Wichita eagle., 1888-07-17
THE EAGLE THE CHAMPION OF WON
ANHOOD.
A Few More Declarations, and Sugges-
tons for Female Suffragists TO
Grind Over.
O,r Matilda Fletcher incursion seel

il. Ills llOl We nav s~AAOhANA
prominent lady. Before night others no
doubt, mayhap Matilda, herself, will be
heard from.
While this promises to be single
handed combat upon our part as against
host, the shrinking, if any, wont be on
this side. That's understood.
There is another point that may as well
be settled before the order is given
for a charge along a line where
male and female panoplys and attires
will get badly mixed, and that is we
want it distinctly understood that we
appear only as the champion and de-
tenders Of women as against the designs
and Vaccinations of few of their own
sex who in their ambition to be what
they are not, would sacrifice not only
their sisters, but everything which their
sons and husbands hold dear-distinctly
understood that we are the champions
and defenders of five thousand at least
of sweet and quiet mothers and daugh-
tiers of Wichita, alone, who are upon our
side, and being all unwilling to make
themselves heard, yet who like the silent
stars that begem the heavens with their
constant glory, SO the benign influence
Of these queens of our Wichita homes
falls like benediction upon our head,
sustaining and encouraging while our
heart reaches out and upward to them
in alteration.
These female sulfragists remind US,
during a campaign, Of shop full OF
Waterbury watches, every one properly
bolstered and nicely cottoned up, and
their clickety-clicks all right, but one
gets too many of them for dollar.
Mrs. st. c., in another column, won
ders why the ballot is not, then, given
to the women at once. Well, if she
must know, it is simply because the
women have never asked it.
Her next point is a ref
erence to Anna Dickinson. That
was an unfortunate citation. The
stump beat Anna D., one of the most
promising women, but who now is sim
ply nobody. AS for female plank in
the Chicago platform, if Mrs. st. c. can't
see that it would not only have defeated
the party but would have utterly de-
stroyed it, we hardly expect that it will
be possible for her to understand some
things what we shall say. AS for dyna-
mite and blood, Mrs. Lease, Mrs. st.
Clair, nor Mrs. Anybody else need under
take to convince Us that women are not
equal factors, with an equal voice, in the
nihilistic and anarchy parties, nor that
women were not the very leaders in the
commune. As for her ailusion to Mrs.
Parsons, undoubtedly she ought
to have been hung. Parsons
was bright but harmless printer-boy be-
fore he fell under the influence Of that
female-suffrage, equal rights woman,
his wife. AS for the poor woman whom
Mrs. st. Clair says was beaten and driv-
en- from her home last Friday night by
her brutal husband, we ask in turn how
much had the ballot elevated him and
how far would it have gone to
save that ''4ueen of home had she had
the ballot also? But few u ther trutl
and observations may serve 10 stir these
longing unhappy ones up little, even if
we fail to further enlighten their unhap-
Ply souls.
We said in our reply to Mrs. Lease
that 1t was not natural for men to fight, |
to fight about anything or nothing, |
unless restrained by women. We should |
have qualified that. a man wont fight |
4 woman unless there is another woman |
IN the case, and even then it is more
than a conflict with ghosts |
n an unnanny graveyard before the |
moon rises. A man can't successfully |
light woman. That's settled. Physi- |
ally he may crush her but in all else
;he is too lofty for his weapons. We
10 not include in these last sentences, |
,emale equal sutfragists. Besides no
BODY knows whether they could be sue
crushed or motive suspect not.
If the women-agaln we are not speak
ng of female equal suffragists-if the
Of this glorious free country
wanted to vote or wanted to do anything
Use from conviction or q demand OF
heir womanh0od we would ike to
Know who could prevent them? There
would be no fight nor even a discussion
over the matter. She would have it as
ncontestably, as effectually, and with as
title effort as she commands the love
md respect of her sons or that she sways
he spirit Of her husband.
And here is where the equal suffrag-
sts,S of both sexes, show themselves all
Unequal in a fight in which they assume
hat they have the sympathy of the great
,ody of women of the land, when they
10 not now, nor never Will have. until
nsn are far better and more pure than
hey are now.
a few more words touching principle
Shich We are only sorry that ohr oppo. +
tents will, in all probability, be unable
,rasp, but which will be understood by
he queens of home" to whom we al
uded in our Matilda lecture.
The fundamental trouble with all these
emale suffragistS of both sexes is their
deal of womanhood is too low. They
Utterly fail to recognize, or if recogniz-
ng TO understand. the essentials of wo-
manhood. They never get above the
Their conception of wo-
nan is but female-man. Out of the
i've or six hundred persons of both sexes
n Wichita who demand public life and
he ballot for women, not one of them
odds a higher estimate Of womanhood,
T believes that woman is more than