River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-06-22
What Men Say.
Public men are awaking to the
question of woman suffrage.

Public men are awaking to the
question of woman suffrage.
Gov. Flower, of New York, in mis-
message advocated giving representa-
ton to woman suffragists in the COM
ing constitutional convention.
Senator Warren of Wyoming said:
81 am heart and soul in favor of giving
women the ballot Senator Mitchell,
of oregon says: ~ am heartily in ia
vor of an amendment 70 the constitu-
ton giving women the right to vote. "
Representative Boutelle, of Maine.
says: Il believe in woman suffrage"
Gen. Hemphill, of the South Carolina
Senate offered a resolution to amend
their constitution to allow women to
vote and hold Office. He says: sit
will not be long before we shall have
equal rights in South Carolina. In
support of this resolution the "Repub
lican and Banner" said: Woman
suffrage is right woman suffrage is
coming-and when they acquire the
right to vote the women will vote
right" "The Cotton Plant" in COM
ment: woman is always on the side
of right and progress" Gov. Routt,
of Colorado recommended in his in
augural message the extension of
franchise to woman. The Arizona
Daily Gazette says. young man
make your record. Just so sure as
slavery was abolished and freedom
made part of the constitution of this
republic, just so sure will that same
grand constitution be amended so that
the women of this country can vote. :"
The Kansas City (MissouTD Daily
Journal says: The voting of women
has not changed the natural order of
things or affected the wheat crop. But
il has done one thing, it has shown old
fOgieS that the world can move with
out catastrophe. The Boston Budg-
ct said: "Eighty-iive per cent of all
the women in Kansas who were en-
titled to suffrage cast their ballots.
As a sign of the times this event is
entitled to serious consideration.
The New York Herald had an editOri-
al entitled woman Suffrage Gaining
The New York Record said: THE
women of Kansas have certainly dis
PEELED the fictions that have so long
been used as arguments against the
enfranchisement of their SEX" The
The New York Sun which was form
erly violent in opposition to the reform
DOW says: AT some time or other
women are bound to share with men
the responsibilities of government by
universal suffrage and that time may
be near at hand.
The Wyoming legislature unani-
mously adopted concurrent resolutions
respecting the voting of women, too
long to use here, in which they say
land as result of experience we urge
every civilized community on earth to
enfranchise its women without delay"
This was also endorsed by the Cover.
nor, and chairman of the Democratic
state committee.
Hamilton Wilcox, of New York,
says: 1.-THE hopeless exclusion of any
class from all share in the govern
ment which they have to live under
and help support, is foul, disgrace
full, tremendous wrong, as vile and
wicked as war. slavery. piracy, or any
other organized public oppression"
Coming years will admit the truth of
this sentence from Parker Pillsbury
Those women VINO say they do not
want to vote are the tories, or the
towards of woman's revolution.
c. Y. LAYTON.
Richland Center, May 10.