The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-10-13
MAN, PROUD MAN.
Equal Rights Women Are
on His Trail.
THEY PROPOSE TO STOP HIM
Will Meet and Discuss Him
Tuesday.
HEY PROPOSE To STOP HIM
A RECEPTION FOR POLITICIANS.
Mrs. Nellie holbrook Blinn Saws the
Ladies Will Carefully Avoid
Shop Talk.

When the Equal Rights League gets
after man, bold man, next Tuesday, he
had better hunt his hole and pull it in
after him. The ladies who hold allegiance
to Mrs. Nellie Holbrook Binn propose to
handle him without gloves and to arraign
him for his unseemly invasion of woman's
realm of employment. The ladies will!
meet at their headquarters in the Caifor-
MIA Hotel in the afternoon, and propose to
inquire where the line shall be drawn on
man in the occupations and professions of
life.
Mrs. Blinn was selected to take the stand
that man has perfect right TO go into any
profession he chooses. Mrs. A. NJ. Wells
will protest that some professions and oc-
equations are peculiarly woman's and
man should not be allowed to buccaneer
therein. Mrs. Blinn, however. will be un-
able to devote the time to the subject which
1t requires and has been compelled to de-
cline. Some other member of the league
will he appointed in her stead.
Some rumor of the action prnrOsed to be
taken by the ladies has reached the gen
tlemeD threatened, and any number Of
them are supposed to he quaking in their
boots at the present time-the quake to
become more violent as the fatal Tuesday
afternoon approaches. Among the doomed
are the ladies' taiOrs, glove-fitters, men
milliners. the gay and festive young clerks
in dry-goods stores. who would just as lief
tear off yard as sell the whole piece.
And the long, low. rakish young chap who
passes his waking hours in the shoestore
and fits No. shoe to a No. foot, he,
too, is on the list. They'll do nothing to
bim-not thing.
If the decision of the EQUAL Rights
League is against them on next Tuesday
afternoon, they had best make haste and
purchase overals and jumpers, harden
their souls and their hands. and make up
their minds to handle the pick and the
shovel for living. The fiat will go forth,
and-well, they all know what awful con-
sequences are ent lied by the flingiug forth
of even the tamesl fiat.
Before the ladies of the EQUAL Rights
League get through they propose to elicit
some very high opinion. From which it
can be seen that such eminent authorities
as Mary Ellen Lease, Bob IngersoIl, Red
fern, Senator ffeffer and Colonel Andrews
will be in the very vortex of the mael-
strom.
There is just one little loophOle left. how
ever, but that is only for those men who
have stood up stan chilly for what some
women think the rights of all. Through
this loophnle of alliance they can crawl
nto the paths where bread and butter can
be garnered as of yore. They will also be
rewarded by invitation to a reception to
be given on Thursday, the 18th inst. All
the candidates of political parties having
put female suffrage planks in their plat
forms will also be invited to meet the
ladies. About 500 invitations have been
issued and an elaborate and tasty supper
will be served.
''We will not talk shop" says Mrs. Blinn,
speaking of this reception. I'VE only
want the representative politicians of this
State to see that we are organized and are
working in accord We will not destroy
the pleasure of the occasion by any refer
ence to w0man's rights, but we do hope to
have the pleasure of showing those who
were manly enough and sensible enough
TO speak the truth about justice to women
that we are not without tine spirit of gra-
titude, which is most essential and worthy
in all the walks of life