The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-01-08
RACE WELFARE
DEPENDS ON HOME
Adele M. Ballard Reviews the Existing
. Conditions In The Present Day Sex
War, and Points Out The Only Safe
and Sure Solution.
NEEDS SPIRITUALITY

The following paragraph is taken
from the current Atlantic.
Two cases have come to my
knowledge where English women
have been prepared to contract al
liances with men whom they did
not intend to pass their lives-this
because they desired a child. They
consider that the child is the ex-
preston of the feminine person
allty, while after the child's birth,
the husband becomes mere ex
cresence."
The writer of the article, Mr.. w.
l.. George. a prominent spokesman
of the feminist movement In Eng
land. also cOnfesses ii has been the
custom to pretend that it was only
the vote that the women demanded, q,
in order that the men might not be
frightened; also that number of
the suffragists believed that the
vote was all they were asking for,
while others the far-sighted ones
thought it not advisable to let the
cat out of the bag, to use their own
expression. Personally. he is in
clined to believe that the ultimate
ann of feminlsm with regard to
marriage, is.the practical suppress
sion of marriage and the instilu
ton of free alliance.
1t makes one wink and think
hard to find these sentiments eX-
pressed In the fine old Atlantic. To
be sure the editor promises the
discussion of the subject from
another point of view, but that bit
of information in foot-note doesn't
remove the curse after reading a
dozen pages of fine print on the
foregoing phase of the feminist
movement.
Sets People to Thinking
1t was a really courageous thing
to do and it should set people to
thinking on this subject as they
have never thought before, but the
fact remains they have scrambled
the eggs and can never unscramble
them again for all the shocked
women and scared men who set
their thought clocks by Atlantic
time.
1t is a rare gift to be mentally
unafraid, and to think a question
out to It's logical conclusion, but to
erase our chalk line of morality
cannot be passed over lightly
With all the vices accredited to the
males of the species and their So
called animalism, their secret sins
which were never by any possibil
ity secret-they, at least, have
never openly and above board ad-
vocated and endeavored-en masse
to legalize free alliances. While
they fell from grace they still sensed
the wrong to themselves and the
race, ,and though they slipped the
leash IN wanto nhours, they recoe-
nized the wantonness. and in that
recognition, dim though it was,
there lay the germ of hope for them
in the future.
1t takes women to Out-dlstance
men every time, when it comes to
reaching the heights-or the
depths. The feminists intend to
use the vote TO make women vote
as women, not as citizens, and they
propose to sell the vote en- bloc to
the highest bidder in the economic
field. When they threaten to fight
if their demands are not met, how
much better are they than the men
they are condemning? Is 1t a bit
confusing. don't you know, 10 find
these things which have always
been fought by men and women of
integrity who have had any sense
of civic righteousness, made a part
OF the policy of the feminist move
ment.