Show r WOMEN OF THE WORLD I The Pica of Bclvn Lockwood for the Rights of Her Sex How Women Hare Ruled the Kingdom King-dom Through the King Marriage for Milk and Water Women Law and Politics for Her Kind In introducing Mrs Belva A Lockwood to the audience last evening Hon John T Caine stated that he did not introduce her or bring her to the notice of those present merely as a candidate for President Presi-dent at the last election but as the friend of the poor the oppressed and the downtrodden down-trodden men and women of the world The audience was not quite so large as that which honored her at her first lecture lec-ture and the theme of Women of To Tot day lacked many points of interest that graced her former effort on Social and Political Life in Washington In comparing com-paring the women of today with those of past generations the lecturer was induced in-duced by personal research into the musty archives of the past to believe that women were merging step by step I from mergng I THE BARENESS OF MANS ASSERTED SUPE IHORITV Into the new era of selfreasoning Progress in the minds of the women of today over those of the ancients was exemplified at every point for women had risen to assert as-sert their rights by a social intellectual 1 and political crusade The exigencies of war the higher branches of education the researches of science the opening of I I fields of labor heretofore denied to her had unlocked the door of knowledge for woman and brought her at least to a partial realization her responsibilities Women themselves are astonished at their progress They are filling many public and private offices with credit to themselves and the world around them while only a few years ago none but men were employed to fill those positions They are found in all the different bureaus at Washington andOVER and-OVER FIVE THOUSAND WOMEN AIONU Are employed in the different departments depart-ments of the government Intellectual women have great possibilities before them for they are now entitled to the privilege of becoming lawyers doctors editors reporters clerks etc and their aspirations might lead them to the highest high-est place in the gift of the nation that of President From the position of household drudge she has raised herself to an equality with man and from that of a slave to the caprice of custom to be a companion of man in every way worthy of consideration tion morally and intellectually Physical i Physi-cal in and in I strength man beauty woman were the acme of the aspirations of the ancients but in the nineteenth century moral and intellectual attainments have more potent charms although as a rule it i mans greatest weakness to be attracted at-tracted by a baby face rather than the gift of a comprehensive mind With the Christian era began iiewlife for women and their steadfast devotion to the cause of Christianity hn rf ZX and sustained them ti Vourh vicissitudes 1t 1 Ste > Vilfe irz Lan f would succumb n Man I may return to paganism but I 1 WOMAN NEVER BECOMES AN UNBELIEVER i And in the same way with her love she will not desert the object upom whom she has set her affections though it drag her to misery torture and death In along a-long Scriptural history she managed to give women a decided prominence over the men and said that she believed that Saint Paul was inspired and that men and women of today can become inspired in-spired also In speaking of prophecy she I asserted that prophecy is as rife today I as it was in ancient times which greatly pleased the Mormon part of the audience Some women had pushed to the front by inspiration although an anomaly of onesided individuality in which man was born to rule and woman to obey was opposing them at every step but in the end made their triumph more complete I is a deplorable fact that a married woman can do nothing for herself without with-out the consent of her husband and until she can enjoy equal privileges with unt and be allowed to engage in those pursuits pur-suits most fitted to her mind there are insurmountable obstacles to higher at tainments Women have RULED TiE KINGDOM THROUGH TIE KINO For ages and why should she not be invested in-vested with equal rights I I isnt the milk and water women i who have no thoughts further than their own doors that are expected to stand forth and proclaim the right of freedom of thought and action but instead those that have minds equal grasping any in tellectual social and political question and comprehensively dissecting and analyzing its part The aspirations of women in the future like in the past will not be marriage but a desire to acquire fame Instead of II linking herself to a man that is her moral inferior she will require pure man hood with which to ally pure woman hood The pure man with the ballot in his hand wilL inspire woman to mount tho pinnacles of political fame and the noblest and best men and women will be elected to office Women should study law while acquiring their education as the time is coming when they will need legal knowledge a voters and statesmen for the universal suffrage of woman will soon become a settled fact THE COMING WOMEN OF THIS COUNTRY Are pushing to the front and when they get there it will be to stay The lecture was replete in historical historcal data so far as the important parts women imprtant pars had played in the worlds history and a secondary place as writers and speakers was assigned to man After her lecture Mrs Lockwood held a reception on the I stage and many of the prominent ladies and gentlemen of the audience paid her I their respects |