Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-02-14
MRS. SKINNER on WOMAN'S
RIGHTS.

INKS. SkiNAER On MOMAN'S
RIGHTS.
Miss President, Teller wimmin, and
male trash generally-Ia am here to-day
for the purpose of discussing woman's
rights, REFUSING her wrongs, and GUS
sing the men.
L believe sexes were created perfect
ly equal, with the woman little more
equal than the man.
| also believe that the world would
to-day be happier if man had never
existed.
As a success, man is failure, and /
bless my stars that my mother was a
woman. Applause.
not only maintain these principles,
but maintain a shiftless husband be-
sides.
They say man was created first.
Sposin' he was? Amt first expert
ments always failures?
If l was q betting man, would bet
two dollars and a half that they are.
The only decent thing about him
was rib, and that went to making
something better Applause
And then they throw it into our
face aboutEve taking an apple.
I'll bet FIVE dollars that Adam
boosted her up the tree, and only gave
her the core.
And what did he do when he was
found out?
True to his masculine instincts, he
sneaked behind Ewes Grecian bend,
and said "Twan't me-'twas her
And woman has had to father every
thing since-and mother it too
What we want is the ballot; and the
ballot we're bound to have, if we 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
Gepart from it.
Teach them that man occupies no
position that woman cannot fill-even
to pair of pants.
Teach them that without the ballot
woman is simply a cooking and wash
ing machine; that with it she can just
rule her little rOOst.
We have plenty of ballots girls; but
what we want is ballot women.
The male creature now sitting on
this platform, whom the law compels
me to call husband. says | have got
ballot on the brain.
He says | sleep with ballot under
my pillow, and dream that | am COM
mander-in- chief of a large army of
ballots, and cleaning out everything
that looks like male sex, while the band
plays. See the conquering sherO COM
eth !"
Such remarks show that man was
created lower than the beasts of the
sea. the carrion of the air, or the rhi-
nocrous upon the praries.
And what can be expected of this
man Skinner whose intellect is lower
than that of common quahaug?
Applause.
My soul is filled with poetry and
sentiment, and his vulgar remarks
CRATE on my ear; and when | hear per-
sons use expressions that are not re-
fined and genteel, want to 60 through
'em like crOton oil and molasses.
(Hear, hear
I'm astouished that there amt more
interest manifested in this absorbing
topic. This hall ought 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 thirty person, including
men and women of both sexes-who
stood packed together for at least fif-
teen minutes hanging on my words,
the enthusiasm finally reaching such
pitch that they insisted on burning my
effigy to slow music.
And we are bound to succeed.
Our speakers don't lack brains nor
influence; but there is one thing
wish they did lack, and that is their
desire for a husband.
No matter how rabid woman is on
this question, or how much she talks
against the men on the platform, she
grab the fust man that offers himself,
and turn right straight round and
there is where we are weak. Most
women seem to think that we were
made but for one purpose. and that
was 70 have Mrs. on their tomb
stones
They'd be missed all their lives, and |
when they die they're missed the bet
ter.
From the creation of the world we
have had all the great men on our side. |
There's Pharaoh. What did Pha- |
roah do?
Recognizing the fact that women
must inevitably rule, he issued an or
der to strangle all the male children.
If this thing hadn slippedup, 'twould |
be money in our pockets. Mr.. Pha-
roah is dead now, and hadn't fore
thought enough to leave the business
to some good man.
Among those who escaped justice at
this time was a youth called Moses, of
bullrush fame; and since then every /.
Nose has been a wart upon the face of
nature, including the wretched object |
whose rear name l am incumbered
with.
TCries of That's sor and Put
him out !!
Nolyou shall not put him out
Neither shall he 60 out of his own ac-
cord
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 4 woman s-rights
man.
HerOd ordered all the male children
to be slain and what sweeter proof
could we have that Herod's head was
level?
NY dear sisters, we can't all be
Herods, but we can wear his tintytype
next our hearts, and press onward to
the goal.
Coming down to the present day,
where do We find woman?
We don't find her.
la ten cases out of nine she finds
herself
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 a wretched wo-
man, once the bell of the city.