Montana news., 1908-05-14
WOmen'S Clubs
WOMAN, THE WORLD Is WAITING
FOR YOU.

of the women of the laboring class.
Mans evolution and growth to an
analytical, logical state of mind has
been slow process. He has expended
his greater time striking at effects
while he has tenaciously defended the
institutions and conditions that pro-
duced those undesirable effects. He
has not only denied the inevitable law
Of cause and effect, but has presumed
that he is greater than nature-that
he can establish social laws that will
set aside natural laws.
The female exercises the right of in
itiative throughout the animal king.
dom, and she exercised this right in
human history down to the time when
her will and freedom were subjected in
behalf of property rights. The sub
lection Of woman was the greatest mis-.
take ever made by man. The proper
tied class has ruled both church and
state, and it naturally followed that
church and state declared in favor
Of woman's subjection, and woman,
through her material dependence and
hypnotized mental state, became a
helpless, deficient dependent. Instead
Of woman taking a negative position,
she should have taken the initiative in
all things. II is woman who nurtures
the race into being, and it is this long
period of nutrition that enables her TO
make the race just what she is herself,
and a subject motherhood means a sub
ject race. When women amount to
little, men amount to but little more.
A subject motherhood has filled our
world with war, crime, insanity and i'm.
becility. Instead of woman taking a
negative position, she should take the
initiative and her talents should be
developed to their highest capacity that
she may transmit these powers to pos
terity.
Woman lost her freedom and her in
dividuality when man assumed abso-
lutte property control, and she will never
be liberated and the race through her,
until she again becomes industrially
free and independent.
Socialism is the first movement in
the worlds history that has admitted
woman's right to an economic indie
pendence, and the first that has set
forth a scientific method by which this
right might become a practical reality.
There are millions Of women today who
are sold both inside and outside the
marriage state for homes and support,
but in their ignorance and helplessness
they know not which way to turn, and
have given up in despair.
| No movement can become a universal
and permanent success until women be-
come imbued with 1t. Womsn's great
est duty is to woman, and every one
who has learned the message Of Social
ism tn the human race should be put.
ting forth every possible effort to carry
this message to every woman who ID
yet ignorant Of IL. There Is 4 vital
work to be done among women by wo.
men. The Socialist women all over our
land should get into close touch and
under a bond of need and sympathy
should cooperate and inaugurate a
campaign of education that would
sweep everything with it.
Our women, backed by the locals,
should band themselves together in AL
of our larger cities and carry our liter.
ature to the women in bondage every.
where. They should first be canvassed
with literature and then invited to the
local. In a number of our towns our
women are holding parlor propaganda
meetings, taking up the studies of his
tory, economics, parliamentary law
and such things. These meetings are
very beneficial, both in so far as gain
ing knowledge and giving practice In
propaganda and official work is con
cerned. Neither men nor women viii
ever become active until given some
thing to do, until allowed an oppor
tunity for individual expression. We
shall never have a permanent society
until every member of that society i,
granted full expression Of his indi
viduality. II is well for the womer
Of the locals to prepare every alternatt
program for the locals, and the children
should be used on these programs as
much as much as possible.
There is great work in the Social
ist movement that is especially wo
mans work, and our women all oyei
the land should come into close touch
and sympathy, and inaugurate cam
paign Of education that would free tbs
world from all the shame and degrade
tion Of economic slavery. All the work
done by our women should be reported
in some Of our women's papers or de
partments.--Luella X. Krebbiel in Th'