The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-12-03


their own education. In many districts
they support good schools themselves
and az a class, probably pay more for
this purpose, in proportion to their
i means, than any other in America.
DEDICATloN.-Wesley Chapel, in the
Moneka neighborllUod, northwest cor
ner Of Farmington township, way,ledi-
Gated last Sabbath. The services were
conducted by Rev. c. Gray, Of the
Northern Ill. Conference, assisted by
Rev. G. NJ. Scott, Pastor, and Rev's NJ.
w. Purvis, J. Selby, J. w. Kynett, and
- Mathews Of Wilton.
About $4OO was needed to liquidate
the Indebtedness of the church but the
audience responded 40 freely to the call
for money that $G2o.225 was raised on the
| spot, thus leaving II handsome margin
over present necessities, which will be
used for various needed improvements.
Wesley Chapel is a handsome wooden
structure, thirty by fifty-two feet, with
spirc; and was built at cost Of
s., 200. .r@
Mrs. BElNKERHoFF's LECrURE.-On
Tuesday evening the Congregational
church was we'll filled by an audience
that listened attentively to the demand
for suffrage made in behalf of the women
Of America by Mrs. Brinkerhofr Mrs.
B. speaks fluently, with finely modu-
lated voice, and admirably distinct
enunciation. Although she lacks in
great part the fire and fervor with which
Anna Dickinson celebrities her audi
ences, she is yet no mean disciple of
that lady, rehcarsing as she does, very
the Same style. She first turned her at
tention to the "proper sphere" business.
Said. IF man needs no legislation to
keep him in his proper sphere why
"think that woman docs? If the do
"mcstic sphere is woman's best holt
"God would not have given her the
Liability to fill any other. In the lam
"guage of Mrs. Mill of England, the
"'proper sphere of every individual is
the highest and widest to which that
80 individual is able TO attain.'" Then
followed touching portrayal of the
dreadful condition Of woman by virtue
OF mans unjust legislation for, or rather,
against her. The unfairness of both
common and statute law towards woman
as property holder and u custodian of
her own children was feelingly, and in
the main, fairly stated as also the dire
and degrading effect upon the women of
the land of the all too prevailing intem-
perance and RIGHTEOUSNESS by which
fathers, husbands and SONS ru II them
selves and blast the hopes and happiness
Of all those whose fate is bound up in
their own.
She said that among all species of
animals, except the human, a mothers
undoubted right to the care and con-
"trol Of her offspring was recognized;
"but that human wisdom had reversed
this natural order of things, and our
common law gives the father absolute
"control of his children. Before mar
"riage only, woman can own and pro-
"tect her own children"
The last sentence Of the above, which
is quoted yerdatim, we confess that we
can not exactly understand; and rs no
explanation was given we will not at
tempt one, though it might be kind to
suggest "widders,' the only difficulty
here being the fact that even they are
frequently not the guardians of their
own minor children.
The inability Of women to obtain the
same wages with mon for the same labor
was alluded to: and this is u state of
things which is equally shameful and
true, although it is difficult for Us to see
how it could be remedied by legislation.
The speaker also touched upon the clos
ing of many institutions of learning
against woman, which. properly. is
a ready almost thing of the past and
also her inability to enter many depart
ments of labor for which she is fitted,
another Of customs letters which is fast
being loosened. And while effectively
recounting these many wrongs and evils.
the speaker constantly demanded that
women be enfranchised, taking it for
granted, as it seemed to US that this
would prove panacea for everything.
There does not seem to be any doubt
in the mid of most thinking people of
o-day but that the true equilibrium be-
tween the sexes, considered as individ
uai members Of the one common social
aud polite body has not yet been found,
or if found has not been put in practice
but at the same time by no means are all
convinced that the ballot in the hands
Of woman is the only thing needful to
at once successfully solve this great So
ciai problem. And right here, as it
seems to US. all the speakers in favor of
woman suffrage, to whom it has been
our good fortune to listen, fail to perfect
their argument. They show plenty of
defects in the present social system and
instances in which woman, as Il class, is
unfairly treated, and then say, lin view
Of this, and this. AND THIS, can sou