The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-29
GIVE THEM A CHANCE TO BLUSH.

Tho Wichita EAGLES method OF nghtlne
the woman suffrage principles is personal
abuse and vulgar and scurrilouS attacks upon
the women from abroad who are agitating the
suffrage cause in the state. Ifdignity, ability
in argument, control of temper and good
breeding are part of the qualifications for the
ballot, it would be difficult for the EAGLE To
prove itself better qualified to vote than the
women who are speaking in favor OF the
amendment.-Topcka Capital.
The Capital will find misrepresenta-
ton less effective ana more despicable
than even scurrility. The EAGLE has
been neither abusive or vulgar In the
discussion of the female suffrage ques-
ton. 1t has been personal, and expects
to be, when it comes to the women who
have invaded Kansas and are pursuing
Its citizens from county to county with
proposition 50 sweeping and subVerslve
that the states from which these ''women
from abroad" respectively hail will not
hear them, nor consider their d.sqnIei1ng
chimeras and untried half-caste plots.
The EAGLE has talked more from the
also of the scheme as being favorable to
continuous Pop rule; as one preJudIc.al
to immigration and discouraging to
foreign capital and enterprise and, also,
of it as a source of marital contention
and the sure precursor of weakened
church influence and a lowering
of moral standards; SO the Capitals
gratuitous slur of want of dignity
and good breeding upon our part, don't
hit nor fit. IT. is quite certain that IL is
fully as much the part OF good breeding
for an editor to remain in his place, de-
tending the social and political purity of
his state from the alterations Of wivern
women who periodically desert their
homes for the purpose of spending their
improbable time in boring legislative
bodies of other states into submitting
idiosyncratic propositions to their con-
stituents, and who afterwards put in
other months haranguing such people
on their ignorance and otherwise goad-
ing them into consenting to absurd con-
stitutional amendments and extreme
laws, as they have done for, and in Kan
sas, only to make the state byword
and hiss to the other sixty-five millions
of level headed and better seIf-contained
people who have too much dignity"
ability and ''good breeding" TO loan
themselves to the projects and ques-
Gonable ambitions of lot of old
women and their peripatetic and rest
less but not less abnormal contingent of
younger ones, none of whom have any
use for the things God ordained while
putting in their lives endeavoring to
kick over all that man has secured and
is attempting, for himself and his kind.
As for anything farther, the EAGLE
will handle this female suffrage cata-
clysm in its own way, which will be
decorously decent, but none the less of
vigorous virility. While we shall in
duIge in no language that could shock a
real mother or self reliant and true
womaniy woman, there will be little
danger of Us disturbing the egotistical
equanimity, or of penetrating the hides
of those garrulous rangers whose
gad-fy methods first secured the
submission Of the question, and
whose masculine prediction and
male bias make them sat home" facing
any crowd, anywhere, night or day. If
the Capitol and its effeminate coterie of
finicky editors find that they can't stand
the homely thrusts and plain words of
the EAGLE. they will be permitted to
seek seclusion long enough to indulge in
a blush or the like for relief or otherwise
do that which would be more natural,
conceal themselves in petticoats until
the battle between this strange muster
of female invaders and the EAGLE is
fought to finish.