Where Women are Enslaved

Southland Times, Issue 14800, 17 November 1900, Page 1 (Supplement)

Where Women are Enslaved

The situation in China offers a significant object lesson of a motherless nation. Li Hung Chang is quoted »b saying with great satisfaction : 'We have no "uew women" in ChiDa, and we want none. We stop their education at the seventh year.' The empress dowager is in no sense of the wori a 'new woman.' She is a typical bloodthirsty and cruel ruler such as ware not unknown among women in the dark ages in Egypt, Greece, Russia, Italy, and even England. There is nothing vj be hoped for in noble qualities from the men of a nationwhere women are h-ld in such subjection as in China. Neither slaves nor dolls can produce a grand type of manhood. There is no Burer indication of the progress of civilis» f ion than the position of the women of a country. Where the highest intellectual, moral and social development is permitted to the mothers of the race we find tbeee qualities reaching their finest flowering in manhood. Daring the countless generations when the Chinese empire was entirely isolated from the rest of the world there was no opportunity to study the social features of her people, but now that the rifts hive been made in the various parts of the wall which has shut her in for centuries, and modern civilisation has entered in, we behold the results of her degraded womanhood. We Bee a class of men in whose lives women have played no part except to produce them and enable them to produce others like themselves, a nation without mothers in the highest acceptance of the work. — New York Sun.