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Show A PROTEST. It passmi for wit with the men of today To speak la a carelem, contrmptnous way . Of every brave woman who loyally pleads ' With mn for the rlglita tliat our womanhood need. "Give women their rltfhta !" you soornfully say; "What rlirhta does she lack, a woman, todayf U-t her stay by the fireside she's fitted to (race, In the kitchen or nureery, that Is her plv-e. With her husband, the oak around which she muy twine: What other denire has the rlirhtly trained Tine!" We must pay all the taxes, for we have no choice, Abide liy the laws In which we have no Toice; And all because we are "not fitted to mix W ith the crowd round the polls or In rough politics." poli-tics." A polile way of putting O friends, do not doubt itt- Tbat wo haven't the sense to take to aught about It. Tis milk fit for babies of Intellect weak To hush our complainings, forbid us to speak. Kememoer the words o the wise man, my brother, 'The heart of a fool desplseth his mother." Yc 1 say that for us you make generous laws, So we have no need to espouse our own cause: Yet thus at our pleadings you scoff and you laiiKh, elit We ask you for bread, and you feed us on taffy I I think we mlht lietter our own wisdom trust To make laws, If not "generous," at least that are Just. Woman's Journal. |