Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-03-30
CATHOLIC MISSIONARY SPEAKS ON FEMIN|sN;
SAYS DOCTRINE D|STORTs WOMENS MISSION
ment Most Hideous Corruption of Womanhood World
u Has Known; Pleads for Christian Ideals.

I equality which the femininists claim
she possessed with man; more and
more she learned-rather was she
forced to learn-that she depended
upon man, and in her mind, in the
qualities Of her soul-yes, even in her
very physique-there was a radical
change brought about, and thus-say
the femininists of the modern, radical
type-was the weaker sex introduced
into the world, and in this way only.
BUT SLAVE OF MAN.
mo occupation which required more
than modicum of assertiveness was
allowed her, no relaxation which
brought her from the sphere Of home
was tolerated, none at all, until the
tradition grew that womans place was
in the home and in the home only, and
she, though being at first equal with
man, became gradually a creature who
was stunted in intellect and blunted
even in her physical makeup. and she
who was physically equal to man in
the former days, and mentally just as
keen, had become the slave, the ser
want of man, with no other sphere
save the home, with no other occupa-
ton save to mend and to patch that
which had been broken and torn by
man, and with no other human func-
ton in life save to rear his children,
that the male sex might be propagated
If the woman they say, protested
there was the rod, in the days of slav-
cry. which forced her. Then gradually
came reason, soft explanations and
reasonings were given. Then gradual
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to tell woman why she should be in
ferior and should possess a place be-
meath man, and that creed even set
woman apart and clothed her in silks
and satins and bedecked her with Jew
els, only that she might be attractive
to man and for no other reason.
ACCORDING TO FEMININISTs.
This is the history of womankind
according to the femininists, and wom-
an has become the heir of that long
line of history, and they say that even
today woman is practically the same, |
veneered-it is true-with q few soft
layers of changes, her position in the |
world is today identicalIy the same;
and they affirm that woman, as long
as she remains in subsection to man. |
cannot develop that personality which |
is hers, she cannot reclaim that plane |
of equality which is by nature hers.
Now, my dear women, We know
every honest man that loves woman,
and every woman that loves the ideal |
of woman as manifested to the world |
through the religion Of Jesus Christ
knows that the picture, or rather that |
the history of womankind as depicted |
by this modern movement, femininism |
is a hideous distortion; 1t is false-it |
is as false even as the devil himself; |
1t does not represent the woman of
the middle ages, and surely it does not |
represent the woman of today, save a |
few radical feminist types like those !
who believe and encircle themselves in |
the realms of those who call themselves
modern, twentieth century, radical |
femininists. Only in that class do you
find those who correspond to the pic
ture which the femininists of today |
picture the history of all womankind. |
MERCY DISTRIBUTORS.
Mercy came into this world through |
and the dispensation of |
that wonderful quality of Christianity
has been, to the greater extent would |
say, left to the dispensation of the
kindly hands of women, and ever since
man has believed that God took a wom-