The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1886-07-08
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The campmee ting held ia Oakdale
Park, opened It's first session on the
morning Of July LIST with q very small
audience In attendance. This camp
meeting had been advertised widely
and industriOusly, bat Thursday
mornings empty seats demonstrated
the difficulty Of interesting SaIina
people In temperance work. and Of
impressIng the public with the fact
that rare opportunity was offered
Of hearing speakers OF widely &C.
knOWledged ability. So great is the
rush Of business, the multiplicity Of
engagements, 30 full Of affairs seem
every bOdy's hands aud hearts, that
only the most berculean efforts In ad-
vertising arrests the attention OF Sa-
lima and Saline county people. Il Is
possible that Sallna Is too much bless-
ed with rich treats 10 make all these
undertakings easily successful, but
with thoroughly advertised pro-
gramne, upon which appeared names
representing superior ability and
national reputation, and an adequate
appreciation Of the movement, ought
10 have brought out an encouraging
audience on the frat day. Mrs. @. 81.
81. Johns lecture In the afternoon Of
the tirst day, was as full Of sparkle as
Il was Of convincing argument and
profound truth. MIS-. st. Johns lie.
teners regretted nothing but that her
address was heard by 30 few aud
that she must leave the camp TO I'LL
another engagement. Mrs. st. John
is constantly In the field.
Rev. Geo. H. Vibbert, Mass, Of
the Universalist church, delivered q
most impressive lecture In the even
ing before a deeply interested audi
ence. His second lecture on Friday
evening, upon, woman aud Intem-
perance" was pronounced even q
more able effort than the first. Mr..
Vibbert presented some disagreeable
facts after q pungent fashion entirely
his own. We are sorry the limits Of
our space will not permit rs to give
any extracts from his lectures, and
satisfy ourselves therefore by saying to
our readers, "YOu ought to have been
there" Friday morning was given
up to service for colOred children con
Quoted by Mrs, F. E. Harper, Nation.
81 SuPt. Of w. G. T. U. work among
the cOlored people.
Friday afternoon exercises were Ia
charge of Mrs. Anna @. Walt, Presi-
dent Of the Kansas Equal Suffrage
Association, aud opened with the
reading Of an appropriate paper by
Mrs. Wait. Then followed q num-
Der Of short talks by Mrs. RAstall,
Mrs. Wickens, Mrs. King. Mrs. Had
ley aud Miss Susan B. Anthony, that
pioneer Of the Equal Suffrage cause.
Miss AnthOny's old friends were de-
lighted to see that time has been very
kind to her, and to learn that she hsd
lost none OF her old power. For six
years she has been out Of the lecture
deld, occupied In compiling the His
tory OF Woman Suffrage. Miss An
thongs presence on the stand was
hailed with delight, aud the audience
and the speakers Wed with each other
In doing her merited honor.
Mrs. Clara B. Colby, editor Of the
Womdn's Tribune, Beatrice, Neb., de-
llvered the address Of the afternoon,
in which she showed why women
should be In the possession Of the bal
lot and considered a few Of the rea-
sons offered for not putting her in
possession thereof. Mrs. Colby never
falls to interest her listeners and held
her audience on this occasion through
an hour aud q half. Then followed q
conference meeting devoted TO the
consideration Of measures and me ans
for the advancement OF the Equal
suffrage movement. The discussion
Of the value Of petltlOnlng Legisla-
lures aud Congress, and Of petition
work among the people, developed
widely differing theories. II having
been decided that petitions should be
presented this year to this legislatures
and congress, the question rose g TO
which should be petitlOned for, munie-
ipal suffrage, or the submission Of an
amendment enfranchising Kansas wo
men. Tho Kansas E. 8. A. will PEE
tition for municipal suffrage and for g
Sixteenth amendment. Miss AnthO-
uy's address was the principal feature
Of the forenoon Of Saturday. She be-
gan by sketching the idea Of the fran
ohise according to the constitution.
Showed bow inconsistent IL the
phrase 1--WE, the people," In the Ma
uonal and State constitutions, while
women have no voice IN the enact
mentOf law. She spoke Of the begin
ming Of the organized work In Ameri-
q almost forty years ago and the petit
liOning Congress 10 omit the word
male" from the 14th amendment.
Kansas sent 10000 names 20 that pc
titlOn. She then sketched some early
experience OF her 0Wn In Kansas con
tresting tho consideration given 10
the opinions aBd interests Of the col
ored man before and amer enfran-
ehisement. aid pointing women TO
the fact that their vOteless condition
condition makes their petitions Of
light weight. Miss AnthOny said that
In Eve states, an amendment TO en-
franchise women had been submitted
70 the people-lhst Is, 70 the men
only 10 be voted down, and that wO-
man suffrage found ils advocates
not among the ignorant and vicious,
but among the best and most cultiva-
ted that It is a question Of brains,
and that therefore women should
carry their canse before the statesmen,
and not the rank and die. She urged
strongly that Kansas women work to
procure municipal suffrage, which
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