dren no longer need her--a woman
without a job. But, dear me, how the church has exalted the
self-sacrificing mother, who never had a thought apart from her
children, and who became a willing slave to her family. Never a word
about the injury she is doing to her family in letting them be a
slave-owner, never a word of the injury she is doing to herself, never
a whisper of the time when the children may be ashamed of their
worked-out mother who did not keep up with the times.

The preaching of the church, having been done by men, has given us the
strictly masculine viewpoint. The tragedy of the "willing slave, the
living sacrifice," naturally does not strike a man as it does a woman.
A man loves to come home and find his wife or his mother darning his
socks. He likes to believe that she does it joyously. It is
traditionally correct, and home would not be home without it. No man
wants to stay at home too long, but he likes to find his women folks
sitting around when he comes home. The stationary female and the
wide-ranging male is the world's accepted arrangement, but the belief
that a woman must cherish no hope or ambition of her own is both cruel
and unjust.

Men have had the control of affairs for a long time, long enough
perhaps to test their ability as the arbiters of human destiny. The
world, as made by man, is cruelly unjust to women, and cruelly beset
with dangers for the innocent young girl. Praying and weeping have
been the only weapons that the church has sanctioned for women. The
weeping, of course, must be done quietly and in becoming manner. Loud
weeping becomes hysteria, and decidedly bad form. Women have prayed
and wept for a long time, and yet the liquor traffic and the white
slave traffic continue to make their inroads on the human family. The
liquor traffic and the white slave traffic are kept up by men for
man--women pay the price--the long price in suffering and shame. The
pleasure and profit--if there be any--belong to men. Women are the
sufferers--and yet the law decrees that women shall not have any voice
in regulating these matters.

In California, where women have had the vote for three years, there has
been recently enacted a bill dealing with white slavery. It is called
the Quick Abatement Act, and provides for an immediate trial to be
given, when it is believed that prostitution is being carried on in any
house. Our system, under which the trial is set for a date several
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