The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-13


vocates of female suffrage are public
characters, having distinctively set
themselves up as such before the people,
thereby subjecting themselves, and but
fairly, TO just the, treatment that the in
dividual opponents in any public con-
test must expect and submit to. a
woman's public declarations are not
sacred from the fact that she is WON.
an, nor can the namby- PANTY eclesias-
teal tramp who follows in the rail of
her petticoats expect or demand immun-
| ity because he is only mouthing such a
woman's words. And it won't do for
| Miss Rev. Anna Shaw to screech at an
hour at stretch from every platform in
the state: "Murdock is a blackguard, -
simply because she finds herself unable
to overturn our declarations or to meet
our arguments; no more than will truth
be ennobled by Rev. Mr.. Or. George pro-
mitigating from the sacred desk, on the
holy Sabbath day, and to intelligent
people, that 1.-THE Wichita EAGLE is
more obscene and dirty than the Police
Gazette"
If it is underlined to say that all the
women advocates of female suffrage are
either old maids or barren wives, with
single exception and that of such moth
ers as rule their own roosts, then have
we offended, and are we an unlocked
cub. But it is the truth, and no pioneer
advocate of a proposed progression
should scout the truth, whatever the
source or however homely its applica-
ton.
Miss Susan B. Anthony, as the great
leader of sex-equality, knows nothing of
the tie of sex, the most potent influence
that enters into the life of every man
who is man. Mrs. Johns, the president
of the K. E. S. A., knows nothing of
the coming power of 3 mothers love
AID her home influence on a son.
Among all the coterie of women advo-
Gates of female suffrage in Kansas we
know OF but two women who are moth
ers, namely Mrs. Lease and Mrs Diggs.
But what of their homes? What would
it be were majority OF homes like
theirs? These are pure women-brainy
women, but will 1t be possible for their
children TO be normal men and women?
The former of these home-deserters once
read a paper before the Hypatia
club of this city on Unwilling
Motherhood" which, if it did not
poison the pure current of the lives of
several women at least shook the organ
ization from center to circumference.
The original pioneer of sex-equalitY and
cooperative homes, in Kansas, was IN
Intelligent meteor of almost magnificent
brilliancy. Her husband was a minister
of talent and refinement. Their home
was wrecked and he fills a drunkard's
grave. There IS not a man advocate of
woman's rights in this state today who
is as smart rs that woman who so Ionged
for her rights" but who was totally
untitled to make home happy, to have
a husband or to be 4 wife or mother.
If to cite such facts is thought to be
unretined and low, what would their
universally in life, as an experience. be?
Is morality, virtue, religion and all that is
dearest the human heart, possible in the
absence of the influence of the mother
life of the home? That proposition set
tied, then decide whether female suff-
rage or public life for women tends to
unity and strengthen home-life or other
wise to distract its influences, weaken
lis power and lead 10 lis neglect.
The advantages TO be derived from
such a general advertising of the EAGLE
and Its editor, are not ignored: and.
while he whose witaers are unwrung
should probably permit the CALLED iades
to vince, still the opportunity OF incul-
eating a wholesome lesson with a modi-
cum of reproof may be with profit and
proprie;y utilized. While we do not
care what these women may say or de-
clare, Of US, on the stump, in the pulpit,
or elsewhere, still If the male weaklincs
who have taken refuge behind their
skirts expect 10 so unwhippsd Of their
assumed temerity they have calculated