The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-28

not pay for her articles, but proposed to APP
propriate them after they had been turned
into book. Miss Anthony was President Of
a 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 Re0olu-
ton ladies could do was to borrow Miss
Penny's parlor to hold meetings in. Mrs.
Livermore, Mrs. Myra Bradwell, Parker
Pillsbury the whole tribe of agitators were
equally bad. They were indefatigable takers,
but bad no more idea of business than Dora
Copperfeld In point of fact, they were
shiftless.
This is bad. Miss Virginia Penny is a lady
of reputation, and knows what she is talking
about. If Miss Anthony cannot manage a
little affair like the Equal Rights Association,
how would she ever get along with the Erie
Railway? If they don't know how to change
half dollar at the Re0OJution Office, how
could they ever take up fares on an accom-
mediation train, or pay off q force of two or
three hundred laborers every Saturday night?
1t really seems as if the faculties of organi-
zation, promptness, attention to business, and
head for system, 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 dis
tant.
THE DANGER OF SAN DOMINGO.
From the Cincinnati Gazette.
Given, on the one hand, a President, the
dispenser of the enormous patronage of this
republic, who has set his heart on the acquisi-
ton of San Domingo-earnestly, sincerely,
and honestly, without doubt, but with an
ol,a hot oil hxv,
ence; who has already involved his credit in
the project by the payment of $175, 600 on a
lease of the Bay of Samana, whose usefulness
stands or falls by the same test, and by naval
| interference to protect the precarious San
Domingo Government he is negotiating with
| from party that is waging war against it in
| behalf of the Constitution which forbids the
alienation of the territory, and to prevent the
| Haytiens from aiding the other party in this
| struggle for maintaining the independence
| of the island.
Given, on the other hand, the United States
Senate whose members all desire their share
| in the dispensation of this official patronage
| of the President; the greater number of whom
regard its control as vital to their political
| existence; a considerable number Of whom
| represent small constituencies and large
schemes of private benefit; another considera-
BILE number of whom have no hold upon the
| OUdJeo tuey TepIeSouG Oovouu tuelr pToS6ut
tenure, and are driven to the necessity of i'm
| proving their brief opportunity and all of
whom recognize that to oppose the President
in this project, which he has made almost a
| personal matter, is to abandon their share in
this dispensation of official patronage, Add
| to this the situation of an administration
majority so large that the opposition in the
Senate is hardly an appreciable quantity.
| From this situation it is to be expected
that this so-called treaty of annexation will
succeed in carrying the required two-thirds
| of the Senate, against their own convictions,
and against enlightened public opinion. YET
it is scheme which has already drawn us
into unwarrantable interference with the in
habitants of that island; which is tainted
with the fraud of Baez upon his countrymen
and with swindling loans which have mort
gagged all the public lands and solo
every privilege that was salable, ant
with an election imposture; which has
easy possibilities of involving us in such
war for the occupation of the island az
France and Spain tried in vain; which will
give us weak spot in war, and will involve
us in great military and naval expenses tC
make it secure; which promises us only 9
disturbing element in the Government; which
can be of no possible benefit to us, while il
has possibilities of great evil; and which, il
it be beginning of a splendid scheme Of
annexation of tropical countries, has in it
future which will change the character of oul
Government, and will hasten ON that change
to military autocracy which the disloya
predicted as the consequence of invoking the
military power to prevent the secession O.
the Southern States. a.. ~.
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