The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-03-01
Cesar and Caesars Wife.

There is a whole lot of food for solid
thought in the recent ruling Of aWest-
ern Judge, that the wife has the same
right to remain out at night, to drink
and to gamble that the husband has.
This ruling suggests for our consid-
Grafton most vital truth, truth
which has, from the beginning of hu-
man history, been for the most part
overlooked.
The truth refer to is this, that
right and wrong are not questions Of
sex, but are, ever have been, and will
| ever continue to be the same for both
man and woman.
False as it is dangerous and degrad-
| ing is the idea contained in the too
familiar phrase-"The Double Stan
dard of Morals
Such standard never existed save in
the minds of immoral men, and had
it never been heard of the world
would now be great deal better than
it is.
There is but one morality, and this
one morality holds good for all moral
beings, of whatever race, age or sex.
Alike for all men and for all women,
there is the way that is right and the
way that is wrong.
A wrong in man is wrong in a
woman, and, conversely, that which is
right for the man is also right for the
woman.
There is but one moral law, and who
ever breaks it breaks it and whoever
keeps it keeps it; and that is all
there is to it.
In no way, shape or manner does
the breaking or the keeping Of the
Law hinge upon the matter of sex.
In what respect is drunkard, thief,
gambler, libertine Of the masculine
gender any better or any worse than a
similar person Of the feminine gem
der 2
1t is quite true that, owing to Q
false education, we overlook q great
many things in men which we abomi-
nate in women, psrdoning the men for
the very acts for which we everlast-
ingIy damn the women.
AS has been already intimated, il 10
only our morsl ignorance shat causes
us to do this. It is decidedly wrong
for woman to Bmirch her woman
hood, but it is not bit worse than it
ie for man to degrade his manhood.
Man has 40 more right than woman
i to tFiAe with the moral law. "A. 4. !;
Our old friend. Caesar, was . vety
! great man when it came TO manipuIa,
ting political oaucnsss and wiping out
hostile populations, but he was mere
tyro when it came to the canons Of
human deoenSy and goodness.
He was one OF hiatory's most CON-
spicuous champions Of she double
standard" idea. For such standard
he was, in fact, mighty atickler.
No matter what happened, Cesar 8
wife had to be ''above suspicion. !,
But Caesar? All, that was another
matter [ Caesar woa Cesar and Cae-
sar's wife. was. Caesar wife. n. b
Wise as he was land intel elleotually.
he was one of the greatest men ofs
whom history gives US any informas
tion-the great Julius did not seem to
understand the simple ethical princi-.
pie that the raoral Law that applied TO
his wife applied also, and with equal
force, to himself. 81;
A great many centuries have rolled
away since Caesar lived, but there sre
multitudes who still think as he did
upon This all-important subject. III
w here is the man who does not in-!
sist upon his wife's being = paragon of
virtue and model Of disore biol, s?
How oareful she must be j And how
qniokly,ahs ID froWned upon, cursed
and cast aside, if she makes she leaat
false stop u
And yet how often IL is that the
husband is grossly false I'd the moral
lity he il 30 persistent I'm demanding
obediencs 90 on tho part of his wifsIl Il
She mpst guard His konc bnlt how
proyokingly, careless he iss of$ guard D
Ing hsrs
saha were to come home sto him
drnpkE he would be tempted "a i6rowl