The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-11-24

~ OMC WOMEN SnOtuO Dc DluIDleQ,
and for tho same reason that
animals are muzzled. because
~ they are dangerous. In the
danger there Is a difference.
not In degree, but IN kind. Dogs are
rnuzzled lest they bite. but women
VINO should be muzzled require it
TO silence their bark,
In New York recently a woman be-
gan an address TO legislative body
by declaring that she would rather
have an unfalthful husband than a
stlngy one, and every woman In the
big room that echoed holloWly this
brought a silcncer OF some sort and
clapped II over the woman's mouth
before she had uttered that boomer
anc
present mounting wave Of public SEN
timent has been called. and we'll
named II is, because women are lead
ing II. \ movement toward the
heights. a raising OF higher. inner
standards OF life and conduct, strv-
understanding Of men and women "
is. one of hope and courage and iaith
md something silly and senseless ar
rests and turns il backward. some
thing as silly and senseless as the
chatter of the woman L have quot
cd.
4 good patient, high-minded man
I know read the wonlan's speech,
wrinlled HIS forehead. read 1t again
and lapsed into utter silence,
What do YOU think OF it, L
II hope it's only talky talk" he
answered with accustomed gentle
ness.
'I think It's loose-tongucd colly."'
I answered. and both OF us neeo
aentler speech than the situation
II she preferred a husband who
made love TO other women 10 ono
who was careful i'll household eXpen-
ditures. she had a, right, to this SIN
express it. for the average mind pass
Ing readily from the particular TO
the general will assume that she
speaks for her sex 1t win make
no allowance for verbal fireworks
Vinced that she means II, she ana
all her sisters.
That il Is one woman's opinion ana
that she Is, In holding this opinion,
one woman in a thousand, are iscss
that will NOT weigh against tnat
printed utterance. Most OF us, lead
Ing crowded lives. run while we read,
and the crowded life lnterferes WITH
mental digestion. a woman has sald
she prefers man with loose morals
20 one with tight purse strings
and the woman movement may have
been set back "a few presidential
administrations by this insane.
eynpty-headed. empty y-hearted con-
fcssion. Empty headed. | say, be-
cause though she Is n person OF some
ettaInments and her head is sup
posed to be fairly well furnished,
there must have been houseclean-
ing that day and all worth while
ideas were sent out, while only rub
bish remained. That she Is empty
hearted Is obvious. The speech viii
confirm many hundreds OF waverlnS
bachelors and give husbands a whole
inaga 1ineful of ammunition for their
recurrent arguments that women are
the mercenary sex.
III WAS a regrettable speech, the
more regrettablc because it is ur-
true. II gave sword point 10 the
speech OF u recently retiring prest-
dent Of fedora ton OF Woman's
clubs in the east. Ladies. guard
Your tongues Don't mako foolish
spocches that YOU don't mean and
that Will he printed In headlines"
y. for an official OF the ''woman's
movement" whose duty IL shall be
To scothc the hysterical and silence
the foolish When n womap's hands
twitch. the shoulders rise and FALL
her eyes fash and there is a trenlor
about her that forebodes silly
speech the public silepcer should be
there With determination and u
OuZZlc.