o other and more important rights which have
been denied to man in the past. The first right that any man
ought to be allowed--a right paramount to all others--is the
right to a wife. But look how even in this matter he has been
hardly dealt with. Has he had just standards set before him as to
what a wife should be? No, but he has been led to believe that
the weak woman, the dependent woman, is the one to be desired....

Look again at the unhappy mess into which man all by himself has
brought politics and public affairs. Is it not too bad to leave
him longer alone in his misery? Like the naughty boy who has
broken and destroyed his toys, who needs mamma to help him mend
them, and perhaps also to administer to him such wholesome
discipline as Solomon himself has advised--so does man need woman
to come to his rescue. Look what politics is now. Who to-day can
tell the difference between a Democrat and a Republican? Even a
Mugwump is becoming a doubtful being....

Do not these wrongs which men suffer appeal to our tenderest
sympathies? Is it not evident that the poor fellows can't go on
alone much longer, that it is high time we should take the boys
in hand and show them what a correct government really is?

There is another question which deserves our gravest
consideration. Man sinks or rises with woman; if she is degraded
he is tempted to vice; if she is oppressed he is brutalized. What
is the industrial condition of women to-day?...

In behalf of the sons, the brothers and the husbands of these
wage-earning women we ask for that political power which alone
will insure equality of pay without regard to sex. For the sake
of man's redemption and morality we demand that this injustice
shall cease, for it is not possible for woman to be half-starved
and man not dwarfed; for many women to be degraded and all men's
lives pure; for women to be fallen and no man lost.

We all know that man himself has been most willing to grant to
women every right, every opportunity. If he has hesitated it has
been rather from love and admiration of woman than from any
tyrannical desire of oppression. He has said that women must not
vote because they can not perform military duty. Can they not
serve the nation as well as those men, who during the last war
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