Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-24


Gle evinced. This woman disolaimed fo
her sex right to the ballot, which Mr.
Blackwell answered her by saying that
vote was an authoritative expression o
an opinion, and if the ladies deny thei
right to such an authoritative expression
of opinion, they take the position that hav'
no right to discuss it land hence their incon
sistency in arguing against it. He said al
rational human beings should have voic,
in the laws by which they are governed
To the argument against women receiv
ing less pay than men, he held that they
should receive equal pay with men fol
equal work. A great deal of nonsense
was said about man supporting the fam
lily. He held it was not true that mar
supported his wife. She supported her
self, for she gave him an equivalent fol
all she received The idea that the laws
gave equal protection to woman as to mar
was preposterous. They did not; they
were descendant from the feudal barbar
Gus ages, making the woman a slave as il
were, and the man the lord and master
By division of labor man and woman
each contributed equally to the support o.
the family, and should be regarded as
equal partners in the matrimonial alliance
He knew of not single happy mar
riage where the husband and wife did not
consult and work together in family and
business matters. Woman suffrage will
place women in such relation to society
as to make them freer, and their labor
will be more fully compensated. Yer.
mont is better situated to-day to try the
experiment of woman suffrage than any
other State, for they had no large cities
knew nothing of poverty, and had not an
ignorant foreign population among them
The constitution gave all men right to
vote without other qualifications than
naturalization, then why not extend it to
women? The Chinese, semi-barbarous,
were allowed to vote and make laws for
our men and women. He could not see
why they should have it and women not
Do you believe your wives and daughters
will vote leas intelligently than men who
cannot read or write2 The doctrine that
man was one and woman another being
was dangerous. We should say to wo
men You are interested in the formation
of good laws and electing honest men to
execute them if there were but one wo-
wan in the State who wanted to vote, we
men have no right to deny her the privi-
lege- He closed by paying handsome
tlibute to Vermont for her advanced posi-
tion always on the side of FIRE edom, and
hoped she would be the first of the States
to adopt Woman Suffrage
Mrs. Helen Slocum, of this place then
addressed the convention and spoke ably
and well of her own observations in life
concerning the recognized superiority of
man and the aasfegTortty of woman, which
she proclaimed against, and warmly and
amid frequent applause advocated Woman
Suffrage as the only means by which the
existing evil could be remedied.
Speeches were further made by Lucy
Stone, Albert Clarke OF the st. Adams
Messenger, Mr.. Garrison, Mrs. Bowles and
others, which, owing to the length to
which we have already protracted our re-
port, we are compelled to defer until our
next issue. The constitution of the
State Woman's Association was presented
to the meeting ard nurnorously signed.
THE ERIE RAILWAY ROLL OF HONOR.
-Messrs. James Fisk, Jr, and Gould of
the Erie Railway have inaugurated what
is known as the Roll of Honor" The
name, age and time of service of every
employee is to be taken, and those who by
experience, Judgment and capacity ARE
entitled to promotion, will be promoted.
Hereafter every employe will be required
to commence at the bottom of the ladder
and work his way up. This is as it should
be. The great bane of corporations is the
appointment of persons totally incOmpe-
tent to positions of responsibility through
faveritism or from the fact of having "a
friend at court" The above gentlemen
are determined to veto all such arrange
ments hereafter, and the "roll of honor
is very favorably commented on by those
interested. The taking of the roll demon
strates some very singular facts, showing
the uncertainty of human fortunes. At
tired in greasy suit of overail1 perform
ing labor both hard and dirty, is a m n
who but IL few years ago was prominent
physician !; during the war he waa sur
geon in the army and obtained great emf
nence by his skill; he was worth some $780,
900, had a wife and family, and doubtless
was happy and contented man He came
home unexpectedly ono day and found
some one had usurped his place during his
absence and that his home was detiled aud
ruined forever. He left Immediately and
wandered around the world until his
money was gone, when he turned up on
the " Erie" He is still an accomplished
surgeon, he has dressed the wounds of
men injured ou the road quite M salts
factorily as coul1 any surgeon. Another,
young man of unusually fine talents Il
graduate of Princeton College, an accom-
plished gentleman In every sense Of the
word, is engaged at labor that is very
severe and dangerous this Jersey
man left college the possessor of an
independent fortune he ran through
| it, and likewise turned up on
| the Erie the roll of honor" will doubt
less reach him as be is highly spoken of
| by all with whom he is brought in con-
tact. Another, who is also IL collegr 2r d
uate, and very accomplished notwirh-
standing his rough appearance, to"k II
walk down to Wall street one day and
left it to join the corps of Erie. Flo il
spoken off AS q IMAM Of SQUAD judgment,
and handles the top brake much better
than he did stocks in Wall street. We
could enumerate others, but these few are
quite sufficient to prove the ways of the
world are indeed queer.-Jersey city
Journal
| VOLCANIC. The Honolulu Gdzette of
Jan. IL says that the volcanic Mauua Loa
showed considerable activity. A der,se
smoke was constantly isSuirt1 from il, ~ d
several times flames bad bceu seen In the
night. The crater of K,lauea was com
paratively inactive, although it was OBJ
servable that the smoke issuing from the
crevices in and about the crater was much