Show THAT PETITION OF THE LOWELL howell LADIES UN ix the columns of tile tiie NEWS today danwill will be found two letters from the new york graphic commenting upon that petition of lowell women to the legislature of massachusetts chu for the passage of an act legalizing the marriage of more than one woman to one man mail the editor of the graphic characterizes the request of the women ag a startling proposition which if genuine promises to amford afford a lively sub subject jeet leet for discussion by the solons orthe offee old bay state and if a canard is at least valuable as showing no 7 the tendency of general tho thought aught in social mat mai matters and says pays t hat that somebody glia gila haq has ilia thought it worth while to su suggest gest a remedy for the evils that feset beset beset our social organization a remedy which has before been suggested in earnest in other quarters 11 11 he further thinks that polygamy of course is not to he be thought of for a moment in a christian christial i community and that some other means must he be found of 16 helping us out of our difficulty and society awaits eagerly the coming pro prophet T the Ellet e petition arid the xe marks remarks af tho correspondent forwarding the same and of the editor called out other correspondence to the graphic two letters of which we publish two others are before us re referring ferrin gr to the same subject but dealing chiefly with the dochety soel doci ety atles put forth by the corres ponde oranna aranna 4 rAnna anna L 11 one of these leaters is signed IW I W a H of iian an old anad she says fica fiew W S H 11 wants to know why wust must be obeyed and fold says it requires everything from women Wo mell meli gives nothing not liing in return then tilen turns on them whenever it requires too much and they act in independently dependently epen dently IV B S H advises anna L 11 and other society victims to agree to stand standby by each other through thick and thin to openly announce that they will go alone to theatre lecture or concert when they wish and if afraid to do as the tile men do carry a pistol and defend themselves if necessary aw W S H 11 says that society is a dragon to devour women a bully gully to browbeat them as long as they will stand it a coward to cringe and fawn the moment it is faced and put down that she has no patience with women there is no esprit du corps about them each one wanting her own individual grievances settled and no one alses so no advancement is made W S irmy 1121 H further says she goes to lecture or concert with a lady when a gentleman cant be had that she would join any association of women who would come out openly and take their rights on the same footing as men as it can be done without losing dignity refinement or self respect that only a very small proportion of the tile community would trouble such women and that portion ig is either dangerous or contemptible that the latter must always be put down by never letting an insult pass that the dangerous class wamen women must take their chances against as do the men until laws and times ard are changed IW I W S H 11 it will be seen has a mind of her ow own n but does not touch the real re al issue issue that brought aught out the letter of anna L the other correspondent ioe coe E B C of sew kew york says to I 1 anna L 11 1 I do not wish or mean to say that tile the idea advocated by the lowell ladies which she seems disposed to second is irrational neither do I 1 wish to advance my ideas upon that subject but I 1 do dosay say that she is irrational in her complaints of society E B C 11 tells anna annab annal L 11 that it is her pride that enslaves her that she should no tallow herself to be shackled by the laws of society that slie she should strike off its fetters and proc proe proclaim hilm hiim herself a free woman that society can not compel a person to cut ills his or her throat nor should it impose upon humanity manity liu ilu laws which make life a burden that if anna ii lias has obeyed society to its fullest letter her reward is ica ila a contorted form I 1 ill lil il health unnatural manner peevish temper da discontented eod COD tented mind tortured brain and a generally unsatisfactory view of life I 1 that sod so j clety demands that you have no heart nor soul beyond fashion and dress but notwithstanding her protests E B C 11 acknowledges that she also is the slave of soei soel society et 11 she says III 1 I too live in in a ba boarding rd ing house society compels me to do it society ty acts upon her anna ii 1 directly and upon me indirectly and with society for our mistress wo we are both loveless and houseless 11 neither of these two ladies oppose the proposition of the lowell ladies neither seems to wish to say much about it E B C 11 says she sees bees nothing ir irrational ration 1 al in it and both half imply that if it were the law and were honored there would be no serious objection to it if f indeed they would not rejoice in the he privileges it conferred con eon upon women we do not see what reasonable objection the massachusetts legislature could adduce to granting the petition the pilvi privileges leges which such a law would confer would not abe e forced upon any person they would me merely rely reis be for such to take advantage 0 e of at wi chose of the irown own motion to do so and therefore there would be no great cause for complaint plaint there is one point of social eth ethics ies les which it might night be well for massachusetts chu and an all other legislators to consider and that is that although legislation even in this country has provided for the illegitimate and dishonorable gratification of the passions of nieu meu it never has sufficiently provided for or permitted sufficient scope for the legitimate at e and honorable gratification of the instincts of women in regard to the supremely important matters of marriage and maternity OAKES AMES amr it appears is rapidly passing pa asing away his greatest creates notoriety arose from his credit mobil ler leri operations but his ills name I 1 is eva everywhere lido well known als through I 1 liis his iron manufacture like brooks lie lio does not long survive the excitement of the tile last days of tile tiie last congress |