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268 hope you will at least accept this woman as a colleague, with equal rights, especially since she never sold adulterated drinks, and was very moderate in her prices.

(Mr. Backfuss rises.)

A. KOEHLER — Beg pardon, but are you not now an "editor?"

BACKFUSS — I have an engagement with a paper in New York.

(Leaves the hall.)

A. KOEHLER — Then he will change from a sutler into a muddler.

After Mr. Backfuss had withdrawn, another opponent succeeded him, a gentleman with the face of a fox, whose diplomatic self-complacent air betrayed the consciousness of his ability to greatly embarrass the ladies. He was a politician and editor from the West, who considered himself a great statesman, and his name was Schuerze.

MR. SCHUERZE — Ladies, I have followed your discussions with great interest, but do not presume to be able to give an opinion on the questions which are brought up here. The right of women is for you the chief, yes, the exclusive question, and you undertake to solve it at once. It seems to me that another question ought to be solved first, upon which the entire significance of this one depends. The question of woman's rights, as many another question, belongs to the realm of theory. Theoretical questions in themselves have no meaning in