The independent-reporter., 1909-12-16

his relations wss, tampagkfY and
~ eii4llssns tss
patfiaTvhai fsmilF Tits
~ ii the ~ 8anshal ana
SFs ."'"~ piofe istuIntiou IN sta.
tus Of hsslana an, @ ha.i =
+ the father became . -.
and the mother TOO. .s, >. -. '.' -
f status which has iaal'a b., -.
this day. The causes - l.
~ere 40 follows: ....,
l development Of lighting n
+ 10y the male tn competag with otS,
males After he Learned the uHe Of
var club against his enemy he used
F il on his wife and snbdaed her.
= Military organization gave him
j a stronger position. Women We're
not organized and could not resist
the prestige or physical power OF
such a body.
/ J. Women were handicapped by
/ their children which they had 10 pro
tect and feed. They could not hunt
or fight for a living They subord-
mated themselves not because Of
weakness, but for the sake OF their
children.
L. Development of property The
coming of agriculture and flocks
brought property and slaves and per
manent Interests of value. Men gave
up hunting and sowing. and turned
to labor and demanded control of the
household.
The developments from the patri-
archal system were:
/. The patriarchal empires of Asia.
,. Ancestor worship.
3. The masculine divinity. the war
god. while the divinities of agricul-
ture were feminine because women
worked the ground and worshipped
the mother earth.
4. Polgamy.
5. Purity of male descent which
made purity of women a necessity.
4. Monogamy.
Democratic monogamy must survive
and predominant over all other forms
of the family.
This modern form of monogamy is
one of the expressions of the general
development of liberty and equality
which is going on throughout the
world All other forms of the family
are inconsistent with this growth of
liberty and must die out.
The children under monogamy are
better fed, better clothed, better gov
erned and prepared for the battle of
| life, than is the case under polygamy.
The modern family gives woman
| legal status higher than that enjoyed
at Rome or during the middle ages.
She can hold property, enter into con-
tracts and conduct commerce, nearly
all of her disabilities are removed.
FUTURE OF WOMAN AND THE
FAMILY.
Some time in the future woman will
have full political rights as we'll as
legal status. She seems to be drop
ping the industrial life and taking up
the commercial and professional. This
is partly due to the immigrants in in
dustry. The work of the ministry is
especially adapted to women. They
do not make good preachers, but
beautiful ministers where faith, hope
and love are mostly needed. The flu
ture will see an expansion of women
in this field.
We shall probably have high de-
velopment to the economic and poll
tical woman, and race suicide will
grow apace, but ultimately there
must come a reversion to some of the
old type of the family and the man
ner of life based upon the nature of
men and women.
We are going to live in the future,
more in the public institutions and
depend on them for food and educa-
ton Individualism is at its zenith
and social cooperation is now be-
ginning to develop. We shall have
more group living, with the family
as the unit and the cooperative clan
of some sort as the aggregate.
Both men and women will be eco
nomically and Intellectually indepen
dent and the family will become more
spiritual and moral than ever before.