OCR Text |
Show .SELECTED. , . JJIUS. TRACY CUTLER. . The Chicago Tribune b.os the following fol-lowing concerning this lady, who lately delivered a. course oflcctures to ladies iu tho City Hall of this city, and subsequently sub-sequently a sensible, argumentative lectuio, to a large audience, in tho old Tabernacle, 011 woman suffrage: A public reception, under the auspices au-spices of tho Northwestern, Illinois and Cook county Woman Suffrage associations, as-sociations, was given on yesterday afternoon, af-ternoon, at the rooms in Pope's block, to Mrs. IL 31. Tracy Cutler, president of the American Woman Suffrage association, as-sociation, who has just returned from an extended lour of observation across tho continent, ' The- parlors were crowded with ladies and gentleman, among them a party of suffragists Irotn southern Illinois, who cuanced , to he in the city. After a few minutes parsed in desul- j tory conversation, the mistress of cer- . enionies, Mrs. C, V. Waite, called upon Mrs. Cutler io give an - account of the result of her jourocyiugs through tho West to California. Mrs. Cutler said that she knew that the (juehtion of giving women tho right of euflfragc was so littlo understood under-stood as to bo generally misrepresented and therefore ridiculed. Woman wanted no soparate and distinct rights; sho only asked to share in the rights accorded to man. Tho speaker mentioned men-tioned several instances where the laws of various States bore hardly upon the woman, Lhis being true in States where it was claimed that thoir statutes were especially liberal in their application appli-cation to the female sex. The rightof suffrage w;i3 requisite as a guarantee for equal rights in all respects. In regard re-gard to the case of Mrs. Fair, many thought that a woman should have the right to be insane.- The possibility of insanity ought to pertain to a nervous, delicate woman, as well as to a strong and vigorous man. In Iowa the question ques-tion of suffrage was to be submitted to the legislature next winter. Ia Nebraska Ne-braska the project had been defeated, together with the cut ire new constitution. constitu-tion. She had taken pains while in Wyoming to notice the effect of the exercise uf the right of suffrage by the women. The disreputable women were very slightly represented at the polls, for the reason that they always concealed con-cealed the name by which their parents or relatives could trace them out, and gave the names of the young men who shared their favors. The young men, being unwilling to have their names represeuted at tho polls in this manner, man-ner, in the hearing of their respectable lady acquaintances, made it an object fur the frail sisters to stay away and not. vote, and numerous elegant dresses dres-ses and outfits were brought to bear, not to secure, but to keep away votes. The speaker hud asked many questions in Wyoming concerning the success of women on juries. One of the first cases was that of a mau on trial for murder. When the jury, composed equally of men and women, retired to make up a verdict, they occupied different dif-ferent rooms, between which was -the room in which sat the judge of the court, who overheard the men drinking beer and having a good time, while the women were earnestly canvassing the points of the case, and at last the minister's wife led in psptojr hnfbre they reached a conclusion. hc judge said he could see then how the courts were to bo elevated. A certain criminal crimi-nal lawyer said that he didu't like to try a case before women, for they gave too much justice and couldn't be hoodwinked hood-winked a particle. In Laramie there were eleven women on the grand jury, and in two days twenty-eight dram shops had beeu olosed up, although the male juries had utterly failed to successfully handle the liquor question. So much was due to the fact that women bad tho right of suffrage in Liramic. In Utah she found that the Mormon .'women, contrary to her expectation, were not controlled in their votes by the church dignitaries, but that they went to the polls and scratched their tickets to suit themselves. She had thought that this little seed of independent inde-pendent thought would ultimately result re-sult in the breaking up of systems which could not be otherwise reached. Tho women of Utah valued the right of suffrage, and the best men of the Territory conceded that it had worked splendid results. She xpected that the dominant party ofilia land would soon appreciate the actual value of woman's influence in po itica, and that the struggle would be, not which party should withhold suffrage, but who should extend it. Whin this state of -things camo about it wi uld be necessary neces-sary for tho women to exercise great caution in preserving their political politi-cal integrity. |