Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-28
ANSWERS LONDON MIRROR
IN DEFENSE OF WOMEN

ELsINORE, Nov. 21.-[Edltor Her
add: In Professor Heidman's letter
to the Daily Mirror, London, repub-
lishet by Los Angeles paper Novem-
Der, II, he states, woman Is not man
equal, never has been, never Will be.
She Is the complement of man, but the
lesser one as expressed by the term
minus.
There is a certain section of wo-
men of the present day who claim
equality with men, more especially
political equality. Now women can
never be mans equal, intellectually
morally or physically. OF course Wo-
men are .more precocious In their de-
velopment than men, but so are CHM
panzees and all inferior races. Her
most powerful sentiment and the ono
which dominates all others Is mater
nal love. What she loves In man Is
not the lover but the father or her
children; as such she will humor him,
will tell lies for him, for woman
estimate of right or wrong is as easily
altered to suit her convenience as
dress just received from the Dress
makers" In the foregoing quotation
there is plainly visible mind traV-
cling on the beaten path OF the an
clients expounding the doctrines OF tho
Woman is the complement OF man.
but she is the greater one, as with
out woman man Is minus. lie is the
coarser by far, and nearer II there
Is any distinction to the beasts or the
forest than woman, and II ne Will au-
nit the truth, he must acknowledge
the tenderness Of woman has had
great influence on mankind and Is e
most important factor in the progress
of civilization.
AS by woman the character or the
child is formed and moulded, lntellec-
tually woman is fast filling places IN
the world former ly occupied by man.
You find her In nearly all stations or
trust possible for her to fill from ste
biography TO positions in banks, store
managers, doctors, attorneys, advo-
Gates of the gospel. where she mas
proved herself to be as efficient as
man-and more trusty. And shame on
the man who says "she is morally not
mans equal, or so good as men," Has
he forgotten he had mother? LOOK
down through the annals OF crime ana
see which sex has shown least NOR
atty. without the uplifting influence
of woman, man morally would be IN
the depths of perdition. And IL wo-
men are so weak physically, why does
NOT this man say something for them,
in humanity's name, in place of hurl-
ind thunderbolts at one-half the popu-
lation of the civilized world when
they ask for redress from their
wrongs?
I know from experience that a wo-
mans love for a man is for himself
alone. and not wholly as the father of
her children.
Many women would not lie for
men. and some women have men they
do not need to lie for; while some wo-
mems estimate of right and wrong
may be changeable, do not hundreds
of bank cashiers, county treasurers,
commissioners, councilmen and other
public servants put a honus In their
rockets which is a crime? All these
have a changeable estimate or right
and wrong for their own convenience
and they are not women.
Many candidates for office VINO nave
made promises before election which
they did not fulfill are not women, but
little would be gods whom the Moa-
bites would have the fair sex worship
and admit they were not their equals;
Gen; 2:22-25. THOMAS HADDON.