cruel and unjust conditions really cause a ruin and degradation of life a hundredfold more than the things reformers are most prone to attack."-New York Times.

It is proposed by the American Federation of Labor that Congress shall forbid the employment of women in any government place. The avowed purpose of this is to "inaugurate a precedent for the removal of women from the everyday walks of life, the relegation of her to the home." But what if a woman has no home? What if she has no husband, or one who fails or is too lazy to provide for her? Is she to starve or worse? What conceivable reason is there then why she should not use her abilities in providing for herself? The right of every human being to make the most and the best of his or her capabilities is as indisputable as the right to breathe.-New York World.

The women and children in the mill villages support almost entirely the vast majority of the men in such localities in the North and South Carolinas and in Georgia. In their native

haunts in the hills and mountains the women do practically all the work. From an article copied by the Literary Digest.

MAN AND WOMAN

Since human beings first appeared upon this earth of ours, the endless strife of man and woman has been carried on-the man against the woman, the stronger against the weaker, the pursuer against the pursued. Through the thousands of centuries, woman has been and still is the prey of man.-R. Pyke.

All men respond to a freemasonry of sex, and against woman they stand solidly together; individually they may be fond of some particular woman or even of some women, but their loyalty towards their own sex as a sex, ever and always above the female sex, is a fact not to be denied. For a woman to expect man to liberate her is as senseless and idiotic as it would be for mice to expect cats to voluntarily cease to prey upon them. Man is woman's natural enemy, her implacable foe, and she will ever be his prey. Woman as a sex can no more trust man as a

sex, than mice as a species can trust cats as a species. (There are numerous cases where cats are trained to live with certain mice without preying on them, but these individual friendships do not make those cats the friends of other mice.) Thousands of Frenchmen marry German women, yet they hate all Germans; thousands of Germans marry Frenchwomen, yet they hate all the French people. Affection for certain members of a sex, race, nation or species does not in the least indicate friendship for the others of that kind; nor does affection for an individual indicate either esteem or friendship for even that same individual, else slave-masters would never have sold into cruel bondage to other slave-masters the very women for whom they had entertained the deepest affectionwomen who had repeatedly borne them children. Each husband avows that he entertains the greatest loyalty for one woman as a proof of his loyalty to womankind. Alas, if the truth were told, not even five of them in any hundred would dare make an oath in support of their assertions. If woman ever has a free body and

free mind, chainless hands and fetterless brains it will be through the efforts of her own sexthrough the freemasonry of woman. Man, when he became more refined, removed his iron chains from woman's wrists, and replaced them with chains of gold; preferring a more beautiful slave; when he became more refined he also removed his bird from an iron cage and placed it in a delicate cage of gilt-but he destroyed its liberty, its right, to soar as effectually in one cage as in the other, just as woman in his gold chains is as effectually his slave as she was in his chains of iron.-Karla V. Janseen.

Women receive far more control and consideration than they ought to have; aristocracies pay far too much attention to women. I do not believe women should be given any political rights, nor that they should receive other than the merest rudiments of education.-Count Tolstoi, the leading anarchist of the world.

No reasonable mind will question that if a certain degree of progress is made when only one-half of a people are permitted to develop themselves mentally and physically up to their

highest possible culture, just twice that progress may be made when the other half is allowed equal advantages. It is a popular delusion that American women have many, if not the same privileges as men. The conservative man exclaims, "We worship them as angels"; and thoughtless women of affluence, and less favored women in humbler positions, bidding for masculine applause, respond, "We have all the rights we want." Gallantry is mistaken for justice, and soft soap for equity. Even these exist only on the surface. They compose the cream that rises to the top of polite society, and this is fed only to the handsome, rich, and otherwise fortunate; all below is skim milk, and this is dealt out sparingly and grudgingly to toiling women, unhappy wives, and to all, indeed, who most need sympathy and help. But let no man who suddenly awakens to this injustice, suppose in his arrogance that he can give woman her rights. The very fact that men talk of allowing women this or that liberty is evidence in itself that authority has been usurped. As well might a pickpocket talk of giving a porte-mon