Bisbee daily review., 1910-12-06
SOCIALISM AND SEX

obEteratine all it's normal condit ons and asp rat on,s. It robs the mother of her child. at the end of such time as Natalre makes the union between them la, and indissoluble. It takes from her whol ly the tender depend ence of the mother upon the father of her child, which Is the most obvi ous tea-iler of morals to men wh oh Nature has provided. 1t robs both parens5 of those lessons in altru sm which engendered in the home nursery. in the end pervade all so- c ety and lay the foundations of that growing alturism wh ch makes which makes the world a habitable place V demands of the mother 'equal work in the material world, and offers the equal pay" which a moments tn nk- ing shows that the heavy load upon her bv the rreveps be fiat O. nature in the onerous duty of bearing the next general on of men and women makes it simply impossible for he to ve
 For all this tumble of inequalit es and imposs biit es. it propoaes, and that Is the true reason for the being Of this paper, to endow her vi equal pol tical rights" This is as in possib the long run as all the. other absurdities How shall the equality of all the inhab tants of state be long maintained when one
 half of the tizens of the state are possessed of such d dfferent characi-
 stics and functions from the other
 half as the fatherhood and mother hood of chi,d imply. The man acts in h's natural sphere: the woman in a co~dit on of things diverse from that which she was created to adm mister.
 or can by the most active legerde- main of pol tics be made " ling to fH. and -is renders equality in the
 material sphere impossible.
 If the power of mutual attraction and cooperation in the lov ng home. f the capacity of men to care for and
 protect the wome' and children at- tached to him, and the eul ghtening and uplifting influence O. woman. be wholly w.6drawn. if women are to
 be put upon a plane of equality with rNen in all mater al occupations. how
 long will Il be before the moral qualit es which grow out of her ma ternal functions VIII fade away from ipaction anu what we shall eat, and what we shall drink and wherew.ihal we shall be clothed and we may add ! h what sensual excesses may we not indulge. will become the sum total human ambition
 | It is folly to say, as Soc! al SIS do ' that the world will be more aftr'iist | under their propc.ed scheme thGn it
 is under the existing and unceviat ns i laws of nature. AS well one might say that having put tha axe to root
 Of the tree or having sseTyered
 the branches from the trunk. bios-
 sons and fruit. under such pruning
 will be more abundant than before.
 The true reward of womans work
 lies not so much in dollars and cents
 or thair equ valent, as in the ele-
 vating, refin ng influences which
 proceed as the most intell gent SO
 ciologists asure us, not from the best
 regulated workshop, but even at
 the worst, from the poorest and hum
 blest home.
 It is no wonder that Social sts as
 sert that a Revolution will be neces-
 sary to substitute for the laws of
 Nature, "rock-ribbed and ancient as
 hills" that new-fangied reg me which
 they are strivn ng to bring in It is
 not denied that certain true and
 everlasting threads of Chr stianity
 have been interwoven with the r ab surd and impossible scheme, but these all relate to the material as poets Of human sociaty. and are as wen and widely known as the Sermon on the Mount Never was the say ns more apt than it S of modern Sociai' ism. that what is new ss not true and what is true is not new. It , just this very pretense os humanita rianism which gives 1t certa |. prestige among well mentioned peo | pie, and coLst tutes n fact that im , mfnent danger of a short-iived and
 disastrous success, against which the : most enlightened and authoritative , powers of the world are warn h. 9 mank nd: and 1t is upon such an un e stable and dangerous foundation a' t this that the doctrine of Woman > Suffrage bases itself. It is from So s ciaI sm that it sprung in the frs g place. and towards Socialism that | 7 tends.