The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-03
CARES NOT TO BE ONE
Little Annie Diggs Wanted to Get
Right Up
AND TELL EX-SENATOR INGALLS,

| The same platform that had upheld the
oratory of ]. ]. Ingalls, and j. R. Burton
il the afternoon at Garfield park per-
formed similar mission for Mrs. Annie
Diggs in the evening.
Mrs. Diggs appeared in good health
and was tastefuIly dressed. Her throat
troubled her all during her remarks and
her voice was not strong.
"You have heard the mems side of the
question now you will hear the woman's
version" began the speaker
81 have heard it said that woman was
not fit to instruct man how to vote when
she didn't know head of wheat from a
cookie burr.
perhaps 1 didn't once. but do now.
l am descended from race of farmers
and offer my grandfathers' wheat era
die which we have yet as my credentials.
1t is surely as noble as Senator Ingalls,
anvil
"But those relics belong to the dead
past We are living in a more progress
sive age now.
"We have outgrown the anvil, the
cradle and the rail-spliting era. We
have outgrown the past.
Il speak of this from labor stand
point. New and improved machinery
DRY is yet dear to US. We have the pres
ent to deal with and united labor must
take and solve the question.
Labor has a mission to perform that
seems almost beyond its power to sue
cessfully carry out But it must and
| shall.
sit is part of my business to visit the
haunts of laborers and bread winners. l
am one myself
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where elegant barouches were builded,
but have never yet known one of the
laborers able to own one after builded
Thanks to organized labor, in the
eastern states they have succeeded in
wrestling children under IA from work in
factories, but parents often swear that
their children are older, when it can
easily be seen that they are under 10
years.
"What shall you do? What is the
remedy? 1t lies in your hands. Let US
have direct vote for United States sena-
tors and yonr chief executive.
"Let US have direct vote for the laws
under which we live. Then we shall
have a government for and of the peo-
pie.
"When you arise in your might and
ask for the initiative and use the RENE
dies you consider necessary, then after
sent back to the people for their referen-
dunn. That is my remedy
"The rich are growing richer. the poor
poorer. In another century the indie
pendent, middle class will be wiped out
of existence. The glorious ballot is in
your hands.
"Three things in this world are immor-
tai: The Golden Kule the ballot and the
Declaration of Independence.
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opportunity TO place the star of the en-
pire' at the head of Kansas when they
failed to give women the ballot.
81 believe that women and industrial
classes will be given enfranchisement. l
am not pessimist, for 1 sympathize with
sorrow.
"In Washington I knew of mother
and child who starved TO death right
under the dome of the capitol. A SINH
lar case occurred in Baltimore the same
winter.
During the same winter 80 per cent
of organized labor was out of employ
ment
These are problems that confront US.
I speak of them not from a partisan
standpoint
"They are facts. What are you going
to do with these facts? What will be the
counter irritant?
"When the question was put this after
noon, Who would not be millionaire?'
wanted to rise and say, 4 do not care to
be millionaire. Riches do not always
bring happiness
500 you think organized labor a new
| thing It is as old as the hills. The
| powers that wiped it out then will do SO
| now unless the ballot IS used judlciously.
81 appeal to you men TO help enfrau-
chise the women. l said after the last
election I would never ask any man to
| give me my freedom and [ won't l am
now citizen of Colorado and a voter but
! I appeal once more on behalf of my
| Kansas sisters that they be given their
! freedom.
'!Dont say because they can't fight
they shouldn't vote. Governments don't
rest upon bayonets. Bayonets have I'M
easy points to rest upon.
"You will not have an enduring repub-
lie until you have dual government It
has been splendidly 'fathered but not
'mothered' enough.
only chief distinction will be in after
years that l was formerly of Kansas.
Don't make me ashamed of it.
| "The emancipation of the Industrial
slaves of this nation is coming as sure as
the sun will rise. The time is very near
for the people are going to rise in their
might and bring this state of affairs
about.
Don't crave to become a millionaire.
Nor is pauper life to be commended
Happiness will only be found in the
homes of the neither enormously rich
or abjectly poor" concluded the speaker
Mrs. Diggs will remain in Topeka until
Saturday. After that date she will speab
in the western portion of the state and
then make an eastern trip in the interest
of her Co operative colony.
THERE ARE TWO COMRADES
But Mayer the Barber is Getting no Di-
Vorce.
To know everybody was Conrad Mayer
our oldest barber says, if every body was