Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-14
MEN MORE WAsTEFUL THAN
OPPOSITE SEX, SAYS WOMAN

Los ANGELES. Feb. 7.-[Editor
Herald: A short time ago prophet
| was about telling the high cost of liv-
| ing was due to spots on the sun. Next
we were informed that the high prices
were caused by the comets this year;
now we have philosopher who out
does them both. Edward L. Hutchison
/ has discovered that the cause of the
whole trouble is the faults of woman.
| Man is the economic and political
arb1ter of the world; a few men mo-
nopolize and control foodstuffs, bribe
| legislators, enslave their fellow men
ahd run everything for their own profit,
! while the great majority of the voting
kings honor and reward them for this
treatment. But Mr.. Hutchison Is not
concerned about that part of it; he has
his eye on the daughters of Eve; he
just knows that though they have no
voice In public affairs, yet they are
| someway to blame.
Because clothes of some families are
washed in laundry by modern ma
i chinery instead of being rubbed on a
board at home, and because few 9TH
er improvements have been made in
woman'S work, Is pretty conclusive to
Mr.. Hutchison that women are to
blame for the high price of beefsteak.
He says women are not producers.
He fails to see the women working in
laundries, factories, mills, mines, dye
shops, dock yards, fields, in the stock
| yards, on canal boats--in fact every
where that labor is hard and wages
cheap.
Indeed wherever the oppression of a
few men has caused biting poverty,
there you see women doing the hardest
work. Robert Hunter says: Men give
up the fight with poverty ahd drink
| themselves into insensibility, while
women, thinking not of themselves but
of the children, never cease to strug-
gle until struggle is no longer possible"
| Forty thousand women in New York
city today support themselves and
their children, all the while receiving
the meanest pay for the hardest toll
And the toiling women are not all in
New York Every evening in the gloom
of twilight worn, ragged women come
into the tall office building where Mr..
Hutchison and Others have their law
| offices; through the hours of the night,
with mops and brooms they clean away
the germ producing dust that collects
during the day. Their work is not even
worth the notice of Mr. Hutchison.
Many of the lawyers who occupy those
| rooms are said to be busy finding ways
for their corporation clients to evade
the laws of the land while these cli-
ents are still raising the price of foods
and thus pluhdering the rest of man
|
the knowledge of the world, of course!
They are adding a lore that future gen.
erations will be wise enough to blot out.
The trouble with Mr.. Hutchison is
that he knows nothing of the real life
struggle of the great majority of wom-
en-. He sees the small number, about
10 per cent, that waste their time and
money in the Shops and he thinks that
is the whole of womankind.
I readily grant that the elaborate
dresses and ever-changing hats are a
waste, but when Mr.. Hutchison be-
means the fact that men must wear
cheap clothing-well, let me make a
suggestion At present in the United
States alone about $1,000, 900. 900 goes
annually over the bar of retail liquor
stores. If men would cut that out they
would patronize fairly good tailors.
Recently, and after careful investiga-
ton of the facts, S. S. Mcclure said:
Ninety per cent of the women leading
evil lives are held in subsection by men
who are helped by the police in our cit.
les; there are 100000 such women in
the United States, and the incomes from
| their exploitation is over $30,000,000 a
year." Suppose for one instant the case
were reversed and it was women who
were guilty of paying out $30,000000 an
nually for the enslaving of 100000
young men; in that case even Dr. David
Starr Jordan would have something to
talk about besides the trivial fashion
of wearing feathers in women's hats
1t is all right to criticise your neigh
borS, but remember the beam in your
own eye before you trouble too much
about notes elsewhere. A. H. D.