thirteen loved and loving children--wakes up to
the new idea. Four women's hearts breaking, three sets of children
who must leave their father that the one-wife system may be
realized! I can assure you my heart aches for the man, the women
and the children, and cries, "God help them, one and all."

Where the man is a brutal tyrant, the problem is comparatively
easy. What we have tried to do is to show them that the principle
of the subjection of woman to man is the point of attack; and that
woman's work in monogamy and polygamy is one and the same--that of
planting her feet on the ground of self-support. The saddest
feature here is that there really is nothing by which these women
can earn an independent livelihood for themselves and their
children, no manufacturing establishments, no free schools to
teach. Women here, as everywhere, must be able to live honestly and
honorably without the aid of men, before it can be possible to save
the masses of them from entering into polygamy or prostitution,
legal or illegal. Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social
life presents itself, the same conclusion comes: "Independent bread
alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man."

I attended the Liberals' Fourth of July celebration. Their
beautiful hall was packed; their souls were on fire with their new
freedom. Never since the first reading of the Declaration of
Independence in 1776, were its great truths responded to with such
real and deep feeling as on this occasion. I did not intrude myself
on them again--but my soul, too, was on fire for freedom for my
sex, as was that of every wife and daughter in that assembly. But
these men have yet to learn to loose the bonds of power over the
women by their side, precisely as have the men in the States and
the world over.

Here is missionary work--not for any "thus saith the Lord" canting
priests or echoing priestesses by divine right, but for great,
Godlike, humanitarian men and women, who "feel for those in bonds
as bound with them." No Phariseeism, no shudders of Puritanic
horror, no standing afar off; but a simple, loving, fraternal clasp
of hands with these struggling women, and an earnest work with
them--not to ameliorate but to abolish the whole system of woman's
subjection to man in both polygamy and monogamy.

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