WOMAN'S RIGHTS.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 59, 26 August 1875, Page 7

WOMAN'S RIGHTS.

The following are the opening sen- •! fences on this subject by Mrs Skinner : ; Miss President, feller w-immen and J male trash generally — T.am here to-day ] for the purpose of discussing Woman's rights, recussing* her wrongs, aud cuss- ' ing the men. ' I believe sexes were created perfectly 3qual, with the woman a little more than the men. I also believe that the world would ; to-day be happier if man had never existed. As a success man is a failure, and I I bless my stars that my mother was a woman. (Applause.) I not only maintain their principles, but maintain a shiftless husband be sides. They say man was created first. Well, suppose he was. Ain't first experiments alw.-vys ieilures. Iff was a betting man, I would -bet 2.50 dols tbey are. The only decent thing about him was a rib, and that went to make something better. (Applause.) And then throw in our faces about taking an apple. I'll bet five dollars that Adam boosted her up the tree and only let her have the core. And what did he do when he was found out ? ' . True to his masculine instinct he sneaked behind Eve's Grecian bend and said " Twan't me •' '.Twas her," and woman has had to father 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 pf gore. (Sensation). .