The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-05-16
THE FIFTH CALF.

THE FIFTH CALF.
few years ago, there lived in Herkimer
county, N. Y, man, whom we will call
Abraham Half. About four miles from his
farm, was the farm and residence of another
American Dutchman, Hans Jams. One day
Abraham had occasion to call on his neighbor,
arriving just as Hans sat down to dinner in
his kitchen, which, in a Dutch farmhouse,
was dining and reception room also. Hans
talked about &C de wedder," etc., but did not
invite his neighbor to "draw up" to the
table. After time Hans asked;
Well Brown, what's de best news?o
well, Hans, l haf COW dat has five
Calls"
"Goot gracious. vat you do? dey can't
all feed at once"
''No, de COW hat only four teets"
"Lo! my teer fellow, vat de fit calf do ?"
ooh. she look on, much as do
We never see woman attempting to en-
force the law against the whiskey seller, but
we are reminded of the I" fifth calf''
There is first, the white American calf,
second, the black American calf, third, the
German calf, and fourth the Irish calf, all at
the governmental COW.
The white American calf is mainly solic-
itous that the black American calf, the
German calf, or the Irish calf is kept at his
feeding place, and is SO busy securing to
each its rights that he never thinks of the
poor little 'fift" heifer who is looking on. 1t
is her business to look on, he says, and raise
more calves. Does it ever occur to the white
American calf, that she may be unable to at
tend to her legitimate business, if longer
kept off-that her calves are being destroyed
daily by the German and Irish calves who
swarm to the cities of this and every other
state, and dominate the whole business!
Tot@b a nh Ay,,ay calf loOR In If
"Several thousand women, calling themselves
citizens of the state, have petitioned the legis-
lature this winter, for the right of suffrage" "
says a Michigan paper; and then follows the
usual objections.
What are they, if not citizens? Have they
intelligence and character; or are they sub
jects for lunatic asylum, and criminals?
One fifth of the taxable property in this
township, is held by women, and there are
others in this county, where the proportion is
still greater And they pay their taxes Ike
not men, but women. Not one dollar
poll-tax, but always on property. VIII the
Lords of creation" please tell us what we
are? We find ourselves classed with cattle
and dogs, SO far as representation is concerned,
but not SO we'll cared for by the customs of
society, for zoe pay tax to support the govern
ment, but Mey have the tax paid for them by
their masters-man, robed in royal majesty,
black or white, foreign or native, drunk or
sober making laws to govern women and
other responsible creatures" Do the laws OF
nature, and of natures God entitle us to a
decent respect and equal station with the rest
of mankind ?" Are these truths self-evl-
dent" that we ''are endowed with certain IN
alienable rights" as those of liberty and the
pursuit of happiness ?" Our fathers said to
George Ill, "your whole history is one OF
haxy my
absolute tyranny over u.s." Why SO? For
imposing tax on us without our consent" If
taxation without representation is tyranny
when imposed by a king, is it less so when
imposed by husband or son? "You have
constituted yourselves our representatives, and
assume you have power to make our laws for
u.s." You deny us the right of suffrage, a
right which you SO highly prize, that your
governors pardon criminals few days before
the expiration of their term of Imprisonment,
that they may not lose their right to vote.
''We have petitioned for redress III the most
humble terms" even promising to pray for
the legislature. Our petitlous have been
answered in many cases, by insult. 1t we
could have promised to eote Ior them' we
should. no doubt have Jared better-they
believing more in votes than prayers, espec-
tally the prayers of the "babies of the con-
gregations" The legislatures cannot take
time from their legitimate duties, nor have
they the patience "to listen to us. Did not
our fathers rightly say such class OF men,
whose characters are thus marked by every
act which may define tyrant are unfit to
govern free people?" We and our children
are slaves of the liquor tyrants, sold by our
own husbands and fathers, and we have no
remedy The foreign or native, whiskey and
beer vender can defeat us every time, be,
cause he has the ballot and counts one, and
we are naught, our fathers representing US.
They mtsrepresent us every time they cast
ballot. Our laws-your laws-are made FOR
the rumseller, and against us and our sns;
You have multiplied drunkard factories all
over the land, and we have the rght 10 peti-
tion-the waste baskets of-the legislatures.