Show LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Telegram welcomes welcome letter for department O OwIng to i nr limitations limi they must b be on subject of general ral Interest Communications m unaccompanied crom- crom by bv writers writer's rO nam namo and will y not no bo be considered ThIe I la 15 to chow y rood oot faith The name nam will vIii not be 1 published 01 if the writer to Go o requests request The Telegram ram don does not relon for any JUlY opinion td In this do- do part men nor for the accuracy of nn any nor for the return of manuscript manu man scripts script R Religions discussions will not be accepted utters Letters mast must be written OP or one side of the paper only Address all nil communications communication to The Editor Thinks Women Have Best of It Editor Telegram Telegram SInce Since reading the editorial in your April 29 issue Shall Wives Get Wages permit me ate to air myself a little on this theme which periodically like Uke I Banquo's ghost appears in the press For one my sympathies are not with the writer of national reputatIon reputation reputation tation William illiam Johnston you quoted as saying that Any man who has a good wife and andY doesn't pay her a salary in my opinion isn't a good business man man man-in in fact Id I'd be inclined to consider him a fraud that fraud that despicable sort of person person person per per- son who cheats his own partner If lC one were to Judge by the great amount of oral and written matter that Is continually ut forth by byboth byboth byboth both male and female thinkers there certainly must be something I radically wrong respecting the views of womans woman's ethical Independence independence independence dence as also her proper place and standing in Ia society Mere Iere man is subject to woman from the cradle to the grave grae Like a pendulum he lie is made to swing backward or forward to his condemnation condemnation condemnation con con- I I or to his hI's glory It is the class of women oscillating the man that determines his hl- present and future future fu- fu I ture status of ute lire and slowly but surely surel as than man as you say Is sat is falling I I before the onward march of woman oman In an article by Sarah Grand I Woman oman in 1901 and Her Future appearing in the Chicago American II I II I take the liberty libert to quote for the thet I sentiments are my 01 own I j The position which the nineteenth nineteenth nineteenth nine nine- century sought to impose I upon woman was essentially the position position po- po j I of lesser man From o rom pulpit I to press pres from the fiery furnace of public life to the family fireside In I literature in art In music musi in I everything but singing acting and dancing b by Jibe and jest by ridicule ridicule ridi ridi- cule and approval by precept and persuasion by warning and rebuke rebul and threat and encouragement ment woman was given to understand that she had been from time im im- im- im memorial that she was at that moment that she e ever eer er r would be and andeV eV ever r ought to be be if she would re retain retain re- re I tam tain the respect of ot the world Just lesser man None recognized that the force which impelled her to speak was the irresistible force of or evolution that her action in m the matter was the outcome of a mighty effort efort of ot the human race to raise itself a astep astep astep step higher in the scale of being that upon her hel success or failure depended mans man's own position the future progress of ot the human race or the decline of our modern civil civil- For all things have been tried in the history of the world to stay the decline of nations except this one thing the development of all that is best in woman Everything Every Every- thing at the present time is in excess excess excess ex ex- ex- ex cess from labor to luxury and the question is Shall we destroy our lives by our excesses or is there still l hope for us Shall we rise higher in the scale o of being or shall we totter to our oui fall reel back into the beast and be no more as all the oth other r civilizations yielding to the evil tha thaC was In them have done In turn It depends upon the woman i It is because or woman that we I have a civilization such as it is is i At one time it was said that man should hold the reins and woman to show him the way to go But men today 1 if married are but small s and few Cew in a hill hIlI in a family The wise lawmaking man has seen fit to enact a law that so soon as a marriage ceremony is performed per per- formed formed no no matter how great a aman's amans amans aman's amans aman's mans man's real estate his estate his wife wile automatically has a third interest in same and which it Is not legal for him hIm to in any way dispose of ot without his wife's wies consent On the theother theother theother other hand a wife who holds a deed can do as she likes with her real r f estate and ask no questions of her liege lord as to Its disposal On I the top of this power ceded to women women wo wo- wo- wo men gallant man no doubt should pass a law to determine the amount of ot wages now unremunerated wives should receive Women Nomen by nature are more than men I once heard a polItIcal political po po- po- po speaker say We let our women walk ahead of oC us to show how much we think of ot them It may be bo possible if women had the making of laws some laws lass's now enacted would be more democratic From rom my viewpoint women should have th their Ir financial independence independence inde lade Or the same m means ans to issue checks against a bank account account account ac ac- ac- ac count as the to ought-to-be head of ot the house But in m our present so socIal socia social so- so cial cia regime this would be absolutely absolute absolute- ly 1 impracticable b because cause of our exchange medium being as good in one locality as another In the event a check medium were used by the masses masseR of the people for tor the exchange and interchange of mutual mutual mu mu- benefits good for all local transactions backed b by the products products products prod prod- i of labor and real estate in lieu I of gold womans woman's financial dence or dence-or or wage if it may be so termed could termed could and most assuredly would be given Yours truly J J. 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