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dollars day so easily as sitting in COM
Portable chairs listening to cases in
court, and it was less of an effort TO vote
than to watch aloaf OF bread through its
various phases until it emerged from
the oven in perfection.
Women have manifested great public
spirit, and conscientious interest in
every department of Government
especially in that of education At the
last census, Wyoming was returned as
having smaller per cent. of iliteracy
than any other State or Territory in the
Union. Again, she has no public debt
On January 10, 1890, after every obliga
ton had been paid, there was in hei
treasury $3.50, 900; due, no doubt in some
measure, to woman's economy in many
minor expenditures. And yet her edu
cational and charitable institutions are
we'll sustained.
And now, Wyoming has been admit
| ted'into the sisterhood of States with
woman suffrage provision in her consti'
tuition. She has been duly warned thai
this proviso would probably block het
chance for admission, but her wisesi
politicians said: "We will take the no
BILE women, who have endured with us
the hardship OF pioneer life, into tho
| Union with us, or we will remain Ter.
ritory until there are manly men enough
in Congress- to admit us together.
Fortunately there was sufficient mum.
Der there already to pass the bill,
though after much opposition and pro
! longed debate, in which the old plati'
tudes that have been answered hun
dred times were made to do duty once
more The frivolous objections we hear
on both sides of the Atlantic in Eng
land and America alike, are un.
worthy of gentlemen who have had
the advantage of collegiate education,
drilled in science, philosophy, history
and logic. 1t is fair to suppose that
they present the best arguments they
can find, hence we must attribute their
failure, not to any lack of native
strength, br to the paucity of the ma
terial at hand on that side of the ques
ton.
The history of Wyoming should close
the debate on this subject, as we now
have abundant facts of long standing to
contradict all the absurd suppositions
and soul-harrowing prophecies of the
opposition.
In his last speech given at Harvard
College, Wendell Phillips, or prophet,
orator and seer, in speaking of the des-
tiny of woman, said: 1.-The first glimpse
we get of Saxon blood in history is that
line of Tacitus which reads, In all
grave matters we consult our women.
Years hence, when robust Saxon sense
has flung away Jewish superstition and
Eastern prejudice, and put under its
foov fastidious scholarship and squeam.
ish fashion, some second Tacitus from
the valley of the Mississippi will answer
to him of the seven hills, In all grave
matters we consult our women" This
prophecy, made only nine years ago, is
already fulfilled. The statesmen OF
Wyoming have indeed echoed back from
under the very dome of our capitol that
"in all grave matters we consult our
women;" yea, more, beyond the valley
of the Mississippi they have planted a
republic where the matriarchate, or
mother age shall be realized once
more.
Though by inheritance we would share
in all the conquests of our fathers from
their landing on Plymouth Reel, until
now, though rightfLl heirs of North
America from sea to sea, yet we gladly
yield it all for that holy land, called
Wyoming redeemed from the great
American Desert, where at last women
may enjoy the blessings of sclf-govern-
ment. 1t is a small spot, we own, com
pared with the vast possessions that
should be ours; but Palestine on the
eastern map looks smaller still, yet the
great doctrine of human equality was
uttered there by Him whose life was
one great sacrifice. Through all these
centuries, that thought waited by winds
and waves round and round the globe,
has found no living echo to its truth un-
til now. Wyoming answers back and
the daughters of people who have also
touched the depths of self-sacri6ce, have
come up through great tribulations to
join in the chorus Equal Rights to
Ar
; The Saxon race is destined, believe,
to carry the new gospel of women's
equality to all the nations on the earth.
: Thus far, England and America have
kept pace, sep by step, in this direc-
tion, and ] venture to predict that
the sunlight now shining on the noun.
tain tops of Wyoming, will soon gild
the venerable dome of st. Paul's.
The pilgrisls of the future will not be
mourning saints weeping around the
sepulchers of the dark past, but a happy
multitude, seeking westward the one
bright star in our constellation of
States; rejoicing in risen humanity,
redeemed from poverty and ignorance,
, and free from the hateful spirit of caste
9 and class; to live evermore under a
truly parental government, a united
: head, equal in power and glory.
. WOMEN WHO SUCCEED. 3
o SARA NJ MAxoN CoBB Nj. PHI, Kent's
o Hill, Me-, has just received the degree
n of DR.. Of Philosophy from Syracuse On.