The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-11-20
10. THE POOR KANsAN.

The Tribune does not need to speak of
| its great admiration for Woman. With
out her, this would indeed be cherries
world. 1t might be quieter world, and
calmer world, and a world with smaller
bills for dry goods, but it would still be
bleak, cold, forbidding world, which
would continue to get worse the longer
it lasted. We shoulder to think of the
world at the end of undred womanless
years. But delightful as woman is and
must ever remain, how much deep sor-
row she otter brings to good men.
We hope we understand the danger of
even limiting that women has a sphere in
a contracted, pent-up Utica sense. The
boundless universe is wOman's sphere.
Some people have stopped denying this.
But how much trouble she makes for
man when she steps out of what was
supposed to be her sphere in the dark
ages which prevailed up to twenty, thir-
ty or forty years ago. There is 30 place
we suppose on the face of the earth we
inhabit where woman is so unfettered as
in the State of Kansas. Here she follows
out her manifest destiny and votes and
holds Office. Nature will always triumph
in the end. For long time woman was
unnaturally kept out of office: but it
could not go on forever.
Woman has come into her own in Kan
sas, but alas for man in Kansas. A few
days ago there arrived in Hiawatha, Kan
sas, several unprepOsSeSsing looking men
wearing stiff clothes which stood out
around them like high board fence
around base ball ground. After look
ing about town little, they lit their
pipes, produced great pals of paste, and
proceeded to cover every billboard in
the city with posters of a gorgeous and
startling nature. They were advance
biil-stickers for a certain London Gmety
Company, which, it appears,is composed
largely of young women. The pictures
represented these young people as
clothed in way which it would seem
should have delighted the dress reform
women of Hiawatha, since they showed
a pretty thorough emancipation from
skirts, but it seems that it did not. Tie
women of Hiawatha were scandalized.
They arose in body and proceeded to
the council chamber and demanded that
the obnoxious pictures be prohibited.
Unfortunately, the women of Hiawatha
neglected, at the last election, to see that
Aldermen were chosen from their own
sex. OF course, the men refused to in
terfere with the pictures, and each felt
not lost his complimentary ticket to the
performance. The women were indig-
nant, and left the chamber. Then, ac-
cording to the despatch, they EARNED
themselves with pitchforks and rakes
and scraped the bills from the boards"
They then declared the members of the
Council social outcasts and went home.
Nothing, we suppose, can be done
about this. OF course it is an outrage
on the men of Hiawatha thus to deprive
them of a chance for artistic study, but
what redress have they? None whatever.
In Kansas nothing is so supertluous as
man. Once he was powerful and his
voice was heard on public questions;
now he is seen but little, and in place of
the sound of his voice there is the harsh
scratch of the garden-rake and the four
tined pitchfork, as his wife and daugh-
tiers cultivate the bill-boards and tear
away pictures in which he formerly de-
lighted. The question of the depOrta-
ton of the Kansas man will yet find its
way into National politics. His most
sacred rights have been trampled on.
There has ceased to be any reason for his
further existence in that ate.-Tribune.