Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-05
ANOTHER WOMAN THREATENS
WICHITA.

| TOPEKA, Sept. 8, 1883.
To the Editor of the Eagle.
Dear Sir: We have organized Wom-
ans Republican club, in one ward ~ &C
! cording to instructions of the National
Woman's club | shall be in your city
next Thursday, and would be glad to have
one of your Republican clubs call apubllc
meeting that | may address the same
with the object of getting acquainted with
| the Republican women OF Wichita. Let
| me hear from you at once, and greatly
oblige. Yours, fraternally.
Editor Topeka Argus.
We don't know Mrs. NJ. E. De Greer,
| much less do we know that she has any
authority to organize Republican club
in Wichita or anywhere else, Of women
or of anyone else. 1t is, or must be
equally true, that Mrs. NJ. E. De Greer
don't know the editor of the EAGLE, or
she would have hardly attempted to
utilize him in her efforts to persuade the
| women of Wichita to leave their homes,
to neglect their duty to society and
themselves and to abandon their other
pleasurable, profitable and refining
pursuits to waste time in going to pub
lie meeting to hear strange woman
descant about that Of which she only
knows theoretically or by observation.
In short the editor of the EAGLE fails to
see wherein there can be any profit to
the women of Wichita in following the
lead of a woman whose endowments and
wisdom, the chances are, does not ex-
coed those of the average Wichita lady.
As we have often remarked, women
who naturally take to public life are
very apt to take to doctrines so extreme
that were they backed by the physical
force of man would become very dam
gerous. Not knowing Mrs. NJ. E. De-
Greer, nor who pays her for this pro-
posed scheme of getting acquainted
with, talking to and organic
ing the women Of Wichita to
do an impossibility, or what
they couldn't do in the a bsence of a
modification of the fundamental law of
the state-to vote-we can't bring ourself
around to consenting to write to her. The
scheme may be paving to Mrs. NJ. +.
DeGreer, but the editor of the EAGLE fails
to see where or how it is to pay the
women Of Wichita.
OF the five or eight thousand mothers,
sisters, wives and daughters who bless
the lives of the men of Wichita and
make their homes the most desirable
place, this side Of heaven, we know of
only about a half dozen who aspire to
the kind of life Mrs. DeGreer seems to |
want to lead on to: and if Mrs. DeGreer |
amt a mighty sight smarter than her !
letter indicates, some of that half dozen |
can lift her clean out of her boots as |
public speakers and organizers. But !
we notice, and have noticed all through |
life, that the woman who once turns out |
as public advocate seldom holds to that |
which bestirred her first from her sphere, |
but soon goes whirling off to the ad
vocacy of unexpected if not of dangerous
loctrines-a Republican today, a Demo-
GRAFT tomorrow, a knight of this or a
union Of that the next, with the tincture
and essence of an anarchist and that of a
generally.
Not believing that the women of Wich-
ia are particularly disturbed by an over
anxiety to make the acquaint-
lnce of Mrs. NJ. E. DeGreer, politically
Of otherwise, and having declined to be-
a few weeks since, Mrs. DeGreer will
please excuse us from wasting our breath
IN her unknown behalf.