New-York tribune., 1870-04-27
NrwyoRK DAILY TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 97 1870

"haye not one word to say about rallrOads
"stages. and bridges. When we have, oh,
"what order and harmony will reign! With
"sober women for engineers and conductors,
"there will be no smash ups nor running OIL
"before they are sent" Now this Is
comforting promise and we might reasonably
hone that the dear creatures who have sue
ceedcd so perfectly in governing the nursery
and teaching "order and harmony" to reign
among the sculOns and chambermaids, who
have set up three or four suffrage associations,
and managed the complicated business OF
newspaper, will direct railways much better
than Vanderbilt and Prescott Smith, if they
ever get q chance. A woman who can rule an
Irish cook and bring up baby can OF course
do anything, and a mind capable OF tackling
the problems of the kitchen and the publica-
ton Office will have no difficulty with the
mysteries of freight tariffs, timetables, ana
the right of way But just here comes
an appalling revelation. Before the wall
of Mrs. Henry b. Stanton has died
AWAY. plant of fearful import issues
from the lips of Miss Virginia Penny.
Miss Penny has been a Jealous and practical
advocate of the woman cause, her efforts
being directed to getting her suffering sisters
not political franchises but profitable work.
Thus she has been much in contact with the
Stanton Anthony cOterie, ard has seen some
thing of the "order and harmony" which
reign in the management of their affairs she
assures us that the ladies of The Revolution
have no heads. They advertise books for sale
when they have not the books and can't get
Them They forget to make change. Ihey
nut peoples names on their reports without
permission. They are generally mixed IN their
ideas of business, and loose in their notions OF
commercial ethics. They printed Miss Pennys
name as Vice President of the Equal
Rights Association, though Miss Penny
knew nothing about it and does not be-
lieye in the Equal Rights Association. They
would not answer her questions. They would
not pay for her articles, but proposed TO
appropriate them after they had been turned
into a book. Miss Anthony was President OF
Woman's Typesetters' Association, but when
Miss Penny wanted some women to set type
Miss Anthony could not tell her where to find
them. The only practical thing The Reroluto"
ladies could do was to borrow Miss Penny
parlor to hold meetings in. Mrs. Livermore,
Mrs. Myra Bradwel Parker Pillsbury, the
whole trlDe OF aSlLdUOIS, NciC Clu"iiJ D""'
They were indefatigable takers, but had no
more idea of business than Dora Copperiield.
In point of fact they were shiftless.
This is bad. Miss Virginia Penny is lady
of reputation, and knows what she is talking
about If Miss Anthony cannot manage lttie
affair like the Equal Rights Association, how
would she ever get along with the Erie Rail
wayi If they do MT know how to change hall
q dollar at The RerolutiOn Office, how could
they ever take up fares on an accommodation
train, or pay off force of two or three hund-
red laborers every Saturday mghtf 1t reany
seems as if the faculties of organization, prompt
ness. attention to business and head for sys-
TEN, all the faculties indeed which women
particularly need if they are to fill the new
places to which they aspire, are the very ones
in which Mrs. Stanton and her followers are
especially deficient. AT present we must say
that Mrs. Henry B. Stanton's prospects OF
running railroad and getting vote seem
equally vague and distant.