The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1875-07-22
LmerIear women a. The centennial

"0livia," a correspondent OF the
Cincinnati Gazette, writing from
Washington under date nf July 10th,
gives her views of "SOmsn's festIre"
Of the Centennial in the following sar-
castle and pointed style, characteristic
OF one who is an advocate of two
mans rights"
The Philadelphia Press, the organ
under contract to work for the Cen
tennial, ia its date OF June 25tn, says
THAT the building for the display of
wOmen's work will be feature Of the
Centennial Exhibition may row GER
tainly be counted upon, more than
half the sum REQUESTS to pay for its
construction having been collected"
In few other paragraphs in the
same twisted English, the Press, in
Its usual whine, has just enough
strength to pass around the hat.
The stranger to our shore, as well as
the citizen from the different States,
Will walk through miles OF exhibition
building, which has cost the nation
millions OF dollars. He will then be
shown the iIOOHdH's feature" in the
shape Of q mierOseopical side-shOw,
which will bear the same relation to
the Centennial landscape as q pimple
to the face of youthful adolescence.
Side by side we work with man
hand in hand we walk together. Let
all our statuarY, pictures and books be
cOmmingled. Let his huge printing
press be garlanded with or offerings,
aud our needle work nestle close to
his ruder implements OF WORK. Let
our loaves Of bread, in the mighty
store, be typical Of the staff of life up
on which he must lean when the
fierce storms gather and our golden
butter represent the smOOthness OF the
way we would pave for his tired feet.
II the President Of the WOman;s Ma
tiOnal Executive Committee has been
divorced, Is that q reason she should
permit centennial divorce of the
work in which every woman OF the
Am sricau republic has q voice?
II the women are to be forced tn an
outbuilding, why plant the puny abOr-
tion in the shadow OF the enchanted
palace, where the world can take in at
q glance our degradation and shame =?
Ii we must go, why not retire To the
glorious old island of Manhattan,
sacredtO purged municipality, or to
Washington? Millions are wanted to
complete the main structure. Down
with the feature, and put the money
in the right place 1t is true if this
is done the WOman's National Exec
utive Committee will lose the chance
OF harvesting the pennies, but in OPP
position the hum blest American wO-
fNNu ~ m n...r.N -,
from spot or 6lemish, sought to be
flung upon it by this centennial stain.
Will every journalist, who has wife,
sweetheart or mother, publish the
fact-the palatial exhibition doors
which are open to celebrate our cen-
tennial birth, are closed in the face of
the superb woman or the nineteenths
century. Chronicle i'm words of fire
this step backward which leads to the
time not so very far remote, when the
savage fisherman shall steal out of his
tsttered tent on the shore of the shall
low Schuylkill when the gaunt
her1sman with elongated nails will
picket his semi-starved cattle in the
scant underbrush of FairmOunt Park
when the pink-lipped, velvet-vOieed
Quakeress shall be replaced by the
half-human hag OF the heath, whilst
the filthy streets of Philadelphia shall
be buried beyond finding, aud her
miles of hOme-like houses be scatter
ed to the four winds. Woman up
lifted in the nation means "Nearer
my God to Thee" Woman trammeled
and divorced is telegraphic speed to-
ward hell Woman outside the Ex-
hibitlon Palace Ring the bells
Light the bonfires Fling the blood
stained star spangled to the breeze
The huge centennial marks the high
est attitude of national progress and;
glory. Ever after insidiOus dismem-
berment, languishing decline. and
final decay.