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repieseniaturn 01 men. win re uni men gel Hu ir commissions to repre-sent women? Where and \vht*n was the compact made*? It Is wholly an assumption, as much so, as if tin* Senator from Massachusetts should rise in the United Stales chamber and claim (lu* right to represent Texas.The Sovereign Citizen King.At the recent election in California5.nun American sovereigns did notknow how to put. a plain X on their ballots, consequently their votes were thrown out.It seems fo me women might vote as intelligently as that. Mrs. Poyser the philosopher, says “We know thatwomen are foolish but God Almighty made them so to match the men.”Even a foolish woman can some times help an equally foolish masculine out of a dilemma. Perhaps if these ignorant men who lost their votes had called to their aid 5,000 ordinary women they could have helped them retain their sovereignty. When 5,000 American sovereigns start to the polls with their heads filled with nothing, and lose half of that before they get there, il is ahout time to stop talking ahout women's ignorance of politics. oo-THE AMERICAN PRESS ONELIZABETH CADY STANTON NOW AND FIFTY YEARS AGOXo woman ever died in the United States has received such extensive and commendatory notices as Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She is held up as a “shining example for American women, displaying the most philosophic mind, splendid courage, and fidelity to her convictions, and to the cause of Liberty and Justice/' New York, Chicago and San Francisco’s great papers devoted whole editorial pages to extolling her virtues, ability and success of her great cause. If what the papers print editorially about her is true, then the causes of Rationalism and of Woman Suffrage are right, and the sooner they are victorious the better for the world; for Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an awoved Rationalist and inaugurated the Woman Suffrage movement, and devoted her life to the liberation of women from ecclesiastical and political slavery. If as the great papers say “Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a shining example for American women.” they should begin to question at once their subordinate and silenced position in the church and demand of the clergy satisfactory explanation for all the degrading and insult ing passages regarding their sex in the Holy Bible, and if they cannot give them, they should Interpret il for themselves. This would be following the example of “the woman whose name” the press says “should be always gratefully remembered.”ir Mrs. Stanton was rignt on the question of Woman Suffrage, which the American press now declare is ‘a misunderstood cause' and “Mrs. Stanton's work has wrought good and on-ELIZARETH CADY STANTON.The shadow of a great sorrow lias fallen across the threshold of the temple of woman’s progress. Again we face the inexplicable mystery called death; the mystery, which, through all the ages of the past has been un-*u.W eil‘ i he mvsterv which bv neitherThe American press may ft of knowledge, or from policy ' derstiinil” the onuses V»f Kafir and Woman Suffrage, but tin through the labors of great m the Stantonian type, in due tin ize that the American Kcpuhl never reached the zenith of it} until the religious superstitiot iuhites to Reason, ami women on an exact plain of equalit; men. As well attempt to amoral law, as to retard the tv viors of the human race Reasi Liberty.The American press will with joy their triumph some da die is casl and no power can aThe American press of toda; gizing Elizabeth Cady Stanto holding her up as a shining e: for American women is in stror trast to its tone fifty years age the New York press said that Stanton preached such damnab trines as would make the dem the pit shudder to hear.”The Syracuse (X. Y.) Star s 1852:“The women at the tomfoolei vention now being held in thi talk as fluently of the Bible and teachings in their speeches as could draw an argument from ation in maintenance of their wi rights stuff. The poor creature take part in the silly rant of br women and Aunt Nancy men an of them ismizers of the r stamp.1’When Mrs. Stanton and Mis thony went before the New Yoi islature to ask for the right of i ried woman to her own wages ;equal guardianship of her ch the Albany Register of March 7 said:“When these female propaga of woman’s rights confined selves to the exhibition of shoi ticoats and the holding of conve and speech-making, the people disposed to he amused by the they would by the wit of a clow circus, or the performance Punch and Judy show on fair de the ministrelsy of gentlemen blackened faces, playing on 1 the tambourine, the bones; bui never coratemplated that the? otic agitators would come up I legislature and ask for the pi of laws upholding and sanct their wild and foolish doctrines, was a flight of impudence hart garded as possible.“No man supposed they abandon their private theatrica walk up lo the capitol and insit their performances shall be hlt; legislative halls. The people oi and especially those interested islative work arc beginning to a} another how long this most egrt ridiculous humbug is to he peri to obstruct the progress of LnisiCompare the comments of (lie fifty years later upon the work same woman, and judge for selves who it is that is leading ward and upward.are others, however, more ci than I, to eulogize the life if tii selfish mother and friend to h ity. and to give a detailed ac of her indefatigable work for l half a century. So. 1 simply i his magnificent woman “the i d my admiration and my tears.'Rest from your toils, dear f;
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Lexington Blue Grass Blade
Lexington, Kentucky, US
Sun, Nov 30, 1902
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