KANSAS AGITATOR : GARNETT, KAS., SEPT. 28, 1893.
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DOROTHY'S DEPARTMENTS
Conducted by DOROTHY DOLITTLE.
Annual Meeting of the Kansas
Equal Suffrage Association.
The fourth annual meeting of the
Kansas Equal' Suffrage Association
will be held at Holton, Nov. 8, 9
and 10. The executive committee
will meet at 2:30 p. ra., Nov. 8.
Mrs. Carrie Lane Chapman will be
one of the speakers in the conven
tion. Other speakers will be an
nounced later.
This meeting is of unusual im
portance, and full delegations from
all auxiliaries are expected.
The hospitable people of Holton
have proffered entertainment. Let
all friends of the pending amend
ment be in attendance. A meeting
of the suffrage amendment campaign
committee is called at 10 a.m., Nov.
11, at Holton.
Lauba M. Johns, Pres.
Annie L. Diggs, Vice Pres.
Anna C. Wait, Rec. Sec.
Elizabeth F.Hohkins, C.-Sec.
Mabtia L. Bebby, Treas.
May B. Bbown, Librarian.
Ella W. Bbown,
Att'y and Parliamentarians
On Woman Hufflrage.
The chief obstacle to woman suf
frage is not the hostility of men,but
the indifference of women. There
fore, if a sufficient number of think
ing women would assert their rights
regardless of prejudice, the rest of
the feminine world would not be slow
to follow, ani one of the strongest
arguments against granting women
the franchise would be removed.
"But what's the use of progessive
women trying to reform those
who do not want to be reformed?"
say some. Quite true. Did
our negroes want to be emanci
pated, or did they ask for suffrage ?
No. Our citizens thrust it upon'
them, for Abraham Lincoln knew
that by throwing the responsibility
on a people they are lifted, sobered,
broadened; besides, universal suf
frage is educational in itself.
There are 'more men ready to
grant the franchise than there are
women willing and ready to accept
it. The majority of or women, it is
said, would rather have privileges
than rights ; rather be decorous,
under the antiquated idea of deco
rum, and miserable, than comfortable
under the stigma of being con
sidered strong minded, because in
making the slightest deviation from
the old beaten tracks, women have
to endure an amount of ridicule that
is realised only when she endeavors
to throw off the shackles of public
opion and make a break in the
direction of more freedom, and rid
herself of the mediaeval idea that a
woman is a helpless, weak creature.
"The woman who does not realize
the injustice of the denial of equal
rights to her sex will be the excep
tion rather than the rule in the next
generation. And the slower, con
tented women are in appreciating
that they are excluded from citizen
ship, the longer will the ballot be
withheld from them." .This from
the faoile pen of Louise Mitchell,
whostaud8 ever ready to plead for her
sex. The dear, sisters who innocent
ly say they have no use for the bal
lot, no sympathy . with strong
minded women, . little realize the
harm they are unthinkingly doing.
How many of the pioneers iu this
movement remember when to be a
suffragist was looked upon in the
same light as it is to-day to be an
anarchist. When will womeu put
the full value on the ballot as a
weapon of protection?
In the event of woman suffrage be
ing established, our good women
need have no fear that they will
have to mingle with the lower and
degraded element of their sex at the
poll, "for," says an authority in the
North American Review, "the lower
class would hardly go to the noils,
because if they opposed the men
there would be strife; the fashion
able would hot because they do not
care; the philanthropic have too
much to do t ."ready with charitable
work; the great middle class, con
sisting of wives and daughters of
active men in the world's business,
is precisely that which we would
rely on for immediate moral influence
and which is desirable to rescue
from absorption in the common run
of mundane interests."
"How many girls," asked the
principal in one of our public schools,
"take an interest iu our constitution
and the laws of our country?" Up
went the hands of every girl in that
room. "I am glad to see you all so
enthusiastic," said the teacher, "be
cause the day is not far distant when
the girls wiil be the law-makers and
legislators of the land." Of course,
the boys tittered; the idea was so
laughable that ' they were good
humored over itl But that teacher
was just enough to know that
women ought to be granted the
frauchise, if not from a sense of
right, from very shame to withhold
it. Sara Tobias Drukker iu Wo
mankind. Some inagasiue has dubbed Mrs.
Potter Palmer, "the ' uncrowned
Queen of America.", This is . folly.
Mrs. Polmer would be the first one
to smile at this folly. All Ameri
can women are queens, Mrs.
Palmer's crown is her ability, her
success in her position Woman
kind for September. '
The Right to Live Single.
It has hitherto been the law in
Japan that if a woman was not
married by a certain age the au
thorities picked out a man and com
pelled him to mary her. The Mikado
has just abandoned this usage. In
future Japanese women will be
allowed to live and die maids, as in
European countries. Exchange.
The value of a vote was illustrated
recently in Iowa. A woman hold
ing property in her own name, or
having children of a scnool age, can
vote at any school election. At
Kenwood, Mrs. Carr voted to pay
certain tchool bonds instead of let
ting them run,' and tne proposition
was carried by a majority of one,
she being that majority. Woman's
Tribune.
There is more Catarrh in this
section of the country than all Other
diseases put together, and until the
last few years was suppoHed to be in
curable. For a great many years
doctors pronouncea it a local disease
and prescribed local remedies, and
by coustantly failing to cure with
local treatment, pronounced it in
curable. Science has ;, proven
catarrh to be a constitutional disease
and therefore requires constitutional
treatment. Hall's Catarrh Curt,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney &
Co , Toledo, Ohio, is the only con
stitutional cure on the market It
is taken internally in doses from 10
drops to a teaspoonful. It acts
directly on the blood and mucom
surfaces of the system. They offer
one hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Send for circulars
I and testimonials. Address.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Eight Great Speeches.
The Missouri World will, begin
ning October 11th, publish each
week for 8 weeks a great speech on
the money question. Speeches of
Senators Peffer a.id Stewart, Con
gressmen Sibley, Bryan, Simpson,
. Davis, Pence and. another yet to be
selected.' The World will be" sent
j the eight weeks for only ten cents.
.Send all subscriptions to Missouri
j World, Chillicothe, Mo.
If you want to know how to obtain cho!ce pre
miums, send TEN CENTS for FIVE
WEEKS trial subscription to
THE WOMAN'S TRIBUNE,
j Washington, D. C.
Everybody sending $1.00 before
Jan. 1, 1893,. will receive this na
tional weekly paper one year and
their choice of one of the great art
pictures in colors : Columbus Be
fore the Uourt oi eramana ana as
abella.and The Landingof Columbus
NOTICE.
Any one can obtain free
silver literature by ad
dressing, the Pan-American
Bi-Metallic League,
Denver, Colo., and enclos
ing postage for same.
DARE YOU READ IT?
"You dare not publish that story,"
said a prominent ''Board of Trade
man to the author of
WASHINGTON BROWN,
FARMER.
"I dare publish it if the people
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Washington Brown, FabusTr, by
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The flesh tints are perfect, and the eyes f ollow
you, no matter where you stand. The exqui
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such artists as Percy Moran,Maud Humphrey,
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