The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-04-08
The Question Of Female Suffrage..A
Letter from Hon. Andrew Keegan''
Argument and Jnvective.

Editor Anti Monopolist
SIR II see in your last issue OF the
18th of March, communication from
tone of your most esteemed correspond
ents," las you say,) bearing the cognomen
of VIM. N. Plymat, and hailing from
Fountain Brook, on the question Of Wo
mans Suffrage.
Fountain Brook is destined one day to be-
come famous, for being the residence, { fnot
the birth place. Of this blabbering nom
descript, one of the latest champions OF
Old Maid Suffrage.
Mr.. Dweedle Dwee Of Fountain Brook
saws: s'Does Keegan ask us to believe
that Christ was an imposter and that the
lives of all the martyrs have been sacri-
feed ind. aim Ne, Keegan does not want
to persuade you to any such thing: but
he will now try to persuade you, that
you, yourself, in person, the hero OF
Fountain Brook. are downright impost-
er and hypocrite, or if not, you never
would be found dragging the sacred name
God into your sink-pool of woman's right
ism and free-loveism. 1t seems to me you
had great linking to see your name IN
print in the columns Of the ASr1-MoSoPo'
LIST, SO that you might see and admire
the production of your elegant quill, and
the handsome epithets you applied to
s'Listoe and Keegan." without particle
of common sense and less of common edu-
cation in the whole of your virulent pro-
duction.
You say: "Do you unblushingly ask
us to believe that all our wives, mothers
and sisters are paramours of preachers =
No, don't; / have more respect for
woman, thad any Of the pretended advo-
Gates of woman's suffrage, ever had, for
there can not be one of them found, that
is not imbued with free-loveism and inti-
deity into the bargain. They are trip
pie sisters, and no one as yet ever pos
sessed the one, without the baneful in
fluence Of the other two.
Now, what is the creed of Free-loveisn!
Did not Theodore Tilton in lecturing at
the University of Indiana few years
ago, say that marriage was "a bondage
and relic oflbar barism that man and
woman had a right according TO nature
to take up with each ether, like the cat
Tie of the field, and with any one they
loved, and leave and take up with any one
person they pleased! That is liberty
YES. and RIGHTEOUSNESS with a vengeance.
Victoria Woodruff propagates the same
doctrine and says every married woman
Is slave; and that such bondage should
mot be borne in this free country. Now
are not 1.-THE women, that follow and en-
terrain such dogmas, free to love whom
they please, and who have better oppor
tunity with the fair creatures than tn
preachers, their beloved pastors, who Cal
whisper in their chaste ears, adultery
my dear, is not sin, but religious va.
Of conveying love-"
Now, with..regard to Woman's Suffrage
it is u we'll known lact that women de
sire no such thing; you could not in
suit decent woman more than to spea
to her on that subject; there would no
be one woman out of every ten tha
would avail herself Of its privilege if
was the law of the land at the preser
moment.
Woman is jewell, pearl Of ;nestim
bic value in her proper sphere, and thu
Is her own household. where she shines ,
glittering diamond, in the performan'
Of the dnties assigned to her by the Gre
tor; viz: teaching her infant offsprir
their lisping prayers, and training the
BY precept and example too, in the wa.
Of the Lord, and fitting them for the fu
Their trials, temptations and troubles
this life. And there too she appears
the sweet consider and soother Of her ht
band, of whom she is the goodly hel
mate, Solomon, the wisest Of ill mort,
saith to the young man, looking out
wife, sGe seek her who hath the mar
Of industry on her hands, and gadde
not from her fathers house," but n
according 20 the programme Of Woma,
Suffrage, they would would not be fou
in their fathers house, but on the pub
forum making . speech, or otherwise n
ming about from house to house to
who would vote for them, for path mas
or supervisor.
Now the whele scheme has not b
founded by women. but rather by p
ticular sect Of lecherous, long-haired
beetles, who want to create some new 8
sation, and Who are blindly wander
about, ike, the lost mariner on the oc
without either ruddsr or compass.
Who are the women. that in all pro
biity. would avail themselves Of the p
lege Of Woman's Sudiage.admitting u