The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-08
A FURIOUS BLAST.
Lady Jane swissheim Oh Female sur.
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frage.
Jane Grey Swisshelm has discharged
herself of furioas blast against the te-
male advocates of women's rights. They
have, she says, "united the Idea of wo-
man's right to vote with a prostitutes
right to social recognition and the gen.
eral disruption of marriage obiigatiors;"
have held burle:que conventions where
the PRECEDENT is the priacipsl speaker,
conventions attended by MODS and kreak-
ing up in rows, and, while thus behaving
like rowdIes, have demanded to be treated
as ladies. Their suffrage lobbying has
been nothing but an artiul appeal to
personal vanity and display OF personal
charms. She recalls Mrs. Sarah Spencer,
the lioness OF two years ago, 50 woman
who WAS running tilt against the socla!
evil; who had visited all the houses OF
ill-!ame, learned their secrets from the
inmates, and carried most, if not sill, OF
the public men in her pocket on account
of the many discoveries she had made,
and who was then pressing Congress tor
an appropriation TO start reform schooi
tor girls" Mrs. SwIsshelm looked tor
q staid, experienced elderly mstron, so
what was her surprise to find ~ young,
handsome, tall, graceful woman in pull
back and long trail; with brilliant
complexion, looking as 1t 1t had come
from an apo,hecary shop, the jauntlest
hat of the winter, and all the other aces
series Of fashionable toilet! Then that
President" she adds, - large, raw-boned,
sduare-shoudered woman, with yelio"
hair, dressed la Pompscour, high
cheek-boncs and very red cheeks, close
fitting, fashionable costume, OF mixed
co!ors tho very personilicatlon OF an
dressed servant girl! When l thought
of those two women representing the
feminine delicacy of America, while
clcseted with set OF men to confer on
the social ovil--well, my face burns and
my blood ting!es tod day at thought o. the
insult thus offered TO the women OF this
couatryl The Congressional committee
which failed to show them tho door and
bow them out OF it unheard were dereiic.
of duty" The president delivered
bundle of plstitutes with very strong
nasal Lwang in very bad English. Last
year Mrs. Stanton presided, and she, too,
tslked-tslked and beamed satisfaction
because TIE people listened to her. The
convention advocated universal suffrage
for women aud limited suffrage for men on
the ground of equality" got up row on
the platform ana brought in the police.
As for til year, people who have SO
little sense as to ask Congress to double
the number of voters, while giving evi.
dence that the supply is to have even less
sense and less moral principle than the
old, are better fitted for lunatic asylums
than the conduct of political affairs. AS
to the superior sense or morality OF wo-
men over men facts fail to sustain as
sumptions," and 500 Of every thousand of
Mrs. Spencer's women chad better keep
on p. the old business of washing dishes
and signing and procuring signatures to
temperaDco pledges, to be broken like
clay pipes. Ii any man can contriVe any
way TO clear the Capital OF that nest OF
lobbyists, he will deserve the thanks OF
every sensible woman in the land"