Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1915 — Wives Should Be In Full Financial Partnership With Husbands [ARTICLE]

Wives Should Be In Full Financial Partnership With Husbands

By JESSE LYNCH WILLIAMS,

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I THINK there are few men today who would try to take from their wives the small savings which the latter had gathered together. I think that men really representative of modernity would scorn such an action. I believe that there is an ever growing instinct among men to show justice toward their wives and toward all women. AS MISS HENRIETTA RODMAN SAID RECENTLY, “JUSTICE IS THE NEW CHIVALRY.” AND IT’S NOT MERELY A CASE u? THE WOMEN WANTING THAT, BUT OF THE MAN WANTING TO GIVE. IT. ( Men as well, as women are resenting the unfairness of many rides and regulations with which society burdens marriage today, and ’certainly one of the most important of the questions involving husband and wife is the money question. It is most decidedly unjust for a wife to d'made to feel that she is a pensioner on her husband's bounty.. She must be horribly uncomfortable when she has to plead with the man she marries every time she wants a few dollars, and he ought to share her discomfort. THE DETAILS OF MONEY MATTERS WOULD NATURALLY DIFFER IN THE DIFFERENT HOMES. BUT THE KEYNOTE'OF ANY ARRANGEMENT SHOULD BE ABSOLUTE JUSTICE. THE WIFE SHOULD BE ADMITTED TO FULL FINANCIAL PARTNERSHIP WITH THE HUSBAND, AND WHATEVER MONEY SHE RECEIVES SHOULD BE GIVEN TO HER AS A R"IGHT, NOT AS A FAVOR.