The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-11-14


NJ. Ann. +. Dickinson lectsred ~ . e
s,,n~s,e for Life for tbs bensne Is e.
wo,s1nr womens' Arsociatson q nsv 1o1 !.
q Cooper Institute, few evsninp 49, q =
scven o'clock the crowd vas % So. ~ i
the entrance that several lad.,s minleI, %. ".
for 40 hour is wss almost = Mtus9ts, ia
IN. h.Il - naeked. and the colored tsbere
ts.e - : - .e,slv eis.s - sseAinR - pssgls.
A-cr~ he peominent pefsons were Mrs.
et.ntnH M. Notton, Theodore Tilton, Mrs.
INV Hufchipson Patton. Miss Cecelia Bur
mn. Nh. AndSsw Jeekssn Bows, nsss ,s.
Lozisr. Mrs. DR.. Clisby. Miss Susan b. An.
lhopy nd PAskes Pit bury. Tbs meeting
- called 70 order 81 Mr.. andrew Jackson
Davis. Miss johnson saag, in very tosch.
4 s.hss s 3 aesA.,' MI Dasis .hs6 "a III.
4 ordsr ia. eive he audience ~ esid4s pf
vhat the Young women there repre- scented IN
ended TO do, she would read platform in
declaration Of the PRINCIPLES adapted By the
Workipewomen' Association on the 2J.h Of
flctober. l8e8. Miss Anthony then intro
duced Miss Dickinson, Who had just arrived
an the train from Pbiladelphis. After the
applause had suSsided, the orator Of the eve
uiue smoke il substance . follows:
TN the essly pssto the Revelation On
eminent divine preached sermon on Christ
ana Hin cruci6ed, j. and then, descending
from the pulpit and throwing open his
rohes. he showed himself uniformed Tor
hetsie % h;s astoaished sadisnee. he OK
blamed BY ssying there Vas . time to
preach and . time to fight. bis time 70 light
b.d come. Thu women Of AmsrIcA wers
nov 10 fight ~ well = presch. No sfen.
meOt d % effective = saccees. The Naele
helons !, 70 shoss Who taks n, eays - -
Italian provefb. For my part aid Miss
Dickinson, hsd rather b ; panpes clothed
n calico, than TO blaze in jewels sad rot
earn ny own existence. (Applauss- y -
easier 70 walk than 70 stand stiI. Womso
are compared to flowers, which men pluck
and vear ID their button.holes. ms y ~
very we'll, bus vhas il the flowers are AoliJ-
hooks, sun flowers. OF onion blossoms.
TLausher itisa bad thing for isepu6>
h. to have ! class within its borders that
PRODUCES nothing. Deny . person eab.
!ec,e on which he can expand thought, and
his body viii become deceased. The brain
renuires cultivation - we'll - the soil,
TO produce good results. II is impossible
10 maintain : privileged class in 80
ciesy without society becoming dissased
and corrupt. IApplaase. Il 70 for Tine
reason that orr women are pnt into the
market and sold to the highest bidder. The
old fashioned ideas OF marriage With love
are looked ON with sidiculs. Society shuts
its eyes on the girl Who marries mechanic
for love, though no msy hsse the natural
RITA Of An inventor. While the painter says,
.My son shall not be disgrsced BY learning
his father's frs ~ hs never thinks OF the
crowds Of people who gather -cuLe him ~
ID laws on the lines Of beauty. IL idea that
labor deerades ID one Of thif country. 4
man works from choice. and, - . general
thing. be had rasher work than Temnin idle.
A boy il usually brought up 70 look on work
a honorable, while 4 girl y taught to des-
piss honest labor. [AensAti0n. A woman
that chooses whom she will marry ID ridi-
culed. she 10 expected to wait until IN arm
Is offered, often - weak - the cane which
ito owner carries. There are women 'u.Ne
York ~ho might have been mefchants, law
yers, phtsiciahs, OF ministers, bad they been
permitted to choose rheir occupations. To-
day they are wasting their lives q from -
to Sc per week. II Is said, let these sewing
Rlrls 20 into somebody : kitchen. Cooking
does not come BY Inspiration the world will
end out. These women are met q tho doors
BY muititudes Of Foreigners Who nnderbid
them. and intellect is conqueredby igaorance
Sc long as women at the heeds q hopsshotds
look on work - disgraeefus they 90 nots *
pect any but the lowest and most unfeeiing to
accep, the situation they thus bold out. Wo-
man should be allowed to choose the kind OF
work she il be.t fitted for. for No one is .
better Judge Of her capacities than herself.
When she has chosen her trade or profess
sion, let her learn TO do her worn ~ man
doss his. [Applauss. Tbs question 10,
shall women be allowed. "A travail j. the paths
that lead 10 profit and honor, Or shall che be
forced ale0g those ways l<&di%g 70 poverty
and degradation? We are told HAT homo il
tho sphere in which GodI placed woman.
Well, grant il. Whet shall We do With those
Who have no homes, and those whose homes
are the homes Of brutality and vice? II you
propose TO discuss tAese question We meet
With deri.ion. In speaking Of clerks, the
speaker said: The great undsvcloped re.
sources of tho West need the bone and sinew
of the clerks ct Washington, whose places
wriehtfully belong to women. Great ap
plause. Shut women out of the hospital,
say men, when she wishes to enterit profes
sionaIiy; but when she Gomez ~ nurse, these
same persons call her m angel Of mercy, and
bless the day when shs entered the wards Of
their hospitals. Applause. ] Il is disgraceful
for women TO be merchauts and build palaces,
but not so when they stand behind
counters as clerks on . low salary. [Great
Applause] know = young lady in Wash
incton, said Mia Dickinson, who lately sue
ceeded clerk who was getting 81, 800 .
year, while she received for doing the same
work in q superior manner $500, and the un-
bounded thanks Of her employers. Of the
sixty-fiye women employed in one OF the
Washjn eton Departments, oil but eight have
some one depending on their earnings for
support. These very women are almost oil
widows, whose husbands died on the battle
Geld Of their country. [Applause. Oh,
Magnanimity, thy name is mani Applause ]
This is the way America treats her patriotic
women, while assassins and criminals cit in
b. Oh places, and live off Of the nation Trey
tried to destroy. She wildly portrayed the
character OF those peIsons in Washington
and elsewhere who have sought to defame
the reputation Of women employed BY the
Government. People, she resumed, are
born for professions and II would be fool
ish for any one to force the poet to be ma
con or mason to be a poet. Women should
become their own employers. She knew
that could the wealthy people Of New York
look into the desolate homes Of the working
women, many closed hands would fly open and
many pockets would be emptied. Women
fall because they have nothing within them
selves to lean upon. The elements of weak
ness which men foster in women become the
means Of their ruin. They fall from suffer
ing to want, and from want to death. The
speaker entreated those who exAlt purity to
make its paths less rugged.
Miss Dickinson closed BY reciting some
touching incidents Of poverty and tempsa-
ton. She M. powerful appeals for the
deserted and helpless women sad children
Of our cities. She vas listened - with pro-
found attention, ond ono loo. over the null
titude Of upturnsd faces might have seen
more than one face vet with tesrs.
MARX TWAIN, will deliver his lecture 1.-THE
American Vandal Abroad" widely through
out the country this winter. He il publish
ing book which viii appear in the spring.
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PET1rIoss are coming up TO Madrid from
all over Spain, asking the establishment of
religious federation and freedom Of public
worship.