The Washington herald., 1913-03-02
THE OPEN FORUM
War Of the se,e. Not God. Plan.

l. war OF the sexes NOt GOds fIan.
To the Editor: II never was Gods plan
for war of the sexes. neither in a mill
tary sense, nor in commercial life.
II war were to break out with Mexico.
how many suffragettes. rampant to rant
| along Pennsylvania Avenue on inauSu-
ration eve. would shoulder muskets and
march away for military service?
| How many women are now handling
the pick and the shovel in the Panama
ditch? How many, indeed. are out on
| the farms ditching and draining the
meadows and marshes in water up to
their waists? How many, even. are
working in the filthy and foul smelling
| sewers underlying our cities? How many
are climbing ladder rungs, hand over
hand, with hods of brick upon their bare
and blistered backs? How many are
at the throttle of engines. or firing them
with faces besmeared with the black of
the sweat and SCOT and dirt? How many
| are in the riggings of ships sailing the
! seas under wintry sky and summers
sun: or, indeed. are in the bowels of
| the earth digging coal in the black damp
Of the mines in water to their knees?
Such Is tine work of men.
II women essay II. will they continue
It permanently and steadily to the end
of life, and concurrently mate with men
for families as Almighty God planned
for the preservation of the human race?
VIII not the race die out in woman's
contemplated dual capacity? Or. in their
invasion of the out-of-home field of
labor. is II their aim to live alone from
man in treason to nature and natures
God, and in violation OF the lawful wedlock
OF social order ordained as the best
policy of right and privilege of the sexes
Of countless ages of human wisdom and
endeavor?
Indeed. women are not found in such
physical work now and do not intend
such unnecessary roles in life. Women
do not like to get wet, and ditching Is
not a job to keep dry in SILK petit
coats and fine feathers are out of place
In the trenches Of war. and the bitches
OF agriculture. Rather women would
NIL dry goods stores of clinging lingerie
and fiim-fiam finery, with eyes afiame
and cheeks burnt out, of constant watch
ing OF all in sight. or stand as clerks
and cashiers in offices and groceries,
cycling all the men a-coming and a-going. |
If women must cease bearing chill |
dren. as shall be in her competitive !
career of commercialism with men, be- |
ing now already on the verge of race |
suicide while but entering upon the |
threshold of an ancient order of tribal |
sociology revived. let them. in the |
name of God. establish themselves un- |
der female auspices with women bosses |
entirely, and with never a man in /
sight. Then they would not like 1t |
very long. and might return to domes-
ticity and home, and. OF hard-earned
sense, help others to return to that
proper sphere and state, and to cling /
to that mighty citadel woman's
in life and happiness, II
she has common sense enough to see
IT and live It. II she has not, 1t is her
mothers fault in her ill-training, as,
perhaps, in her mothers mother before
and abnormal with para
noic passion for publicity and news
paper notice.
woman's endeavor. of inexperience
and thoughtlessness. for change of
home life to the field. Is of materialism
and nonsense rampant. with resulting
of the. American home and
the destruction of home life. Then II
will be the d-drawn life of Euro
pean peasantry and its immigration
graft upon our civilization-a civiliza-
lion that was once the flower of the
world, now being changed by the inun- II
iation of poverty stricken immigra- N
lion hordes. taking from our men their ,
legitimate heritage and living and n
irving our women down. down. down
he scale Of life to the low level from n
which the alien hordes fed, reversing :
,ur proud position Of Independence to :
dependence by the use of the preda-t
ory money barons Importing them Of a
he power Of their lordship of monop- In
,ly over US. Ia
And for what have our lawmakers let h
n the alien hordes? For political power 4
raft that an organized few muitimif- "
ionaires might be richer and more IL
,owerful in new order OF things In the III
lation. And of such are the Rookie II
eliers and Carnegies. Astors. and Nor o
ans. Ryans. and Hills, and their like,
nd near like. and nearly near like, rear v
ng more monopolies. manipulating Wall a
'treet. controlling commerce and finance, lie
more wealth and power. al ih
eady overwhelming. to live in pluto Iu
ratio absolution Of monopolistic trade ID