The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-08-12
From the El Paso (Ill) Journal
ONSLAUGHT ON COUNTRY Ed
IEOR IN ILLINOIS: HE HAS
a PROLONGED DEBATE
ON THE WOMAN
QUESTION.

| was sittin' in my Office, speculatin'
in my own mind whether on the
whole it wouldn't be best for me to
give myself away for the benefit of
my family, when there comes a
knock at the door.
There, says |, is some one anxious to
subscribe, for the the Ell Paso Journal,
so | uttered in loud voice, "Come
in"
She was dressed in a pair of store
boots and an iron grey set of spectacles,
and she walked up to me with majes-
ty in her mein. | knew who it was
the minute set my eyes on her.
1t was a woman.
l gracefully arose and said, "How
are you maam, was you wishin' to sub
scribe to the Ell Paso Journal ?" at the
same time dippin' my pen in the ink
and openin' my subscription book.
This alwuz gets 'em. 1t looks like
biZineSs.
didn't get her.
She fixed her CLASSY eyes on me and
said: "Young man, are yew an advo-
cate for the holy caws of woman's
rights ?"
"No man." said /, 81 ain Pres
byterian."
"Air you," she said, prepared to
embark with us over the see with e.
quail suffrage?"
"Maam," said l, 81 haint got no OBJ
lection takin' sail with you provided
the boat amt leaky and you'll do the
rOWin'."
A smile perused her features for a
moment and then she said, "I'm will
lin to suffer for the caws."
"Yes," said I, in polite and soften
in manner. It'll only cost two dol
lars, and we'll send it to any address
for an entire year."
"Hev you wife ?" she asked.
Il hev," said |, wonderin' what she
was comm at. $50 that you see /
couldn't marry you eff L wanted to
ever so mnch." | threw this in as a
a soother.
"Air you willin' that she should
share with you the burdens and trials
of life?"
81 amt noways perticklar, said l.,
''an' I'll let her shoulder the whole of
EN- eff she has a hankerin' that
way?"
"Wood yew consent that she should
go to the poles? ?" said she.
"She can go where she pleases," !"
said 1, "She ginerally does"
"Yew air a hole souled man" said
she and THROWN her arms around my
neck laft wildly.
"Git out" said l, "what air you up
to? 1 amt one of them men.
Stop ~
After much labor / succeeded in un-
loosening her hold and sit her down
on a chair. 1 judged from her con-
duct that she stood in need of a few
moral observations.
"You air an impulsive femail." said
/, "Yoor nature is at once spontaneous
an out-breakin.' You need a pair of
martingals. Consider what would be
yoor state eff a mans wife was to catch
you huggin' him in this style"
She wiped her face with her dress.
l forgot to mention this fact in speak
in of her spectacles.
''I am a worker in the caWs of Wo-
mems Rights"
"Yes," said 1, "you air. You ought
to be ashamed of yourself. / should
judge you were one of the lobby wo-
men that the Chicago Tribune CORES
pondent tells of. But you can't come
nefarious arts over me. ! am sealed
against 'em"
Il should be pleased" she said "to
go arm in arm with you to the poles"
mo you DON'T" said L, in alarm
mot eff have anything to say in the
matter. | won't go with yoo-nnt a
single darned pole"
"Young man, said she, "hast thou
children ?''
81 hev," said /, "seven of 'em. Can
you show as good a record ?"
"Would you,n said she, "have your
girls grow up and be married to base,
sordid men who would take away
their political rites ard allow 'em no
franchises ?''
''parn the franchises" says !, in a
rage, ''they are the things that women
put on behind to give them the Gre
clan bend Ef my daughters ever go to
wearin' 'em-"
"Nu, no." said she, they are pam
nier.n
"Well" said /, "panniers or fran
chises whatever you call 'em. am OPP
posed to 'em. They are unnatural and
humty. They degrade the human
form into the likeness of cam,
and bring lovely women down on all
fours like a cat'
'Then said she, "come with me, and
we will emancipate women from the