Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-01-21
DUTY TO WOMEN
Max Nefaaa Says Society Should Pro-
tect Them.

MAX NCSEA&h Gays Society Should Pro-
tect Them.
II woman should become tie serious
| rival of man in many branches of indus
~, she would. as ih5 weaker. be crushed
without consideration. Galiantrv il an
invention of prosperity and leisure. Want
and hunger destroy this sentiment upon
which woman calculates when she inn
agineS world in which she could Wrestles
with man for her daily bread
The MOST dificult and the ploSt indis-
penSahle kinds of work man alone must
undertake: he will rate them higher than
those performed by woman aRi. as at
present. woman'S labor will aE~ays re-
eeive smaller remuneration than his.
Why Because he has the strength To
make his views into laws and to accom-
plIsh his will for no other reason.
Woman Is accorded a high and thgni-
ned position in our civilization because
she IS acq uieScent, because she is content
to be the complement of man. and To
acknowledge his material supremacy In
fact. if she attempts to question it. she
Is soon compelled 10 recognize its actuaIi-
ty.
The fully emancipated woman, entirely
independent of man, and in many cases
his enemy, when their conflicting inter
eStS clash, must soon be crowded into
the coruor. II is in such a case a genu-
inc wrestling match, and there can be
no question as tO which would suecumb
first
This emancipation would bring man
and woman necessarily into the rela-
ton Of a higher aud lower race-for
man is better equipped tor the struggle
for existence and competency than wom-
an--with the result that the latter would
be brought into a far worse condition of
dependence and slavery than tEsat condi-
tion from which this emancipation is TO
release her.
The aim Of the emancipation preach
ers is to make ii possible for women TO
live without man and 10 renounce matri-
mony This method Of curbing the evil
is about us etiieacious rs that of some
philai,thrOpSt who might give lectures
during Il time of famine on how man
could he weaped most effectively from
the habit Of eating.
The question would he then how To
supply the hungry with food not how 10
teach them to do without il. And the
little band Of self-consttuted agents of
the victims of our civilization ought not
To persuade aud make il possible for
woman t. renounrc marriage. but should
try to secure for her her natural share
in the loye-life OF humanity
1t is the duty of society tn care for
its children, To educate them completely,
and, as often as is necessary, to support
them until they become capable OF sup
porting themselves,
now assert that it is the duty of
society to protect women, its most yulu-
able breeding material, against physical
want.
The community owes protection aud
support TO woman. Mans paEt in the
life of the species is that of the bread
winner. the preservep and defender of the
living generation; wOmans part is that
of the preseryer and defender of the
future generations the improvpr of the
ruce by natural selection, aS she eNpites
strife between the men of which she
is the prize, and in which the ablest COM
| petltors secure the most valuable spoils.
AS a child the girl should receive the
| advantages Of the public education of
| the young, and later If it is necessary,
| she should be entitled to complete sup
/ port, either in her parents house or in a
/ separate home of her own.
| Society should look upon it as dis
| grace If any woman, young OF old beau
| titul or ugly, should feel the pangs Of
| want in any civilized community la
| society Teorganized upon these principles
in which woman should have no anxiety
in regard TO her dnily bread. knowing
that she is protected from want in any
case, whether married or single; IN which
the children would be supported aud
educated by the community in which
man could not expect to buy as many
| women with ms money rs he wants, be
cause hunger would no longer be his go
between; in such society woman would
soon marry from genuine affection; the
| spectacle Of old mads who have found
no husbands would be as rnre MS that
Of Old bachelors, who enjoy in their free,
licentious life all the pleasures with none
Of the moral burdens or limitations Of
matrlin0ny, aud prostitution would only
he practiced by Il small number Of dc.
generate beings who can only breathe In
corruption and infamy, and whose IN
bridled impulses are without the slight
est value for the preservation of the
species.