And then he went
on to state that this meetin' wuz called to show to the world, abroad and
nigh by, the burnin' indignation this body felt, as a society, at the
turrible sufferin's and insults bein' heaped onto their male brethren
in England by the indecent and disgraceful doin's of the militant
Suffragettes, and to devise, if possible, some way to help their male
brethren acrost the sea. "For," sez he, "pizen will spread. How do we know
how soon them very wimmen who had to be spit on and struck and tore to
pieces in Washington to try to make 'em keep their place, the sacred and
tender place they have always held enthroned as angels in a man's heart--"
Here he stopped and took out his bandanna handkerchief, and wiped his eyes,
and kinder choked. But I knew it wuz all a orator's art, and it didn't
affect me, though I see a number of the members wipe their eyes, for this
talk appealed to the inheriant chivalry of men, and their desire to protect
wimmen, we have always hearn so much about.
"How do we know," he continued, "how soon they may turn aginst their best
friends, them who actuated by the loftiest and tenderest emotions, and
determination to protect the weaker sect at any cost, took their valuable
time to try to keep wimmen down where they ort to be, _angels of the
home_, who knows but they may turn and throw stuns at the Capitol an'
badger an' torment our noble lawmakers, a-tryin' to make 'em listen to
their silly petitions for justice?"
In conclusion, he entreated 'em to remember that the eye of the world wuz
on 'em, expectin' 'em to be loyal to the badgered and woman endangered sect
abroad, and try to suggest some way to stop them woman's disgraceful
doin's.
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