The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-05-03
WELL BEING OF
WOMAN A CARE
Positions in Which They Are
Placed Should Be
Watched.
MRS. LOGAN'S OPINION.
WOMAN SHOULD FOREVER RE
MEMBER THOSE WHO HAVE
FOUGHT FOR UFFRAGE-cOM-
MENT ON THINGS OF THE DAY.
BY Mrs. John A. Logan.


pfeme Court that affects women all
oil over the country.
Justice Brewer in rendering the opin-
ion of the court holds that woman s
physical structure and the performance
of maternal functions place her at a
Disadvantage in the struggle for sub
sistence This is especially true when
TIE burdens of motherhood are upon
her. Even when they are not. by
abundant testimony of the medical fra
ternity. continuance for a long time on
her feet at work, repeating this func-
ton from day to day, tends to injuri-
Ous effects upon the body, and as
healthy mothers are essential 10 vigor-
Gus offspring to preserve the strength
and vigor of the race, the physical
we.l-being of women becomes an object
of public interest and care"
This seems to me an uncontroverti-
BILE statement of wOmans position and
the limitations of her ability to per
form labor that it was never intended
should be required of her. 1t is unfor-
tUnGte that in these latter days her de
Eendence upon man has been SO often
ignored. 1t has always been a great
hardship when women have had to de
pend upon their own exertions for a
living. and especially when she has
lvei alone with others dependent upon
her.
There are some very sad cases where
husbands have deserted their wives and
rersistently refused to contribute to
their support. forcing their victims to
earn their own living or appeal to
friends for the care and support which
they have sworn to give them.
There is no argument that can be
brought to bear that will give women
the same physical strength that is
mans natural heritage. A woman
Eag be a mans equal mentally, and
not iEfrequently. intellectually superb
or to her husband. and yet she would
be incapable of enduring hardships
that would make a draft upon her
physical strength.
"Savages would not lay upon their
wives such burdens as men represent
ing the highest civilization have at
tempted to lay upon their weak wives
and the unreasonable requirements Of
INSCRIPTIONS employers of women led
in the beginning to the revolt which
was started by Susan B. Anthony. Cady
Stanton and other illustrious women
who organized The Woman's Suf-
frage association"
l.
inclined to avail herself of the right of
suffrage, she should forever hold in
grateful remembrance the prodigious
labor of these noble women to secure
tor her sex rights under the law which
had heretofore been withheld. They
went further and opened the avenues
for higher education and for woman s
admission to professions that are real
ly unsuited to delicate women. and.
like all great movements of that kind.
this has perhaps begOtten ambitions in
the minds of women that cannot be
we'll sustained on account of her phys
ical weakness.
For instance. women have undertake
en- the work of civil engineers. which
man to perform. There are women
who. are undertakers, merchants, bank
cashiers. photographers, insurance
agents, physicians, preachers. proprie-
tors Of newspapers. and one notable
instance of q woman blacksmith. 1t
Is reported that there is in California
and Colorado women policemen, and
in Hoboken, n. j., girls have displaced
boys as telegraph and district messen-
gers.