The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-04-02
The Black Sheep.


Judge. 70 which she rep6ed in tbn
affirmative. Then he asked her what
sne thought of it. And she replied
mat She had ceased to think. She thea
surprised her father by telling him that
ever since she had been twelve years
oid she mad wondered about the strange
contradictions in life. About its IN.
conslstencies, about its universal cruel.
~ Il wanted to believe that what
mamma and Mr.. Goodman taught me
was the truth vet I could not under.
stand why it was that if it were
good and true YOU took no stool, in
IT. "hen mere child I noticed that
there were ten women in church TO
one man. Men do the business of the
world; they meet the world as II is
"omeh are supported by the men and
are therefore made what mon want
them TO be. Men keep women as
diversion from business. They won+
."'lf company rs relaxation from
| the cures OF life. That is why they trv
10 Olnd them up in such wav that
Iney shall know nothing about businnss
Men raise women for TOYS and NOT for
partners. They infranchise the indian
.re negro and the illitcrate They denv
a a, Toicc to idiots criminals and women
lnev GO rot class their women with
er'"lnalS but they do their best IN
Keep Them idiotic. | have figured il on.
thiS way that if women know tba
'ruth about this world IS business tbnro
"oaid be more honesty and less abusivo
power what are we taught? Stories
canclh@, scripture, entertainment and
hoW TO wear our clothes TO the hest
advantage. We are fixed nm as doll,
n the show window of societv,,
r"r father sat ana looked at bar
WIN open mouth. IIe knew that what
sue Sald was true but he had never
! tnoieht OF 1T as evil. He believed
tnac women and niggPrs had to keen
I"clr place 10 ma woman 8 placs
was IN the home, and in socioI lfo
Ser sphere was to comfort love and
anuse man and rear his children For
her mel TO aspire to anything different had
Always appeared to him as mark
OIL depravitv but now that his daughter
voiced the sentiments it all Looked
uiflerent but he was not convinced
Ihar she was right. Anderson had =
provincial mind. He had always lived
III small town and in a farm com.
ihunity. lie knew nothing of that larp.
er lie, that art, culture and civiliza.
lion through the force of industria,
development bring to the woman hood
Oh the race He had scarcely heard of
woman suffrage. He looked upon the
English suffragette as monsters of
PerVerSlty. He gloated over the savagc
aouse that the English government
neaped upon these pioneers in the
world OF thought. eff woman takes
"a mans place she should not ohipcf
II she gets mans treatment ;,ba
would say. The truth was he was la.
norant of the forces at work in 90.
ciety, or he would not have tried 70
rear his daughter in the way that
aaugnters were reared during the hand
tool period of production.
Now he listened for the first finn,
TO a feminine brain that really
thought; that was more than an ocbo
Iot her masters voice and he felt p
strange emotion of mingled pride and
resentment. He listened TO her whilo
Sne told him that she understood wbv
ne tIied to hide the facts of life from
!Iei. That she did not blame him for
Ioin9 what nearly all fathers lid
mat 1t was not he bout the customs
or tae people that were at fault She
told him that lie could NOT eynect ~
give her high school education and
lllde from her the facts of life as thev
are. 10 ''eE
10 all this Gus. Anderson answered.
tnat he knew that he had been =
rlcrce proposition but that she sbould
nor forget that this is dog cat doc
world and that therefore he was No
worse than other men. WsinT ~ -,
SWIM survive or PERISH" it all de.
PendS upon how YOU go about things
lie then added that all that he had
ever done he had done for her. that
~ ne had ever made, he had made
ior her' that it would no NIL hers
wheh he came to die. And to this
the girl replied that she wished that
had never made anything if bv that
| sacrifice the methods of maxine couIJ
De altered. She told him that She did
not like to think that the frozen to,rs
or men, women and little children were
Smoothening her path in life. THAT
what mad been acquired through in.
'quily could never bring anything but
ultllhate sorrow. "Iniustice leads m
inequality and inequality DESTROYS the
ec,quollberium Of the world. When eoual.
iherium is DESTROYED in anything il
fallS. This is true of man and + ia
.ruc of nations. Inequality DESTROYS
the good in human kind. II mokes
man brutes, towards, and slovcs % T~en
you Daddy are afraid of that poor bow
now held in Jail" wy
Sure I'm afraid of him. Not for
myself. / can deal with him alr;gbt
nut Tor ycu. l don't want him to meet
serted. 40
"There you CO." she replied
Don't you see that YOU have no faith
IN my ability to take care of myself
Nather than have me strengthened
by storm Of truth that will stouten
every fiber of my being YOU prefer
TO keep me in hot house of sillv
iairy tales and lies. That bow can't
hurt me. You seem to have the sillv
notion that woman cannot bc in.
terested in a man without being in
rove with him. I'm not interested in
aim ann hut in the principle of justice.
1ou have all admitted that ho is
innocent of any wrong; that these
men arc arrested for their money's
sake. Such conduct is disgrace to
our community. II is n disgrace to YOU