Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-11-23
ovERMYER's ORATORY.
Some Ringing Words Prom A Man of
Whom All Kansas is Proud.

|
paign Hon. David OvermYer, of To
peka, said: What has injured this
state more that PETER and all the pop
| ulistic talk is that statute known as the
prohibitory law. Who can tell the
number of people who have passed over
and around Kansas who might have
settled here had it not been for that
| ubiquitous law? The statute has not
only driven people and their money
out of the state, but it has robbed
citizens of their property. The prohib-
tory law has TILED up Topeka with a
gang of people that has throttled the
editor of the Capital, and he dares not
print paper on Monday. for fear
these pious men and women will go
after him for allowing his men to work
Sunday. So much for prohibition.
There is one other foul blot on the
escutcheOn of Kansas that has injured
the state, and that is the political prop
uganda in the Kansas building at the
Worlds fair. A million people will
tell 10 ,000, 600 more that Kansas is d
cracks hest. Burton is opposed to
prohibition and he is a friend of the
state, but as member of the board of
commissioners he dared not demand its
removal because he could not endure
the scorpion lash Of the cranks. Let
the republicans remember that their
prohibition is responsible for the great
est ills of Kansas"
The suffragists object to the express
ion, ''woman,s sphere" and sheer and
scott at it. The fact remains that
woman has her sphere, or, if they pre-
fer it, her duty. The glory of man is
strength and power. The glory of
woman is grace, beauty, kindness,
charity, chastity. 1t is becoming in a
man to do great thing. 1t is becom-
ing in woman to do nice. beauti-
full, kindly or gracious thing. Mans
sphere is the domain of force. Woman's
sphere is the realm of love. Her mission
is nature, consolation, paciication,
comfort, peace. Man s mission is work
contentment, achievement, protection,
coercion, dominion, strife, battle. The
opposite capacities of men and women
| are deeply found in nature, and no law
can blot them out, and no law is ration
al which disregards them. Neither
men nor women can escape their lot.
1t is the order of nature, the fiat of the
| Almighty. Each is fitted for the life
work assigned to each by the Ruler of
| the universe. Each is untitled for the
other, and there will be found in their
respective spheres ample work to &C.
cupy the energies Of each therein.
Any law the tendency of which is to
throw woman out of her realm into the
realm of man and encourage her to do
acts which look big and great and
which will show proweess, must result
in evil, for it stimulates woman to I'M
sex herself and to do big, strong, great
and manly things. These lead to i'm
modesty, coarseness and vulgarity.
When womaEly modesty is gone the
charm of womanhood is gone. Wife
hood and maternity, the proper culture,
rearing and edicatiOn of Children, with
those numberlesS occupations for which
women are peculiarly adapted, will fur
| nish ample scope for the employment
of all of the energies Of all true women.
Let the suffragists deny this directly
if they dare before the self-respecting
men and women of this country.
What prouder honor can any true
woman wish than to be the mother of a
promising, healthful child? How can
the mother preform her duty towards
the child without being constantly
with it for at least tile first fifteen years
of its life? If she is faithful to this
trust how can she be politician, and
if she becomes a politician how much
better is the child than if she had be-
come insanely undomestIcated and in
different to her home on account of any
other outside craze, allurement or at
traction? If there is one spectacle
more pitiful than that of little children
forgotten and abandoned by their
mother it is that of humane, but for
gotten, father and husband attempting
to comfort them.
LET AMBITIOUS WOMEN PAUSE
Let the ambitious women pause be-
fore they essay to do mems work. Let
them remember two things: First,
that they are unfit to do mems work.
Second, that they can not even attempt
it without sadly neglecting their own.
Who cares for the poor, deserted chill
dren of the female orators and states
men? If ever in happier days she held
a mothers love for them, how wistfully
at nightfall they must look for her
return And if ever she was d
true mother, how her mother heart must
ache TO be with them. And as for the
old man, God pity and help him.
No true man will contend with
woman, aud no true woman will con-
tend with man. If women should