Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-07-12

SUSAN B. ANTHONY TALKS.


Speaking of the present pretended effort to en-
force the prohibitory law, she said:
"Well, l see that you are having little fur
ny of excitement in Kansas over the temperance
question. Don't you know the law will not be
enforced? l have no faith in what is being
done. Gov. Morrill, can't enforce the law. He
has to carry out his contract. He is not to
blame. The trouble is that he has made a bad
contract
'"The evening before Gov. Morrill, was nomi-
mated, called upon him at the hotel and beg
ged him not to surrender. told him that if
he demanded that a suffrage plank and a tenn
perance plank be put in the platform, they
would be put in, and he would be elected by an
overwhelming majority; but he did not believe
me. He said that Kansas must be redeemed
financially, and that the party could not drive
away the Gernan-American vote by placing
suffrage and prohibition planks in the platform
l told the governor that such course would
while he would let loose all the enemies and
allow them to talk as they pleased. He said
that he would talk for suffrage, and that the
other speakers would do the same. And what
was the result? 1t was just as l predicted
Gov Morrill, never said word on the subject
in the campaign but once, and that was at Fort
Scott, when he had been requested to do so by
the leading suffragists in the county. Not
word did we get from any Of the speakers or
newspapers. They ignored us, just as l ex-
pected, and it is surprising that the amendment
got as many votes as it did,
"Do you think, Miss Anthony, that Gov.
Morrill, cannot close the saloons?" asked the
reporter.
cit is just as impossible for him to close the
saloons as it was for Lewelling and Humphrey
The people in the cities can't touch them. 1t
is the voters in the state that control the tenn
perance question in the cities The people of
a city may elect mayor and all the city officers,
but they are absolutely powerless. The bar
gain was made by Cy Leland with the liquor
dealers in Kansas City by which whisky was to
be allowed to pass through the state and be
taken off at the towns, while the officers close
their eyes and pretend not to see. All this is
the work of Cy Leland, and the governor sign
ed the contract when he accepted the nonlina.
ton. When the people voted for it, they
should expect nothing better.
''The governor has ordered the commission
ers to enforce the law at Wichita, but what
does that amount to? While the governor has
made this squirt of advertising, he has given
quiet instructions to the police to go slow and
not bear down too hard"
"You know the saloons have been closed iii
Atchison7" said the reporter.
eyes" responded Miss Anthony "They
have been closed for little while, but no one
believes they will be closed permanently. Just
SO long as women are DISTINGUISHED, the parties
will be divided up, and the condition will be as
it is now The Republican party
threw overheard two Of its great principles for
the sake of getting that Denocratic] vote in
the last election. Oh, I can never forgive the
of bo,,a cd
the women shamefully."
"You would forgive them if they took up the
suffrage question and gave the women suffrage
now2'
at will not be this generation. l cannot
forgive this generation, which has put its heel
on the necks of the women of Kansas. Every
principle of justice demanded that woman
should be enfranchised. The party well de-
serves to die which votes to keep woman in
subsection, and it WILL die. After all the hero
ism of the women of Kansas, that is how they
are treated. There are no nobler women in the
world, and yet they are kept in subsection to
the lowest element in the state. l
told Gov. Morrill, that he would corsent to see
the state stink to the lowest depths of moral
degradation for the sake of financial redemp.
ton, and the people need expect nothing better
than we have f1ow."
Mrs. MARY E. LEASE lost her case in court
in which she sought to rctain her place as a
member of the state board of charities. We
are glad of it, for one teason 1t has been re-
peatedly asserted by certain ones within the
Populist party that Mrs. Lease had deserted the
party and gone over to the Republican party,
and that, as part of the deal between her and
the Republican managers, she was to retain her
place on the board. Those who know Mrs.
Lease best knew that these reports we're untrue,
but many who do not know her have been led
to believe they were true. This decision of the