, 1875-10-17

| Victoria woodhullsE Second Lecture
at Mccormick Rn1l.
Mra- Woodruff the notable, not to SLY noto1i
ous, delivered q lecture IN McCormick'a Music.
Hall last evening to fair audience. Following
Is sketch OF her discourse:
In the early days Of the Republic, under tho
circumstances which then existed, there were
reasons for calling this nation republic The
builders fondly hoped that they had provided fol
the needs Of the future but the system had &C
| far degenerated that tho working man went
down to the grave poor In life, and ground down
| to earth to die. In consequence OF this there
! we're springing up on all sides secret societies
grAsping after revolution, or hoping for change
without the violence of armed agitation. Ben
jamin Franklin had said. in 1857, that he did not
expect that the nation could stand more than
100 years under the Consultation rs then framed.
There WAS no system of Government in ex-
istence. What was called by that name was
nothing moro than the will Of the persons for
the moment IN power. The true Government
should be framed so a8 never to defeat the ideas
OF the people. Had this ideal been carried out
We should be at peace and in quiet. whereas we
were now On the verge Of revolution. II
WAS clear that il there VAS not q
reformation behind the political scenes
ut once, there would be q revolution such as
never had before been Seen on the earth. There
was general CRY going up from the 10000, 000
saying, "Giye US back our righta, Or We will
take them"
The causes which we're causing dissatisfaction,
and perhaps revolution, we're, frat, the ef-
forts Of those who had gained and mo-
privileges. Pub1c sediment had out
grown the ruio Of the aristocrats, and as the
Southern planters fought to save their black
alaves, 50 these men would fight for their Whlts
Slaves
The whole system of Government, from the
head at Washington down to the lowest Post
master, WAS thieyish, and the whole work Of the
party in power was stealing, stealing, stealing.
The Government had honored checks TO
tbs same ~ money b.d gone into Penn-
syIEania and Ohio into the csnvass to
carry the election. The peopls Ind seen On one
hand and the other members OF the Curious
Anuc Association stealing millions Of money for
their own use aad for charity, The Republican
party was rotten, and the Democratic party no
better. But. not the parties, but the system
was failure. The chief accusation against the
Republican party in powor naa that it was not
The eecond accusation Was, that the system
Of government was failure. The three classes
ia society we're at present, first, the lana-own-
ers, who had no title whatever to tho property
held by them- No Living map had the right to
q foot OF land unless he could show that he had
made and not taken it. Every man had = right
to his or her share OF the land "a much
ns Of the air or the water Of the universe.
Government which could not support itself was
not worth an existence. Those who had rolled
in wealth would soon be Obliged to work for
their daily bread like their poorer brethren.
As definition, the speaker ssid that money
was not wealth, and wealth could not bs money.
trouble was the falso system OF ex-
changes. The great evil Of middle men
OF huckstecs WAS to be done away With. These
hucesters could not exist without their natural
he
pers and no advertising, three-fourthB Of the
huckstea could not live. Gold was not wealth
properly; it WAS product OF the earth, and for
that reason was equally the property Of all men
was the pledge Of all the property Of the coun-
tr1,-to-wit: obligations issued BY the Govern
ment. This WAS model money, and should At
once be issued.
The public debt Of the country should be in
stansly repudi4ted. because the money to carry
On the War came out Of the pockets Of the rich,
who bad no right to it in the first place, and
therefore no right to ask it back when it WAS
gone-
The t&1es OF the Government were ali paid
by the day lAborer. and this was another
evil which must at once be remed1ed. It
might be remedled by the passage OF q Law by
Congress under which the whole taxes should
be paid by those people who had accumulated
more than the amount OF wealth which would be
obtained by dividing the whole wealth Of the
country by the number OF people in that country.
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sas1on OF the men required: ne demand was
Tor change IN tbs taws 80 as to maze woman
independent Of mnn~ The sana plea Was to be
urged in fa1or OF children. The speaker ar |
ra1gned the systam called Christianity as
fraud. in that it did not teach the
1octrines OF Christ. In the last 200 years