Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04

Tenth-That We affectionately urge
upon every suffrage worker the necessity
of taking up the social work during the
ensuing year in the way Of parlor meet
ings. readings, or any other means that
the local associations can devise.
The report was adopted unanimously.
| The convention then adjourned until 7:30
p. N.
| EVENING SESSION.
At $50 p. m. the president called the
convention to order N Garfield opera
house. There was large audience pres
ent. After prayer the president introduc-
ed Mrs. Morgan, mayor Of Cottonwood
Fails, who read the following letter from
Colonel William 4. Phillips:
MOUNT BARBARA, Silina, Sept. 80, 1889.
My Dear Madam:-You were kind
enough to ask me to attend the Equal Suf-
frage convention at Wichita, and as it
was impossible TO be present TO write a
letter 10 it on the subject. However, re-
luctant to obtrude my opinions, the ques-
tIon OF equal suffrage IS one that both
sexes may properly consider. / have been
asked to write such a letter before, and re-
! Trained for several reasons, but II an ex-
preston of opinion would be of any service
TO course which has always had my sup
port and sympathy l ought not to with
| hold it.
When the state constitution was first
framed | favored a complete equal sui
| frage, but the friends of the measure had
! to content themselves with voice for
women in all school questions. | little ex-
| pected then that a quarter of century
would elapse before equal political rights
| would be given.
| favor equal suffrage, being a devout be-
/
all persons of mature age in the interests
and power OF existing govern
ments While there may be
different capacities among men, and
| also among women, it is safest to in
! trust each person with the custody and
! power to preserve their own right, rather
/ than delegate them TO any guardian how
| ever perfect l am, also, and IN this con-
uection rigid believer in the sacredness
/ OF the relation between husband and wife,
/ feeling sure that the tie viii be strongest
| when it Is perfectly equal and fair l also
favor the suffrage Of woman because L
! think that it would introduce an element
/ into social, local and political manage
ment that will tend TO elevate and purify.
! All moral reformers would therefore secure
an accession of strength. At one time
it was considered discreditable for women
to attend public meetings. Since she has
attended them they have become respecta-
Die. AZ no TelnUtc NOt44oi was
said to ''unsex herself when she wrote
for the press. Now many of our
best writers are women. | firmly believe
that every new avenue that is opened TO
her genius and skill viii result to benefit
to society.
| have, therefore, little patience
with thoughtless persons who scott
suffrage is a failure" 1t never
can be failure to give a man the
! power to better defend his own rights.
am not inSensible to the fact that many
unfranchised negroes make bad use OF
the suffrage. So DO many worthless white
men. For my own part | feel
very well assured that many of the
triumphs of christianity sprang from the
elevation OF woman. Mohammedanism
degraded, christianity lifted up, and SO we
have ushered in the glorleS of modern
christendom. Very sincerely yours,
WILLIAM 4. PHILLIPS.
The resolution committee reported as
follows:
Firsr-Resolved, That we are profoundly
grateful TO all the various organizations
educational. religious and politlcal-for
the recognition which they have accorded
to women in their platforms and declara-
tions of principals; and further
Resolved, That our special thanks are
due to the Republicans OF Kansas for the
partial enfranchisemeut OF women and
that we confidently look to them IS our
friends in the past, to cOncede, in the near
future to our demand for perfect equality
OF right to women.
Second-Resolved, That as the women
of Kansas have had conferred upon them
one of the mlghtiest OF weapons for the
eradication of vice from our cities, IN the
municipal ballot, greater effort be made
to arouse the women of our state to their
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the attendance of the women OF every dis
trlct at school elections and impress upon
them the Importance of at least one woman
on every school board.
Third-Resolved, That the Kansas Equal
Suffrage association in convention assem-
bled, again urge congress to submit a
proposition to so amend the national con-
stitution as to prohibit the disfrenchise-
ment of United States citizens on account
OF sex.
Fourth-Resolved, That we ask the leg
islature to enact a law which shall provide
for the government of primary elections by
the same legal restrictions which control
regular elections.
Ftfth-Resolved. That we continue to
ask for an amendment 20 cur law provld-
ing for the state board of trustees Of charl-
table institutions so as to make manda-
tory the appointment OF at least two Wo-
men thereon.
Sixth - Resolved That all organized
bodies of women petition their city coun-
cils to pass such ordinances as will secure
the enforcement OF the law prohibiting the
sale of tobacco TO minors.
Seventh-Resolved, That woman Is nat
urally endowed with equalinteilect, morals,
wants and faculties as man; that her du-
ties ank services are of equal value with
mankind, and that the present unsettled
social condition is largely due 10 her dis
franchlsemelt.
Eighth-Resolved iThat the home and
institutions III which women are recoG-
nized equally with man are most staple
and enduring. That liberty and equality
are not secured TO all while women are
classed with criminals and idiots.
Ninlh-Resolved, That we acknowledge
our gratefuluess to the Republican party
of South Dakota for having declared ont
Spokenly for woman's ballot and prohibit
tion, and for nominating for officers men
committed to these principles
Tenth-ResolTed, That the women OF
Kansas tender their deepest sympathy to
their sisters in Washington territory in
their recent deprivations of the rights of
citizenship. and that we cannot express
our deep indignation at the action of the
politicians in the late territorial congress.
Eleventh-Resoived, That we condemn
as without excuse, as unstatesmanike and
as unworthy of themselves and their con-
ssituents, the action of our state senator's
in passing senate bill No. 3;
and We call upon mothers and
fathers of daughters and sons to de-
mand that when our senator's again under !
take To amend our present law that they
give the matter s1fhcient thought 10 en-
able them 10 make the law provide pro-
vide protection for boys without depriving
girls OF the protection they now have
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