The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1884-12-11
ARILITY HAS no 81.

The following letters frra Hiss
Millard and d. TAona were
addressed to the illinois Equal suf-
frage Association, which mei al
Watseka, Sept 3 aud -. Mrs
Harbert's notes on this meeting were
published IN the inter Ocean:
SIS MONROE STREET, CHICAGO,
sept ., 1884.
Mrs. L. b. Harberi, President "
s. A so many and pressing are my
duties here that ] fear 10 Will not be
possible for me 10 attend the annual
meeting the 18th aud 18th inst.
I thank you for your kind invita-
ton, and desire 10 assure you OF the
deep and continued interest feel IN
the cause you represent.
How 70 govern the world Is every
day becOminga more serious question;
how 20 secure wise and Just legisla-
ton, 20 enforce law and correct eX-
isting ABUSES and corrupti0ns, and
10 lift our political lie out OF the aud
and mire into which 1t has sunk, Is
the greatest and most urgent demand
Of our times. II is admitted on all
hands that -Gcial reforms cannot
travel faster than the public sentl-
ment by which they must be sus-
tanned but we have the strange fact
in our Government that the women
Of the land, the ones 10 whom above
all Others we must look for this high
er sentiment, are shut out from any
effective part In public affairs.
We have gone on the strange theory
that the fact OF sex, and not the facts
Of intelligence and morality, should
confer the right Of franchise.
GIVE WOMEN TIE BALLOT
give them the power to make their
better feelings effective and they
would soon place society beyond
many OF the difficulties al which II
now halts.
But this, like every great reform
must be q work Of education. and
hence the movement must be slow
and many faithful souls must stand
long on the outside and wait and
knock at this door Of power before
those within will permit them TO en-
ter. Indeed, this political strong
hold can be taken only by siege, by
slow adVances-and this is being done
for already great armies Of women
are approaching through the profess
siOns Of law and medicine and the
ministry, and every such approach Is
gain In position and influence.
As women thus become workers
with men I'm practical affairs Of life
prejudice will give way and the need
Of her full participation and help con-
fessed and gladly welcomed.
Cordially, II. w. THOsiAs.
No lGl LAEALIF STREET. Chicago.
MY DEAR MRS. HARBERT-Please
say TO your good women so earnestly
working for wOman's enfranChise-
ment that the w. &. r. L., is working
side by side IN this endeavor, and be
lieves In SO doing the end il seeks, viz,
prohibition, will be the more quickly
and surely reached. We are BOW in
terviewlng each candidate nominated
by the various parties for the Legis-
lature in regard 10 his vote, II elected,
on woman suffrage. Next week we
shall publish the list, with the exact
position taken by each, and we desire
10 circulate this far and wide, so that
voters may choose on this line tf they
will. Can we depend on the W. S. A.
sisterhOOd 10 help us circulate these?
! trust, too, that in Your collective
wisdom some plan for carrying on the
battle In the Legislature will be ma
tured, and that our own State meet
ing may be i'm this way helped to
urge the cause upon our women in a
practical way.
With sincere desire for the triumph
Of the principle Of the equality of the
sexes and the eXpediency Of giving
woman the ballot, / am yours in the
work, MARY B. WILLARD.
Sup't Of Franchise, H., w. G.. T. L.