Show PROFESSOR PROFESS LAUGHLIN J I There should be a commission appointed to too examine ex cx- amine the head of Prof J 1 J Lawrence Laughlin O of Ui th the Chicago fc uni university He lie spent some years in J explaining the so sovereign n virtues of 01 II gold the total absence of virtue in silver siler His Ills work helped to cost cost- this country a great many millions millions mil mu- lions of dollars The Tie effects arc still doing the thc same thing Ve Vc have ha not heard fLOIT him hini a reined remedy rein rein- ed edy for fot the thc fa fact t that the legislation tion which he lit recommended recommended rec ree I las as result resulted cd in the killing of our export trade to half the world but lie he is out on another theme now and seems to be just as far fur off as he ahva always s 's has hut been Indeed a good way war to judge a q question estion where a it man is a little in doubt ht is to et I Professor Laughlin's opinion and copper it lie Ic har haa Q becu beu cn looking over o the thc question of f the time women of wealth in this country and und he demonstrates to tu his hi own o n satisfaction sat that as a It class they thc are arc a menace to the country His article i j in maga magazine inc fc ft ft February o He lEe admits that to deal 0 with women with omen as forming economic factor separate separate sep sep- arate arat from men is to enter upon dangerous ground lie Ic does docs not state however that dangerous ground is what he ho always seeks and always s 's s to come comein comein in ill b by tho the back way lIe He admits that the unexampled unexampled d opportunities for making vast a t fortunes 0 quickly in iu this country have ha given to women op- op for social display that were never enjoyed en en- jt joyed ed before in the same degree irU iro From n t mt lI II figures out that those rich ladies Indies make a separate economic class Here Herc is a sample of his bis reasoning Iii In that earlier clay day the tile mass of women were free from the disadvantages of being rich Inequalities Inequalities In In- equalities o of wealth had practically no influence in in causing any to those who had to lo earn a it living by work vork of vi any kind Women in Ill the host social standing took a share of the ph physical work in their household To paint a little woodwork woodwork wood wood- work to fashion some article of furniture to care for foi the garden to harness a horse to study the thc markets to give thought to economics or to share sarc pel personally onalI in the llio care earo of the house were wele the tho common com coin mon nion virtues of even en the women of some sonic means and amI among the the generality of women a a. a considerable part pmt of the domestic labor in the house was formerly formerly formerly for for- merly done clone l by the wife or daughter Well cH at nt that time for the thc mass of women the parlor was about twelve c b by fifteen That had to tob ht b- looked over oyer once a week because it was closed a a a rule to wait for company In those lays days s 's the cooking was done and and the table set set- with the whole breakfast or the time whole dinner and all sat down clown at atthe atthe the same time at the thc table It Ic that wa way still in ina a good many places but wealth wealthy women as a rule when the they do not go to an apartment house or a hotel have ha large houses a gr great at deal more company com corn pan pany and to superintend a house of that kind is isa a about out all that the mistress of the home can do The reason she cooked and cleaned house herself in the theold theold old days was because e she was not troubled much with calls and the tile revenues re of the thc iamB family did not permit the hiring of man many servants ser But how that eh change can ean change women the dispositions of women o m o that thc they become a menace monace to society only Professor Laughlin would think of trying of to figure out We Ye take it from the extract above that some time in his life Prof Professor Laughlin was out on a farm and actually learned enough to harness harness har har- ness Hess a H horse If Ii he lie wanted a horse lint harnessed now he would not mint do o it he lie would hire it done Does that make him a menace to soei soci society t 7 V We Vc c think it was war a great misfortune for the country when he left the humble home became a great scholar teacher teach r and anti writer because if he has ever been heen right on an any subject that he has ventilated ed cd with hi his pen we have never seen it We know nothing of his domestic relations hence there can be he nothing personal in this next sentence which is isa a belief elief that when he lie decided that wealth wealthy women were a menace to society and to the country it was some morning after his wife had been b en explaining explaining explain explain- ing jug to him what an impractical educated idiot he lie hew w was s because becam e that class of men as a rule generally generall marry bright wives and we he heartily sympathize with the woman s-ornan that that- has been Professor Laughlin's wife for the last several sc years ears for h he must be bc a disagreeable old at home His writings reveal the fact that in his own estimation it would have been an advantage if the birth of the Savior had been put off until after after- his because he could have ha given iven the tile Messiah in the so many points government gO gov of the universe Ye hope he will hold hola his place in the Chicago university as long as he lie wants it because were he lie to lose Jose it we do not believe he lie get another as soft a snap in the whole world around 0 |