Arizona republican., 1913-04-07
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Dissertation on the Rights of
 Women.

CThough apparently written by a
 woman, this is probably the outpouring
 of grouchy old bachelor or hen
 pecked husband)
 The crisis is impending, The tide in the affairs of women" is almost "at the
 flood Let us prepare and take it in
 season. It will lead us-will lead us
 we'll we have yet to discover where,
 and that is a sufficient incentive if we
 have no other, to urge us on to gratify
 this purely feminine instinct, and find
 out where it will lead us. We are not
 living in the dark ages, when woman , | was made a beast of burden the un-
 complaining slave of her barbarOus
 husband, nor in the mediaeval period
 when her only sphere" was her home
 and her only mission was
 To calm mens ruder passions.
 And guide impetuouS youth
 1 By her wise and gentle cOunseS
 In the paths of love and truth"
 We live in the glorious and enlight- ened present. the period of moral, poli- tical and social upheaval, the age in which woman has risen to the lightest
 position ever yet occupied by her. We have distinguished ourselves in almost
 every field of action.
 Il In the literary, we bear the palm for charming poetry-something in this , style:
 , Time flies so fast on rapid wings
 It leaves no time to do ones things
 and beautiful novels and sketches , varied by an occasional accidental
 spasm of sense In the political we de-
 liver lectures so beautiful in theory,
 while in the professional, almost all
 inValids would prefer for a physician a
 gentle handed, soft voiced woman, to a
 blundering, gruff-toned bear of man; and as for lawyers and preachers, we ! are universally acknowledged to pos SeSS the one most important requisite
 an endless, inVincible tongue. Then
 let us not pause here and check the \ tide of our glory when almost at it's , height. Let Us add to the laurels we 1 have already wOn the name of pioneers ' in this great and noble work. We have p proved ourselves in every respect equal
 if not superior to man, now let us have V the same rights. We have obtained the : ballot, the. scepter of his power and , | can cast our vote side by side with him. . ! We want to say to our huSband-"We r are getting up primary in the parlOr b tonight. you had better retire early and >; don't be frightened if we become some
 what noisy. We want to give him l piece of our mind or all of it if we n choose. We want to whistle and walk e the streets with our hands in our = pockets; to take the outside of the
 walk; to stand up in the street cars or
 crowded places of amusements and see @ the men sitting placidly all around us. : | We want to stand in the street cor |, ner with a cigar in our mouth and
 | watch the handsome fellows as they
 pass. till some friend, who is socially 0 inclined. taps on the shoulder and o says in dulcet tones: Lets go around 0 the corner Bill, and take a smile.' We 0 want to learn boxing and fencing and 0 other masculine accomplishments so 0 that when our political meetings 0 threaten to become stupid and stale, 0 We can enliven them and enforce our 0 arguments with little pugilstic ex- 0 | erciSe. And when we find that unap- c preciative man in allowing us to be- U come ancient in single e-blessedness' 0 we want the right of bestowing our O selves upon him in marriage: and we'll o make a law that no man shall refuse a U matrimonial offer from d lady under U pain of electrOcuton and thus we will U escape the modification of having our U suit rejected But being naturally very U generous, we'll invest the order of l in, piv vn U them as many "leap-years as they " have allowed us. We will let the men U till the soil and shoulder the musket V | it is their natural. inalienab ble right and U we have no desire to deprive them of it V or infringe upon any of their privil- v eges.
 It has been said that we have no " originality: that we never invented " | anything, that to man is due all the " honor of all the great inventions and ~ bold original ideas of every age. Let " us see. could a masculine mind ever V | have called into being the wonderful /" hobble- skirt. the elegant and unique o chiguan. high heel boots and mannish ~ costumes and the voluminous picture m hat, not to mention the miracles of " art that we have produced in the shape < of bonnets.
 And if such startling inventions are ] the children of our brain in our present l limited sphere of action what may we l not do when the whole world becames ] our "sphere"?-
 :. And what would man do without us /? ,o Where would he be? Nowhere. ,o Don't he confide in us we keep m him posted on all the affairs of our n neighbors?
 m In the sweets and bitterness of life 7o we women are always in for the sweets In and in all altercations between man m and woman, don't we invariably side ,O with the man?
 ;O Mans inhumanity to man is less IO acrimoneous than a woman's uncharity 10 to wOman.'
 % In the language of a great humorlst ;O what would become of the people of 70 the earth without wives and mothers 70 They would become scarce, very scarce