The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-02-23

Are not so bright or falr 10 gee.
| 'I must wait, think, till another morn,
must 90 TO my rest with my work undone;
| II Is growing too dark TO weave" ste cried,
| AS lower and lower sank the run.
She dropped the shuttle; the loom stood still;
| The weaver slept in the twilight gray.
Dear heart! win she ever weave her beautiful
| web
In the golden light of longer day.
sTRONG-MINDED WOMEN.
Against the Tyranny of Men.
Philadelphia Times.l
There were women in rustling
silks and flashing diamonds and
sealskin and fur-lined circulars, and
women in soft merino gowns and
wooden shawls and poke-bonnets, in
plenty at the convention of women
suffrsgists in st. Georges Hall yes
terday, but there was not single
"bloomer" costume. The hall was
comfortably filed at an early hour,
and the majority of those present
were middle-aged women, who
sat grimly through the pro-
ceedings, and manifested their APP
proval of the most revolutionary
sentiments expressed by the speak
ers by emphatic hobs of the head.
Scattered about the room were a
few men, and Notwithstanding the
narrowing stories of mans inhu-
manity to woman, they actually
smiled in the faces of the sufferers,
and did not appear at all ashamed
of their sex. On the stage, which
was prettily decorated with flowers
and strings OF simIlax, sat Susan b.
Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Matilda JOslin Gage, Hannah Smith,
Harriet Il. Shattuck, May Wright
Sewall, Hannah Ii. Robinson, Miss
Foster and sew eral other women
prominently connected with the
question Of fem ale rights.
A WORD THAT CHEATED THE GAIL
LOWS.
After Mrs. Dansforth had COM
plimented the reporters for "treat-
ing the suffragists so nice III the pa
pers," Elizabeth Cady Stanton came
to the front of the stage. She wore
rich black silk dress and fur
lined circular. Her white hair was
neatly crimped and decorated with
bow of lilac-colored silk ribbon,
and as her throat was ornamented
with bunch of the same ribbon,
her appearance was decidedly
jaunty. She referred to the ques-
ton of woman's suffrage, and to
illustrate the moral power of her
sex. gave a graphic account of
street fight she had on one occasion
broken up by asking the most power
full of the combatants to think mo-
ment before he Drained his oppO-
nent. The man paused and walked
away without continuing the fight
Mrs. Stanton was convinced that she
had saved the man from the gallows,
and he SO appreciated what she did
that he sends her bouquets of flow
ers at regular intervals. She is of
the opinion that women could exert
the same influence at the polls.
The Rev. Charles G.. Ames, Uni
tartan minister of this city, was the
next speaker. When Young man
he was opposed to allowing women
to vote, but as he grew older he saw
the injustice of such course and
gradually changed, until now he is
strongly in favor of female suffrage.
This, confession was received with
scattering volley of applause, which
lady on the front row of seats in
creased by pounding on bench with
her ear-trumpet. In closing, the
reverend speaker created whirl-
wind of applause by saying he VEN
Grated those women who lad fought
for the emancipation of womankind
until their faces were as grim as
those of battle-scarred warriors.
When the applause subsidized, Mrs.
Stanton introduced pleasant, moth
erly-looking old Quaker lady as
Mrs. Hannah Smith, of Philadelphia.
WARNING TO MARRIAGEABLE GIRLS.
After removing her cloak and a
comfortable blue flannel under-jack-
ct. Mrs. Smith said she was glad to
see so many young women present,
for if the friends of wOman's suf-
frage capture all the young women
there will be no difficulty in bring
ing the men into camp. AS an illus
tration of the sHferings of women,
and an argument in favor of allow
ing them to vote, she gave u glow
ing description of the unhappy lives
farmers wives lead. "a farmers
wife," she said. dis compelled to get
up before daylight, make fire and
cook her husbands breakfast, while |
he remains comfortably in bed. At
night, while he is reading the pa
pers or galivanting around, she is
doing homework or mending his |
old clothes, and if she wanted a
dollar to buy a decent dress she was
compelled to beg him for it. She
went SO far as to say that every |
woman within the sound of her |
voice had suffered from mans tyr
amy in money matters, and advised |
girls not to marry before their pros |
pective husbands agreed to give |
them half the money the firm made"
These frank expressions on the
family money question were
warmly received.
Returning to the subject of wo-
mems rights, Mrs. Smith gave vivid |
description of the sufferings of wo-
man who was unable to sleep for |
two nights because her ignorant |
colored coachman was drawn as a
juryman, while she, with a nice
boarding-school education, was not |
allowed to vote.
A PEEP AT THE POLLS.
The speaker declared that it was
nonsenslcal to fear the polls. She on
one occasion deliberately walked up |
to polling place, looked through |
the window, and walked away again
without being damaged. After re-
ferring to the evils of intemperance
and the moral effect the feminine |
vote would have ON the vice, Mrs.
Smith gave way to Mrs. Harriet Fl.
Robinson, of Maiden, Mass. She
read a long paper on the wrongs of
woman that did not have the
effect of rousing her hearers,
Matilda Joslyn Gage, of New York.
a vigorous old lady, who fairly
bristled with facts and figures, then
treated the audience to forty-min-
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