Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-07
FURTHER OF "W0MAN'S RIGHTS
(Macon Telegraph

! an flights, treated OF yesterday i
these columns, it may be added tina
after women had acquired "all thei
rights" in Rome, the historian tells u
that men absolutely refused to MARI,
them, becausce marriage became in
tolerably disagreeable,' and Prof
SeeIey says the empire persisted fol
the want of men,
When women become brawling pol
iticians they are no longer fair and
altogether lovely" and then men re-
gard them with disgust and not with
adoring love and admiration. When
women descend in the estimation OF
men that descent amount to fall
Men would as soon be joined to a
plague.
But the world is not growing better.
Men are contributing their full share,
and more, to the demoraliZed social
conditions which produce militant suf-
fragettes and immoral and soothing
of the male persuasion.
The marriage state is the normal eXis-
ttnce. The one sex is the complement
to the other, the two making one
man" in its true sense; but in the
diseased condition Of society, in the
state of unrest and quest after riches.
ease and immoral qualifications Of
body and soul, universal condition o.
desirable marriage is impossible. Even
those acquired are in large part I'M
satisfactory and unhappy. In very
many cases the solemn rites had better
never been said, as see the increasing
roll of the divorced. Many women do
not marry because they are not asked
and many others because they do not
meet their ideal-and girls ought to
have ideals and live up to them. They
should marry only for compelling love
sensibly bestowed.
Therefore, a situation grave faces
every young unmarried woman If she
cannot marry with a prospect of hap
piness she should not marry at all
What then? If her family is without
riches she must prepare to earn hel
own living. There are many fields O
feminine labor honorable and safe.
is a question of equipment, and to,
often question of competition will
men-not in politics, but in certain
lines of trade, business, teaching; il
the arts, and certain sociological worI
This is not the ideal sphere of woman
but force of circumstances has put tn
harder let on millions of them. In thi
condition and under these circum
stances she is entitled to an equal op
portunity-equal pay for equal sery
ice. These are the rights" she ha
the right to fight for, and no ma
should bid her stand back because sh
is a woman
The social problem of the day III
yolving our women, are more seriou
than any political problems. Tn
suffragette movement is a symptom. !
is headed in the wrong direction, it i
headed for the breakers, and ii is a
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something that needs to be considered
1t is bursting of the safety valve,
seeking a relief which needs to come
but in another way. Man is more tha'
half responsible. Infldelity, sensual
ity, love of ease and riches. graspinj
for the unattainable, faulty education
misjudging the real aims and purpose
of life, high-pressure living: and Twin,
| high, on the part of the men, are driy
ing the women into corners fron
which they seek to escape. We pit.
without censure but we point to tn
errors on behalf of both.
The suffragetts movement is lament
able and dangerous, but 1t is warn
ing signal. In England. at least, /.