Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-02-29
UNIVERSITY FR0FfssOR GIVES
WARNING. no sUFTRAcIsTs'
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de shs Wrecks World.

Ifrage association at the public lIbrar,
last week. He placed the blame o
the decadence of the Roman republic
directly upon the shoulders Of wo
men OF the time. who, he said. ha'
all the privileges aspired to by thu
suffragists today. They could di
vorce their husbands at will, attens
all public functions, dispose of theil
children as they saw fit and possess
/ property.
what did they do with this Tito
plan power?" he asked. Why, they
went right to abusing it, he pointed
out. They neglected their children
and their homes. Some of them
could boast having had as many
husbands as they had years. The
result was that young Rome, grow
ing up, failed to find in its collective
hearts any respect for the women
who had been intrusted with its up
rearing. The home, which is the
primary school of good citizenship,
fell into disuse. Rome soon ran
short of her supply of loyal sons,
and then she fell like rootless tree
before the first gale.
Furthermore, Professor Ellwood
told the fifty or more suffragists
present, that nature has singled wo-
man out for one grand duty-the
care of the future. He said:
ParenthOOd Comes First.
even craftsmanship comes sec
ond, among the uses of the human
being, to parenthood. The fundamen-
tai purpose of nature is to protect
the future, to build up the race. A
duty is to do this. When
she forgets to rock the cradle she
wrecks the world.
Sociology teaches us that a wo-
man is much more important than
a man. Through motherhood she
Is entrusted with the reproduction
Of the species and as the' matron
Of the home she mold the characters
which are to form the nation. Also
heredity descends as much from the
mother to the son as from the father
20 the son.
1.-THE mother, in addition to these
.hings. is the environs of the child.
Her quaint fables are his gospel and
Ter precepts his rules of life. She
makes him or breaks him at the out
Jet. Her responsibility is so great
hat she really has no time left dur
ng the reproducing time of her life
or politics and it is crime to ex-
'ect her to help support the home.
All Arranged by Nature.
There is no such thing as the
Mothers independence, therefore. In 4
act there can be no actual indepen-
ence, because the child depends on
Is mother and the mother on her
usband. This is as nature intended
, should be and when a woman or
ian breaks into this set order OF
Kings nature replies with some Sc
ere punishment.
"The mixing of unmarried women
| business units them for married
fe and a married woman who works ]
eglects her home. am sure the
ide invasion of women into the
elds of masculine activity is the
Jason why 20 per cent of the fam q
les now are childless instead of only K
per cent the normal condition.
81 will cite you an instance which
proves this assertion. DUR I
z the siege of Paris all the factories +
osed and the women who were la v
,ring there returned home to the v
re of their children. The result 9
as that while the mortality was n
eat among adults because of starva- {
On and battle, infant mortality de- g
eased from an enormous to a more
,minal percentage. t
Sexes Interdependent.
lone of the most Iudicrous kinds .
the higher foolishness is to urge II
at a woman work to support her a
mily. Her place is to raise her 3
mily and let her husband bring 81
me the money to support them.
lis talk about class consciousness g
d sex antagonism obviously is D.
ong. The sexes are interdepend-
t under the law of reproduction
d home building and those few Of
women who think otherwise strike ci
blow at the very foundations Of h,