The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-16
MEN AND WOMEN AS ENEMIES.
A Correspondent Demonstrates That
Neither 10 Naturally and Neces-
sarily the Enemy Of the
Other.

To the Editor Of The Gate CITY
Are we all ready to agree with the
German scientist that Woman is the
greatest enemy Of Man? | am, but y
must insist that Man is the greatest
enemy Of Woman. Each of these may
,, be in individual cases, the grea1est
possible enemy to the other.
When is one another's enemy
Clearly, when he is striving to create
in the other conditions which more
often than not result in pain and IN
i happiness in the one acted on. But
| is it true that Man is more ofteh
/ found suffering at the hands OF Wo-
/ man, than Woman at the hands OF
/ Man? Is it most frequently the case
that when one comes home to abuse
7 the other parent and the children that
4 it is the Woman dragging the Man
around by the hair, striking him, ours
ing him; spending for tobacco and
T drink the money she has earned at
the washtub and with the needle, IN
stead Of buying clothes for him ana
the children?
In by far the greater number OF
cases of abuse between Man and Wo-
4 man. has he been the one to be knock
4 ed down, starved, damned by the very
existence of the other? When armies
have swept desolated cities and fields;
have burned, outraged and slaughtered
helpless thousands, have these ma
RAIDERS been women? Have the help
less ones been shrieking men strug-
Cling in the arms of fiendish women?
4 Is there a crime, possible to each
: sex, which has been more often COM
, mitted by women than by men? All
the records we have of crime show
men far in excess as criminals. Ma
ture has provided that the sexes shall
7 be about equally divided as to num-
bers. 1t must be admitted that the
: female. in one form or another, finds
ways of influencing the world about
: equally with the male. And Ii the In
; fuences they do send out are not, on
!. the whole, anything like as evil as the
i man-made influences, land they are
j not. or these women would be crimi
a nals) it must follow that the women
are giving out more of desirable in
: f1uences than are the men.
= Desirable mental OF moral charac
teristics never combine to harm any
g one. So it appears to ME that 1t II
an unavoidable conclusion If Man ha'
been the direct cause of more miser,
in the world that has Woman, and i
BY far the greater part of thu
s man-made misery has fallen on We
e man than elsewhere. then Man ha
n been and is greater enemy to VIC
?. man than Woman has been to Man.
Y But 1t is false to assume that eth
o err OF these is naturally and necessal
=. ily the enemy of the other. What tn
st ultimate resultant of the Mantle an
e the Woman-life may be do not know
1t but OF this l am sure that the FRS
n Cause planned it and planned 1t wise
" ly, that these two-so far as earth
lie concerned-should walk side by side
e each an indispensable complement {
IS the other. The only real, lasting col
&c tentment Man finds in this life
* when his nature is linked with ths
ut of Woman Each brings to their unite
Id life the peculiar qualities which al
S. attractive to the other. He brings tn
harder, more angular body and limb
Ut the more aggressive, stubborn chara
tn ter which are desirable in her eye
is She brings the rounded, tender forr
as the greater grace, all the subtle,
M expressible sweetness of pure woma
re hood for which Man has been willir
at to sacrifice fortune, fame, life itse
ry Whe he is proper, normal man,
an she a proper, normal woman, G;
VS. either be an enemy to the other?
I'D 1t may be So but If it be, 1T will
us when Right is Wrong When Love
I'M Hate; when Order is Chaos; VIII
cd Happiness is Misery; when Life
OF Death; when God has forgotten, al
lb- Mankind no longer exists.
ne K II. LOUIS.
in Keokuk, Iowa, April IL.