The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-17
WICHITA WOMEN TO ORGANIZE.

effort OF an organized Ddnu OF TeStleS
women of this state, who are followin
the lead of a few abnormal non-resi
dents of their own sex, and being con
WINGED that any added responsibilities o
public nature would not prove desira
Bile nor promising of additional happi
ness and content, many women hav
commenced to enquire if they nigh
not 80 something to stay the threatene,
innovation of women in public life. !
delegation of women called on tn
editor of the EAGLE Friday asking hi
Judgment as to the ACCESSIBILITY of coun
ter organizations in every city, town
and township in the state These ladies
set out the suggestion, and we believe it
to be- an intuitively wise one, that the
chances are the hallCcination
might triumph through default
that while every irreconcilable crank
and every unfortunate victim of thos,
disastrous times of industrial armie!
and incomprehensible strikes, would b.
putting forth strenuous efforts to secur,
the foolish amendment to the constitu
ton which can only mean social and pc
litical revolution, the conservative, the
contented and the Ievel-headed of their
own sex would fail to become aroused
sufficiently to make the cause their own
a like enquiry comes from some earnest
women In the city of Greensburg, who
contemplate a like organization.
Our answer is this: The difficulty to
be encountered in such noble under
taking will lie in the fact that that ele-
ment of modest reserve which causes
these womenly women to shrink in
dread from the ballot and its consequent
public responsibilities will tend to deter
her from undertaking through organiza-
xion the defeat Of the falacy upheld and
so vehemently urged by demoguoge poll
raising or education, or from unhappy
martial relations and unfortunate pow
erty entailed by incompetent husbands
or fathers, are lost to these elements of
reserve to which we allude and which
renders womanhood so precious in the
estimation and loves of men.
But there is a phase to and a promise
for the proposition which might prove
effectual and far reaching to which we
avill allude. 1t is the men who will de-
eide all this matter at the ballot box in
November, The Peoples party, are for
1t. The whole matter grew out OF that
party of.distress and calamity, and its
submission to the people came of Pop
legislature and administration, aided by
p few Republican politicians. A polite
Jan Eever has any convictions, other
than those based or accepted facts, or
such as are seen in ''the way the wind is
blowing" There are Republican polite
fans in Kansas, number of them whose
wives and daughters are utterly opposed
TO female suffrage, who yet, in their
ttching for office and hopes of future
preferment, are lending their voice to
the howl set up by the Pop demagogues,
which demagogues would never have
favored female suffrage themselves but
for the circumstance of half-clothed,
half-fed and half-cared-for wives and
daughters who in their distress cried for
''suffrage" in shere desperation of better
ing their unhappy conditions.
Such organizations as are proposed
would stimulate mothers, wives and
daughters to activity, in their own
homes, with their own fathers, husbands
and brothers, who can be by them
aroused to a sense of the situation and
10 activity, and to doing their dnty on
election day.
tits the duty of every man TO listen
to the advice of his wife, mother or
sister, even in political matters, and no
man who considers the happiness of
these will refuse to do their bidding
when it comes to question like this.
which touches not only their very lives.
but involves the lives and chances for
happiness of their children and their
children's homes. If majority of the
women of Kansas are opposed to female
suffrage it should not be enforced. unon
them. The editor of the EAGLE
Iwould be the last man in the
sworld to deny woman ANYTHING
she might in reason demand. But q
great majority of the women Of Kansas
are uncompromlsingiy opposed to all
shis fanatical racket. 1t is the duty of
the men, therefore, representing her
enajority, 10 vote as she desires. No man
has any business to ask political prefer
ment, honors or emoiuments from the
people, who ignores the wishes of his
bwn wife in a matter which so directly
End almost wholly concerns her and the
welfare of her children.
The EAGLE viii support the counter
organizations proposed and for the rea-
Sons suggested.
TIE BOSS JUDGE.