The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-06-10

''Pcnitentiary is being laid. Thank Heaven
''ours Is done, and there is now comfortable
''home for INDECENT editors, luns.ics and
''id,ots." And "thanks say we. How
sweetly consoling it 10 to know that when
our triAA here are ended, we can got in .
final cell and take up our abode in the man.
sions prepared for villains.
Sss,sset Coo on COrsets.
The Washington Correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Times says: Sam Cox 10 one Of
the clevcrest men in the House, albeit he 10
= Democrat. His sallies of wit, genuine
humor, are wont to set the House ''in
roar," and on no subject il he moro happy
than on the tariff. He has made some good
speeches in Committee Of the Whole, -
well a. in the House, while that subject was
under general debate. Here 10 the way
that Cox protests against the tax on COT.
sets:
There is a bill before the House of Rep.
resentatives. reported by Messrs. Schenck,
Kelley, Blair, Mccarthy. Hooper and May.
nard to impose national tax ON corscts and
hoop skirts. Against This tax the free wo.
men of America should promptly protest.
IL there to be nothing too sacred for the
searching hand of the ax.gatherer? 10
there no limit TO the reach of the Assessore
The Committee Of Ways and Means have
already levied tax on the stockings and
garters, and must the privacy of women be
further invaded? II women have one
right which men are bound to respect more
than another, it is the privacy of the bosom
and of the surroundings of their persons.
Did the committee who reported this bill
know what they were doing? Did Gen.
schenck intend to direct the Commission.
er of Customs and his deputies to thrust .
hand into every gentle bosom and gather
was reverse of oil the tax laws of mankind
in every age and every cline.
We know that iron has long siucc enter.
ed the soul of Kelley, and that he devetes
his energies to steel, but had the man
mother! Had he ever sweetheart? And
did he know that he was placing = tax
around the forts of human life? Did any
member of that committeeman raised on
bottle-willingly propose to collect this od
ralorem tax in districts rendered dear to
humau memory since Eve nurscd her first
born. or Winnie Ream shaped the bust Of
Helen! Had MI. Hooper no recollection Of
carly days, when it was bliss to rest his
head upon heart oil fondly his owni and
could he, recollecting this, propose to per.
NIT the tax.galhcrer to ext0rt revenue from
the hallowed spot! Let him ask himself
what would have been his feelings had he
discovered his darling in tears, and found
that her distress was because she had not
paid her ''cOrsct tax"
lift their voices in favor Of the untaxed cor.
sets and untaxed hoops? Will General
Farnsworth be silent while this outrage Is
pcrpetrsting, and vote to tux the vestments
that inclose the shrincs of beauty, purity
and love? Will the s,alwart hero from Mas.
sachusetts (Mr. Butler) vote this tax and
thereafter look any woman straight in tho
face! Will lie, who has identified woman's
vocation with Jomini's art Of war, wear
this outrage on his sleeve for ''daws to peck
att" Will Mungen not point out to tho
Democratic party the duty Of regulating
a tax 20 atrocious? Will the gentleman
from Onondaga mr. Mccarthy, In his zeal
to protect salt, impose this tax on the great
dairies of nature? Will the great cham.
pions of American labor and production
vote for this bill to encircle with specific
and ad valorew tsxss the infant manufae.
tories of the land!
II will not do to say that the House Is not
aware that corse,s and hoops ars Of univer.
sal USE Members know that the Treasury
Department can furnish Ill needed infor.
nation on this subject. ....
: The women Of America have no repro.
sentssion, and they have right to protest
against this unprecedented taxation. They
have submitted to be taxed upon their
shoes and slippers, their hosiery, their
dresses, their shswls. hats and feathers, and
every bit of lace and ribbon, but there 10
limit to even female submission. Around
the sanctity Of their corse,s they viii draw
the line. Shall there be tax placed upon
those emotions and throbbings which have
besn the delight Of men in all ages! The
tax should be resisted, and tyrans man 70
be taught that the hand which seeks reve.
nue. in that quarter may hnd the revolver OF
the dagger. II snly required Hurat 70
produce Charlotte Corday, and the Schencks
and Kelleys may read that history with
profit. Let the women's conventions take
action. Let them add 70 the demand tor the
ballot the cry OF ''free corssts, free hooper,
and, until they gain the latter, lot The msa
who vote this tax bs dsaisd all knowlsdSe
q female Aabilimests, ssvs WHIST tasy 81 :
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