Women's Rights and Wrongs.
_ The following appears in 'the « London Hornet ' : — . ' "
' To, the Editor: : s;ir,-Yours is onVof the few papers not afraid to discuss great ques- % fe " le8 ? 1 y- X hope you. are not afraid of the Woman Question; or, of me. I am never backward iri coming forward in the noble cause of womaq, and am ' ever ready to discuss the subject argumentaI believe that the. Sexes were created perfectly equal, with the woman '* ;' little more equal than the man. . * . a ! 8 °! believe that the world would be happier to-day if man had never existed. As a creature; man isa failure! and I bless my stars that my mbtherwa's-a woman. I not- only maintain these' prihcipies, but I maintain a husband besides. ; J •'. They say man was created first* ! First experiments are always a failure, ' f An d„tfren they throw it into our face about Eve taking an apple; ' •---•' What did Adam do when he was found out? "• - ' -y- ' J -' ; uuu ■-?&£ to t . bi f ; mascdlinp ihstincts, he. - v ®' 8 Grecian Bend, and' said^Twastfty'mer v'twas -her;" ' and woman has had to father Everything since, and mother it too. ' .-*'•»** '-• -q ' J:^^ l^e want isf the ballotvanfl the bal M^ei>ound to have^f: we let down WRmbair and swim in a sea'of sanguin■arygoreV . ■-.- n '■? "
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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 20, 26 November 1874, Page 6
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