square and hung, and
_well hung_ too. (Laughter and cheers.) Having admitted that I am
converted to the fact of Wood's villainy, (laughter) and you
having admitted that he is not a democrat, but a republican,
(laughter) I think it is time the honest democratic and
republican voters should rise up in their might and wipe off all
those corrupt republican leaders from the Kansas State committee.
(Loud cheers.) Democrats do your duty on the fifth of November
and vote for woman suffrage. (Applause.) The effect of turning
the General's own words back upon his party was perfectly
electric, and when the vote was put for woman's suffrage it was
almost unanimous. Mr. Train saying amid shouts of laughter, that
he supposed that a few henpecked men would say "No" here, because
they didn't dare to say their souls were their own at home....
Mr. TRAIN continued: Twelve o'clock at night is a late hour to
take up all your points, General; but the audience will have me
talk. Miss Anthony gave you, General, a very sarcastic retort to
your assertion that every woman ought to be married. (Laughter.)
She told you that to marry, it was essential to find some decent
man, and that could not be found among the Kansas politicians who
had so gallantly forsaken the woman's cause. (Loud laughter.) She
said, as society was organized there was not one man in a
thousand worthy of marriage--marrying a man and marrying a whisky
barrel were two distinct ideas. (Laughter and applause.) Miss
Anthony tells me that your friend Kalloch said at Lawrence that
_of all the infernal humbugs of this humbugging Woman's Rights
question, the most absurd was that woman should assume to be
entitled to the same wages for the same amount of labor
performed, as man_. Do you mean to say that the school mistress,
who so ably does her duty, should only receive three hundred
dollars, while the school master, who performs the same duty,
gets fifteen hundred? (Shame.) All the avenues of employment are
blocked against women. Embroidering, tapestry, knitting-needle,
sewing needle have all been displaced by machinery; and women
speakers, women doctors, and women clerks, are ridiculed and
insulted till every modest woman fairly cowers before her Emperor
Husband, her King, her Lord, for fear of being called
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