Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-22

and the Mormon his four abreast. The
systems come to the sam end-that lie,
the wives are mere slaves to their hus-
and children.
Physical wrecks.
I say that the mother Of a large family
is in line cases out Of ten a physical
wreck. One child usually satisfies the
matrimonial instinct; two, or certainly
three Beyond that number the wife be-
comes a mother under protest. Save under
exceptional circumstances a large family
cannot be properly cared for by the mother.
Better a small family where the children
are healthy, bright, plentifully fed and
adequately clothed than a large family neg
lected and unschooled.
Look about you in any large city and
tell me IL you notice any lack Of children.
The streets fairly swarm with them. l
don't know Of a city in the land where
the public purse is equal to providing
school accommodations. Everywhere a
large percentage of children are forced to
remain out of school because there is no
provision for them. Today the children
come so fast that boards Of education
annot keep pace with the demand.
The big family idea was invented by
man for his own selfish motives. Usually
the father Of a big family is living with
his second or third wife. Motherhood has
worn out the others. l sometimes almost
doubt the wisdom Of the Almighty: for, IL
he had Intended woman to be a mere
~propagating machine, it seems to me that
he ought to have made her out Of better
and more enduring stun.
Most of the young men Of the day are
morally unfit for marriage. They are
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willing to support a wife, They prefer to
spend their money upon frivolous girls,
with no thought Of matrimony. When, at
last. after years Of pleasure, they take
a wife, they make her miserable. They
either will not support her, or, If they
contribute. It is done so grudgingly as to
crush the humanity out of the woman.
Sinks Her individuality.
The woman who marries sinks her indl-
viduality and becomes a mother, never
amounting to anything but a household
drudge. Whenever a married woman does
achieve anything you will always find that
her husband is an enlightened and SUI
perior man, who makes no pretense to
being the superior and gladly avails him
self of his partners help and counsel.
Right here l want to say that woman Is
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equality, at least in the marital state
through a strange compensatory evolution
in nature. Vice and dissipation have al
ready begun to tell upon the men. Hence
We see, year by year, the physical and
intellectual plane of woman advancing
Look at the men and women passing in
the crowded streets, and notice the ever
increasing proportion Of well-formed, Wig
orous women-single omen-wome taller
and more athletic than their male escorts
Observe the puny appearance of SO many
of the men. Man is going backward as an
animal.
l believe not only should there be fewer
marriages. but that many Of the mar
riages already contracted should be dis.
solved. In the thousands upon thousands
of cases where the husband is addicted to
RIGHTEOUSNESS, II is not only the right but
the duty of the woman to seek divorce.
1t is through woman's ignorant subjec-
tion to the tyranny OF mans appetites and
passions that the life current of the nation
is corrupted, and suicide Of the race is
threatened and not, as Mr.. Roosevelt in
sists, through the failure OF men and
women to marry.
II the race is to be saved from Suicide
It must be saved through the intelligent
emancipation Of woman.