The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-10
The Influence of a Missionary
Tract.

Our st. Adams correspondent says Our
office was invested ut seasonablc hour
this morning by young woman, who is
engaged In the missionary work. She Is
distributing small, but fiery and danger
Gus looking woman-suffrage tract, (put up
in bright cover and having its title in
scribcd on it in large letters at the merely
nominal price of fifteen cents per tract. in
currency The Establishments and volu-
bility of this female were such that we i'm
mcdiately purchased the book without in
quring into its pedigree. She deposited it
on our desk with the injunction Garry it
home to your wife, and disappeared. The
book is nollcnsivc to all appearance if YOU
let it alone, but this parting shot of the
wOnan's has pretty much untitled us for
thc.common labors Of life, because her
manner in issuing that command was such
as TO inspire the belief that if we failed of
implicit obedience she would return at an
early day and take our life. Consequently
we have unpleasant creeping sensations
down our back when we reflect on the aw-
full TACT that we haven't any wife to take
it home to.
In our dilemma we have examined the
book itself, in the hopcof finding some way
out, but in vain. We face can the horrors
of war, pcstlencc and famine without Dor
rowing cent, but We are driven to confess
that we feel uneasy now. We never re-
member to have seen such Il determined eye
before as that young woman carried. The
/ book is labelled "Unciyil Liberty an es-
say to show the injustice and impolicy of
ruling woman (''woman' is in very large
/ type running entirely across the book
/ without her consent" Now, heaven knows
/ we never ruled, or tried to rule a woman,
! either with or without her consent, and
/ don't want to- We are convinced that
wigs are unhealthy. We amt proud or
ambitious and we don't understand what
we have done to deserve such visitation.
And the work is dedicated to. 1.-THE Wo-
man (this is large type again with whom
you have the honor to share II
home Now, We mist protest
( against this too. because we have not the
honor to share home with anybody We
think the whole thing is in the nature of n
bombshcll We feel just like the coon,
only smaller. and We hereby declare our
willingness To come down. We assert in
the strength of our innocence that it isn't
our fault that we haven't the honor to share
Il home. etc. We never refused or ran
away from our Office in our lite and when
we are surrounded We always surrender
rather than have any human gore split We
think we can see some woman or women.
at the bottom of this thing, and as before
remarked. we will come down We are
graciously protected by the laws of our be-
loved country from any decisive attack
from more than one at time, and if any
body wants Us to have the honor
Of sharing our home (Which we
shall require them to hunt up with
her or it. let her or it come on. We will
throw this tract in with all the other in
duccments will carry it home to her
weekly, As per instructions, and so far
from attempting any of the tyrannical prac-
tices which the book warns us against, we
will sink out at the back door and 60
away to Polynesia or Abyssina or the mid
die Of the Desert of Sahara and try to drag
out the remainder Of our poor existence rs
iroifcnsively as we can.