The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-09-05

Ny Ouc. anu lnlS Will DC, not because
with theo Sexual functioii$sof' materni-
~ necessarily goes fn>|sthe: human
creature q: deeper >moralsinsight, or a
loftier type of . social instint than
that which saceempanie the paternal:
Men haze in all ages led as nobly; as
women inunany paths of heroic viz.
tue; ands toward the higher: social
sympathies;. I'm: certain : ages, being
freer and more widely cultured, they
have ledt further and better. The
fact that woman has no inherent all
round moral superiority over her
male :companion, H0r naturally on all
points any higher social instinct, is
perhaps most clearly exemphfied by
one curious very small fact;* the two
terms signifying intimate human Ian
anti-social significance. are both
terms which have as their, root the
term mother" and denote feminine
relationships words mother lin
law and "stepm other. "Ecc'>-- -. i:
In general humanity, in the sense
of social solidarity, and a:iR magnan-
unity, the male has, continually
proved himself at least the equal Of
the female. -"
Nor will women shrink from war
because they lack courage. Earth's
women of every generation. have
faced suffering and death with an
equanimlty that no soldier on bat
tlefield has ever surpassed and few
have equaled and where war has been
to preserve life, or land, or freedom,
rather than for ACKNOWLEDGMENT and
power, unparasitized and laboring
women have in all ages known how
to bear an active part, and die.
Nor will woman's influence initiate
against war, because = in the future
woman will not be able physically to
bear her part in it. The smaller size
of her muscle, which might severely
have 'disadvantaged her when war
was conducted with a 1battle-axe or
sword iand-to-hand, would now little
or not at all effect: her If intent on
training for war, She might acquire
the skill. for guiding a, Maxim or
shooting down a foe with d. Lee Met
ford at 1000 yards as ably as any
male; and, undoubtedly. it has not
been. only the peasant girl Of France
who has carried latent and hid in her
person the gifts that would make
the great general. IT, our European
nations should continue a few gener-
ations: longer, it is highly probable
that as financiers, as managers of the
comrnissariat department, as inspec-
tors Of provisions and clothing for the;
army, women may Probably play a
very leading part; ahd' that the ia.
ton which Is: the firstvto .employ
women may be placed at vast -ad-
vantage over Ats. fellows stp, time OF
war. 1t is not because .of, Woman's
cowardice ineapaSity nor, above all,
because of her. generalv superior viz
tue, that she .WHr END MeK when aher
voice is fully land clearly Head IN. the
governance Of: statesssst Is because,
on this one point. and .en this point
almost alone, the knowledge of wom-
an, simply as'' wosnano Il Superior Is
that of man; she kffi S5a Tie History
Of :ihdaTman flesh; !: s siiiss Knows It's cost;
he does not - - ~: ~'''
:: Fl a :besieged city, it. it, might wen
happen that men. ip the streets. might
seize: upon statutes and marble cary
ings FROM public ebYildiAgs AND gal;
leries ana hurl~ them IN TO, stop the
breaches made in. their ram parts hi
the enemy. Internationally and mere
~ because they came first to hand,
not valuing them more. than had they
been paving stones. One man, how
ever; could mot do: this:-the sculptor.
He who, though there; might: be ne
work of his own chisel among them.
yet knew what: each Of these works
Of art had. cost, knew by experience
the long years: Of struggle and study
and the infinitude of toll which had
gone to the shaping of every one limb,
, to the carving OF even one perfected
outline, he could never so use them
without thought or care Instructive
ly he would seek: to throw in house
hold goods, even gold and silver, all
the city held. before he sacrificed it's
works Of art!
Mems bodies are our woman's
works of art. Given to us power to