The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the presentSherwood, John D.
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The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present
Sherwood, John D.
United States -- History -- Humor
Happiness, and not wealth, being thus the main pursuit, of course many
kinds of occupations, now called business, such as brokers,
money-lenders, etc., will cease, and those now engaged in these
so-called pursuits—of others, will look after the poor to minister unto
them and not to take them in. The superior claims of charity upon the
fortunate, who are now living, will naturally be enhanced by the fact
that, being at present in the world, they cannot reasonably expect to
live much longer than 1970, and may quit much earlier, leaving some
selfish heirs not disposed to divide except for an equivalent.
Many judges being released from their present arduous duties of so
administering law as to get re-elected—for then no one will value an
office so much a sinecure—will have some time, especially in New York,
to study law; and some courts of appeal can be repealed. The only
injunctions issued will be oral, delivered, not to railroad speculators,
but to indiscreet juveniles, unwarily betrayed into their first and last
offence. The expense of court-houses being thus partially saved, it is
expected, that the small unventilated places in which law is peddled out
will be enlarged, and a humane effort be thus made to save the exposed
lives of suitors, lawyers, jurors, and judges.
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will
naturally, with larger means, extend its operations, and embrace
employers, suffering from servants of independent ways, from domestics
who take six evenings in the week out, and allow their mistress one, and
who, for certain discreet considerations, not worth mentioning here,
permit those, who divide their estates with them, to occupy a portion of
the same house, on condition of not interfering with their separate
apartments.
We also take it for granted, that woman’s rights will not be wrongfully
urged or withheld; but will be so adjusted, that the public will
ascertain what some people would ask for, if they did not become
incomprehensible through abundant talking, or what—considering the
modesty of the applicants—they really ought to have, although they do
not clamor for it in a way that makes some suspect, that men are either
to be extinguished outright, or else kept for a few hundred years on
probation, until they shall have learned to be respectful, just, and
unmanlike.
In this coming good time, men and women are to be equal,—especially the
women. If any differences are discovered in any way between them, these
differences are to be submitted to conventions chosen by the wisest
women, and the differences either to be entirely suppressed, or the
dissenters all expelled from the United States. Uniformity is to be
secured at all hazards. If necessary, ballot-boxes will be attached to
cradles; and women, by any cause confined from active canvassing, will
be allowed to vote twice at the next election, in order to bring up
their rights to a point where nature left them.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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