The midland journal., 1894-03-16

out plowing, and cutting hay, every
one of them, according to their OWL
theories about spher
"But there are so many womer
who don't want to vote; wouldn't
vote if they could" There you GO
again, cold Back Number" Did
you ever hear of the slave who
started to run away, and at the
very first station ON the under
ground railroad met with one OF
those weak -kneed conservatives
who are always to be found in the
rear of every reform army. The
conservative thus advised the fugi-
tive: "See here now Jim, you had a
pretty good master, he clothed and
fed you well, and when he went
travelling he took you with him.
To be sure he didn't let you go out
of his sight, especially if he was
going in the direction of Mason &
Dixon's line. Now, Jim, if I was
you I'd just go back and be con-
tented with my lot, I wouldn't go
to carrying on and running off, this
way, indeed | wouldn't.n And
the fugitive Strengthened himself
up and looked the conservative fair
in the eye, and he said: "Look
here, Boss, de situation am still
open, eff you want it you better go
down 'dere an git it, fur as for dis
nigga he am boun' for de lam oh
freedom"
Kansas just now is the storm
centre of the E. S. agitation. They
have had equal Municipal suffrage
since 1887. A Constitutional
Amendment giving full suffrage to
woman will soon be voted upon in
that progressive State; so the wide
awake women of that common
wealth are busy holding fairs, fes-
tivals, &C., in order to raise funds
for the successful carrying ON of
the approaching campaign. Not
for the benefit of those contemplate
preachers, who are perfectly willing
that women shall do all the scullery
work of the church but when these
women go up to the door of the
Conference or Synod or whatever it
may be, they have the door slam
med in their faces, and are COM
manded to go back to the church
kitchen. Yes, l say contemplate
preachers, for he is contemplate
man, who will go to conference on
five dollars, borrowed from some
woman, his wife as like as not, and
we all know he will never pay
her back, and his august person
clothed in a suit of broad cloth,
presented by "The Ladies' Mite
Society," and when the question
comes up as to the advisability of
admitting women delegates this
lordly creature will arise and deliv-
er himself thusly: 'rBrethering, l
for one, am unalterably opposed to
the admission of women into our
religious councils"
You see l am not very much
in awe of the preachers, probably
because am Quaker; no Pm not
much in awe of preacher not even
if he is Rev. DR.. 1t seems to me
a man must be worked up to a
state of most sublime egotism and
profound self conceit when he can
waltz around among his fellow
apes and demand that they address
him as a Reverend Doctor. Now
if these Reverend Dr.'s physic the
spiritual constitutions of their
patients with the same or similar
nauseating compounds, with which
our medical Doctors are wont to
physic our physical constitutions,
may the good Lord deliver us from
the Reverend Doctors and all such.
One thing l am resolved upon,
wild horses shall never drag me
into addressing man as a Rev:
Doctor. If am ever so happy and
so fortunate as to meet with an
Archangel | may call him Domi-
ME. That's what they call their
preachers in New Jersey. When
first went to that placid and
bucolic region and heard of Dominic
Smith and Dominic Jones etc., l
supposed it was great region for
Dominoes and so it was, and l
naturally supposed these old chaps