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Cromwell Argus, Volume 2, Issue 89, 25 July 1871, Page 3

Herewith we give a list of the few unquestioned rights of men, merely as a variation upon the "rights of women," which have been more fully discussed. The list, it may be mentioned, is not exhaustive : —To fight, to work at the plough, the sledge-hammer, the bellows, the anvil; to cut down trees ;to build houses ; to dig canals, construct railroads, make steam-vessels, cast cannon, create cities, climb to the ton of the mast when the seas roll and the winds blow ; to furl a sail that will save the lives of forty female passengers : to chuck coal into the furnace ; to feed the fire that heats the water that makes the steam that urges the ship that beara the husband that loves the wife to the house that love built in the city that men built; to stand in the pitiless storm at night, and guard the slumbers of a town ; or, in the front of battle, to brave the assault that would overwhelm ballet and bonnet, and life and liberty ; or, ■when the fierce flames lick the chamber, to mount through its terrors to save a woman who has fainted with a child clinging to her boßom ; and not to get the nicest part of a turkey or a chicken, or anything else, if a woman is by and wants t-hem.