The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1871-12-09
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W OM8uD 4gB18A0K II DUBLIN
A meeting II oosnection with the
irish SoCj1sy fos Womer's Suf
rage wss Md o. Wslhcsdsy at
lslackrock. DuNsin, Mics Anne
Isabella Rsbegleon preatllxg. The
following uofe announced 70 have
become moDbets OF the society
since the laG1 seeling Of III com
mieteo: IT, Rael Of MounecAshell
E. B. 81 - Coqaeess OF Mount-
cAshells Jane Moore. Lady
Hsle6 -. Lady Louisa
Morgno, - (ec Dermot Roe, J.
r.. Aldsrlosd House, County Res
common Captain william Stac-
poole, n. r. Ballyalla, County
Clare Mr.. Philip Csllan, n. p,
Cookstown House, County Louth;
Captain Dawson Damer. NJ. p. for
Portarlingtsn. Came House, Dor
chester Mr. Denny Urlin and Mrs.
Urlin, Leeson Park, Dublin DR.
Palmer and Mrs. Palmer, Wares-
ford Mrs. Dickson, Elnfield,
County Down the Rev James G..
Street. wellington Park, Belfast,
Mrs. Walpole, Grand Lodge,
Waterfront Mr.. w. G. Brooke, 10
Upper 'Penbroke street, Dublin;
Mr. George Addey and Mrs, Addey
Cork; Miss Taylour. Belmont,
Wigtonshire: Mrs. Harvey. Water.
ford and the Rev. w. G.. Carroll,
incumbsst of st. Brides, Dublin.
Mics RobertsoD, in opening the
proceedings Of the meeting said
i was gratifying to find that Mr..
Gladstoae. In his late speech at
Greenwich alluded to the desirabil-
ity Of removing the social iaequal-
tiles under which he, Cor one,
thought women Iabored. Miss
Robertson said that when WON en-
got the franchise many sights and
injustices which they suffered from
now would be rendered impossible
rs such injusticcs were only al
lowed to continue in these days
owing to want Of representation.
An idea prevailed in some quarters
that the women Of Great Britain
were very we'll of. very happy and
highly respected. Much was said
about the exalted position of the
women Of this country, and of the
degraded state OF the women OF
Eastern lands yct, for her part. she
Miss Robertson always felt when
reading lamentations about tie
degraded state Of she women of
the East that it bore STRIKING
likeness to the state of the women
OF the We1t. We AL declare tina t
the women of the East want some-
thing more than merely to be
housed and fed; they want mental
culture, and the men Of the East
will not let them have 1t. Is not
this little like the case of tho
women Of the West2 Are there in
this country any high schools or
colleges endowed by the State for
the education of women, or honors
or encouragement given to women
for learning or talent? It was not
the men Of the East, but men
somewhere near the West, who
applied the term "islue Stockin =
in derision 10 . learned or clever
woman We all know Of an aged
and eminent man, Sir Roierick
Murchison, who sank into his grave
the other day. covered with hon
ors for scientific researches, bat
We do not Ill know, perhaps OF a
woman learned in science. Miss
Caroline Herschell, who was re-
fused even . medal by the ROYAL
Astronomical Society for her dis
covery Of fiyo comets. simply be-
cause she Was . woman. The men
oi the East would not grant honors
or distinction TO their women for
intellectual worl:, and neither, up
to the present. do the men Of Tic
West. Aged men in the Yves
might, II clever, have a chance o
sinking into their graves covered
with honors, but aged women II
the West, however clever, could
only feel that their name of 'olc
woman would be q by word &c
apply to ridiculous or bunglina 9
I men. Whether it was the custom
in the East to call silly men soid
women Miss Robertson was no
aware, but che knew the habi
prevailed extensively in Grea
Britain, where women were de
clared by some people to be 81
highly respected in their presen
unenfranchised state. She hopet
when woman got the franchise tha
British respect for women wou!s
assume another form.
| A young lady-Miss Kitty And
erson-v0ted at the recent cleo
| tiOn in Tavlor C0nntv 1owo Tb,