Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-06-17

temperance reform he earnestly fa-
vors. The thoughts most emphasized
in the address were that unorganized
power and effort avail little, and that
organized power in the hands of the
ignorant and the vicious is dangerous.
He felt that the power of good, of
love, of doing right, of regard for
the best welfare of the citizen, was
most predominant in the heart of wO-
man; but that without organization
and the power to put the thought and
good wish of her heart into the ballot,
woman had no means to exert her in
fiuence where it would be most felt
and do most good. On the other
hand, men, ignorant, vile, under cor
rupting influences, unfit to enjoy the
right of franchise, had this power,
and exerted it, too often, for wrong.
Mr.. Chase would throw into the bal
lot box the written, speaking, effect
i've power of woman's ballot, to over
come the evils of vicious voting on
the part of corrupt men.
Miss Blackwell is a very intelligent
and modest lady; she assumes moth
ing, makes no attempts at oratory,
but treats her subjects with wo-
mans earnestness and a great degree
of fairness. Her address was chiefly
made in answer to the objections
urged against woman's suffrage, and
she very pleasantly, wisely, and of
tentimes, felicitously, answered OBJ
iections raised against suffrage. Miss
Blackwell's style of meeting the cav
lis of those who object to her theories
is certainly ingenious, and she would
'sfoor," we doubt not, a great many
men who declare there is nothing
whatever to the subject of women's
rights.
The ladies conducted their meet
ings with as much skill and decorum
as is witnessed where the ''lords of
CREATION handle the gavel. Mrs. A.
B. Chandler, president of the society,
should be congratulated on her sue
cess in the chair. The following res
olutions were adopted.
Reso1ued, That the best govern
ment is a government of the people,
by the people and for the people.
Women are people.
ResolUed, That taxation without
representation is tyranny. Women
are taxed.
ReSolUed, That governments derive
their just powers from the consent of
the governed. Women are governed.
Resolved, That since the only
method of giving political consent is
by the ballot. The ballot should be
placed in the hands of women.
Resolced, That as farmers need the
ballot to represent the farming inter
ests, and manufacturers to represent
the manufacturing interests, so the
mothers and home-makers need the
ballot to represent the interests of
the home.
ResozUed, That since women con-
stitute more than two-thirds of our
church members, and less than one
fifth of our criminals, therefore most
women's votes will be on the side of
morality and good order.
ResolCed, That we accept Gods
ideal for human life in its dignity and
perfection under the gospel dispensa-
ton, and rejoice to read that in the
perfect state'' there is neither Jew nor
Greek, bond nor free, male nor fe-
male, "but all are one in Christ Jesus.
RsoZUed, That the loyal, intelligent,
law-abiding women of Vermont ought
not to be classed politically with
criminals, idiots, lunatics, paupers
and Jefferson Davis.
ReSOlUed, That in the sudden death
of Miss Amanda Heath of Irasburgh,
the Vermont Woman's Suffrage As
sociation has lost an earnest and
| faithful worker, one whose interest
and assistance could always be re-
lied on, and whose character COM
manded universal respect. She being
dead yet speaketh.
ResoIUed, That our thanks are due,
and hereby heartily rendered to the
citizens of Barton for their cordial
hospitality in opening their homes
for our entertainment; to the stew
ards of the Methodist Episcopal
church for granting the use of their
church edifice for our meetings; to
Mrs. A. B. Shaw and others for mu-
sic and recitations, which have add
ed pleasing variety to the exercises;
to the managers of the Passumpsic
railroad for the favor of reduced
fares, and to the local committees,
who have so efficiently planned and
executed the arrangements for this
! convention.