The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-16
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Vigorous Defence Of Them by an Opponeus
OF Male Domination.


To TEE EDIroR OF THE Sux-Sir: In your
editorial Of December - on The Roosevelt
Storer Case you say:
We do not approve Of women in diplomacy.
We recall many women who have achieved britt.
fancy In the semi political salon. but few who
have altogether escaped mischief. In the long
run their hearts get In the way Of Seir heads and
the best Intentions In the world are frustrated
by an uncomfortable excess Of zeal.
We might reply with equal proprIety:
This Ia our country rs much as It Is your couu.
try. Your right and your interest are no create,
than our right and our interest. II We are in error
In this regard, and this Is your country exclusively
and you alone have the right TO administer is
Affairs. then we had better leave IL and found a
country OF our own. as did our forbeaTs for M
greater reason than We have.
But this question has been legally decided.
and no time need be consumed In controversy.
In Crandall VS.. Nevada, 9 Wallace, s5.sL.
some OF the rights OF citizens those born
In the United States) are defined. and among
them the right TO engage In administerina
the functions Of the Government and the
right to share its ofices. As such citizens.
We do not approve OF male domination; ws
do not approve OF the manner in which men
govern our country; we do not approve "
male diplomats exclusively. nor do We ap.
prove Of al their acts. We do not approve
Of the intrisues OF our high officials. neither
do We approve OF the political carpetbaggers.
the grafters. the s~pollsmen, nor the men
higher up who are seeking to be -all things
10 all men" for their own personal aggran.
dizement.
True IL is that the only school OF diplomacy
to which women have been allowed entrance
by their au gust superiors Is the domestic
circle, but the fact that 80 many homes are
In existence to-day 10 proof positive OF their
efficiency In this regard. We believe that
We cannot do worse than many men who
have entered that field, not because Of any
superiority as diplomatists. but because
they were enabled to strengthen the machine,
and the recent disclosures In the public press
amply support our contention.
In our humble opinion Mrs. Storer COM
pares fsvorably with her male colleagues.
In fact. we believe. and not without reason,
that she told the truth; that she was. in other
words, "on the level" while the same cannot
be admitted Of ell the other parties con-
cerned. These disgraceful revelations, added
to all that has gone before, make us unutter-
ably weary OF this system Of government,
where one half the people make and ad-
laws for the other half. 1t ia neither
a repu bile, a democracy, nor a monarchy, but
ia more akin to a despotism.
Our Government will never be properly
administered without the cooperation Of
women and men. Nothing has ever yet been
a success where the one principle alone was
represented. nor can it be. for the one must
eternally complement the other.
Equality is justice. and Justice Ia the giving
to equal persons equal things. AGovernment
on injustice must decay and will
eventually pass away, n only when the un-
represented half come into their birthright viii
country and our institutions be secure.
HARRIRrTE NJ. JoHNsroH-Woop.
NEW YORK. December II.