Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-18

We notice that Earle's Citizen con-
tinues to publish the items your CORE
spondents gather in this town and
vicinity. They are rather stale when
they get round.
We are to have quite a number of
young teachers in town this summer
Miss Nina Randall will teach in the
Weber district, Miss Augusta Gage
the Stratton school, and Miss Mary
Barker in the Seaver neighborhood.
The following argument in behalf of
the rights of women to vote and hold
office was made by Amasa Scott at the
late school meeting:
In 1773 George III made proclamation
saying 1.-the people of the colonies (these
United States) shall be taxed without
representation, and governed without
consent, and they shall have no laws only
such as / like, that shall bind them and
their posterity forever" We went to war
on that declaration, and were freed from
| it by a seven years bloody struggle. We
then organized the government by select
| ing the colored race, and reducing them
to the most brutal bondage, all their life
time, and all their posterity after them;
bondage-for the crime of being born
with a black skin-a hundred fold worse
than we fought England to throw off.
Then what have we said to to the
women? We have mnde the laws that
tax them without representation, and
| govern them without consent, and they
shall have no laws only such as we like,
that shall bind them and their female
posterity forever, for the crime of being
born a woman. How much better have
we been to the women, for the past 100
years, than George III was to the men
and women of the colonies, over 100 years
ago? The cases are parallel. Then
cease calling the kettle black?
After the Revolutionary war, the people
of Rhode Island still remained under the
British Charter of James II, which they
called constitution. 1t gave the right
of suffrage to land owners only, so that
a man must own $134 Of landed property
and upwards to become voter. In this
way less than one quarter of the men
made the laws that ruled the others. In
1912 the mass called convention, set up
ticket for state officers, and Dorr was
elected governor. That brought on
what was called the Dorr rebellion, by
the charter party, and they were called
the Algerines of Rhode Island. The
landed aristocracy called on the president
of the U. S. John Tyler to protect them
against the rebels. He sent on govern
ment troops, put down the rebellion, ar
rested Gov. Dorr, and imprisoned him for
life for daring to proclaim-by demanding
the right of suffrage-that all men were
created free and equal. The whole coun-
try gave their sympathy to the DorI
party, and denounced the charter party
Yet this same Dorr party, and their sym
|
ed the women of this nation the same as
the Algerines treated the Dorr party, by
denying them the right of suffrage, sc
that they could not have vote to help
make the laws they had to obey. TIC
deny the right Of suffrage to women here
after, is just as tyrannical and oppressive
as it was for George III to deny the right
of suffrage to the thirteen colonies, or the
Algerines of Rhode Island to deny the
same right to the Dorr party.
The 14th amendment of the United
States constitution, makes all persons
born in the United States, citizens of the
United States, and forbids any state from
making a law that infringes upon tha
right. Then the 18th amendment makes
all citizens voters, and says they shall
not be denied the right to vote by thu
United States, or by any state, on accoun
of race, sex, color, or previous condition
Of servitude. That includes all alike
white and colored, male and female
Last fall we sent petition to the Yer
|
for women, and our representative pre-
] sented it, and saw it fairly treated. w
J all must feel proud of him for this faithful
act, for this was the entering wedge tina
removed the prejudice from many, so ia
as to give women the right to vote ant
D hold office in school districts.
The women are assembled in this house
for the first time in the lifetime of thi
nation, to vote and be voted for. TIL
-. men have always taken the front seat ant
S made the laws for men and women, Will
the women have taken the back seat an
received the laws made by men only
AS the state has seen fit to place tn
i women on an equal footing with men i
+ school districts, to vote and hold office
then let US hope there VIII not be dis
senting voice from any man, in giving tn
ladies the front seat by electing all th
: officers from the ladies, to manage tn
o school for the ensuing year. 1t will b
b but small act of generosity for the me
to give up this much to them for on
year, when the men have occupied th
. same place for over 100 years and th
e ladies have quietly remained in the bach
), ground. After this year, then let th
e women and men act together and cleo
! the officers from both parties. AS th
women were born into the world with th
same natural rights as men to life, libe
ty and the pursuit of happiness, then Il
# us as men show our generosity to til
# ladies and treat the subject accordingl
) by electing them to fill the offices.
- Glover.
Miss Emma F. Burroughs has fres
arrival Of millinery and other goods.