THE MAN AND THE WOMAN.

White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 243, 18 September 1915, Page 5

THE MAN AND THE WOMAN.

In primal times the brute man subdued his mate with fist or club, and he made h* r his slave. In later days he has held her to bondage with his approved customs and his laws—laws that deny her self-government and do not permit her a voice in the government that commands all the interests and environments of her children. God has visited all the pains and all the chains of maternity upon the female. Shall man add to her misery by refusing her the liberty he demands for himself? Nature bound the female to her child with an umbilical cord before it was born, and has chained her to her child after its birth with an unbreakable maternal instinct that is never missing, even in the female tiger. Speaking generally, woman has never failed in self-sacrificing devotion to her child. Man has mostly failed of his duty; he has obviously, directly, and miserably failed to equip his child’s mother with legal power to perform her rightful part in determining the surroundings and conditions that go to make the character and point the fate of her offspring. What a miserable impertinence it is to demand that woman constantly keep within the yard-square limitation that surrounds the cradle—a man’s demand —directed to the womb-man, mother of the race, who, under God, is the creator of the wombless man.—F.S.D., in the “San Francisco Star.”