Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-06
WHOLE NO. 1880.


man Skinner, whose intellect is lower
than the common quahaug. (Applause.)
My soul is filled with poetry and SEN
timent, and his vulgar remarks CRATE on
my ear, and when hear persons use
expressions that are not refined and gen
teel, want to go through birthstone
and molasses (Hear, hear.)
m astonished there ain more inter-
est manifested in this absorbing topic
This halliought to be packed from dome
to ceiling, and couple of hundred
climbing up the lightning rod outside
A short time ago addressed an i'm
mense throng on Boston common at
least thirtyseven persons, including
men and women Of both sexes, who
stood packed together for at least fifteen
minutes hanging on my words, the en-
thusiasm finally reached such pitch
that they insisted on burning my etiigy
to slow music.
We are bound to succeed.
Our speakers don't lack brains or in
tluence, but there's one thing | wish
they did lack, and that is their desire
for q husband
No matter how rabid woman may
be on this question, or how much she
talks against the men on the platform,
she'll grab the first one that offers him
SELF and turn right straight around, and
that's where we're weak. Most women
seem to think that that we were made
but for one purpose, and that was to
have Mrs. on their tombstone
They'd be Missed all their lives, and
when they die, the more they've missed
the better.
From the creation of the world we
have had all the great men on our side.
There's Pharaoh. What did Phara-
oh do?
Recognizing the fact that women
must inevitably rule, he issued the or
der to strangle all the male children. II
this thing hadn't slipped up 'twould be
money in our pockets, Mr.. Pharaoh is
dead now, and hadn't forethought
enough to leave the business TO some
good man,
Among those who escaped justice at
that time was youth called Moses, of
bulrush fame, and since ,hen every Mo-
ses has been wart on the face of ma
ture, including the wretched object
whose rear name | am encountered
with (Cries of That's sou and "Put
him out.'O
No, you shall not put him out. Nor
shall be 20 Of his own accord.
When we get home, | will show him
what one solitary woman can accom-
plish for this great cause with her good
right arm, (Applause)
Herod was also womans rights
man.
He ordered all the male children to
be slain, and what sweeter proof could
we have that IIerods head was level.
My dear sisters we can't be all Her.
DDS, but we can wear his tintype next
our hearts, and press on to the goal.
Coming down 10 the present day,
where do we find woman?
We don't find her.
In ten cases out of nine she finds her.
self.
Come with me to the worst portion of
our great city After ascending thirty
one flights OF rickety stairs, what do we
find?
A miserable basement.
In one corner sits wretcbed woman,
once the belle of the city.
She makas vests. Twenty-four vests
for a cent.
Not a morsel of food has passed her
lips since last fall.
Around her are fourteen children cry
Ing for bread. But, alas she amt got
no bread, but with tears in her eyes, she
divides among them the last
half of tallow candle.
Have | overdrawn this picture I! No,
sir. And if any man dares say have,
i'll guarantee to send him home on a
shutter in less than ten minutes. (Em-
o,ion in the audience
But, my dear sisters, | am not here
simply to touch your hearts, but to
touch your pockets also.
A thing of this kind can't go on with.
out money, aud l therefore call upon .
four of the most able bodied sisters, who
feel It's sweet to be on their muscle, to
mass around the hat.