St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-25
PLANNING THE COUP.

to overestimate the far-reaching inf1u-
ence of such cOuncil!"
In nutshell, the scheme of the sis
terhood is. at no far distant day, to
order general strike among women.
Wives, mothers. daughters, SWeethearts
are on the appointed day to give
their husbands, fathers, sons and lovers
one last chance to equalize
the sexes, and if the offer be ScOrned,
dishcloth. broom and needle are to be
quietly laid down, and every woman in
the land will walk out Of her home.
Women employed by men are to aban-
don work, and all men in trade are to
be bOycotted by female consumers. Any
woman who refuses to obey the orders
OF the sisterhOOd will receive All Internal
machine by return mail, and female un-
tertallerS will receive an order for
coffin by the one following. Any man
who attempts to use force in securing
the return of his God-created servants,
will be ruthlessly met and conclusiyely
answered by bomb. Three months
will be given men to come to their senses
and accept the rebels terms equality
before the law. At the expiration of
this time, if men still stand out, total
humiliation will be the penalty of their
ObStinacy. A cunning scheme for
their total humiliation was discussed at
the last meeting of the Minneapolis
Auxiliary society, This is younger in
months than that of ST. Paul, but it is
as old in wisdom. A short time ago an
innocently worded announcement APP
peared in the Minneapolis papers con-
Vening the female journalists of the city
at the West hotel. Nobody guessed
that this was cipher notice calling
together Minneapolis women who had
surreptitiously attended the meetings of
the st. Paul sisters. One night of each
week guests at the West have seen
women silently enter the house. each
carrying the conventional shopping bag,
and disappear from sight and sound
through door to the left of the ladies'
entrance. Curious minds have been
told they were the Minnesota Woman'S
Press association in embryo. They have
rested on this, never thinking that the
contents of one OF those shopping bags
were liable to send them up through
the roof, and so on in sections to
eternity. They have failed to catch
the sinister smile that accompanied the
shopping bag, and not sole has
dreamed what fendish plots woman's
brain can generate. Just how to effect
the total humiliation of men has caused
no end of discussion among the sister
hood. Would you have believed any
woman in Minneapolis eager enough for
liberty to suggest that at the expiration
of the three months of grace accorded
men, mothers. wives, daughters, sisters
go back to their homes in seeming sweet
submission to the inevitable, and, at
dead of night when men must sleep,
bind their OppreSSorS with cords as
hot
place one bomb on each mans bosom,
light slow fusee, awake the man to his
doom, get out of the house themselves
and let the tyrantS meet their fate?
Dreadful, isn't it? Yet so horribly de-
lighted with the idea was this section of
the sisterhood, that collection was
taken up to defray the expenses of a
delegate, who has gone to Washington
to lay the plan of humiliation before
the council. She will present it in
cipher, under the pitifully misleading
title, "How To Make Home Happy"
1t will be seen at glance that some
thing must be done to Illustrate the de-
signs of this radical sisterhood. How
can it be done? Only by obtaining a
key to their cipher and revealing to the
public the ominouS import of the adj
dresses that will be delivered before
the council this week. And how can
this be accomplished? Why, by wiring
reports of each days proceedings of the
council to Ignatius D0nnelly. Lectures
on the higher education of woman,
kindergartens, heather missions, wom-
ans suffrage, temperance, art, litera-
ture will be reduced BY him to diaboli
cal preparations for the wholesale
slaughter of men, which, to be defeated,
need only to be known in time.
PAIJJNF PRy