Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-07-13
MRS. SKINNER ON wOMAN,S
RIGHTS.

Miss President, Teller women and male
trash generally am here to-day for
the purpose of discussing woman's rights
and REFUSING her wrongs and GUESSING
the men. believe the sexes were crea-
ted perfectly equal, with the women a
little more equal than the men. | also
believe the world would to-day be hap
pier if man had never existed As q
success, man is failure, and l bless
my stars that my mother was woman.
Applause. | not only maintain these
principles, but l maintain shiftless
husband besides. They say man was
created first. S'posin' he was Amt
first experiments always failures ? If l
were betting man, / would bet ten
dollars and half that they are. The
only decent thing about him anyhow
was rib, and that went to make some
thing better. Applause. And then
they throw into our faces about Eve tax
ing the apple. I'll bet five dollars Ad-
am boosted her into 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, 'Twant
me, twas her. and woman has had to
father everything 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. (Sensaticn.) Bring
up your little daughters to love and ca
ress the ballot, and when they are old
anu sOra"uy ency VIII uVU ueparG from
it. Teach them that man occupies no
place that woman cannot fill, even to a
pair of pants. Teach them that without
the ballot, woman is simply a cooking
and washing machine; with 1t she can
rule her little roost Give them little
ballots to play with. We have plenty
of ballet girls. but what we want is bal
lot women. The male creature now sit
ting 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 I'm commander-in-chief of large
army of ballots, and can clean out any
thing that looks like male sex, while
the band plays, See the conquering She
70 cometh.' Such remarks prove that
man was created lower than the beast
of the sea, the carrion of the air, or the
rhinoceros upon the prairies And what
can be expected from this man Skinner,
whose intellect is lower than the common
qua-hog ? My soul is flied with poetry
and sentiment, and his vulgar remarks
CRATE on my ear. and when | hear per-
sons use expressions that are not refined
and genteel, want to 90 through them
| like fire and birthstone (Hear, hear y
I'm astonished that there amt more in
terest manifested in this absorbing top
ic. 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
nense throng on Boston Common al
least thirty-seven persons, including
men and women of both sexes. who stood
packed together for at least fifteen min
utes hanging on my words; the enthusi-
asm finally reached such pitch that
they insisted on burning my efhgy to
slow music. We are bound to succeed.
Our speakers don't lack brains or infu-
ence but there's one thing ! wish they
did lack. and that is their desire for a
husband. No matter how rabid woman
may be on this question, or how much
she talks against the men on the plat
form, she'll grab the first one that offers
himself. and then turn right square
around and that's where we're weak.
Most women seem TO think that they
were made for but one purpose, and that
! is to have Mrs on their tOmbstoneg
They would be missed all their lives,
and when they die, the more they are
missed the better. From the creation
of the world, we have had all the great
men on our side. There's Pharaoh
what did he do Recognizing the fact
that women must inevitably rule, he is
sued an order TO strange all the male
children. If this thing hadn't slipped
up 'twOuld be money 10 our pocket. HI
is dead nov. and hadn't forethoaghi
enough to leave the business TO sons
good man. Among those who escaped
justice at this time, was youth called
Moses, Of buIlrush fame, and since then
every Moses has been Wart On nature
including the wretehed object who's
rear name / am encountered WITH
Cries Of that's 50 = and put him out =