Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-05-15
WOman's Rights Argued.

The Revolution seems TO have provoked q
quarrel with " Brick Pomeroy," for in late is
sue there is a long letter from that individual r
which he takes issue with the reformers, and
even has the audacity to point out to them the
way they shall go. The letter is addressed to
Susan B. Anthony, and contains :he following
paragraphs:
l wish you would make your paper home
newspaper. Make it more the friend of the
women of America than it now is | wish you
would if you cannot write articles, and
think you can, Susan, impressng upon the
wives, mothers and sisters upon the women
young and old, of America, the necessity OF
making home beautiful and attractive. Tell
them to see if they cannot by kind word or
loving Smile, some little act of kindness or at
tenton, prevail upon the husband, lover, brother
or father, as the case may be, to remain at home
one more night in the week than they do. En-
courage the beautiful, the good, and that which
brings happiness. Let politics alone Cor those
who are baser and better adapted for that bust
ness than are women. Keep away from the
polls. Let the balot-boxes be surrounded by
men, for to go there to wrangle and grovel, or
indulge in perpetual strife to gain that which
brings you no benefit, is not exactly the mission
woman is expected to fill here upon Garth.
Do see if you cannot educate the women OF
America to let fashions and foolshness alone
see if you cannot make them more home-bodies
give them more taste for biscuit-more of a
desire to learn how to make biscuit than to
double themselves up with green apple twist
into Grecian bend. See if you cannot cuti-
vate among your sex more of desire to visit
the parlor, open its doors and windows to make
it pleasant for their home ones, than to be con-
tinually dressing for the opera. Try for a little
while, Susan, and see if you cannot impress
upon the minds of the women who read the Rep-
olution, and those who do not, that woman
would do more to insure general happiness if she
would try and help her husband accumulate
property and make home. Tell them, Susan,
it is all foolishness for woman to spend on her
back in one month more than her husband can
earn in year. | know many a good fellow
who has gone to the poor-house, to the gam
blng-hous or to that red-hot land from whence
it is hard returning-according to the Scriptural
theory-for the reason that he had most ex-
travagant wife, whose sole aim seemed to be to
squander all he earned and to appear on the
streets of New York, or other cities or villages,
as the case might be, every day, or at least
every week with new dress, while her hus-
band poor mar was beset by the Sheriff, and
working, and wondering bow he would manage
to make enough to pay his expenses. Susan:
try and see if you cannot preach little econ
omy into the women.
There is enough money squandered in New
York on laces, silks and satins, fancy CATERS,
notched and crocheted crinoline, and all sorts of
fancy fnery that cannot call by name, to give
every poor boy and girl in New York food,
clothes and an education. There is enough
money spent every year in the great city where
your paper and my paper are published, enough
money spent foolishly by the women to make
every body in New York happy and place them
beyond want. If you will try and instill econ
omy into the minds of the wives and mothers,
daughters and sisters Of the land, will do the
best can in behalf of temperance and morality,
sobriety and business. If you will tell the
women to take care Of the money their husbands
earn by hard labor, either mentally or bodily !;
if you will tell them to use the money which
their husbands bring, to beantify home, make it
attractive, furnish little articles to make home
pleasant that the husbands may find their homes
as attractive other places, then l will do all
can toward educating the men to take their
money home to their wives and not squander
their earnings every day. every night, or every
Saturday night in places of dissipation, or in
places where rum as a beverage is sold.