Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-10-04
WOman'S Work i'm Colorado.
Communicated

the accounts we read of the herculean
work being performed in Colorado.
mostly by band Of noble women who
certainly are sustaining the afhrma-
ton that woman equally with man
when trained, cultivated and developed,
have both the mental and physical re-
sources to carry on the great affairs of
life. Here we find woman that have
endured the fatigue of travel in private
cOnveyances, over mountains and val
ieys, for weeks. and speaking some
times to large, sometimes to small
audiences, every night in the week
endured all the prirations of frontier
life as we'll as enjoying the comforts of
the cities Let US copy Lucy Stones
graphic account of some of their hard
ships:
Mrs. Margaret W. Campbell. we'll
known 90 your readers as one of the
most untiring and devoted Suffragists
with her no less indefatigable husband,
S. B, Campbell has travelled with
horse and buggy more than 100 miles
during the last six weeks, over noun
tain and valley, speaking at the camp
Of the miner, at the rancho of the
farmer, and at the log house half way
! ha ha
side with hot stove in the blazing
August days, cooked for, and waited
on the army of pleasure seekers that
passed that way; while her husband,
sitting on bench at the door, took
the pay, and so supported" his wife
and the baby she carried in her arms,
and the small child that chung to her
clothes as she worked.
Mr.. and Mrs. Campbell crossed FIVE
Of the snowy ranges, sometimes max
ing their bed upon hemlock boughs
out of doors, where, in spite of WOODEN
and rubber blankets, the intense cold
banished sleep Sometimes they spent
:he night in a one-roemed shanty,
where six or more miners slept, in beds
so near that they could be reached by
the hand. They made their toilet, az
the miners did, out of doors with the
rushin. brook for their wash basin
ia some of the passes" and ''gulch-
es'' the ascent was so difficult that
Mr.. Campbell tugged at the wheel to
aid the horse, which could not 60
more than thirty feet without stopping
to breathe, qnivering and painting in
the rare air At each such pause MIR.
Campbell blocked the wheel and then
went back to help on his wife, who
followed, pale and painting. One
''pass" occupied FIVE hours. Such in
cidents show the price at which these
revolutionary soldiers hold the
great boon Of equal rights for women,
On the Sd of September they will
start again for another six or seven
hundred mile lecturing trip, only to
return in time fer the election in this
city, Oct. I'd.
Let us also mention a few Of the
names of those who, not for the con-
sideration of money are laboring SO
faithfully in this field: Mrs. Hind
man, and Miss Partridge, of Penn,
Mrs. Shields of Colorado Springs,
II. B. Blackwell and Lucy Stone of
Boston, Mrs. Matilda Fletcher of
Minnesota, and Susan B. Anthony.
These heroic ones, these revolution
airy soldiers" are laboring thus faith
fully that the principles of universal
freedom shall be established in Co,ora-
do. and thus forming stating point
out from which shall proceed wave
of sentiment so strong as shall subse-
quently revolutionize her sister states,
and enable them to comprehend that
so long as one portion of the globe
tyranizes over another and authoritive-
| " utters the "Thou shalt or Thou
shalt not that 50 long as any indi-
vidual, whether black or white, bond
or free, male or female, are deprived
the right of voice in the disposal of
personal property for public purposes,
that so long as the mother can not
equally with the father help make the
laws that governs the sons and daugh-
tiers for whom she would suffer and
die, and would work unselfshly to the
close Of her days that the best future
might be secured to them; SO long are
they in a state of ignorance and bar
barity, so long are they adding the
weight of their influence to chain the;
world down in its course of progress
and civilization, and in the future load
their names with ineffacable opprobri-
UNI. So let US, women of Wood Co.
cry God speed to the noble personages
that are opening the way for us and
our children that in the near future
we may breath the pure air of univer-
sal freedom and regale our souls in
its bsnefcent influence.
HI.
BsT Father Groghan. the Chicago
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