Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-22
IS LIFE WORTH LIVING ALONE
To Marry or Not to Marry Discussed by
Two Women.
ONE THINKS ctLlBAcY IS SELFlsHNESS
Susan b.. Anthony Takes Up the
BroOmstick in Favor of the Bach
eIOrs of Both se1es-A
Warm Interview.

Warm Interview.
As I an not holding a clerical position
under the present administration l run no
risk Of removal IL 1 venture to take issue
with some statements OF the president.
Likewise, Ella Darling McKillip, upon the
opposite side, though SON things she says
are evident and reasonable.
No man should be condemned as criminal
II he chooses to remain unmarried, but
neither do facts warrant the shower of
boquets thrown at the feet of these cell
bates by e. D. NJ. None Of us but have OBJ
served the truth-many OF us have ex-
perienced 1.-THE married mans life is a
strain and almost a hght-tnat there are
more hands to work than there is work
for hands to do, and an insufficient food
supply must be divided and often sub
divided as new applicants for support pre-
sent themselves. But select at random
fifty married men who have fought and
must continue to fight for even a meager
competence, sharing with others; select
fifty bachelors Of corresponding age who
choose to spend their all upon themselves
which are the most useful and most moral
members of society,"
The Darker Side.
We agree that man should use his reason
and his intellect in the adjustment Of the
reproduction Of his species. But it by no
manner Of means follows that the unmar-
ried man is guided by his brains rather
than his passions. "Dens Of iniquity"
abound where the brutes Of human species
riot and defy all Avs Of God, and man, and
nature-these for the besotted and de-
graded. For the mai Of brains and intel
lect the gilded palaces of sin flourish.
No less guilty is the last than the first,
and far more inexcusable. Does ~celibacy
induce or promote morality? From which
class Of men do these hideous resorts most
largely draw their patronage and support
married or unmarried men?
1t won't do to put the raison d'etre upon
any other higher grounds than that Of the
bachelors objection ito change his life Of
ease and freedom obtained from q salary
sufficient for his individual needs for one
OF bondage" He may not be criminal
only selfish, but even more than this, tits
usually a matter Of taste and preference
where and how he will spend his money.
Struggles and MisfOrtunes.
Perhaps many a man has been driven to
suicide or the verge of it because of de-
mands which he was unable to meet. Many
another has been, too, or, worse still, to
insanity when some calamity or disease
swept his family away from him His OBJ
Jet in life went with them, without them
existence was insupportable. Nothing
seemed worth while thereafter, though he
might then have had something more than
Just clothes and tobacco. Love is the rul-
ing passion in some mems lives, for which
we thank God and take courage. They are
the ones who in some measure redeem no
small proportion Of their sex from utter
obloquy.
The article in The Sunday Bee takes no
account of a large lumber Of bachelors
who are not so from choice. 1t is, or has
been, their ambition to become benedicts.
The implication is that somewhere a
woman sits waiting for some man who
shall become her financial supporter" and
that she feels disappointed and defrauded
If he falls to show up.
Not every woman aspires to the work Of
trying to reform a rake or made a man
out Of an incapable. OF the two, her risk
Of ill-assorted mating is far greater than
his, and more often tits the wife who is
the galley slave under sentence through
life, and she usually endures her servitude
with a heroism and patience of which "the
man Of wrath has no conception.
Omaha, Neb. A WOMAN OBSERVER.
what Susan Il. Anthony Says.
A correspondent Of the Philadelphia
North American recently Interviewed Miss
Susan B. Anthony on the question Of mar
riage and the rearing OF children, with par
ticular reference to the recent letter of
President Roosevelt to Mrs. Van Worst on
race suicide" Miss Anthony dictated a
reply, which follows, In part:
pra.Idonk DaaaauoIk 49, toII,. -t1kz.k
due consideration. and this time he is par
ticularly unconsidered in his utterance.
His ideas on race suicide are those Of a
soldier, who looks upon human beings
either as possible soldiers or possible
mothers of soldiers. 1t is the idea Of En-
peror William OF Germany. There IL moth
ing new in the propositions advanced by
the president. They are as old as the pa
triarchs, whe, 1 believe, had families large
enough to suit even Mr. Roosevelt.
There is not the slightest danger Of the
race dying out. On the ether hand, there
IL q certainty of the race deteriOrating be-
cause Of overcrowding. There are already
too many people on earth. There are toe
many morally. physically unfit to live
There are too many marriages-too many
ill-considered and hasty marriages between
irrationally mated men and women.
IL Is aD4urO TOT MI. nOObeNeiI, OF any
other man, to say that the women Of the
world are evading the duties OF maternity,
We see on all sides cumulative evidence ia
the contrary. Look at the thousands, hun
dreds OF thousands, millions OF faded, tired
out, physically wrecked wives and mothers,
and then tell me. II you dare, that the
women do not do their share in peopleine
the world.
ma is where the women make a great
mistake. This idea that a young girl should
look forward to marriage as the chief aim
IN life, that the day after she lets her
skirts down to her shoe tops she must look
out for a husband, Is all wrong Likewise
II is worse than wrong to teach the youth
with a budding mustache that some girl in
the world is signing for him, and that 1t IL
his duty to marry on nothing a year and
with no definite aim in life.
/. ~HaphaEard Marriages.
> We see the sad consequences Of this
haphazard sort OF marital contract every
day OF our lives. We see the fruits II
discouraged men, broken down, physically
wrecked women. sickly, poorly reared chill.
dren and wretched homes. For man is
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