Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 8, 1889, Page 10

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAYY, DECEMBER 8, 1889~SIXTEEN PAGES GOSSTPABOUT THE SENATORS. ‘Wateson O. Equire of Washington and His Curious Ways. ONE OF DAKOTA'S BRAINY MEN How Judge Moody Came Into Pro inence—stanford ana Sunol—Sen- ator Manderson's Magnificent Turnon Pen Pictures fron (Conuright 1859 by F WasniNgToN, Dec. 5 Ber|—The senate has a now millionaire this session in the person of Watson C, Squire, of the state of Washington, ator Squire is worth $2,000,000, and h me 18 $#10.000 a month, He can spend ,000 & season in Washington and not miss it, and I am told that his entertainments witl bo fro- quent and liberal. He will live at the Arlington hotel, and his family will be among the leading figures in Washington so- clety, Senator Squire was born in Ohio, hus lived in New York, and has made his for- tune in Washington territory, Ho married into the family of the Remingtons, the noted fzun and type-writer people, and it was soma years ugo that he moved 1o Seattle and began to spoculate in real estate, Ho now own houses and lands and his _proporty increases in value ever year, and his buildings bring him in gold galore. He looks more like a New York club man than one 6f the newest of the western senators, He has the tastes of a club man, 100, and his well fllled out front will not be out of pluace among tho fat gold bags of the sevatorial chamber. Hoe is a gond talker and @ man of abi'ity. 1 asked un Indinua congressman who knows him well tonight what kind of man Squire is. He roplied, #*Well, ho is » curious kind of a fellow. He isfull'of good nature, has the accomplish- ments of & man-about toyvn, is & good story- teller, aud is a combination of generosity and the reverse. He will be ugly with you 8 10 the differonce of a quarter, and will spend §25 in champagne in expliining the matter Lo you. They tell a story of a letter of introauction which Nicholas H, Owens once gave Squire in introducing him to a friend of his. ‘I b letter suid : T 1y Dear Governor; This will introduce youto my friend Watson C. Squire. You will find” bim a hog in littlo things aud a Washington. i Go Carpenter.] pecial to Tne * prince in big things. (sigued.) Nicnoras H, Owexs.” “This story, however, 18 probably unfmr to the senator. Like all good business men hie bas to watch the corners closely in his money transactions, and he does not believe in mixing up business and chority. I am told he ‘ie one of the most gencrous and charitable of men, and that he beleves in pending as well as making fortunes.” Another bright senator from the new states who is considerably wellto-do, is Gideon C, Moody of South Dakota. Moody's home is at Deadwood in the beartof iho Black Hills. He is the leading lawyer of his state, and a good shareof the metals that €omo out of this mineral region drop iuto his pocket in the way of fees. 1 um told that his income is at least$10,000 a year from his practice, and he is possessed of lands and stocks. He is a straight, brona-shouldered, well filled ‘out man, of about fifty years of age. His hair is as white as nowly slacked lime; and there are silver strands among the gold of his full beard. His face is fair and freo from wrinkles, his forenead is high and Lis eyes arc as blue us the skies of CGreeco, He dresses in the conventiona statesman's black frock coat, wears a black Derby hat, and has the free and air of the great’ northw He telis me 'that ho was born in New York, and that he moyed toIndiuna at mannood, intending to remain therédor ten or twelve years and then como back to Washington as president or senator from the wild and woolly west, Indiana, however, did not need new senatorial tim: ber and he never got higher than the logisla- ture. He was in' the legisluture at the be- ginning of ~the war, and in the stirr- g tigew.of 1861 he showed him- self 5w nold and fearless statesman. «“He:loft Indiana for Dakota about twenty-five years ago, and when he settled with his famuly on a farm Just outside of Yankton his neighbors in the ‘vicinity thought him fool- hardy on account of the danger from In- dians. There was no house between him and the north pole, and the only signs of civiliza- tion were in the town near by. This farm of Senator Moody’s is now divided up into building lots. He paid $3 an acre for it and it is now worth more than $100,000. I don’t know thut he owns any of it, but he un- doubtedly made a good thing off of its sale, ‘When he left ithe moved to Deadwood and this was fourteen years ago. I met him first when ho was here” in Washington as one of the senators from the then organized state of Dakota, which was plunned by the people, but which was not recognized at Washing- ton. Senator Moody had, by the courtesy of the senate, & ylace in tne chamber while the question of the legality of Dakota state- hood was pending. On its being decided 1llegal he went back to Dakota and bided his time, - He now comes to Washington witi no cloud upon his title, and he has taken quar- ters just across from the cap.tol, where his face can look out upon that great marble building 1 which for the next six years he will have a chauce to make for himself u national reputation, The lovers of horses awong.the states- men of the capitol bave spent considerable time in the cloak rooms of the house and senute this week in talking about Sunol, Senator Stanford's great trotter, which he Tutaly sold to Robert tfonner. No stock is taken in the statement - that Geoge Hearst offerea Stanford §250,000 for the horse after sha was 801d to BBonner, and the probability is that the price paid for it was about £50,000, l’dumud with Senator Stockbridge about this this afternoon. Stockbridge has ouo of Ahe finest breeding farms in the northwest. One of his horses took the first prize at the Ohieago horse fair this year, and he is & man who tmakes money out of fin horses. Speak- ing of Sunol, he said: “Stanford naturally feels very pround of thie work of Sunol, especially 50 ns 1o 18 tho result of his theory of breeding which he holds 1n opposition to the best authorities. Senator Stanford believes that the best | straius of thoroughbred blood ought to bo 'crossed with the best of the trotting stock to produce the great trotter of the future, and this is one evidence that he is right, Robert - Bouner will have to be very careful of Sonul, and my partner, who is one of the best ted men on the breeding of horses I now, says that he ought wotto be pushed fora year or two at least, He ought to be allowed to jog along and kept in good train- + ing, and at'the eod of that-time he would probubly reduce his record to 58 or 4" By tho way,senator,do you still own Bell ' Boy, the horse you bought'of Senator Stan- ford a couple of yoars ago?” “No," rc;;uiod Senator Stockbridge, “I sold him, I paid §5,000 to Senator Stanford for him, aud sold him for &5000. He was lately sold again at a horse auction in Ken- tucky and brought §51,000. Awmong the finest tournouts seen in Wash- ington this winter will be that of Seuator Manderson of Nebraska. Manderson is a it horse lover, and hio has brought from is farm near Omahu a couple of high step- ping chestnut mares. These are the result of careful breeding for more than twelve years. They are Hamblotonians and they caun trot easily in three minutes. They are thoroughly broken, but so spirited and grace- ful that thoy will attract atteution on any of the uvenues. Seuator Manderson brought a + high bred colt along with them, and this is pow in the hands of 3 Morrow, the horse trainer at Bright- wood. His Yony Comanctie which o rodo last year is ulso in the trainer's hands. This pony is of the best blood of the plnluh being rom fine mare of the American wild horse species crossed by Gold Dust. It has all the guits of all well trainea riding horses, and the Napoleonic figure of Manderson will be seen upon it unflu along the country near Washington, Senator Stockbridge has brought four ificent black horses to Washington, McMillan bas a fine turnout, waich he will drive here this winter. 1 saw Senator Shermun's rig troting along Pennsylvania @venue the other day. e has two well made horses, both of which are high step- but which are of different colors, one . & bright sorre! aud the other a bay. Bénator Sherman takes a drive every after- 600N When the weather is fine. ~ neaking of Manderson's horses be was often soen driving during the winter he lived with his baon ecowpanion, Senator Palmer, bebind Palwer's horses. and o one knew that he possessed snch find stock him. self as he has here this winter, He ‘vas asked the other day why he had not men- tioned to Palmer the fact that he also had fine horses. He replied, “Blank it, T did but Palmer twas 8o wrapped up in his own stock raising that he paid no atteution to my re- mark.” Senator Palmer tt will bo rememvered, sent his farm manager, Mr, Cottrell.a couple of years ago to Turkey to bring back some Arabiun stallions, Palmer has an iden that the finost horse in the world can be produced by crossing the P’ercheron with pure Ara ian blood. His manager went to Jerusalem but the result of his investigations showed thathalf of the Arabian steeds were unsound, and Scnator Palmer found that he had to get a permit from the sultan before he couid take an Arabian horse out of the country He gob this permit and succeeded in bring- ing one Arabian statlion bavk to the United States, but this, I am told has recently died. Senator Paln hus sixty fine Percheron horses on his big farm Detroit, and he likes nothing in the world befter than to play at farmiog in his #12,000 log cabin, MWe pines for the forests of Fout 1Hill, the name by which he calls his_farm, sven under the sunny skies of Spain, aud 1am informed by vory good authority, that he will return to Taitel States Hext July and will prob ably resign his mission at vhat time. fle has immensg interests here, and his salt wells, lumber yards and pine forests in Michigan are worth millions. - He bus o great deal of real estato in Detroit, and this farm 1s only four miles from the city and is at the end of an electric railroad, This railroad brings it in close communication with Dotroit,and the city is rapidly growing towards it. It may be advisable to divide 1t up into lots at an early date, and the Senator's Jersey cows and Percheron horses also need his atten- tion, Ho wuants to be back in America also 10 see about his Washington property and his big brown stone house on McPherson square for sale. 'This house has nine maliogany bath rooms, and its kitchen and laundry are in the attic, white there 18 a fine stable sandwiched onto_ i Itis finished in the finest wood, and it is the house for which the sena- tor was charged £40.000 more than his con- tract prico with the architect for buildiug, It cost hiai, he once told me, $55,000, and he now offers iv for sale with the lot adjoining it for £125,000. He does not want to rent it, and as it 15 not sold, the probability is that itjwill stand vacant this winter, Speaking of Palmer’s probable resignation of the office of minister to Spain, there will probably be a number of changes when the spring opens. Colonel Denhy, President Cleveland’s appointee as miaister to Pekin, will not be removed before that time, as it would be impossibie for the new appointeo 0 et to his post before the opening up of navigation on the Peiho river, Minister Childs of Bangkok is still in oftice, and thero has been as yet uo change of appointment at Korea. Thomas Ryan, the minister to Mex- ico, was here a few days ago, sud ho has gone back to Mexico to spend some months there av least. From a private letter from Japan 1 learn that our new minister ut "Tokio is very popular there, and that he proposes to entertain on a more extonsive scale than did Governor Hubbard. This letter states that_Governor Hubbard, according to Tokio ossip, is said to have saved 40,000 during his four years' service at the Japanese cap- ital. The minist salary is only $12,000 a year, and it cannot bo possible that Hubbard has been able to ko lishmennt on $2,000, Secretary Allen of the Koream logat now on the Pacific on his way to Hong Kong, where he expects to spend some time. He goes on a aiplomatic mission for the king of Korea, and in all probability, intends to confer there with Prince Min Yong Ik, who has been living for some time away from the Korean capital and ut Hong Kong. This prince 18 one of the most powerful of tne Korean nobility. He bas been in a vumber of cases a friend of the king, and thero me be trouble brewing in Korea or Secretar: Allen would hardly be oraered to take suci u journey whea his services are needed here, Korea has {ts factions, and the relations of Chwa and . Korea have, for the past few years, been very strained. Li Huug Chang, the viceroy of China, ‘waiches the country through his sharp almond eyes, and the Chinese ambassadors av the Korean capital are. . impudent . oven - to the kiug himself. ~ As 4t is, his majosty is advised by Americans. Hoe pags about 812,000 a yoar to Judge Denny of Orezon to counsel him as to diplomatic and other mat- ters. He has also the advice of our minister, Hugh A. Dinsmore, who isa fine constitu- tional lawyer and who 18 very close to the, throne. Secretury Allen has more weight in® Korea than auy other man in the world, and, starting out to China as a mssionary doctor, he has developed into one of the shrewdest diplomats of the east. Speaking of Korea, I learn that the Amer- ican genorals are now gettig along very nicely, and that the army is slowly but surely being put upon a modern basis. General Dye ‘proposes to stay there for some years to come, and it is not improb- able that his family, who are now- living in Washington, will 0 out to visit him. Wade Hampton Gibbs is no longer post- master at Columbia, 3. and Senator Hampton and - Postmaster General Wana- maker continue not to smile as they pass by, “Their trouble formed the subject, of & chat among the senators not long ago, and while the most of them criticised Senator Wade Hamoton for advisingthe postmaster general that he could give an appropriate lecture to his Sunday school pupils on the iustructive story of Ananias and Saphira, Senator Voor- heos apparontly ook Hampton's part, and said that Mr. Wanamaker's reply, stating that Clayton had not bean commissioned,and not saying whother he had been appointed or not, reminded him of the story of a bright, rod-headed boy who lived in the country near ashville, Tenn. “This boy,” said Senator Voorhees, “was the only son of & very pious mother, wha had a holy horror of card playiog and theater going.” She Jooked on the door of the theater as the gate to the bad place, and characterized cards as tho picture books of the devil. She brougnt her son up on this basis, and when he was a lad of fifteen sho felt she had him well grounded in the faith. At this time the boy received an invitation to visit some city friends of the family in Nash- ville. He accepted it. It was his first visiv 1o the city, and his friends were among the best people of Nashviile, He admired the easy way in which they did things, and when he found that they played cards night after nignt in their parlor he could not see any- thing wrong in it and soon took a hand him- self. As to the theater he also fell from grace. The family laughed at his country notions and he accepted their invitation aud went. He liked the play so well that he went again and again, and he kept this up until he left for home. When ho had returned to the liwle country villave ho found himself the only boy who had ever teen 1o a city,nnd he was the nero of the town. His boy friends gathered around bim 10 his mother's kitchen, and with swelling breast, he told them of the great thiugs he had seon in the city, while the old lady looked on admiringly through her iron bound spectacles. The children asked: him questions, and he an- swered them all in a sir oracle manner, Finally one hoy asked, “Did you see Romeo aod Juliet.” This play, the boy knew had been on tho stage m Nashville by noted players, and ho liad sben something wbout 1t n the nowspapers. The dutiful son was at o 10ss how to answer. He dured not say he had not seen i, for that would lessen his reputation u the' sight of his friend, nud if he said he had seen it, his motner would surely bedown upon him with u hiokory switch. Ho thought a half mioute, and then with a shaky look at his mother out of the coruers of his eyes, he said, *Yes I saw Romeo, but I didn't 'see Juliet,’ and this, concluded Senutor Voorhees, “was about the same kind of an answer Wanamaker has given Hampton, Be whips the devil around the stump and makes aworse mess of it thun if he had come straight out and acknowl- edged the appointment.” Senator Hampton's letter was, however, yery injudicious, This fact is conceded by the southern scnators and by the members from his own state. The coutest has been the worse for him, sua he is haviog in it a similar experience 10 that he had with Senator Shermau, when the latter was socretary of ~the treasury. Hampton fouud fault with one of Sherman's speeches which he made at a dinner during his term of office, and he wrote a rather impertinent letter 1o Sherman in which he said bis resi- dence was South Carolina, and made some other statements which, though not of the insulting nature as was his letter to Wana- maker, were by no meaus complimentary to Sherman. Sherman sent bim an open letter in reply in which he informed Mr, Hampton that he understood the situation perfectly, aud that his residence 0 Obio. Hamp- ton’s attack upon Shermun was in this case unwarrauted, and Shermau had the sympa- thy of the people when he handed over the correspondence to the newspapers. Since that time Senators Rampton and Sherman have had nothing to do with one another save when the business of the senate re- quires it. They do not speak, and the only time that Senator Hamnton has addressed Senator Shorman was while the latter was president pro tem of the senate, and he hud 0 do so. At such times Senator Sherman treated Senator Hampton with the greatest of courtesy and I don’t believe that he has any particular grudge against him now, though heis by no means anxious to enter into any closer rolations with him than now exist. Hampton don't like the Shermaus, and he is s much down on the gencral as he is on the sonato! Mrs, Sunset Cox is in the cit her property here, Just before she and Mr. Cox started for the west on their summer tour Mr. Cox bought two lots just back of bis residence on New Hampshire avenue and began building two honses. Theso houses are now comploted and will e _oecupied th winter ro for rent at #50 per mon ach. Sunset Cox was & money maker a money accumulator, He made tis Inw practice while ho was in New York, and during his Iast days in congress his writings wore very popular. Ho received $12,000 for the ““Diversions of a Diplomat before the book went to press, and his estute will get an income from it for years to come. His “Why We Laugh still brings in something, and his “Three Decades of Federal Legislation” is still selling, The greatest of his literary profits have bien on his two larger works, which have appeared within the last five years. The money from them ho has investod in Washington real estate, and this real estate forms a well pay- ing partof higgpstate. Mrs. Cox, though not rich, is left in’ comfortable efréumstancos. Mr. Cox had, ut the time of nis death, four houses in Washington, His wifo will derive a comfortable incomo from tnese alone, Tho house on Dupont Cirele which Sunset Cox bought originally for £30,000, he soid on his depacture for Turkey for $50,000, and consid- ored it a good bargain. It was a good ba gain. Upon his return he bought the same touse back again for about #0,000, and it will rent for from $150 to $200 por month; add to this $100 a month which Mrs. Cox will have from these two new houses and her income from Wash- ingrton real estate will bo £250 a_month. Tn addition to this Mrs. Cox has the residence on New Hampshire avenue, which she and ter husband built a few years ago. This is - combination of Moorish and American ar chitecture. It is full of Oriental conceits and it cost something like $20,000 towuild it Mrs Cox aund her husband pianned this house while they were in Turkey, and they hoped it would be their home for many long years. Mrs. Cox will not sell this hous and she will hold 1t as her winter Washing- ton howme, spending part of the time here and part of the time at her home in New York. The relations of Mr. und Mrs. Cox were of the closest matrimonial order. ‘Their honeymoon lasted from their wedding to the day of Mr. Cox's death, and they were closely associated in evorything. Mrs. Cox knew all of Mr. Cox's plans, and she aided Nim in his literary work and in the further ing of his political aspirations, She guarded his leisure and his working hours, kept the bores away from him and prevented his buing annoyed by the office seekers aud 1ob- byists. She accompanicd him in all his trav- eis, aod 1 have a picturo of Mr. and Mrs, taken by the light of the midnight sun « their travels in Norway. He dedi- all his books to her, and she was his best literar, critie, It is not true that Mr. ~ Cox leaves any unfin- ished literary work. He was as methodical in his literary labors as he was in_his busi- ness matters, and he died with his work finished up to the day of liis death. He was, during his life, a_voluminous correspondent. He nuswered lettors tho duy he receive them, snd he answered every one who wrote 1o hum. He was methodical in his work, und 1 am told thero will be no trouble in tho settlement of his cstate. His private secre- tary is now in Washiugton, and he tells me yihing will bo practically settled y the first of noxt month. Mrs, Cox fine Jiterary: taste, and it is very that sho will prepare a memorial of her husband. She has not, vor, begun it as yet, and there is no certainty as to when the work will appear or as to whether it will be published under her name as the authores: iy —i THE OMAHA BARD, v looking after Chicago Herald. A’s an Attorney who's working for gold. 13 is the Boodle he longs to behold, ( is the Case ho is tryiug to win, D is the Danger his clients are in. E is the Elephant now on tis hands., I is the Fear he will fail in his pluns, G is the Glory helongs to uttamn. His the Handfuls of gold he would gan. I is tho Ire ho frequently shows. y_is the Judge he must ever oppose. K is tho Kick he is never without. L 18 the Law he is dodging about. Mis the Manner in which he proceeds. N is the Numerous exceptions he pleads. 0 is the Objections the judge seldom hoeds. P is the Prisoners waiting to sec. Q is the Question, “What will it be?” R 18 the Kopo which they hope to avoid. the Scaffold which may b employed. ‘T is the Twelve who their fate will reveal. U is the Unrost which the prisoners feel. V is the Victun 8o foully *removed.” Wis the Wrong which™ has clearly been D) X is the X-cellent force of polic Y is the Yearning their fame to mcrease. 7 is the Zeal the detectives displayed. & letallthe “inds” by strect cleaners be made. Wanted in the Cronin Case. Wanted—Testimony that will help to win a case, And words of other witacsses to alter or erase. We foughit the prosecution to the bivter end, butsince We've looked about us and we find we're lacking a defense. Most everything they said or did we have objected to, But now we find there yot remains a harder work 1o do; "Twould be a pleasure now for us to roundly recompense The party who will bring to us a genuine de- fense. We're not particular about the why, the when or where, We dou’t “object” to anything to lessen our despair, And, say! Don’t keop us waiting in this ter- rible suspense, But telephone us anything to strengthon the defense. Of course we'll not admit it, but the truth can’t be denied, They scarcely left us anything to stimulave our side; ‘We canuot clearly see our way to victory, and hence We thought an advertisement might secare us a defense, Chicago as a Winter and Summer Resorr, In mfl cold north land where the polar ar With wrea hs of snow festoons his lair, ‘Where the sun daren’t shine till it's nearly noon And there's frost on the choek of the har- vest moon, And even in summer's mild breath A feather bed would freeze to death, Where the tempests roar and the blizzards moan— Oh, who would dwell in that frigid zonet In the hot south land where the burning sky And the breath of summer forever lryy Where there never comes & momen! rest To the nearly melted and heat oppressed, Where the poor gallaut witha erief profound If he would the fair one's friendship own — Ohb, who would dwell in that torrid zoae? In l':lhl: mild, fair land where the zephyrs W From the warm red rose to the flakes of suow, Where winter wounds that the breath of spring To new-born beauty the leaves may briug, Where the elves and fairies play ana laugh At the sun and shadow half and nalf, Where pleasing changes fill the hours— Oh, who would not live in a lake like ours? Open Letter to Mr, Armour, Oh! Phil! Are they after you still Because a few facts you have never con- fessed { #hl Well! i sl ‘0u may as wel , S0 that the committee can pul down its Ves R Insst on having the genuine Red Cross Cough Drops, 5 cents per box, Sold everywhere, PLAIN W ORDS ABOUT WOMEN. Grant Alldh'4'Blunt Discussion of a Liying Issue. THE FUTUfiE OF THE RACE, If Man is ta Hold the Earth and Subdue i Woman Must Ace cept the Divine Du Motherhood. Women and the Race. 1 If any species or race desires a continued existence, then above all things it is neces- sary that that species or race should go on reproducing itself, Let us look briefly at vhe needful condi- tions under which alone the human race can R0 o reproducing itself, If every woman married, and every woman had four children, population would remain just statiovary. Or rather, if every mar- riageable adult man und woman in & given community were to marry, and if every mar- ge proved fertile, on the average, to, the extent of four children, then, under favor- able circumstances, that community, I take it, would just keep up its numbers, neither increasing nor decreasing from generation to generation. If less than all the adult men and women marvied, or if the marria; vroved fertile ofi the average to a less deg: than four children apiece, then that com- munity would grow smaller and smaller, In order that the community may keep up to its normal level, therefore, either all adults must marry and produce 1o this extent, or else, fewer marryive, those fow must have families exceeding on the average four chil- dren, in exact proportion to the rate of ab. stention. And if the community is to in- crease (which on Darwinian principles I be- lieve to be a condition precedent of national health and vigor), then either all adults must marry and produce more than four children apiece, or else, fewer marrying, those fow must produce as many move as will compen- sate for the abstention of the remainder and form a small surplus in each generatiou. In Britain, ab the present d: I believe T am right in deducing (after Mr. . Galton) that an average of about six children per marriage (not per head of female inhabit- ants) is necossary ia order to keep the popu- lation just stationary, writes Grant Allen in the Fortaightly iew. And the actual number of children per marriage 15 o little ' excess ‘of even that high figure, thus providing for the regular in- crease from donsus to census and for over- flow by emigration. These facts, all. piatitudes as they look so startling at first sight that tl probably need for the unstatistical r little explanation and simplification. Well, sunpose, now, every man and e Woman in a given community were to marry and suppose theyi were in each case Lo pro duce two childrenga boy and a girl; and sup- pose those children.were in overy case o at. tain maturity ;. why, then, e uext genera- tion would exaétly’ reproduce the last, cach father being represented by his son, and cach mother by her daughter, ad infinitum, (L purposely omis, for simplicity’s saie, the complicating factor of the length and suc sion of weneravions, which vy good luck the case of the human species practically canecls itself). . But, as a matter of fuet, il the children do’ not’ attain maturity : on the contrary, nearly halt of them die before reaching the age-of manhood—in some con- ditions of life, indeed, and in some countries more than haif. Roughly speaking, there- foro (for I don’t wish to become u statistical bore), it may bl gfud that in order that two children may abfal maturity and be eapable of marriage, evlulinder the most favorable circumstances, four mwust be born. The other two must be provided to cover risks of infant or_adolescent mortality, and to in- sure against mMfertility or incapacity for marriage in later Life. They are wanted to make up the categories of soldiers, sailors, i les genor- 50 that if every possible person mar- ,and if every married pair had four chilpren, we should only keep up the num- ber of our pobulation from one age to an- other. Now, Ineed hardly say that every pos- sible verson does not marry, and that we do actually a good deal more than keep up the wvumber of our population. Therefore it will at once be clear that each actual marriage is fertile to considerably more thun the extent of four chidren. That is, indeed, a beavy burden to lay upon women. One aim, at least, of social reformers should certainly be 10 lighten it as much as possible. Nevertheless, I think, it will be abundantly apparent from theso simple considerations that in every community, and to all time, the vaet majority of the women must become wives and mothers, and must bea least four children apiec If some women shirk their natural duties, then a heavier burden must be laid upon the remainder. But in any case all must become wives nd mothers, and almost all at 1cast must bear four or five children. To our existing state six are the very fewest thut our country can do with. Moreover, it is pretty clear that the best ordered community will be one wnere as laree a proportion of the women as possible marry. and where the burden of maternity is thus most evenly shared between them.~ Admitting that certain women may have ®ood reasons for uvoiding maternity on vari- ous grounds—unfitness, or, wnat is probabiy wuch the same thing at bottom, disinclina- tion—and admitting ‘also that where such £00d reasons cxist, it is best, those women should remain unmarried, we must still fecl that in most cases wurriage 1s in itself de- sirable, and that limited families are better than large ones. lu other words, it 1s best for the community at large that most women should marry, aud have woderate families, rather than that few should marry and have unwieldily large ones; for if families are moderate thero will be a greater reserve of health and strength left in the mothers for cach birth, the production ot children can be spread more slowly over a longer time, and the family resources will bo less heavily taxed for their maintenance and education, Incidentally this will benefit both parents as well as the community. That is- 10 say, where many marriages aud small families are the rule, the children will on the average be born nealthier, be better fed, and be launched more fairly on the world in the end, Where marriages are fewer and fami- lios large, the strain of maternity will be most constunt and most heavily' felt; the facher will be harder worked, and the chil- dren will be born feebler, will be worse fed, and will start worse equipped in the battle of life. Iy Hence T would ‘ufer that the goat a wise comwunily skould keep in view is rather more marriages and fewer children per ma riage, than fewer marriages and more chil- dren per marriage: Or, to put these conclusions another way ; in any case, the vast majority of women in Bny community must needs become wives and mothers, aid in the best ordered coi munity the la¥gest possible number will doubtless become 8o, In_order to aistribute the burden equally, and to produce in the end the best resulty for the nation. Well, it m utal and unmanly to ad. mit these facts r t insist upon these facts, a8 we are often told it is by maiden ladies; but still, if we are_to go on existing at all, we must look the facts fairly and squarely in the face, and mustsce how modern tenden- cies stand with regard to them. Now, I have tho. greatest sympathy with the modera woman's demand for emancipa- tion. I am an entliusiaston the woimun ques- tion. Indeed, so faram I from wishing to keep her in subjection 1o man, that I should like to see her a great deal more emanci pated than she herself us yet at all desires, Ouly her emancipation must not be of a sort that interferes in any way with the prime natural necessity, 7To the end of ail time, it is matbematically demonstrable that most women must become the mothers of at least four children, or else the race must cease to exist. Any supposea solution of the woman problem, therefore, which fails 0 look this fact straight i the face, is @ false solution. It cries, “Peace, ace !’ where there is no peace. It substitutes a verbal juggle for a real way out of the diffi- culty, It withdraws the attention of think- *Oh, yes, I know all about Malthus; but Mr, Galton has shown that a certain amount of over-population is uecessary for the sun vival of the fittest, aud that if the best and most intelligent Classes abstain, the worst and lowest will surely wake up the leeway for them. ing women from the true problem of their sox to fix it on side 1ssues of comparative un- importanco. And this, I believe, is what almost all the woman’s right women are sedulously doing At the present day. They are pursuing a chimera, and neglecting to percoive the true aim of their sex. They are setting up a false and unattainable ideal, while they omit to re- alizo the true and attainable one which alone is open to them, For let us look again for a moment at what this all but universal necessity of maternity implies. Almost every woman must bear four or five children, In downg so she must on the average use up the ten or twelve best years of her life—the teu or twelve years that immediately succeed her attainmont of com- plete womanhood. For mote, by the wa, that these women must also for the most p marry youne; as Mr. Galton has showu, you can quictly and effectually wine out & race by merely making its women all marry at twenty-eight; married beyond that age, they don’t produce children enough to replenish tho population. Aeain, during thesa ten or twelve years of child- bearing at the very least, the women cau't coniveniently earn " their ' own livelihood they must be provided for by tne iabor of the men—under existing circumstances (in favor of which I have no Philistine preju- dice) by their own husbands, It is true thay in the very lowest state of savagery special provision is seldom made by the men for the women even during the periods of preg- nancy, child-birth and infancy of the off. spring. The women must live (as among the Hottentots) over the worst of these periods on their own stored-up stock of fat, like nibernating bears or desert camels. 1% Is true also that among savage races gen- erally the women have to work as hard as the nicn, though the men bear in most cases tho larger share in providing actual food for the entive famly, But in civilized commu- nities—-and the more 8o in proportion to their degree of civilization —the men do most of the hardest work, and in upon themselves the duty of proy the wives ana children. = The higher type the longer are the wives and children provided for. — Analogy would lead one to suphose (with Comte) that communities the men would do all the work and the women would be left entirely free to undertake the management and education of the children. « Scoing, then, thatthese necessitie by the very nature of our organi women, it would appear as though two_du- ties were clearly imposed the women them- selves, and upon all those men who sympa- thize in their welfure: First, to sec that their training and education should fit them above everything else for this their main function in life; and, second, that in consid- eration of the special burden they have to Dbear in connection with reproduction, all the rest of life should be made as light and easy and free for them as possible. We oughit frankly to recognize thut most women must be wives and mothers; that most women should therefore be trained, physically, mor ally, soceially and mentally in the way best fitting them to be wives and mothers: and that all such women have a right to the full- est and most generous sUpport in carrying out their functions as wives and mother: And here it is that we seem to come in con- flict for a moment with most of the modern woman-question for a mo- mont only, for [ am not for that b ace of time, that th 1 wish to set forth here is one whit les: vanced, one whit less radical, or one less emancipatory than the doctrine laid down by the most emanciputed women. On the contrary, 1 feel sure that while women crying for emancipation they really want " to be left in slav and that it is only a few exceptional men i and there in the world who wish to see them fully and wholly enfranchised. Aud those wen are not the ones who take the 1 so-called woman’s rights movements. For what is the ideal that most of these modern women agitators set before them ! Is it not clearly the ideal of an unsexed woman? Are they not always talking to us as though it were” not the fact that most women must be wives and mothers! Do they not t refercace to that fact as somethine uogenerous, ungentlemanly aud almost Do they not iatk about our “casti ex in their teoth? though any man ever resented the imputation of matliness, have we not even many times lately heard those women who insist upon the essential womaniiness of wom described as “‘traitors to tho canse of thei sex?” Now, we men are (rightly) ver; ous of our virility. We hold it a slight not. to be borne that any one should impugn our essential manhood. And we do well to be angry, for virility is the key-note to all that is best and most forcible ‘in the muscaline character. Women ought equally to glory in their femininity. A woman ought to bo ashamed to say she has no desire to become a wife and motber. Many such women there are, no doubt—it is to be feared, with our existing raining, far too | many; but, instead of boasting of their sexlessness as 4 matter of vride, they ought to keep it dark and to be asbamed of it—as ashamed as o wan in a like predicament would bo of his impotence, ‘They ought to feel they have fallen short of the healthy instincts of their kind, instead of posiug us in some sense the cream of the uviverse, on the strength of what is merely | a functional aberration. Unfortunately, however, just at the pres- ent moment, a ' considerable number of the ablest women have been misled into taking this unfeminine side, and becoming real | “traitors to their sex” in so far as thoy en- deavor to assimilate women to men in every- thing, and to put uvon their shoulders, as a glory and privilege, the burden of their own ort. 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