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Show WANTS TO BE A SLAVE. A Young- Harried Woman Who Refuses to Be Emancipated. Very often when a young married woman wo-man starts housekeeping she is favored with a circular from the Women's Emancipation league as well as with various more or less tasty literature dealing with "sexual" matters from an advanced point of view. The Emancipators Emanci-pators address her in this strain: ' 'Reoognizing that the slavery of sex is the root of all slavery, and that injustice in-justice to womanhood, especially injustice injus-tice within the family, is the perpetual source of all other injustice, it (the "league") seeks the legal, political, social so-cial and industrial emancipation of women, wo-men, as the vital and indispensable condition con-dition of all other true lasting reforms, and affirms these claims as paramount to all personal, sectional or party consideration con-sideration whatever." I have a deep rooted aversion to slavery slav-ery in all shapes. There are women slaves among us, as there are men slaves. When I find a woman slave, I shall be happy to assist in emancipating her. But this does not prevent my sympathizing sympa-thizing with the writer of the following letter: "Sir I am a married woman I think I may say girl of three months' standing, just entered with joy and hopefulness hope-fulness upon what I have been taught to believe the highest and noblest duties of woman. It may be that my belief and my hopes are delusions; that I am no better than a slave, and that if I submit sub-mit to the injustice in store for me 1 shall become a party to all the other wrongs in the world. But is it kind to tell me this just now? Mightn't I be left to find out my mistake for myself? When I do, won't it be time enough to join the Emancipation league? I think it would, so I am trying to keep my delusion de-lusion and my annual subscription until un-til I have I seen how my lord and master mas-ter treats his unfortunate slave. " London Lon-don Truth. |