The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-10
PREFERS EUROPE
D THIS LAND
American Woman RoaStS Re-
publican Government
is LONDON SENSATION
Published a Book Entitled
''Re1ubIiC VS.. Women"

men" the new book just published by
Mrs. Kate Thimble Woolsey, widow Oh
| the millionaire New Yorker, Edward }.
| Woelsey. has created a most profound
| sensation here and on the continent MIS-
| WooIsey, who is a native of Covington,
| XIV. has eschewed her native land 10
reside in England. and she had no more
use for republics than has William wal
dorf Aston. She is especially bitter against
| her native republic.
| She dedicates the book, with feelings
of sympathy to those who are citizens or
republics
/ The book teens with criticisms OF re-
publics 1t declares that women cannot
| gain the recognition their sex deserves
except under a monarchy. In ner bio
| graphical note referring to the Nools@y
| family she describes their achievements
and declares her pride in che fact that
her daughter is Woolsey. She says:
THE greatest misfortune that ever be-
| fell American women was when their COL
onies broke away from English rule, for
they must always desert their rative
| land with kith and kin AMI live under
foreign flag in order to gain superior sex
recognition which republic ierics them.
Republics, Mrs Woolsey bitterly de-
| c,ares, are ungrateful to women. no
woman she says, can ever be President,
for in republic sale reiG1s inexcrable
as death
Republcanism, she says, is masculine
monopoly, and necessarily confers all Of
its honors, powers and giories exclusively
upcn men. She adds:
| Eepubicanism is womal's implacabie
| foe Between it and her exists an .rrecon-
| cilable conflict. Despite the fact that her
| fathers fought to throw of the shackles
of English monarchy. ii possesses no
| heights woman has not assembled.
AN aristocracy is natures realm, ma
lures arena for women. Her highest
destiny ca monty be reached therein. Mon
archy agrees with all known facts re-
garding mems relations with one another.
1t comprehends laws that give justice.
freedom and morality. 1t is only in such
| institutions that dignity and justice and
freedom that is due TO women can be
granted and maintained"
| France she declares like the United
| States. treats women wickedly." The
French Republic, she says. has done less
i than any other European power for the
| elevation and ameliCration of woman's
condition.
She deplores the fact that in the United
States women are not made much of pub
licly. No woman she says has even been
mentioned in any inaugural address. No
| woman. she goes on. has ever received
| governmental recognition for her services,
no matter how valuable she might have
been. No woman. she declares in bitter
ness. has ever been officially entertained
at the White House in recognition of her
ability. She expresses distress because
it is as she AYERS, illegal for the United
States government to even tender thanks
to a woman for services rendered.
The Presidents wife, she says, shares
little of his official life, and her death is
counted as simply that of an ordinary
woman. No woman. whether the Presi-
dents wife or not, was ever she says,
accorded the honor of a national or state
funeral by a republic.
Nowhere" she asserts is masculine
self-idolatry. self -preference, so constant
ly nurtured as in a republic.
At this point Mrs. Woolsey takes up
the various state laws to show the in
equality of women as compared with
men She intimates here that the United
States is going to the everlasting bow
vows The Republic of Uncle Sam to-
| day. she declares, is not only the most
despotic the most corrupt in Christendom
| but II is run in the interests of the few
est number of people. She points out that
| in a population of eighty millions less
than 100 men control 81 per cent of its
wealth. She adds that the combined his
tor yof all the pirates would not equal
one of these.
She says that the masses Of the United
States have voluntarily placed over them
selves as perpetual rulers a handful Of
the most INSCRIPTIONS. grasping. heart
less brigands the world has ever known
and that these masses have gained moth
ing in liberty of wealth through the use
of the universal ballot-that injustices,
inequalities and corruptions exist that
would not be tolerated for day by an
aristocracy. that the penal code is the
only standard of morality.
She says that legislatures. both ma
tional and state. are combinations of in
! trigue, corruption despotism, prejudice,
rapine and rascality."
The personal liberty that is enjoyed hy
everybody in an aristocracy. she declares
no one in the United States possesses.
Industrial problems for the benefit Of
the masses are not being solved in the
| United States. the author says. but are
/ being left for the aristocracies OF Eu-
rope TO solve.
Then she again takes up the cudgeis for
women in the United States in this wise;
The United States treatment OF won
en- has been one unbroken record Of in
fanny and treachery. The American re-
public has created no ideal 20 inspire and
lie humanity; 81 has produced no i'm
mortal poem no work Of art. no grafton
Its only ideal Is the Golden Calf for
under the dogma OF c smocracy the spirit
uaI necessarily dies and the material only
endures"
Mrs woolsey in conclusion warns the
women of Europe that they can expect
nothing from socialism but inevitable
sex-suioide
She has written letter TO President
Roosevelt embodying her views