The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-24
AMAZING IDEAS
 IF SUFFRAGETTE Declares Man Is a Mere
 Accident WOMAN IS SUPREME Man Being Eliminated After Rule of Survival of the Fittest-Man's
 Only Use Is for Race
 Propagation
WOMAN IS SUPREME

New York, July 2S-(special. .)-Mrs Kate Trimble woosey, ardent suffragette. member of 10 women's organizations and author of Republic vs. Women" has advanced an amazing philosophy which answers the statement of Dr. Lee De Forest that his marriage was only "bio- logiacl reason"
 l Dr. De Forest is suing for divorce. His wife is Nora Blatch De Forest, daughter of the suffrage leader, Mrs. Harriet Stan ton Blatch. The doctor declares his suffragist wife and mother-in-law ignored him after the birth of a fine suffrage baby girl.
 Mrs. Woolsey, in an interview at Asbury Park today, stated that Dr. De Forest in rebelling against being only 'biolog- ical factor of the family life," merely re- iected mans changed position in society. He simply represented she said. the first man to be caught in this whirl of an evolution ushering in a new woman. aided by the suffrage movement, who would rule the world.
 Mrs. Woolsey declared that her views were shared by the more progressive suffragists and by the leading writers and scientists of Europe, with whom she dis cussed the subject at the great interna- tional gathering of scientists In Brus- sels. She is putting these views in a book entitled the "Superwoman."
 Suffrage is only one of the powerful agencies we are having in the super woman," she declared. Neither the per sonal feelings of pr. De Forest. nor of any other creature can alter this tre- mendous fact.
 Our institutions are built entirely upon woman's economic dependence upon man and when woman Is free, a condition which science and invention will secure to her. 1t Is inevitable that our present forms of marriage religion and laws will topple to their ruin.
 "Our women are not only growing larger activity they are catching up with the men. If they can gain so much with a partial liberty and independence what may we not expect when suffrage gives them absolute freedom from man made laws.
 "Woman Is rapidly coming into her rights and I firmly believe that she will eventually rule the world. l believe also that it will be a much pleasanter world to live in when she does rule if.
 Man is rapidly eliminating himself. It is natures law-the survival of the flt- test. The male was an after thought of nature. He was at first, and is still throughout many orders of being solely useful in the propagation of the race
 .1Throughout the animal world. below man, the female Is supreme. The males are unable to cora lthe food supplies, and the females, therefore being economically free, select males that have the highest value for the race.
 "Woman," continued Mrs. Woolsey, "are the species men are only incidents. While women were caring for the children men stole their rights. Women, to begin with, owned all the property and land They cultivated the soil and invented manu- featuring and the arts.
 'rrhe first government was the Matri- archaic or woman rule. and the children inherited through the mother and took her name.
 Finally, through brute force," said Mrs. Woolsey, quoting from excerpts Of her book. 'n1aR everywhere ruled su- prem6. lie maue GOu 1ndie ltHlufe, u replica of himself. He assumed all the places of profit honor. glory in every field of life, in church, state and society. Centuries of repression, acting through the laws of heredity, have lessened wom- ans physical size, depressed her mental action, subjugated her spirits and crushed her belief in the right to the sanctity of her own body and that of her unborn child. " -~Ntl
 And what has resulted from this to society? Humanity has scarcely advanced lection, or moral excellence, beyond where it stood thousands of years ago, when men wrested rulership of society from the mothers.'
 Giving her reasons for the changed con ditions of society Mrs. Woolssy said:
 Woman cultivated graciousness of manrer and beauty of appearance be- cause they were her only weapons against the brutality and sheer force of man. Now she is devoting herself to training her brain and scientists are constantly proclaiming her increasing physical strength. Man is deteriorating in phys Is waning.
 "In Great Britain alone today there are million more women than men, and other nations show equally surprising signs of the decadence of mans power and usefulness to the race.
 Man is fast becoming the appendage to woman. just women today is his