Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-06-24
THE KIND OF BEINGS DENIED THEIR
POLITICAL PRIVILEGES.


Woman's Suffrage association at Bur-
lington Friday afternoon, June IA, by
Miss Eliza s. Eaton of Barton Land
ing.
Women, Just women! The wives,
mothers, sisters and daughters OF
men! This kind of beings is such as
some men, who delight in being called
noble and Just, are careful to set one |
side as subjects to be governed.
America has been blessed in its |
women as we'll as in its men, as it is
so acknowledged by men. Some
women have been thoroughly cul-
tured, developed morally and intel
lectually, and allowed, here in our
land, far more freedom than women
in other countries. And it is yet quite
possible that a larger life for women
is in the near future. A righteous
freedom and true liberty constitute
holy law, which, in time, must exist.
Each life, whether public or private,
goes to make up the character and
glory Of the land in which it is lived.
And as long as woman is subject to
man-made laws alone, which do not
permit Of her equality with men, so
long is the country missing the great
est benefits which might belong to it.
The path of duty and destiny is the
same for women and men. The sky,
air and all things else in the universe
serve women as we'll as men, which
proves that the Almighty Fathers
protecting arm is around His daugh
ters and sons. Their labors are
varied; their capacities for intel
lectual, social and moral advance
ment also vary. But the Father has
given no power of one over the other
to be exercised as such. Neither
should the rights of either be con-
sidered alone, but human rights.
Men and women rise or fall together
as a nation. Any student of history
clearly sees that the advancement OF
any nation is marked by the progress
of its women. Social, literary or pro-
fessional life in America may be
clearly shown by fair statement oil
the characteristics, labors and sue
cesses of the women. Has woman
not advanced with her brother
through the ages up to the present
Christian era?
Always, in heathenism, is she abject
and miserable. In such a condition
her maidenhood has no incentive tt
purity or search for wisdom. Ever
step of human progress, from bruta
savagery to the high state of civiliza
ton, is the result of mental and mora
culture and the losing of selfishness
90 that woman has been advanced t.
loftier and happier positions. 1t
quite frequently allowed by thinking
people that woman has a finer natur,
than man. Eaton y. Barrett wrote
"Not she, with traitorOus lips, the Maste
stung,
Not she, denied him with a liars tongue;
she, wneu apostles fed, had power 10 brave
Last at the cross, and earliest at the grave"
Leo Miller says: eff the Holy Rec
ord is true, men alone clamored 70
Jesus life; no woman's voice wa
heard in the crowd. A man betraye
him for gross consideration. A ma
condemned him to death; the man
wife, in greater pity, begged to ha1
his life spared. Men heartless
deserted him in the hour of his tria
OF his chosen friends and disciple
the men in a cowardly manner rs
away and left him in the hands OF
destroyers. Women followed hir
shedding tears of sympathy and pit.
Woman alone pressed her way throul
that murderous crowd to the We
body. She first greeted him when
triumphed over death and the grav
Woman was first commissioned to
and proclaim the glad tidings of b
stands among the first and foremo
in her Masters work
The verdict of history is in fav
" always of those who deserve
. Woman, if emancipated, enlighten
and enfranchised,-so says the abo
author-will be equal to the dema
for the work put upon her by God
the coming centuries. We are liviI
not for this age, this century, alor
but for time 20 come in the lives
others, that the great world m
become one with and for the Create
Prison houses, dramshops a
brothels have been turned il
schools and homes of purity. Int
perance will grow less and less
woman comes more and more
understand the laws that govern {
land and more earnestly seeks
help make those laws which are
purity and Justice.