Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-22

but defy you--real terrible like--to
show me that the women ever minded
the change, except in isolated cases,
which, today, in order to have some
thing to inspire us, we have converted
into romances. OF course, the man might
have been gruff sometimes. But he was
always the meal ticket, and used as such
don't forget that And that's what
counts IL you're talking about slavery.
Besides. men were not sruff only to their
women--they were gruff to other men
Ceven murdered theml
Yes, sir. we men need liberation--not
you women. We need to get away from
supplying women with all the necessities
and luxuries Of life for no other reward
than smile and kiss that may be Of
the Judasses' kind.
The woman's rights movement is one
for which | can feel only the greatest
contempt because It is an accentuated or
aggravated sex-groping affair; but that
movement what It's name is, that en-.
courages woman to seek her own daily
bread in an honest fashion, disdaining
tricks of the feminine trade, is one which
appeals to me. AT least the latter shows
that some women are growing tired of
owning slaves.
That's what man is--a slave. Go to
a clubhouse, go to any gathering eX.
clusively Of men, and what Is the chief
topic of conversation? War? Not so
that you can notice II. Business? Not
out of BUSINESS hours, and very often
A,,.l Tto N1rfNYf n n
morning. noon and night, while they are
awake and while they are asleep with
their eyes open daytimes they watch her
on the streets: asleep at night they dream
OF her. They're nuts.
"The woman knows the man Is her
slave-although the poor dub himself de.
MES Il. For a sparkling eye men will go
through hellhre. The only right
woman is in need of is the right to cease
her shameless oppression, her shameless
exploitation. AS It is now she has moth.
ing but lackey always following her
around, spending all his wages or
gamblings upon her, trampling on him
self, allowing himself to be robbed Just
for a smile, and, maybe, kiss from the
female Judas. who, after all. Is nought
but what Kipling called her in The
Vampire
'I certainly do love the ladies'. finish
with that sentence, because you may
think I'm a woman hater. I'm not. Hate
is too strong a word. We don't hate that
which we hold only In contempt.
CECIL MONTAGUE"
The economical exploitation of the hui
man race which, Cecil tells us, takes hold
of men as 1t does of women causes the
latter to "go that way" which he infsrs
is the reprehensible way of the primrose
path and the bright lights. He does not
add, however. that history and tradition
have proved that many men do not have
to have the excuse of economic pressure
for going that way"
Ultimately the change in woman's |
status will bring about, II is to be hoped |
but is not promised, an equal standard |
Of morals for men and women, but until |
that happy day eventuates mothers will |
continue to worry more about their boys |
going that way" than about their girls.
In answer to another OF your charges, |
Cecil, from personal experience, I would |
Jay that judging from my correspondence
Just as many men. yourself not excepted, |
seem to enjoy being "stultified" by the |
womans pages OF newspapers.
In conclusion. Cecil, 1t shows excep- |
tionally bad judgment for a man to
spend his life supplying a woman who
8 a female Judas with "all the necessi-
lies and luxuries" when there are 30
many wholesomely attractive women in
:ho world Only the slave kinda very
minor. abnormal type-would do It. Did
ne exist in large numbers. should be
me of the first to enlist under ''mascu-
mist" or mems rights movement.
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