The Alaska citizen., 1915-08-23

of transportation are all new ani different from the old. as day differs from night. Machines are brawn today. and man is the brain and nerve centers.
 Woman's occupations all but one have changed. And here. with re eard to woman's occupation. is ahara our nation is sick Here is where We must cure ourselves. No "rhubarb, senna or purgative drue" can cure us. No surgeons knifa
 in hospitals can save Us. Here the a.f.n; must minister unto herself. to bring her 10 a sound and pris- tine health"
 As there is a new man. so must there te a new woman. Primitive woman needed no endowment on her wedding day She had no widow hood. Her children were never or phans unless she died She could take care of herself and her chii dren-a all of them And the child belonged entirely 10 its mother until t beIouepd to itself
 The primitive woman was an in diriduaI and like the Norsemen Of old. she owned no man as master. She worked at all kinds Of employ ment that the human needs of her self and children required She was a builder a manufacturer, a farmer. a cook, a maker of clothing She invented and used her own tnven- tions She. too. could hunt and fish IS her own needs required Woman once felt that courage and strength within herself 10 meet every foe. The primitive woman was mother av hor own desire Nature was her guide and her family cares were of her own choosing and did not exceed her strength This individual was 2 free woman, blessed by Nature, whose laws she obeyed. She never bartered her divine power of mother hood for ease and luxury. The mothers of the race realized the holiness cf Gods gift of Mother hood
 There is a story that Prometheus stole fire from the altar of the gods and used the fire for unnatural pur- . poses. And lie became sick in mind and body. He wept much and sore was taken to first one hospital and
 then another He repented and grieyed for his sins when il was roo late. The Greeks told this story that they might know that Gods eifts are to be used according to his laws.
 Where and when women first sold their birthright for a mess of pot tage, l do not know. But when it was done man and woman both became perverted, dsenerated
 Man began to pay his obligations mental, moral and commercial in money or commodities. He drove good bargains. and with the ever in i creasing desire 10 get the most for his money he forgot the divine use of his nature. His wife became property too. She was his to use as he pleased And his power, limit less over his family, made him ty
 rant
 Tyrants demand excess as their right. To exercise his right to the full extent of his power is the ty- rants joy. And the divine gifts have been held no more sacred than have the appetite for food and drink. ! Womans occupations of invention of useful things. her manufacturing, her farming and teaching her many work CTS to work better were absorbed by mans great institutions of indus tries. And woman became a sey creature. Board and lodging in eX change for what man Willed. A
 standard of morals was crystallized into laws that would make the prim- tive mother rise in fierce fight against such crime against Nature. 1 Laws once made are slow to change. We stretch them. in every direction, interpret" them but seldom com
 pare them with natural laws, or justice and right.
 1 When We look at our customs now prevailing for the perverted use of motherhood and compare them with the natural primitive mo- ther, we find that we have sane toned customs contrary to nature. Free mothers are unknown, or if known. are mathematical. Yet women may be spoken to- even in vited into good society" if unmar- ried and yet supported by friend provided the relationship is not ac- | knowledged and no child is born of l this union-so sick have our minds ] become concerning this divine use of i Gods gift to woman and to man. | And when priest or state have sanctioned union between man and woman no one dares think of the crimes committed against natur | al laws, but sanctioned by mans i laws