Year: 1869

Question Asked.


To he Editor Of The Tribune.


SIR: A correspondent signing him.
self IN" in Saturdays edition of the
Tribune said:


81 think that one branch of the"Wo.
man Movement in this country is like
ly to lead to great mischief, for there is
spirit engendered analogous to re-
bellion, based upon the assumption that
man is twaat which has emanated
from old maids, and is entirely distinct
from the question of labor and wages"


should like to ask this representa-
tive of the male sex if facts do not 90 to
prove that married men are tyrants in
many instances? Whatright have you
to exercise the control of our property7
To make laws which allow us only one
third of our mutual earnings? To
claim our childrenin case of separation!
What right have you to dictate to us
what we shall buy, and whittier we
shall go7 Have you any right to sub
jeet cur persons to your control, against
our wishes! Should we not. be as free
as yourselvesl Yet you force US to sub
nit to your basest desires. Your brute
strength is superior to ours, but the
use of authority based on this ground
renders our condition one of slavery.
Let us look at few of your acts.


You have filled this land with distil-
leries and rum-shops, and what are the
results! Great men have declared that
alcohol is one of the primary causes of
crime and destitution. You all admit
that a greater part of the misery which
exists among the poor is owing to the
effects of strong drink, but do You ever
stop to think that you were the first to
introduce this terrible evil into society,
and it was you alone who first enticed
our sons and daughters with the accurs-
ed cup of intemperancel There was
never drunkard who went down to the
grave, who did not go there through
your influence. You are not content
with desolating our homes, but you at
tempt to define our sphere, and you are
not willing that even few Of us shall
have the privilege of making laws for
our protection.


How many hours have you ever spent
in waiting for the return of drunken
husband? Have we not prayed by day
and by night for your welfare, and were
we not rewarded by blasphemy and
blows? Have you OF spent your earr-
ings and ours for rum? Have You not
filled the bones of our children with the
fruits of your debaucheries, and taught
them to follow in your iniquitous pathsi
To-day we stand shorn of the powers
which God gave us, because you have
denied us the privilege of exercising
them as the Creator intended we should,
Oh! most noble man, who is it tha
pollutes the air with foul and sickenine
breath? Did "lovely woman" evel
teach our sons to chew and smoke to,
bacco, and become more uncleanly thar
the beasts of the fields?


Is this all! NO. Your tyrannlca
meannesses are almost without number
You build ferry y-boats with two cabins,
one for ladies and one for gentlemen
but you allow yOur apartments to become
so filthy that gentlemen will not occupy
them; consequently ours are monopo-
lized, and then you boast of your gal
lantry if you occasionally offer us seat
You know full we'll that we protes
: against your denominations, but doe
your vaunted chivalry against the gent


Ter sex induce you to abandon your dis
gusting habits7 You have flooded the
land with an infamous literature, anC
now you mock us because we arr
seduced by reading the works Of YOU
: corrupt imagination. You say that VIC
: do not need the ballot, because you are
our nrotectors. vet why is it that nc