The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-19
HATS OFF TO A LADY.
WHAT NEWELL DWIGHT HILLS
PREDICTS FOR WOMEN.
Declares That the Center Sex Will
Own Most if Not All of the Prop
erty and That Hubby Will Have
to Beg For Fifty Cents With
Which to Buy a Christmas
Present.
From Tuesdays Daily.

Chicago, Nov. lG-Man in the flu
ture-several centuries hence-will take
off his hat to woman, not alone for
that superiority which is recognized
today, but because she is the only
educated person in the country.
That practically is the prophecy Of
Dr. Newell Dwight Hills of Brooklyn,
but formerly of Chicago, who spoke
before the Cook County Teachers as
ISOLATION during its session in Chi
cago. He gave it one qualification.
Man must mend his ways.
But Dr. Hills saw other triumphs
for the fair sex. In fact, it was a
field day for women, with the Brook
Ign preacher as the prejudiced referee.
He said woman some day, thousand
years or so from now, would own all
the property and would shovel the
coin to her more or less esteemed
husband in bits of 80 cents a shovel,
and begrudge that.
Women Crave Education.
"The women are getting the most of
the education of today" said DR..
Hills, "and before long, if the men
continue to 60 into business, and get
their recreation in the evening by
playing billiards, while the women
follow intellectual pursuits, the women
will be the only educated persons Ut
the country. As'
I'm 1000 years the women will own
all the property, and when man
wishes so cents with which to buy a
Christmas present, he is likely to be
asked by his wife what he did with
the last so cents she gave him.
Il don't know why women should
not vote. l am tired listening to
these false statements about the wom-
Ell to the effect that they were made
inferior to man and should be kept
subject to his authority. We are hav-
ing too much truble over that state
ment of Paul's that women should
not talk in the church,
Immigrants Strengthen Nation.
DR.. Hills took issue with David
Starr Jordan, who declared recently
that the blood of America is becoming
diluted with the Immigration from
foreign countries. He said that the
hope of the country lay in the bring
ing of new blood from foreign lands.
''The trouble with Ireland is that
the biggest and healthiest Irishmen
are over here running our police and
politics." he said. "The biggest crop
the United States ever reaped will
be found to be the result of the work
of 100000 immigrants in the great
northwest. Don't tell me that these
immigrants dilute the blood There is
nothing in the idea"
st is time that we Americans get
rid of the idea that we are the
chosen people of God. Let us stop
talking about the Hebrew mud and
the Italian mud, and so forth. God
took some Hebrew mud and made
Moses, and he took some Italian mud
and made Garibaldi.''
In concluding, DIR. Hills paid this
compliment to the cold maid school
teachers"
GOD be praised for the old maid
school teacher" he said. certainly
she has done more for civilization
than anyone else She has educated
lawyers and jurists, newspaper men
and literary lights. She has done
more for the world than has any
man put at the head of great rail
road system.'