The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-03-25

family. Neither man nor woman Is
complete. but the complemental
characteristics Of both make up the
whole into the smallest safe division
of society, the family-a partnership
for the propagation OF the race and
the happiness Of men, women, and
children.
No one would contend that the
salesman does not represent the
firm. nor that the factory foreman
does not represent the firm. Thou
sands Of partnerships exist, where
zone man sells what the other makes
neither can succeed so well In
the others place. and each fully
represents the business as TO the
respective fields Of production and
distribution.
As an actual fact, readily ascer-
tanned by Government statistics, the
partnership OF parentage, the union
OF one man and one woman In mar
riage, is the most successful enter
prise in the business OF civiliza-
ton. With all its faults and alleged
failures. less than per cent OF
THE persons who enter into this
partnership dissolve IL by divorce.
On the other hand, II is so popu-
lar that over 60 per cent OF all
males and 20 per cent OF all fe-
males over fifteen in ihe United
States are married, while only ?
per cent OF the human race in
America rounds out its "threescorc
years and ten without embarking
in this most vital business the
pursuit Of happiness by men and
women.
Feminism is the theory OF individ-
ualism-an unnatural assumption
Of sex isolation-versus the fact
Of the family partnership; and
against the duplication OF the mans
duties by the woman stands the
whole evolution OF the argument for
the division OF labor. n the man
efficiently represents the woman in
politics she has no more right TO
request a place as his rival at the
polls than he has to demand
place as her rival in the pPepara-
ton Of the family food.
Besides. men and women are not
competitors, but companions, and
his "man-made laws" are no more
apt to work injury TO his wife than
her homemade pastry is liable 10
poison him il he doesn't vote on
its Ingredients. Would woman suf-
frage be for or against the preser-
walton of the family unit? The his
torian Of the movement says:
There is nothing in the Constitu-
tion to the effect that the family in
stead OF the individual is the true
social unit" The sayings OF WELL
known feminists, such as "the home
is no more holy than the postofilce,"
and 'the isolated household has
been one Of the chief causes OF
woman's ignorance and degradation"
seem TO indicate an enmity TO this
holy institution Of the family that
is not at all lessened when the
President OF the suffragists deris-
lively describes the "antis" as "the
home, heaven and mother party"
Since there are over seventeen
million OF these homes in the Unit
ed States, ninety-three per cent.
Of which are being run without
servants, and more are being built
every day, the women who stand
boldly for the preservation OF the
home, gain. rather than lose, by
such acknowledgements. The "is-
olated household" tantis are "old
fashioned" enough TO cali it "home''j
happens TO be several thousand
fold more common than the isolated
individual who seeks to pose as
the sole subject for political and
social consideration.
The movement to establish the
individual as the unit OF represen-
tation is admitted by suffragists
themselves TO logically include the
doctrine of economic indepen-
dence," which in turn is not only
a blow at the family, but a most
unfair measure to women. To
deny the helpless mother or the
sick wife the support Of her hus-
band, or to effect the same pur-
pose by teaching the man that he
is not responsible for the welfare
Of the woman he marries means
that eventually State aid must be
substituted for manhood in caring
for the mother and her children.
Going back to our illustration OF
how information, rather than in
telligence, is the necessary factor
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