that
form. It appeared the following week, however, in the first
number of _The Argus_, a Democratic paper, Ira C. Lutes, editor
and proprietor, in which we at once secured a column for the use
of our society. About a dozen ladies attended our second meeting,
at which the following resolutions were unanimously adopted, all
the ladies present being allowed to vote:

WHEREAS, The local newspaper is adjudged, by common consent,
to be the exponent of the intelligence, refinement, and
culture of a community, and, in a large degree, the educator
of the rising generation; and

WHEREAS, In one issue of the Lincoln _Register_ there
appears no fewer than forty-seven misspelled words, with
numerous errors in grammatical construction and punctuation;
also a scurrilous article headed "Woman vs. Man," in which
the editor not only grossly misrepresents us, but assails
the characters of all advocates of suffrage everywhere in a
manner which shocks the moral sense of every true lady and
gentleman in this community; therefore

_Resolved_, That this association present the editor of the
_Register_ with a copy of some standard English
spelling-book, and English Language Lessons, for his
especial use.

_Resolved_, That as he has been so kind as to offer his
advice to us, unsolicited, we reciprocate the favor by
admonishing him to confine himself to facts in future, and
to remember that the people of Lincoln are capable of
appreciating truth and common decency.

_Resolved_, That a copy of these resolutions be furnished
the editor of the Lincoln _Register_, with the books above
named.

This was promptly done, and so enraged him that the following
week he published a tirade of abuse consisting of brazen
falsehoods, whereupon a gentleman called a halt, by faithfully
promising to chastise him if he did not desist, which had the
desired effect so far as his paper was concerned.

W. S. Wait bought the _Argus_ at the end of four months, changed
its politics to Republican, and its name to the Lincoln _Beacon_,
in which I established a woman suffrage department, under the
head of "Woman as a Citizen," with one of Lucretia Mott's