The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-06-30
Is WOMAN INFERIOR TO mANp

To the Salt Lake Herald.
a J.. kinsman's assertion that there
are no women in heaven" and his half
Matched belief that after death they are
either annihilated or 20 to heaven sexless
or become men after entering there, puts
me brand of inferiority on womans re-
9Rlous aspirations as effectively CD as
old the VapOrings of Judge BaldWin's
upon her sorts In the fields of educa ton
Both these men are heirs to the prejudices
OF the past; their beliefs give a momen-
tary life to the crumbling bones Of the
bloody prosecutions that beset the path
OF women for many a long century: the
natural law, survival of the fittest"
consigns them far back to the rear of
the army of progress where they may
feed their minds on things which when i'm
active use, tend TO glorify % man at
woman expense l presume Mr. kins-
man, by the aid of his recent researches,
mas arrived at the conclusion that woman
is "ShOddy" material as compared with
man, seeing that she must become sexless
or a man before she can enter heaven,
or be wiped out by humiliation? If his
Investigations are used to arrive at
truth, and so to uproOt an error, we'll
the outcome Of his purpose must be TO
bring to life, If possible, something that
tends to give worth to an old expiring
fallaCy, /. G., woman is not mans equal
religiOusly or politically.
BarbarOus, devoid of all sense of jus
tiCe, the sum total of Mr.. kinsmans as
sertiOns may be, but do the actions of the
past ChiStendOm favor the verdict rem
dered that woman is mans inferior?
Susan B. Anthony, who has devoted her
life to the cause of WOmanS emancipa-
ton. one time said:
THE Bible is a 'He-book from begin
ming to end. 1t has a He-GOd, a He-Christ,
He-angeis. Woman has no glory any
where in it's pages. Jesus said TO his own
mother; Woman, what have TO do with
She nartIv aids to give color to Mr..
kinsman's contentious, but her words
were uttered to help to success the efforts
OF the members of her sex, whereas the
aim of the Pennsylvania student was
to contribute stability to the tOtterlng
claims Of the lord of creation cult.
Mr.. Kinsman, however, has the utter
anCc of many man once prominent IN
church OF state circles, scores of hlstor-
ical and biblical items to aid him in the
task of proving WOmans degradation
Gamble says that "In the fourth CEN
tury holy men gravely argued the ques-
ton, Ought women to be called human
beings?
What was woman's position in the
world in those days2 1t would seem that
man was undecided as to whether she be-
lOnged 10 human kind or whether her true
station was with the beasts of the field
The father of the Christian church, with
aid OF pen and tongue, dragged through
the mire of degradation the name OF
woman.
The alteration, on the part Of man, of
the He-idea filled Europe with the means
of the dying witch; erected on many
village green the stake and galloWsi
moulded the laws that robbed woman OF
| her property rights until the present, and
which, today deny her voice, general
I Is, IA the manufacture Of the laws that
control her life.
Iecky SAYS: Fierce invectives against
/ the sex from a conspicuous and
/ prOtesOue portion Of the writings of the
/ fathers. Woman was represented as the
1 door of hell Women were forbidden on
account of their impurity, to receive the
Eucharist in their naked hands"
/ Buckle says. when sulphuric- acid was
( first used to lessen the pains of child
birth. Il was objected to as a prOfane at
/ tempt to abTOgate the primeyal curse pro-
nOunced against woman
Charles VI forbade that the testimony
( of women should be received in his courts
! The canon law decreed, NO woman snail
aDDrOaCh the altar. w omen were Tor
! hidden TO write I'm their own name, or to
1 receive letters of friendship from anyone
/ addressed only TO themselves. sisters
were not allowed TO inherit with brothers.
/ In entering marriage the VIE was COM
DeIled to surrender her name and prop
erty Conviction of the husband OF a
capital crime gave the wife no release
/ from the marriage bond; yet in the case
I of the husbands treason. mis- innocent
/ wife and children were robbed of all share
/ i'm the estate, and reduced to beggary-
/ Women were burned alive tor crime
! whose only punishment for man was
\ few months imprisonment. n woman
could not attest a viii II required the
| oath Of seven woman to nuiIlIy thaI OF
| one layman.
/ Blackstone says: by marriage the nus
/ band and wife are one person IN law, that
/ is. the very being OF legal existence OF
/ the woman is suspended during the mar
! rage -
/ These old days are about past, ana
/ woman is about TO step forth TO help the
/ bettermeut of the human race milton ;
words that reflect the one-tlnle es s-.l.
of woman will soon De past history
"Oh. why did God,
( Creator wise that peopled highest neaXeh
/ With spirits masculine, create az tass
4 Of nature. and not fill the world at once
l SS-itb men as angels without feminineE
/ "'''' JOSEPH ROGERS.
/ Bingham Canyon.