Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-21
Is About to Explain Her Pet Theories
to the French Citizens.
LIKE TO A PROPHECIES OF OLD.
She Argues on Objectionable Topics With
Marvellous Fluency.
THE HISTORY OF Her GREAT SYSTEM
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| declare with renovated beauty, as well as to
instruct the human race in the science Of
keeping up knowledge and keeping down
numbers The task is difficult; but to a
brave woman like Victoria Woodruff all
things are possible, made SO by the high in.
te1ligence which unables her to- leap at a
bound over the fences set up by mems pref
udices, or to creep gracefully through the
tangled underwood that nature herself has
provided.
But few short years have elapsed since
victoria's last visit to st. James Hall, and
vet, by the younger folks among ms, she is
almost forgotten; and therefore it may be
we'll to renew the memory of the strange
power of fascination which enabled her to
talk without blush, and to be listened to
without proteststion. Honesty of purpose
was accepted as excuse for indiscretion of
tongue. Philosophers eclare that there is
but one such woman in a generation. But
in this case we have had two-victoria and
her sister-and, although the latter only
followed in the wake of the former, it was
felt that her presence added great addi-
tional charm to the conferences for men
only" when any subject was discussed
which needed the softening influence of
woman to give it the sanction of purity Of
motive, at all events, it not of terms in its
plain exposition.
Like a Prophecies OF Old.
remember seeing Victoria Woodruff at
her residence in Langham place, and the
impression conveyed by her language and
appearance was that of prophecies of old.
Harf toll o1 al
features, her magnificent bearing and regal
gesture seemed well adapted to the author
itative tone of her discourse. The elo-
quehce was surprising Not once did she
hesitate for the appropriate word; not once
did she repeat the same expression in the
same paragraph; and she held you SPELL
bound by the lucidity and logic of her
reasoning, until you forgot the objectiona-
bic nature of her arguments, and only re-
membered to protest against them when
you had returned to quiet reflection and
self-inquiry as to the exact justice of her
suggestion to enforce the doctrine of NAL
thus upon all men alike.
She was attired, moreover, in the most
exquisite taste, well befitting the gravity of
the subject upon which she had come to
lecture-a simple robe of plain black velvet,
trimmed at the throat with ruff of antique
lace; plain gold brooch, and gold buckle
at the waist completed her whole attire.
Her hair was dressed in plain fashion like
wise. A soft coil round the back of her head,
falling low in the neck, light feathery
fringe over the brow. No affectation of
opening and shutting of the face. no arti-
fetal application of the scent bottle, no
slipping of water from the decanter on the
table She carried in her right hand plain
cambric pocket-handkerchief, which she
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hands were needed to enforce the power of
her words.
History Of Her System.
Time flies so fast and events follow each
other SO quickly that the memory even of
Victoria Woodhull's admirers may need re-
freshing at this day. It was in 1875 that
Victoria Woodruff first started on her
career of mystical reformer of the human
race. She had already made the emancipa-
tion of woman her most especial study, and
even as young girl became convinced that
the excess OF population and the bondage in
which tine female sex was held thereby was
the fundamental cause of all the poverty
and depression of the lower classes.
She then became convinced that by COM
merce and speculation, in rivalry with the
brokers of Wall street, she should be able
to compete with the wealthiest citizens of
guide and govern the stock market, that
always fear to show superiority of intellect,
as it would be considered so unbecoming in
Wall street that it would frighten the bust
ness men" said she to Vanderbilt, who had
expressed a doubt whether she would be
able to stand against the fierce competition
which would assail her Public rumor de-
clared that her success was too evident, and
the behavior of her male rivals so mean and
in the way of business that
she threw up the stockbroking in disgust,
and not through loss, as the Stock Exchange
asserted afterward.
Canvassed for the Presidency.
She was bold enough to rely upon her in
telligence in far more ambitious matter
still, for she positively canvassed for the
dignity of President of the United States,
and actually secured the support of 26 States
and Territories, from which delegates were
dispatched to assure her of their allegiance.
Indeed, the theories she had developed in
the course of her lectures all over the Union
had created a powerful party in her favor.
During her stay in London she met with a
rich banker, to whom she was married.
This event put an end for the time to her
lecturing in our metropolis.
But qui bu boira, says the French |
proverb, and Victoria Woodhall, fred with |
indignation at the false doctrines which |
have taken hold Of the public mind, and |
wanton waste of money expended on theories |
which the propsgators know well enough |
can never be realized, resolves again to |
come forward to save the human race from |
the nerveless apathy into which it is fast |
falling, suffering whole armies of impostors |
to march over the senseless bodies of the |
credulous multitude, and rob them as they |
lie helpless and hoping and believing still. |
Hsr Visit to Paris.
Victoria woodhull (now' Mrs. Martin) is |
about to begin her lectures before the pub |
lie of Paris, in whom it will cause no small |
degree of amazement to be told that all the |
misery of Ireland arises from the want |
Of courage of the women. What have the |
women done to help the men all this while? |
says she. Nothing. They are content to
live in dependence upon the men, expecting
to be provided with food, shelter and raj |
ment without the smallest exertion on their
own part. 1t is by the women that the
nations rise and fall. And Ireland Is stick
ing fast to the soft marl-pit of helplessness
and discouragement through want of any
noble aim to guide the women
The Paris people who have been led to
believe that all the soi-disant misery of |
Ireland arises from the crushing power Of
England will be rather astonished at this
new view of the oppressed people of the
green island. The theories about to be |
developed by Victoria Woodruff, once aided
by her sister, now Lady Cook, wife of Sir
Francis Cook, the great merchant of ST.
Paul's Churchyard, may not exactly accord |
with our own ideas, but they are worth |
examining, nevertheless She proc1aims
the lower classes to be the foundation of the