The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-01
l1Jct11en and Society.

THE WOMEN ARE TO
BLAME FOR TT ALI.
Melville E. Stone. manager @
Press, in an address 20 my
General Federation OF women e .
fraetsts. said: Let me tell you that
the scandal papers of the country are
Supported by women. No large metro.
nolitan newspaper can live unless
meets the demands of the women.
In a recent paper read before tne
societv for the study of lnepriety' IN
ONION. Dr.. Jones made the claim that
the chief cause Of drunkenness was the
bad cooking of housekeepers.
Another writer recently made inc
claim that women were the cause OF
wars. and recently the Male Teacners
Association, of New York city. laid the
blame Of so few boys graduating from
the high schools upon the women teach
ers. claiming that II they were under
the instruction Of male teachers they
would remain in school for longer
time
Elnora Monroe Babcock says: Two
thirds Of the men lay the blame TO
the women for the injustice done by
not allowing women to express their
choice of men and measures at the
polls on election day. They tell us
the reason they do not allow women
to vote Is because women do not want
to vote. and they are ready TO give US
the ballot as soon as we manifest any
general desire for 1t. 1t Is the same
old spirit Of laying all the blame 10
the women that has been in evidence
from the time of Adam, and we have
become so accustomed to 1t that we
seldom stop to consider the ridiculous
ness of 1t all.
Mrs. Fenwick Miller OF England
writes 1t is not only in regard to re-
hgious matters that early association
of ideas makes permanent impressions
Women are themselves very largely re-
sponsible for the contemptuous atu-
tude which many men take toward
them and which is so ingrained by
early training that no later experiences
and no collated facts can possibly az
feet the after life's unconscious convic-
ton. Mothers. nurses and teachers are
only too often responsible for this SEN
timent Lightly and purposely, they
continually speak to the small boy IN
a manner derogatory to the motner
sex. The object in view is frequently
the very desirable one OF arousing the
masculine infants better qualities; the
purpose Is to make him courageous
hardy, enduring, truthful. honorable
resolute before difficulties, etc. but the
means adopted are deplorably evii
ones. The mother. nurse or teacher
suggests that the fault which she
wishes to amend Is behaving like
girl" How can the small boy ran
to connect such faults thenceforth with
the fact of feminity? Terribly COM
mon is this blunder.
The Binghampton IN. W Herald In
a spirit of sarcasm says: "Of course
the woman Is always to blame for 1t
all. She was the one who gave Adam
the forbidden fruit. She Is always
the one who drives her husband 10
drink and evil ways. and who causes
him to get grey-headed because or ner
terrible temper If there is anything
particularly wrong in the world II can
all be traced back to woman. We dld
not believe that the sensational news
papers were the outcome of a demand
for their existence by the deDaseo
female sex of the country, but II seems
that such is the case. Epidemics OIL
crime are probably due to the women
| and we have no doubt that careful
scrutiny will reveal the fact that al
the evil things of which the worlc
| complains are the outgrowth OF TN
| efforts OF the women. We are glat
| to konw what the world Is coming u
| recognize the villain of that terrible
| sex. In time to come they Will ge
| set down on the records just wner'
| they belong"
| There Is more truth in the satirica
remarks of The Herald than most peo
4 ple realize.