The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-04-29

With as clear pcICSptAOA dAO Do AS1Ao
prejudice as they; and I have never heard
# her feeling 'sinsulted'' By standing
,pon an equal footing with man in the
Grange, neither can understand why she
should feel insulted by occupying cor
position outside the Grange.
But time stays not; progression marches
IN. and few years more will solve the
problem to the satisfaction of all.
WV. N. PLYMAr.
Fountain Brook, April Is, 1875.
A Distinguished LADY Genes to Mr..
Keegan's Defense.
LITTLE FALLS, Morrison Co., MIMI,
April Goth, 1875.
Editor Anti Monopolist
Truly, something Of a hornets nest has
our friend Keegan stirred up. But he is
in the right, and the great majority OF
women are SO sure of it, and so fully IN
sympathy with his views that they see no
necessity for flying to the pen. While
out comes Miss Equal Rig GIFTS declaring
,ssShe feels that she has as good right to
her say in the formation of our govern
ment as any one else.'' There can be no
doubt that she has right to that feeling,
which she is at liberty to cherish So long
as it pleaseth her; but it does not follow
that every woman is thus exercised, or
that one hundred to one are net heartily
rejoiced that the W ashingtons, the Jefier-
sons. and the Adamses got the start Of
them, and got things comfortably to
going, leaving them---this generation OF
women--.ample time to make pinaiores,
rock the cradle, and train up the husband
in the way he should 60. Indeed,
we think the only reason that
some husbands Of the presen: day are so
weak, bad and Indifferent, is for the lack
of this same home training. Their wives
had either attended some woman's con-
vention, or read about it, or listened to .
Cady Stanton or a Susan B. Anthony,
and forthwith their benighted minds have
become flooded with an overwhelming
light. They look CONTEMPORARY about
their own narrow domain. Four little
walls And from six or eight romping
boys and girls to be fed and clothed,
cows to be MIXED, cream to be churned,
cheese to be made, washing, ironing,
sewing, knitting, everlasting cooking,
and oh f! the list becomes interminable-
there is no end! Yes, she has come now
to realize the fact that she is slave
A slave, and to whom? To that man
her husband, who, beneath scorchine
sun, is out ploughing in the field. He i
| a tvrant; he has helped to make laws II
, which she has had no voice. She is vast
: ing her precious life; her youth is fas
going: She has never filled her prope
sphere: she was made for something NO
E bier than to be mere domestic drudge
e she might as well have seel
: born Hottentot, or upsprun
/. from the jungles of some Boorichboobla
. gah She might have been Luc
/ Stone, an Antoinette Brown, and wor
5 the title Of Reverend. or the honorabl
5 NJ. D. with dignity and renown! lnstea
|, of which-ah-she turns up her nos
/. with 50 forcible gesture Of disgust thu
II it never comes down again, and forev'
d after she makes her husbands house
IS purgatory, if haply, she wanders not
d with some accidental affinity.
te Your Equal Rights insists there
?. no connection between this suferal
y question and frses.ove. nor any Of q
Of modern snares of the devil. She has
ID right to her opinion; also have n
Y, right, and believe it to be the widest
re the snares Of the devil, and the clo'
IN frse-love uses to demeralize theJ unsu
he pecting. It is this in its varied forr
20 that has led to the astounding perjul
u case that literally convulses the worl
We Your Elk River friend thinks keeg'
cs behind the times, that he don t kne
IT. such shining lights as the Grimkes, I
" Crews, the Stones, the Browns, the Sta
" tons andlthex Howes. People who ha
he proper retrospect, or the fear OF y
lie before their eyes will rejoice to !
- main with Keegan, and know as little
r's possible about these cited moral mt
en- strosities, most Of whom boast shan
.r. fully of their disbelief in the God Of
ed Universe, or at least in all revealed
ligion. It is to infidellty. or
and practical, that these lights
80 the new dispeHsation would K
uis women and the world. Perh.
or' Julia Ward Howe is the most decent Of
" nondescript women above alluded TO, q
o,n her scofing and expressions Of blasphe
a. 1t religion, are almost equal to
!. Woodhull's! Deprive woman Of relikl'
~ Then give her the horns and the clo'
- feet, and make perfect the metamorp
pa sisi s.Poor Keegan, don't dream
.;ra every woman is . wife. Ho
y. that every wife Was woma
-. woman, IS we have no doubt keegs
NJ wife is in that case he IS not deser'
gus Of the commiserative epithet- m,
- and widows are out Of his catalogu
80. ~ As to maids, we all know their Dire
' he and aspirations tend to one'grand
summatien, and If widows do not hav
scratch Is hard for = living IS hen
,iui ten chickens. finding no time Tor
20 tendance on women's conventions,
en- we viii subside into silence and leave
lsn- other to rise and explain.
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