s wife.

When in India, as Mrs. Garrett Fawcett has so finely shown, we
introduce the technicalities of the English law of marriage to
bind an unwilling wife to her husband, we give the Hindoo the
slavery of the Anglo-Saxon wife, but we do not give him that
spirit of Anglo-Saxon marriage and home-life which has made that
slavery often scarcely felt, and never an unmixed evil. If,
to-day, in the Hawaiian Islands or in Cuba we fail to recognize
the native women, who still hold something of the primitive
prestige of womanhood, fail to recognize them as entitled to a
translation, under new laws and conditions, of the old dignity of
position, we shall not only do them an injustice, but we shall
forcibly give the Hawaiian and Cuban men lessons in the wrong
side and not the right side of our domestic relations. Above all,
if in the Philippines we abruptly and with force of arms
establish the authority of the husband over the wife, by
recognizing men only as property-owners, as signers of treaties,
as industrial rulers and as domestic law-givers, we shall
introduce every outrage and injustice of women's subjection to
men, without giving these people one iota of the sense of family
responsibility, of protection of and respect for woman, and of
deep and self-sacrificing devotion to childhood's needs, which
mark the Anglo-Saxon man.

In a word, if we introduce one particle of our belated and
illogical political and legal subjection of women to men into any
savage or half-civilized community, we shall spoil the domestic
virtues that community already possesses, and we shall not
(because we can not so abruptly and violently) inoculate them
with the virtues of civilized domestic life. Nature will not be
cheated. We can not escape, nor can we roughly and swiftly help
others to escape, the discipline of ages of natural growth.

This all means that we need another Commission to go to all the
lands in which our flag now claims a new power of oversight and
control--a Commission other than that so recently sent to the
Philippines--to see what may be done to bring order to that
distracted group of islands. We need a Commission which shall
study domestic rather than political conditions, and which shall
look for the undercurrents of social growth rather tha