Show redistribution OF THE SEXES SOME of the so called social reformers of the times are demanding a redistribution of property their theories are self refuting because they recognize the right to hold property while they deny its existence they claim that it Is wrong for the wealthy to keep what belouss to them but want to obtain and keep a share of it themselves it is suggested by some eastern contemporaries that while this talk of redistribution is indulged in it would be a good thing to agitate for the redistribution of the sexes that is to take some of the surplus women of the east and draft them into the regions of male surplus in tile the west for while bachelorhood is said to be enforced to a large degree in some western territories spinsterhood is an incurable evil la in many of the atlantic states it appears that in twenty two of the latter there luere are more women than men tills this means a much larger population of unmarried women than appears s by the figures for it isan undisputed buted fact that there are large numbers of men who do not marry many of them think they cannot because of circumstances and many more will not because they do not wish to incur the expenses and bear the responsibilities winch are attached to wedlock this throws an immense body of urinated women upon the community and tends to increase the volume of those social evils that are the curse of modern christendom in those portion si of the countr country y where the males are in na numerical merical excess of the females it will he be found fou ad on that there are large numbers of unmarried ladies and this is usually not their fault matrimony is natural to women although it brings to fo them so much more care and suffering than to meu men they have a tendency in that direction it is born in viem t iem and belongs to their organism women who have n no 0 inclination to marry are rare exceptions and there are only enough ot of them to prove the rule of disposition the blame of their spinsterhood ste rests upon the stingy or timid bachelors who will not propose one eastern journal suggests th that at the territories in which so much bachelorhood preponderates ates might establish a a locy local equilibrium by makaaf making a raid on the neighboring mormons cormons Mor mons this idea springs from the common i ignorance i buor about our affairs that editor will be surprised to learn that according to the latest authorized census utah has over six thousand more males male s than females so bo according to this there are no surplus women in utah to spare to the surrounding anding territories and even herel berel where maray marrying mara ying lug 1 is S supposed to be the principal business or ir common diversion there are large numbers of young women who have no tiu and who seem doomed to single blessedness marriage does not seem eem to depend so much upon the equality or inequality of the sexes as upon the disposition of the lords of creation to couple up with the ladies go where you yoa will unless itis it is in some mining camp or other region where tae circumstances and surroundings are such as to exclude women to a great extent and you yon will find plenty of opportunities for men to marry it if they are so inclined the rightfulness and practicability of plural marri marriage agedo do not rest upon the question of the relative numbers of males indies and females in a state ustate or territory a city or a town inclination and affinity fialty af must be considered in the matter the way ought to be open for every woman to marry who chooses to unite herself to one of the opposite sex wifehood and maternity are her natural alms no woman is truly happy or fully satisfied until she has achieved ac both in honor laws L a that prevent this are barbarous and inhuman gaman and if so many men ref refuse ase to embark upon the sea of matrimony that thousands thon sands of women remain disconsolately upon the barren and sandy snore shore of s spinster anster nood flood the way should be mase made clear lor for the ladies to double up if they cant find a man all to themselves I 1 and it if they are suited it ought to ae be nobody alses business if we had our way in this world which we do not at present expect to get we would throw the gates of matrimony wide open and put huge barriers in the way of illicit commerce between the sexes marriage should be promoted and encouraged while sexual vice should be repressed and punished and there should be nu no such thing as surplus women in any part of the country tile the world is out of joint on the marriage question and society needs a thorough renovation from top to bottom redistribution either of property or of the sexes is impracticable but bat the means of obtaining all that I 1 is sufficient for a comfortable livelihood should lie be open to all honest men and of reaching the f full all object of her being to every virtuous and marriage fitted woman |