The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-01-30
Mrs. Skinner ON WOman's
Rights.

Miss President, feller wimmen, and
male trash generally am here to-day
for the purpose of discussing woman's
rights, recussing her wrongs, and Gus
sing the men. @.
believe the sexes were created per-
fectly equal, with the woman q little
more equal than the man.
| also believe that the world would
to-day be happy if man had never ex-
listed.
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 createdfrst. Spo-
sim he Was9 Amt first experiments al
was failures 2 "
1t was betting man, I would bet
two dollars and half that they are.
| The only decent thing about him was
a rib, and that went to make something
better. [Applause.]
And then they throw into our face
about Eve 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 Eve's Grecian bend,
and said: "Twan't me-twas her !"
And woman has had to father every
thing mean 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 a sea
OF sanguinary gore. [SensatiOn.]
| RpinO IN yOur li++la 1orph to
love and caress the ballot, and when they
are old and scrawny, they will not de-
part from it.
Teach them that man occupies no po-
sitiOn that women cannot fill-even
to a pair of pants.
Teach them that without the ballot
woman is simply cooking and wash
ing machine; that with it she can lust
rule her little roost.
Give 'em little ballots to play with.
We have plenty of ballet girls, but
what we want is ballot women.
The male creature now sitting on the
platform, whom the law compels me to
call husband, says have ballot on
the brain.
He says / sleep with ballot under
my pillow, and dream that I am COM
mander-i in chief of a large army of bal
lots, and am cleaning out everything
that looks like a male sex, while the
band plays, See the conquering shero
cOmeth :"
Such remarks show that man was Gre
ated lower than the beasts Of the sea,
the carrion Of the air, the rhinOceros
upon the prairies.
And what can be expected of this
man Skinner, whose intellect is lower
than that OF common quahaug? Jap
plause.l
Ny soul is filled with poetry and sen
timent, and his vulgar remarks CRATE on
my ear; and when I hear persons use
expressions that are nOtrefined and gen.
teel, want to go through 'em like Gro
ton oil and molasses. [Hear, hear!l
I'm astOnished that there aint more
interest manifested in this absorbing
topic. This hall ought to be packed
from dome to ceiling, and a 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-seyen persons, including
men and women OF both seXes-who
stood packed together for at least fif-
enthusiasm finally reaching such q pitch
that they insisted on burning my effgy
to slow music.
And we are bound to succeed.
Our speakers don't lack brains nor in
huence; but there is one thing wish
they did lack, and that is their desire
for husband.
No matter how rabid woman is on
this question, or how much she talks
against the men on the platform, she'll
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 to have Mrs. )" on their tombstones
They'd be missed all their lives, and |
when they die they're missed the better. |
From the creation Of the world we |
have had all the great men on our side.
There's Pharaoh. What did Pharaoh
RECOGNIZING the fact that women |
must inevitably g4le, he issued an Or
der to strangle all the male children: |
If this thing hadn't slipped up, tWould |
be money in our pockets. Mr. Fhafa9h
is dead now, and hadn't t forethOught |
enough to leave the business to some |
good man.
Among those who escaped justice at |
LIIIS tlLLlC WIS d ySuLu Sk&AAOu HAUaCns OA |
bullrush fame; and since then every |
Nose has been a wart upon the face Of
nature, including the WPetched object |
whose rear name am incumbered with.
[Cries of "That's SOP and Put
him outr')
No! you shall not put him out!
Neither shall he go out of his own
accord! .[l
When we get home l will show him
what one solitary woman can, accom-
Dlish for this great cause with her good
right arm. (Applause.)
Herod was also a 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? ...
MY 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 women
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
.ulIGy -OAC nlSHOS VI 4IChOUJ obbAASs NAsPe |
10 we find2
A miserable basement.
In one corner sits wretehed woman,
once the belle of the city.
She makes vests-thirty -four vests
Cor o cent!
Not a morsel Of food has passed her
lips since last fall.
Around her are fourteen children
crying for bread. But, alas! she amt
rn4 M hpnad nnd with tnars in her