North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-05-25

suffrage, "a don't wish 1t, and IA 0idn
have any choice.
Several ladies of our city are in fav,
Of the voting business. We are not @
lowed to mention names, but the reasc
they give us for demanding the "right''
that they may learn who of their fema
chums are foolish enough to to expo
themselves to public ridicule! We al
sorry to notice than "Jennie June" (Mr
Croly, one of the finest writers of goss
and sense, well mingled) was an actor q
the "boards' of Mrs. Elizabeth Cad
Stanton. in one of her late demonstration
of female pantalooncy. Jennie woul
have known better if she had called o
reflection to guide her. Mrs. Cady S., i
her long harangue to "ladies only il
Guiding, of course, lot of Solomon's "a
is vanity and vexation Of spirit" men, d.
nounced Clay as an adulterer at Washing
ton while Mrs Clay was churning butter a
Ashland; slightly anathametized McFar.
land for interfering with spiritual afiinitie
by shooting Richardson, and closed will
a reference to Humboldt, Dickens, John
Stuart Mills, Charlotte Bronte, Charles
Dickens and others, who had erred in their
fancied affinity. Her argument, in brief,
was that jury of women should settle
all cases of domestic dissension and the
parties be absolved from marriage vows in
case they were mad at each other. We
heard, long ago of juries of women but
they were called for different purposes
than separation of man and wife Ben.
Franklin, the printers saint, the model
man of our early Republic, is called L.
centious in Paris while the representative
of our country.
We have notion to clip from the N.
Y. Tribune of May 18th, the whole
lecture of this old termagant, simply to
convert that portion of our lady readers
who have dreamed that the way to edu-
cate woman was to>arm her with the
roughness which necessarily attaches to
man in. his business and social circulation.
The Capitol Bill.
Gen. Hendricks paper, the Ottumwa
Courier, administers the following scath-
ing rebuke to the republican portion of
the last general assembly. As the pener.
al is enc among the leading republicans of
the state, his remarks are all the more cut
ting:
I'm despite of the deliberate action of
the last republican state convention; in |
direct contravention of the wishes of nine
tenths OF the tax payers of the state, a |
Legislature which was almost q unit
against the measure when it assembled,
has finally been soft soldered ,honey-fugled,
coaxed and leased by the cunning arts of
willy women, and seduced by the equally
potent and more substantial consideration
of mercenary men, to deliberately vote to
saddle upon us in this very pinch and cri-
us of our financial affairs, the intermina-
Die and intolerable burdens of taxation
necessary to erect a gorgeous capital at
)es Moines, for the benefit of real estate
peculators in the neighborhood of its q
proposed locality, and to enrich the greedy, !
ungry pack of cormorant contractors.
rho expect to handle the peoples money c
D constructing it, v
But in connection with the above casti- Il
alton of the legislature by leading Il
adical paper, it should not be forgotten D
1at this same General Hendrick was one G
the prime movers in getting this cor f
upt legislature to appropriate fifteen a
aousand dollars to defray the expenses a
a soldier-politico meeting at Des Moines il
uring the canvass this fall. He is as D
eep in the mire as the balance are in the Il
lud. He has helped to take from the a
easury the most unjust appropriation. o.
nong the many, that was made by the p
st assembly. The whole radical party b
the state have forfeited all the conf m
.nce the people ever placed in them. b,
hey have taxed pc ople more heavily K,
an those of almost any other section Of &C
e country. Yet they tell us that the o,
ate is out Of debt. Where does the
oney go? Into such appropriations as
e SIS, 900 for soldiers meeting. $780, n,
10 for state capitol, $4,000 to paw in =
rest on debt they tell us we do not 81
re, and thousand other uniustifiable su
ropriatiOns.-BurLin0t arms mr.