Year: 1877

Win the Dully. IL DfOuEnt brave men tC


the front and sent towards to the rear.


1t showed to the world the men Of nerve


and genuine pluck. Another grand dis


cOvery, one that was beneficial to his au-
dience as well as to himself, was America.
Through 1t came new government, new


ideas and thousands of new inventions.


The speaker then took up the subject


Woman" her rights and wrongs Was


of the opinion that marriage was the


holiest and sacredest thing in existence.


He believed that women was honestly


entitled to the same rights that man was


entitled to. That ii was the duty Of man


to keep his wife informed as to how his


business was working That she was


just as capable of giving him advice,


when in trouble, as he was able to advise


her in household affairs Some men tell


their wives that their business is so com


plicated that it is impossible to explain


whether they are doing well or falling


behind. For instance, a man buys corn


at fifty cents and sells it at fifty FIVE cents


per bushel, it is a complicated matter to


explain how the thing was done. Was OF


the opinion that woman was, as a general


rule, far better than man. Had more


real humanity and common sense in her


than he had, and therefore should be al


lowed the same freedom and rights that


were allotted to man. Woman should


have a say in politics. and have the same


rights in National affairs that man had


The speaker then went on to show that


in case of war, woman was the greatest
sufferer, and ought to have say whether
it was best for the nation to 90 to war or
not. That through war she might be
made a widow, left on the world, a poor
mother with herself and children, home
less and without a protector; therefore
her interest was moro at stake than
mans He was glad to see the effect Of
free thinking; how il was fast bringing
women out Of the clutches Of slavery.
Thought we were rapidly approaching
the time when we will worship goodness
and not strange gods. When that hour
comes, then it will be in order to give to
woman the equal rights enjoyed by man
The period has already arrived when an
man is not satisfied with Office
alone; no, he must win some victory in
science. politics or religion, or else the
Office is nothing to him. Napoleon was
not satisfied with being master Of France;
he would be a member of the French
Academy. The people no longer look up
to a king who simply holds his office by
power and force. What is King William
on the side Of Bismark7 ? What is Queen
Victoria on the side of George Eliot7 One
woman wears a crown of gold, the other |
the crown Of genius. The hour had ar
rived when man or woman must do some |
act Of charity, make some scientific dis /
covery, advance some new ideas to be ac- |
knowledged by the human race.


The speaker then took the rights OF |
children. He did not believe that parents /
lad a right to whip their children and |
govern them by mere brute force. Rule |
hem by love or not at all. Think of a |
nan, six feet and weighing about two |
hundred pounds, striking a little child
i've years of age, because it had acci-
lentally broken plate; think Of big
mother beating a little child because il
lid not do just so and So How many
would like to have photograph
AIKEN of them while in the act of beating
little child2 And then if the child died
md was buried in the cold dark grave,
low would the mother, as she knelt over
he grave, like to have photograph Of
lerself beating her child, placed before
Ter at that moment2 He did not believe
n parents putting a child to studying
that it never could under
tand Parents ought TO study the genius
f their children, and not keep Jane at
he piano for six years when she had no
nore music in her than there was in
nule, or undertake to educate John TO
ecome a lord when he was not really


L subject to become a number one fool.
'arents have no earthly right to force
heir ideas into their children Do not
orget that your ideas may be extremely
Yrong and silly. Let the child see for
tself and it will soon learn to draw its
wn conclusions. The speaker went on
o show how parents wrong their chill
rem by trying to force them to take a
old Of this and that, thereby giving the
hild no earthly rights Of its own.


He, the speaker, did not see the use Of
o much law to rule humanity with; did
ot believe it wa necessary in having
be State Legislature meet every hour of
he day, and every deay in the year, ex-
ept Sundays. All Legislatures have
one is to repeal laws. A few simple,
ood, honest, plain laws would be stronger
nd better than the million in force now,
ut not in use, a1d never will. Only
rave, reckless man ever advanced ideas
nd made grand discoveries. Every
hing was growing bette; everybody
atching new ideas and thinking for
Science was taking hold of
and man was improving by
tuding science. The future for man was
right and promising. The world is
rowing more beautiful and perfect eve
y day. Man is studying himself and
rying to reform his fellow man by re
orming his individual self The speaker
hen closed his lecture with beautiful
md eloquent description of mans past
md future, and then bid the audience
,ood night 1t is not necessary to say
hat the Colonel was frequently applaud
ID. Our readers know what an orator
ngersoll is. One of the kind that knows
ust how to handle any kind of an audi
nee and yet while boldly speaking great
hreats, hurt the feelings of no one pres
mt. The lecture was far ahead OF any
ecture or address we ever heard before