The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-11-03

WOMAN'S RIGHTS.

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trash generally am here to-day for the pur-
pose of discussing woman's rights, recussing
her wrongs and cussing the men. I believe
the sexes were created perfectly equal, with
the women little more equal than the men.
| also believe that the world would to day be
happier if man had never existed. AS sue
cess man il failure and bless my stars that
my mother was woman Applause.
| | not only maintain these principles, but l
maintain shiftless husband besides.
They say man was created first. 'Sp0sin'
he was? Amt first experiments always fail
ures? IT l was a betting man, I'd bet two
dollars and half they are. The only decent
thing about him, anyhow, was RIB, and that
weat to make something better. Applause. ]
And then they throw it into our face about
Eve taking that apple. III bet five dollars
Adam boosted her up in the tree and then only
gave her the core. And what did he do when
he was found QUIT True to his masculine in
stincts, ne sneaked behind Ewes Grecian bend
and said "'Twaren't me, twas herr" and wo
man has had to father everything mean since,
aud mother it too.
What we want is the ballot, and the ballot
we're bound to have, if VIC let down our back
hair and swim in sea of sanguinary gore.
| Sensation Bring up your little daughters
TO love and caress the ballot. and when they
are old and scrawny they will not depart from
it. Teach them that man occupies no position
that woman cannot fill, even to IL pair of pants.
Teach them that without the ballot woman is
simply n cooking and washing machine; that
with il she can just rule her little roost. We
have plenty Of ballet girls but what we want
is ballot women.
That male creature now sitting on this plat
form. whom the law compels me TO call hus-
band, says I've got ballot on the brain. lie
says sleep with n ballot under my pillow,
aud dream I'm commander-in-chiefo of large
army of female womans ballots, and am clean
| ing out everything that looks like a male sex.
whilst the band plays See the conquering
shero cometh." Such remarks prove that
man was created lower than the beasts uf the
sea, the carrion of the air. or the rhinoceros
upon the prairirs. And what can be expected
from this man Skinner. whose intellect is lower
than that of a common quabaug. Applause
| My soul is filled with poetry aud sentiment
aud his vulgar remarks CRATE on my ear, and
when hear persons use expressions that are
not refined and genteel. | want to go through
'cm like birthstone and molasses. Hear;
/ hear
| I'm astonished there ain't more interest
manifested in this absorbing topic. This hall
ought 10 be- filled from dome to ceiling, and
couple hundred climbing up the lightning-to cd
| outside. A short time ago / addressed an im.
m.nse throng ON Boston Common-at least
thirty-sesen persons. including men and women
of both sexes, who stood packed together for
at least fifteen minutes hanging on my words,
the enthusiasm finally reaching such n pitch
that they insisted on burning my effigy To slow
music.
And we're bound to succeed. Our speakers
don't lack brains or influence, but there is one
thing wish they did lack and that is their de-
sire for a husband. No matter how rabid a
woman is on this question, or how much she
talks against the men on the platform, she'll
grab the first one that offers himself, and turn
right straight round, and that's where we are
weak. Most women seem 10 think they were
made for a purpose, and that was to have Mrs.
on their tombstone They'd better be missed
all their lives. and when they die the more they
are missed the better.
From the creation of the world we've had
MI the great men on our side There's Phara-
oh. What did Pharaoh dol Recognizing the
fact that women must inevitably rule, he issued
an order to stranele all the male children. Ii
this thing hadn't slipped up it would just been
pepper in our soup. Mr.. Pharaoh is dead now,
and hadn't forethonght enough to leave the bu-
siness 10 some good man. Among those who
escaped Justice ut this time was youth named
Moses. and since then every Moses has been n
wart on the face Of nature, including the very
wretchcd object whose rear name / am ncum-
bered with. Cries of That's SO Put him
OUT No, you shall not put hun out. Neither
shall he go out of his own accord. When we
get home | will show him what one solitary
woman can accomplish for this great cause
with her good right arm. [Appause.1 Herod
was also woman's rights man. He ordered
all the male children to be slain, and what
sweeter proof could we have that old Herod's
head was level Z
My dear sisters. we cant all be Herods, but
we can wear this tintype next our hearts, and
press onward to the goal.
| amt going to enumerate all the talented |
men who've taken this view of the thing.
Coming down to the present day where do |
we find women1 We don't find her. In ten
cases out of ten she finds herself Come with
me to the very worst portion Of our great city.
After ascending thirty.on flights of the rick
etiest stairs, what do we fnda A miserable
attic. In one corner sits wretched woman,
once the belle of the city. She makes vests.
Twenty-four vests for cent! Not morsel
of food has passed her lips since fall Around
her are fourteen children crying for bread, but
alas she amt got no bread; but with tears in
her eyes she mourpfuly divides the last half Of
u tallow candle among them.
Have I overdrawn this picture. No, SIR
And if any man dares to say have, I'll guar
antee 10 send him home on a shutter in less
than ten minutes. Emotion in the audience.
But INV dear sisters. am not here simplv to