The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-09-07

country the majority has the right to
rule, and can when it is united. What
then viii the majority do? The maj GRITTY
are stepped in these ancient superstItIOns.
They believe legalized robbery to be
right; they believe marriage to be a
sacred institution because it is the very
foundation of our boasted civilization.
They will make it a crime to advocate
radical change 1t will be safe enough
to talk Of finance because that has moth
ing to do with actual reform. bus when it
it proposed to abolish the machinery Of
injustice, Of plumber, Of murder and pros
titution upon which our social fabric
rests, there will be laws enacted to SD ut
our mouths.
Men will be hung for talking. They
have been already, four AT one time in
Chicago, but it viii be done more sys-
tematically and on bigger scale. The
days of martyrdoIn have not yet passed.
They are just approaching. The grand
struggle of all the ages is in front of u.s.
In the future, church and state will unite
TO crush out simple justice and pure love.
There Is danger TO honest men and TO
suffering women when the Joneses and
the smiths are found fighting side by
side in the common cause of nefarious
gain and brutal animal passion"
At the close of the letter the chairman
made a few remarks. in which he said !:
pullman, Carnegie, Gould, Vanderbilt,
the bankers of Wall street and their
servants in congress; are they not of the
dangerous classes? Arc they any the
less murderers because they kill thou
sands by slow starvation?'
Allen Holcraft, who was in the au-
dience, was nl-advised enough to
arise at this and declare that
he did not believe anybody was
wholly bad. Il believe the woman
should have as many rights il the mar
rage relation as the man. It is for them
both eduaIIv.'
Lbs Waisbrooker didn't think So
She got to her feet and walked lettering
" to the front of the audience. Her
brown eyes were flashing fire and her
closed and opened convulsively as she
began:
s.The marriage relation under the pres
ent conditions is not equally for man and
woman. Man is free; woman is not
You men may think she is, but she is
not Let man and woman change their
places in the marriage tie, and
every man would cry he was a slave.
No, all men not wholly bad There
are fires in every soul, that if you did not
smother them with wrong conditions
would awaken and Outshine in light and
warmth the MONDAY sun. But we are
not living under those conditions. I am
now under bond and may yet be sent to
jail prisoner for daring to speak what I
think about the act that gave you and me
of the present make us devils instead Of
angels. No man on earth or spirit else
where can govern me arbitrarily"
Mr.. Holcraft thought this would be a
good place to modify his statement some
IN the eyes of the majority present and
he arose to say, Il believe woman is the
equal of man. / want her to have the
privilege of voting. She could do SO
much good for herself with it."
Mrs. Semple-"Wh has your vote
doneS''
Mr.. mighty little"
Mrs. Semple-''It has brought US to
the verge of a revolution"
Mrs Semple here moved that the chair
appoint committee to draft some resO-
lutiOns of respect for four recently de-
ceased members of the organization,
Gov. Robinson, Frank Wilma Of Lyndon,
w {. Gray of Burlington, and Mrs Ella
Hodges of Ottawa The motion carried
Some tracts were then distributed and
the meeting adjourned till evening.
The evening session was devoted to a
lecture on phrenolOgy by Prof Bell. reci-
tation by Mrs SempIe and Miss Greene,
and songs by Mr.. Pontius
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