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 on in life, when I have found it desirable to emphasize my authority in
my home by means of a stout stick, that emblem of power has had no
glamor about it to weaken its force as an argument.... Then as to the
number of wives that a man should be permitted to have, I am in distinct
disagreement with the majority of my neighbors, who maintain that it is
entirely a matter of individual choice as to whether a man should have
five, ten or a thousand. I should not advocate the limitation to an
arbitrary number, but I believe that the question of one's actual needs
should rule. If a man's possessions enable him to maintain a large
establishment requiring the services of a cook, a laundress, two
waitresses and four upstairs girls, eight wives would be sufficient; but
on the other hand, for a young man beginning his career who needs only a
general house-worker, one is enough. Individual cases should regulate
the law as applied to the individual, and those who claim that they may
marry any number of women, whether they need them or not, entirely
regardless of whether or not they can keep them occupied, should be told
that no man is entitled to more of the good things of this life than he
can avail himself of in his daily procedure. Any other course than this
will sooner or later result in a great scarcity of nuptial raw material,
and it is not impossible to conceive of a day when all the women in the
land will become the property of a select, privileged few. A monopoly of
this sort would enable a few men to control posterity and build up a
Trust in the Matrimonial Industry that would engender not only a great
deal of bitter feeling between the masses and the classes, but enforce a
system of compulsory bachelorhood which ... Nevertheless, if woman wants
to vote let her do so. In spite o