"WOMAN IS MASTER."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 240, 5 December 1900, Page 2

"WOMAN IS MASTER."

The late James Tyson, the well-known Queensland squatter and millionaire iiad a high opinion of the pleasures ol the single blassedness, and never mar ied. His views on the "question wenliscovered in written form the other lay during an examination of his pres ispy letter book at thofSupromu Oourt, Brisbane. Counsel read the follo wing etter. written by deceased in 1891 tc Humphrey Davy, Glendee, noir Hay, New South Wales, on the subject ol " Advice- to young men contemplaUuj matrimony.)' Hia letter, a characteristic one, is as follows: Sir,—l am in rocipt of yours date( 13 »h March, and ivgret that yoi 'ake an entirely wrong vi'iw of th matters touched upou in this, as wel as my previous letter on the samo sub ject. It was, and is now, far bette for me to be silent thau to offer ad vie | when I know nothing Of the subjec referred to. lam the last "person tha would hazard an opinion when all w.i darkness. If I- knew bo#, I wouli advise, but, knowing nothing, I wouli not risk advice to one I have knowi so long, lest io might be wrons. Bu this I will say respecting the se: generally: They are, as now edu cated, unreliable, and, if there i aay purgatory, some of our mat ried friends are up to their necks ii it. When man marries woman hi oarries his master. Tbo meek littl r .hing he dotes on is a tiger in a sheep skin, and according to what I hiv seen, the man is the slave ever after That this is the simple truth thare i no doubt , whatever. But it i 'fomen that are ruling --.tho worli at the present time, It was womei tnd their luxuries in ancient tim-3 chat ruined Roma, lb is said tha women and luxury will ruin Nev York, afld this thing bids fair to rul all places. There is to be a yuan; women's ollege in Sydney, to elite iti them. They will ..then, 1. should pre sume, get into the Legislature, ah( outvote meg. Indeed, it will bo hare to say where their power will end. I they rule, as at present, the questioi arises, what will thsy do if they g« 'educated up ? Having said this rauoh I am bewildered to contemplate t,h ojMoquonces. I am, etc. (signoJ James Tyeon."— Times.