Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-08 | Page 16 | Women Sarcastic in Reply to Men

WOMEN SARCASTIC v ' IN REPLY TO MEN Refute Theory That They Can't Toach Boys in Public Schools as Well as Homely Sex. PHILADELPHIA, May 7. Tho National Na-tional American Woman's Suffrage Suf-frage association makes tho following fol-lowing reply to thc roport of tho Moseley educational commission to the effect that only men should be employed ns teachers for boys above. 10 years of age, which was followed by a similar report from the Male Teachers' association asso-ciation of Now York City: "The reasons given by these superior male teachers for discarding women teachers, apparently to give themselves more positions, aro really amusing. "Thc conclusion Is drawn that women, having been the slaves of men all these nges, aro not capable of teaching boys, but arc all right for girls. One cannot help wondering how such Inferior mothers moth-ers can produce such wonderful sons; at least when wo take into consideration considera-tion the fact that sons as a rule Inherit tho personal and Intellectual traits of the mother and the daughters those of the father. "These wise men would have U3 understand un-derstand that women have stolen tho profession of teaching from them through their willingness to teach for lower wage3, but they try to prove to us thc loss to the boy of self-reliance, courage, high purpose and manly cnar-acter, cnar-acter, which far outwolgh thc less wages paid to women. "Wo wonder It never occurred to these men that thc easiest and most effectual way of ridding themselves of. women teachers Is to put all their force Into securing thc passage of a law requiring equal pay for equal work in public schools, irrespective of sex."