The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-10
Next Social Revolt viii Be Between
the Sexes, Says NJ. Brieux,
Member Of the French
Academy.
MODERN MAN is FIERCE
His Ferocity Toward Womanklnd is
Depicted In New Play En-
titled Lies Femmes seu-
les' Clone Women.)
by William Philip Simms. Paris cor
respondent of the United press.

respondent of the United Press
PARIS, Feb. 10.-The next social
revolution will be a new war of the
sexes, a clash between men workers
and women workers. a duel between
brutal man and the unprotected, ac-
cording to Eugene Brieux, member of
the French academy, who, in an in
teryiew, lambasted modern man to
fragile for his ferocity toward woman
kind.
M. Brieux has just written a new
play entitled Les Femes Seules,
Clone Women) which is the talk of
Paris. The heroine, Therese, an or
phan, loses her fortune through the
dishonesty of her lawyer. She is thus
thrown upon her own resources. Fore
ed to earn her living she takes po-
sition on periodical called "Temmes
Libres,' Gree Women). The pro-
Iprietor shows her unwelcome atten-
tons and she is forced to seek else
where for work. She gets Job in a
shirt waist factory, where many 9th
er girls are employed. Also many
men. The men, furious because WON
en- should be employed with them,
strike. Out Of a job again, Therese
/ for want of food and shelter, is forced
/ to take her old position back as an
employe of "Femmes Libres." But
she is taken back conditionally. She
lis betrayed by her employer who gives
her to understand that you must give
yourself or you don't eat"
/ These are not exactly the words Of
the ungallant employer but that is
what he means.
4 M. Brieux declares there are nearly
two million lone women in France
and says he wrote his latest play In
order to provoke a discussion OF theil
lot, face to face with the ferocious
! males of the land.
How does man behave toward these
+ 1one women" he asked He him
self quickly supplied the answer:
Badly He cannot understand that
woman is not his inferior. He re-
fuses to admit that she is, If not his
equal, at least his equivalent.
THE rights Of the ancient Seig
neur, modern man has appropriated
for himself. Too often working girls
must submit to employers, to the men
under whom they work, or to the
men by whom they are surrounded
] The rights of the modern man are
more cruel than those OF the feuda
: lords because they adopt the attitude
, of: Give yourself, or you don't eat.
"But mans brutality does not stoI
+ there. In woman he sees competi
, tor who can afford to work cheaper
j, than he because her needs are fewer
than his. He makes of her. therefore
an enemy, to whom he refuses quar-
ter
/ M. Brieux here switched his poin
, of attack BY sudden, flank move
i ment, he launched his force agains
| the modern family, and the manner il
: which girls are prepared for life.
1.-The girl of today is neither goo,
! ncr bad. She studies the sciences
: reads novels, listens to the unbridlet
conversations Of her elders. She thus
I becomes convinced that she must re
! ly on herself but that she is perfect,
4 self-reliant She thinks she is clever
She isn't. Her fate depends upon tn,
j man she wishes to please.
"The modern girl is taught littl,
save how to please men. She i
Z brought up with only che idea: Maj
rage 1t is terrible thing to say
but the family of today is but littl
more estimable than were the school
of ancient Athens in which courtesan
;, were taught the art to please
NJ Brieux was very emphatic in hi
statements. Now that the era of ma
chinery has come, by the aid of which
J. women can do the work of men, tn
a clash between sexes must becom
Q acute, he believes.
It Keener competition between tn
s. women who work and the man worker
G VIII bring about the next social reve
e luton, he says, and. he adds, he ha
reason to fear man will be guilty G
the most shameful conduct
THE lone woman" he concluded
j is condemned to submit, Willingly o
( by force, to the tyranny of man.