The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-11
A WOMAN WANTS TO BE HEARD.

| To the Editor Of the Eagle.
| If you are not overburdened with an
swers to the letter of Mrs. Hogan which
appeared yesterday, will you kindly give
place to few lines? In the first place,
in regard to Speaker Elders protest:
Could the people who will be living 200
years from now be favored with a sight
of that document, they would PROBABLY
look upon it much the same as we do
now upon old Salem days and the doings
of John Endicott and Cotton Mather,
for as surely as we live the world does
move and no earthly power can hinder
it. Could Mrs. Hogan have seen the
EAGLE of yesterday, she would have
found upon the same page as her letter
one of the answers to her protest in the
following item:
Mrs. Cora Bacon Foster, of Houston,
one of the most successful real estate
agent in Texas. has immortalized herself
by voting at the election held on Monday
in that city to amend the charter, claim
ing her right to vote on the ground of be-
ing a property holder. She is the first
woman that ever voted in TeXas-Laredo
Gate City
hOulu uO0 NOiIlcil III w ICillld
be glad TO vote, upon the same ground.
and would not their husbands be glad to
have them do so? Whatever may be our
ideas of universal suffrage, tits generally
conceded that women who are property
holders in Wichita, should have some
thing to say with regard to taxes and
the disposition of money: something TO
say in choice of prohibition. high license,
or open saloons; something to
say with regard to proper
teachers and management of the
schools where their children spend so
large portion of their time Were
good women on the school board /
doubt if we should see the untidy array
of wooden buckets which greets our
eyes in every ward, condemning q sweet
mouthed girl to drink after tobacco
chewing and cigarette smoking boy.
/ have never understood that calling
names was using argument, but it is evil
dent that Mrs. Hogan does not hold the
same views when she saws: The propa-
gators and agitators of this bill are mere
scheminc, designing, female politicians,
for the most part husbandless. homeless,
childless. friendless adventuresses. seek
ing notoriety.
TOT myself. L nave never Deen what Is
termed ''suffragist," but l have been
a teacher, and am a mother: but
| do not need 10 be any one of
these. to enable me 10 hold the opinion
that no woman ever wrote that sentence.
However it NAV be in Ravenna, the fact
Is. in Wichita, that 1.-THE agitators Of this
bill' are ladies who have given twenty
of the best years of their lives TO the in
terests of the town in every wav, and
either they or their husbands are prop
erty holders, having acquired what they
possess by their own toll and privation.
If some OF these women were upon the
school toard, suppose there is no doubt
bat that long ago we should have had
public library as large as that of Pea
body. which numbers 1000 volumes, the
gift of the man for whom the town was
named. We NAV not particularly want
suffrage bill for women: neither did
Mr. Lincoln particularly want the eman-
cipation bill to come in just the time and
form In which il debut ii came. and
came 10 stay. MARY C. ToDD.
Paramount, March :.