WOMAN’S RIGHTS.

Evening Star, Issue 3679, 7 December 1874, Page 3

WOMAN’S RIGHTS.

The following are the opening sentences ot an address on this subject by Mrs Mose Skinner : —“ Miss President, feller wiinmin, and male trash generally, I am here to-day for the purpose of discussing woman’s rights, re-cussing her wrongs, and cussing the men. I believe sexes were created perfectly equal, with the woman a little more equal than the man. I also believe that the world would to-day be happier if man had never existed. Asa success man is a failure, and I bless my star’s my mother was a woman.—(Applause). I not only maintain these principles, but maintain a shiftless husband besides. They say man was created first.—Well, ’spose he was. Ain’t first experiments always failures'? If I was a betting man, I would bet 150 dollars they are. The only decent thing about him was a rib, and that went to make something better.—(Applause). And they throw into our faces about taking an apple; I’ll bet five dollars that Adam boosted her rrp the tree and only gave her the core. And what did he do when he was found out ? True to his masculine instincts he sneaked behind Eve, and said, ‘Twan’t me; ’twas her,’ and women had to father everything and mother it too. What we want is the ballot, and the ballot we’re bound to have, if we have to let down our back hair and swim in a sea of gore.—(Sensation.)”