Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1886 — A Telling Speech. [ARTICLE]

A Telling Speech.

A Western correspondent sends the, following: I recently listened to a debate in one of the school lyccums of this city upon the novel and momentous question of “woman suffrage.” The debater upon the “anti-woman” side was doubtless engaged in his first effort, and this fact, together with a slight impediment of speech and a most, original series of arguments, combined to produce one of the funniest and most unanswerable speeches that I had ever, heard. Here it is, almost in full: “Ladies and gentlemen, the first thing to find out is w-w-wliat man was m-made for, and what w-w-woman was made for. God created Adam first, and put him in the Garden of Eden. T-then He made JEve, and p-put her there too. If He hadn’t c-c-created Eve, there never would have been all the s-s-sin there is now in this w-world. If He hadn’t made Eve, she never would have p-p-picked the apple and eaten it. N-n-no, she never would have picked it and g-given it to Adam to eat. Paul in his epistles says w-w-women should k-k-keep still. And besides, 1-ladies and gentlemen, women couldn’t fill the offices. 1 d-d-defy anyone to p-point out a woman in this city or e-c-county that could be sheriff. Would a woman t-tum out in the dead of night to track and arnest a m-m-mnrderer? I say n-no! Ten to one she would elope w-w-with him!” And amid thunders of applause and laughter the gallant defender of man’s rights triumphantly tpok his seat .—Editor’s Drawer, in" Harper’s Magazine. In private, we must our thoughts; in the family, our tempers; in company, our tongues.