The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-01-02
CALLS WOMEN
NATIONS PERIL
Editor Says She Can Not Stand
Light OF Publicity Because
She Lacks Brains.
CAME FROM COUNTY CORK


harsh words aud very much used 10
praise want TO know right away
quick what Mr. Monahan means by
calling us a peril! Michael MOnahan,
once Of County Cork, can now be
found at South and East Norwalk,
Conn, where be respectively resides
and publishes n very red and yellow
little magazlncet called The Phoenix.
lie looks kind and genial aud AZ II
he liked women.
In fact he doth protest he il our
deyOut udmirer and would merely
point out our errors 10 the end that
We become the more powerful and
the more beloved
The MOnahRn Peril.
II called II the American peril"
said Michael MOnahau with laugh
that took some Of the bitterness from
the pill, but 1t seems TO have grown
into the Monahau peril since you
ladies have flown ~ yallantly 10 your
own defense.
Yet stlll maintain that We are
suffering from too much womanlsm
lhnl II is our national weakness aud
that It may bc we are degeneratlng
from this cause.
Certainly II has made us ridiculous
10 ourselves aud a laughing stock 10
foreign peoples.
After all, you can't blame the won
am 80 much. Woman has been told by
half baked intellectuals OF her own
sex that her brain power is equal 10
mans, that her morality is higher,
that she hns been too long his slave,
and the passive mother of his children,
and that 1t X high time she should
rule the roust and take hand la
public affairs.
Magazines aud newspapers, Gun
nlngly Interested for their profit flat.
ter and ca ajole the poor thing along
the samelines
The Rice Powder Squad,
"a peculiar species " journalism
has been created by women writer's -
generally silly and mediocre, hut on
occaslsns shameless and prurient.
These ladies' are the Rice Powder
Squad NJ the journalistic army
"Polltlcians, disgruntled with their
party and seeking to rule or ruin, give
her similar bad counsel.
"Purltans and fanatics, hoping
through her aid to fasten an lntoler-
able system Of espionage and NOR
al slavery upon u free people, do more
than all the rest to lead her astray.
woman cannot seemingly stand
the strong wine of publicity. She has
become drunken herewith, and her
sic tkness is upon us !"
We gazed at the gray haired broad
slouldered. Irish.eyed Mr.. Monahan
with gentle rcproach Oh, Mr Mona
hnn. kind MIR Monahan, We cannot
hrl thinking Of the dozens " women
mngnzine and newspaper writer's who
Ilin their pens and hammer their
/ Ityp,wrlters In an honest effort to
bring about intelligent thinking AMI
wholesome reforms.
And VI the women Judges, Mayors,
drrru sheriffs aud other political
powers who have done clean work
Aud NJ the women who are neither
"purlinus nor fanatics" hut give
their time and strength TO benevolent
lnhurs that save thousands each ySf
from wretchedness and crime
4 jolt far MOnahan.
And ~ women wbr are shaving u
hours d week ~ la r/tories and
vooDon mills fqts@tO per
Aud NJ othH. wopten lucky enough
tn let their SbpU1s BIT above the
su. tn,c ~ things, who are trying TO
organize aud lead the ignorant into
better existence,
Granted" thought that in ways
n love women have always ruled the
universe that woman scorned II n
vludictive fury who stops at nothing ,
that through mistaken Idea that she
mus, at all hazards please men, she
hns committed many yanlties, untruth-
fulness and sins has she not done
much To deserve every right the
church or state can give her,
"No" said Mr. Monahan, "let the
frmlnlsis chen on this: Even under
thing as they are, there Is n reserved
hatred between the sexes. What VIII
nnrrpu when the romance OF sex ~
forgotten I'm n fierce strife between
wrn md women, such as equal SUI
fw., b. sure TO bringr
II rose to my lips inyomntarlly tn
.sn. that n does not require the I'D
minutes trip to the voting booth to
h.,g ON the fierce strife between
mru and women"
have known some pretty nerce
info beside the domestic hearthstone.
AnJ on the other hand have seen
much comradry aud considerable "ro-
nance OF sex" Ia office, shop and fac
tOry,
,If there exists sex hatred" |
murinured, "can II not be because
woman has been forced into Industry
without proper reward, forced into
marriage without recognition of her
economic rights and Judged by the
standards ~ a silly sisterhood that is
fast passing out Of eNistencer
Mir Mnnnhan smiled again his Kind
ly smile. which has In 1t no rancor to
ward the sincere hut only dlsdalns
woman, the alleged "usurper.-
II laugh when | hear women twad.
ding about their equality to men, all
prlned and furnished with arguments
from the Feminist nopc Book.
woman always rules, hut or palace
city Or kingdom, and observe me.
madam, not 10y virtue NJ her equality
10 man, hut solely ON account NJ her
difference from him.
believe me madam, ! am the friend
OF woman, likewise her slave Tor size
hus always ruled me, but n you viii
b. we'll advised. you will gu slow
nbou' this equality business
Fo1 boy the faith Of man. that way
lics Your defeat, since all your n.
forts to enuallEe the sexes do but tend