Show A RULING FROM MICHIGAN supreme court of michigan has baa confirmed the judgment of a lower court that a cifes earnings under all circumstances are the property of her husband and the authority of the courts cannot therefore be invoked by her bei for the collection of her wages from an employer her earnings says say the court in substance belong to her husband to do with as he please this to is the most barbarous ruling that has been handed down from any court of the united states since the extinguishment of human slavery it is in every important feature a revival of the most degrading de gradia conditions of that abhorred institution the only difference being that the curse is so ln in as to fall upon the wife only with the husband instead of a hired brute for the task master go as far back on the track of civilization as you will and this thia relic reli 0 of savagery which in the year of our lo 10 lord rd 1891 has baa come out of its grave to disgrace the state of michigan will be seen to stand out among the rest of human barbarisms barbari sms as a most depraved and brutal feature brutal because it fixes a penalty the most degrading u upon PO n womanhood depraved because it degrades the associations of equality that should exist between man and wife to the level of a proprietor ship making of the marriage contract a sort of lease or whatnot upon the body of the bride for her lifetime or so long as the court shall decree by the very act which the laws jaws of civilization have endeavored to surround with the most sacred of rites and obligations for her especial krotec tiou she consigns consig fis herself to a sort of bondage the character of which to is con trolled strolled absolutely by the inclinations of the man she espouses this to is not such a showing as one might expect from the state of bf gan the state that has furnis hedt he bar of america with such an array of judges and other leading lights of the profession michigan has fur dished utah with more of its legal guides than any other state in the union it now looks as though some of them were needed at home judge powers as a cham chain pion of women in the abstract has figured in the front rank the great and only alger who has exerted him self more or less in the amelioration of of women has made michigan re by being one of her citizens he might with profit transfer his energies from hits bit arduous endeavors to be president of the united states to the work of wiping this obnoxious statute fram the records of his state we are inclined to believe how ever that the women should congratulate themselves upon this thia michigan law nothing has happened to in a decade so much calculated to further the cause of woman suffrage ft |