Evening star., 1933-10-15

FER all that has been said
~ and written to account for
II mans deeds and misdeeds, in
1 \ the vast majority of cases the
real motive for his many ac-
tivities is money. When money moves,
man follows it faithfully. although he
may take considerable pains to disguise
loaded with apologize records, which
serve no purpose other than that OF
hiding the real motive of our heroes.
The list of immortals is composed main
ly Of men who fought for pensions. pre-
served their politics for the class which
gave them place and fortune, or found
ed new religions on sound financial
basis; and, it seems, the few whose
SelfleSs purpose was responsible for dire
poverty are mentioned chiefly as q
foil for the motive Of the many.
From the beginning man made 1t his
particular business to acquire money or
its equivalent, and because Of his eter-
nal worship Of Mammon. he has always
paid homage to competitors more sue
cessful than himself. His hero worship
Of the big money makers went so 1ar
as to permit the creation Of class dis
lacked acquisitiveneSs has been and still
is responsible for world made hideous
by greed and hypocrisy. In the begin
ming, too, before jurisdiction made pos
sible bid for justice and equality OF
status, mans chief motive for his III
treatment of woman was his contempt
for her inability to acquire wealth.
Dependent on Economic Value.
It might be argued that the psysio-
lcrical difference between man ana
woman entail corresponding phychologi-
cal differences, but the status Of woman
everywhere has always depended largely
on her economic value A striking ex-
ample of this was provided by the in
dustrial revolution. when woman's
status declined simply because the in
crease Of mechanical appliances lessen
ed the value Of her services in the
household. The industrial revolution
forced woman to leave the home. out
side of which she had no status. In
the new industry woman had no share
except as an unskilled and poorly paid
worker. The fact that in England thou.
sands of her sex crawled half-naked
in the mines, hauling coal trucks along
low and narrow passages, is surely the
greatest indictment that could be leveled
against British manhood at time
when the country's prestige was su-
preme among nations.
Women of the upper classes could
take no part in the increasing profes-
sional work in the country at that time,
for the door to the professions was fast
closed against their sex, and from this
class came the leaders Of the first
women's emancipation movement. To
check the first weak strings Of q bid
for freedom within the United Kingdom
q clause was inserted In the reform act
of 1882. This was the first legal enact
ment which definitely excluded women
from the franchise, and 1t was effected
by prefxing male" to the word person"
encouragement From America.
When John Stuart Mil moved an
amendment for the deletion Of the word
male" in the reform bill OF 1857 and
was defeated British women were at
last reused to break . centuries-old
bondage. Inspiration and encourage
ment came to the women Of Great
Britain from America where, in 1869,
Wyoming was the first State to accord
the suffrage to women.
In 1902 was founded the Women's
Social and Political Union, and so
effective was this organization that In
three years British women had . def
mite constitutional movement behind
them. There followed policy Of increas-
ing violence and disorder to advertise
the suffrage movement, and man met