The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-01

health, the great questions OF trade-of capital
and labor--in which woman is SO profoundly, SO
tragically interested to-day. These be the
questions which are politics state-craft, in
deed-in which the welfare of women is as pro-
foundly involved as the welfare of men-in
which they should be all deeply interested,
from which they have no right to seek
exemption, and which would be the better set
tied did they do their proper share OF the settle
ment Are any of these questions unsuitable
for woman to investigate and solvel Will an
interest in them make her any the less truly wo-
manly, any the less really fitted for the sphere
and the duties of home? If It is right for n
woman to abandon her home to convert certain
heather to the religion of Christ, it will certainly
be right for woman to take action upon the
laws which are to make or mar the future con-
duct and welfare of her daughters and her sons.
John Randolph once came into room where
some Virginia ladies were working for the
Greeks, at that time struggling for liberty, and
pointing to n dismal convict gang ut the moment
passing, Ladies, the Greeks are at your
doors. woman does not nave to go beyond
her own home to find reason, and necessity, and
ability to interfere in State and national affairs
1t will make strife there. A man does not wish
discussion when he reaches the shelter of home,
hut quiet and peace. When Sir Thomas More,
condemned to death for conscience sake,
said to his wife, This prison is rs near
heaven as my own home, and his wife, who
knew nothing and cared less for the great cause
for which he was about to die answered only
:
repose with her, or with his daughter Margaret,
who could discourse with him OF earthly and
heavenly things from wise brain, and give him
the comfort likewise of kind and loving heart?
Will men have to dine from home by an earnest
talk about sensible subjects They are now
driven away by silly, yapid, idle, ill-tempered
vapOrings about nothing. Men say to-day,
Away with your strong-minded women.
Heaven save me from ever being the husband of
any but a sweet, gentle, dependent soul, who
Will always look up to me- Up and up the
sweetness clogs. Up and up the gentlencss be-
comes manity. Up and up, the dependence
neck grows tired by reason ofloOlling down into
his wite's eyes, and he goes elsewhere TO find
woman whose voice talks music and sense To his
ear.
THE EQUAL RIGHTS CONVENTION.
A great many editorials have been written
about gathering held in New York two weeks
ago. great many things have been said in the
papers about the women who were Interested in
it, and of which / will say, in passing had
much rather be the subject than the author of.
(Applause.)
THE observer" THE TRIBUNE" THE ''HER-
ALD," AND THE PRESS
when woman suffrage becomes constitutional
in New York and Chicago, we advise all pro-
perty holders to look to the rural districts" So
read the other day as the verdict Of the editor
of the Observer; and so reading, the verdict l
pronounced upon him was. That men have the
best opinion of women who are conscious that
women ought to have the best opinion of them
The Philadelphia Press speaks the sentiments
OF a wide constituency when it says Recent
events have endangered the success of the woman
movement. The conclusion any student of the
proceedings must arrive at is that, u delibera-
tive parsonage, woman is q failure The Herald
echoes this sentiment when it asserts that the
Convention has really found, by ITSELF the need
of a better cultivation of the feminine intellect
and the Tribune reiterates it when it demands
that these conventions shall be continued and
the great fact fully proven thereby to the world,
that woman is not mans 5uperior-that she can
quarrel like any Congressman. | would Just
whisper in the ear of the Herald that Mrs. Stan
ton and Miss Anthony and Mrs Livermore will
probably bear favorable intellectual comparison
with any of their members of the City Council
of New York or the State Legislature at Albany
not selt-cOnsttuted, but elected by the votes of
their tellow-citizens representative men-and
that would like to look at any two striplings of
twenty who turn up their repOrtorial noses at
Lilly Peckham and Phil Couzzins who are fit to
hold a candle to them.
WHO RAISED THE DISTURBANCES AT THE CON
yENTIoN.
As a deliberative parsonage woman is failure,
and for good conduct not bit better than
man. VIII those honorable editors take note Of
the fact that the chief disturbance was ucca-
stoned by man denOuncing woman who is re-
spected wherever her name is known, who is
poor because so faithful to her cause? viii
they further take note Of the fact that women
have never been trained to argument and delibe-
ratiye assemblies, and that 10 is no more Just to
condemn their first essays as eternal failures
than to decide o child can never walk because
its earliest steps arc not so firm and even as
strong mans? VIII they further note that this
platform literally free; that here was not
put in force the gag-law which is the prominent
feature OF every convention of men?