Will entitle 1t to the serious considera-
| ton of thoughtful, practical men of the
world.