Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-05-15
Momen,s RIghts ami WrOSgs

The jamestown IN. y JoTrna' ex
presses sentiments we can cordially en-
dorse, in the following article:
A Franklin (Ps.) paper starts out to
say something on women's rights and
gets thro' its article without touching
the Question. 1t seems not to know
that the primary question is one of so
cial economy, not of political power
There are great wrongs aud great suf
ferings to be remedied. How is it tc
be done? That's the question. Here
is a quotation from the article we refer
to:
I'VE are Of the opinion that women occupy
their present honorable position in life, no
from any special coAniyance Of men. butby thu
will offbec Creator. and the ~immntsble times
of fittings"
Here are two specimens clippings
from the Grimes and Casualties col
umns of our exchanges-two corpses
that float by this morning on the tur-
bid newspaper sea:
Anna Durham. asesmstress IN ST. Louis. cut
her throat last week because she could MOI
earn IN honest living"
last weak. found q girl eighteen years old, wht
existedb BY making trimmings al hye cents pei
yard, and is able to make only three yards per
day Of twelve hours. Tit trimmings Is sold oy
the dealers ct rs cents per yard
Is it by the will of the Creator and
the immutsble fitness of things" that
such things are? The muddy and hor.
rible stream floats by every morning
hundreds of such. We only haul up
these two to set the staring dead face
of the one and the more pitifuily starv-
ed wilderness of the other against the
cold cowardly blasphemy of the article
Just quoted. Has the Franklin Specta'
tor forgotten that the same kind of ar
guments were used for half a century
in the defence of the crimes and hor-
rors of slavery, There is no such thing
on earth as the immutable fitness of
things: and it is the triumph of wick
ed blaspbemyto cast on Almighty Gods
DEGREES the responsibility for human
crime and suffering.
The error lies in looking GC1y from
the wrongs of women and quoting those
blessed ones of the sex who reign in
happy homes, honored and protected,
for illustrations of the condition of wo-
man. This is simply begging the ques-
tion-talking around it. Let US have
facts instead Of can't realities as they
exist instead ofsentimentaiIty.
Here is another news item"
Ayoung gentleman" who passed on A No. l
examination alta celebrated sw school IN nsT,
England, q year ago turns out to be q besutiful
young lady, cfgoOd family.
What is the fact revealed herel Why
that society drives a girl of brains and
genius into the disguise offs man before
It will allow her to educate herself to
exercise the talents God has given her.
There is a deep, q radical. a disas-
trous wrong at the bottom of all this.
It may take years TO remedy 1t The
agitation has commenced and we be-
Iieve the march of ideas leads right in
to the great political problem of the
day nigersaL suffrage, regardless OF
sex as well as race. &
But, above all, let US not be Knocked
with the statement that existing
wrongs belongs to the "immutsSle
fitness of things" while nothing in life
is Interchangeable and there is no sit
ness" in suffering and crime : nor let
us be insulted and Gods goodness out
ragged by the argument that he wills
such injustice and suffering as marks a
woman's position in society. The ar
gument is more wicked than. the fact.