The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-24
WOMAN'S RIGHTS IN WYOMING.

WOMAN'S RIGHTS IN WYOMING.
WoMAN's rights are triumphant in Wyoming
Territory if nowhere else upon the surface of
this mundane sphere. After all, practice is
better than theory, and there is no more
satisfactory way of testing the value of theprin-
ciples preached so necessarily by the Susan
B. Anthonys, Anna Dickinsons, Cady Stan
tons, and Olive Logans, who insist that the
sphere of women is too contracted, that the
men monopolize all the good things of the
world, and that women are kept down to
cooking dinners and nursing babies, for fear
that they may interfere with some of the as
sumed masculine prerogatives if they are
allowed larger liberty, than to give the MEM
bers of the sex feminine fair, square, and
impartial chance to show what they are good
for in the way of doing the rough work of the
world. We confess that we would not like to
have the experiment tried upon too large a
scale until there was reasonable assurance
would hold good in practice, but it would be
satisfactory if the oppressed ones could be
afforded the opportunity they ask for to show
US how much better the world would be under
their management than it Is under the existing
arrangement. We do do not know of better
place than Wyoming Territory for the advo-
Gates of women's rights to experiment to
their hearts content, and it is therefore
matter for congratulation that the equality of
the female sex with the masculine is an ad-
mitted thing in that section of the country.
If Wyoming becomes the best governed, the
most virtuous, and the most prosperous of
IL IoIa
female and male management, the advocates
for the emancipation of women will have
achieved substantial triumph, and encour-
agement will be given for those who have
doubts about admitting all the claims ad-
vanced by such representatives of their sex
as Miss Anthony, Miss Dickinson, and Miss
Logan, to take a more decided stand than
heretofore in favor of their side of the oues-
ton.
The first experience of the women of Wyo-
ming Territory of the duties devolving upon
them by their enfranchisement consisted in
several of them being called upon to serve
upon jury in murder case, which involved
the unpleasant necessity of being locked up
with number of male creatures. The
fema'e jurors, we are happyto say, performed
their duty on this occasion without fiinching
and having experienced some of the hard
ships incident to being allowed voice and
vote in the management of public affairs, the
sex is now about to receive its reward in the
probable election of some of it's members to
offices of trust, profit, and honor.
At the Republican convention held on
Tuesday at Cheyenne for the nomination of
o1Sa T. I
mated as the candidate for County Clerk; Mrs
NJ. H. Arnold for Superintendent of Public
Schools; and Mrs. NJ E. Post as a member of
the Republican Committee We sincerely
hope that these ladies will be elected, and
will distinguish themselves in their several
offices, and we also hope that Messrs. Pickett
Arnold, and Post will not find the babies un-
duly difficult to manage while their wives
are absent from home attending to their pub
ic duties.