The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-14
SUSAN B. AT KANSAS CITY.
Miss Anthony Tells a Kansas City
Audience California VIII Vote
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Kansas City. Nov 1.-Two noted wo-
men appeared before the convention of
the Woman Suffrage association yes
terday Miss Susan b. Anthony, the
acknowledged leader of the movement
for equal suffrage, and Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait. who shares with Rev.
Anna H. Shaw the honor of being the
foremost woman orator Of the country,
reached this city after a three months
campaign in California and Idaho.
At the opening of the evening suffrage
session Miss Anthony spoke. She began
by saying.
THE suffrage movement means to
make the opinions of men and women
equal Women are taking their places
beside men ia life; they are taking their
honors IN schools and colleges Why
are You educating women, if you do not
expect them to so forward in their aims
and ambitiOns2 You men Of Missouri
and other states must soon acknowledge
woman as your political peer, as you
now are compelled to acknowledge her
as your Intellectual peer. Tt is only a
question Of time when these political
rights will be granted to women in eV-
cry state in the Union, as they have all
ready been granted in three states. 1T
is a sad fact that only three states
have a genuine Republican form of gov
erument, for no government can be
called Republican which denies the
right of suffrage to half of its citizens.
They say that women do not know
now 10 vote. Nv ELL may De LneY QOn C..
Men have had the right to vote in this
country for 120 years, and they have not
learned how yet. The question of Civ
ing women the right to vote has been
voted On at IS elections in IL different
states-Kansas and Colorado having
each voted on it twice. In 1877 Colorado
gave a majority Of 5000 against the
question, but in 1893 lit thought better
of the cause and gave z 900 majority in
its favor. Kansas has twice voted it
down. The women of Utah, Colorado.
and wyoming have the full right Of
suffrage, and YOU viii hear in few
days decision by the supreme court
of Idaho. which viii give them the right
i'm that state.
eve have a little hag-it is the stars
and stripes only the stars are gold in
stead of silver. We don't have the stars
Of gold because we are gold bugs, but
so that our little flag may be different
from the ordinary American flag. We
now have three stars i'm our flag, but as
soon as we hear from Idaho we expect
to have four. and at the next national
election the women of at least this many
states VIII be allowed to cast their votes
for president.
so long as women are disfranchised
they must beg at the feet of every posi-
BILE man. Of every possible party, Of ev-
cry possible religion The state of Cali
fOrnia is going to do something new un-
der the sun. for its legislature is going
to resubmit the suffrage question to the
people, although it has just been de-
feared by q majority of nearly u. 900.
It was defeated by the united efforts Of
the liquor dealers who cast all other pO-
htical questions aside and threw their
entire strength against the cOnstitu-
L10nal amendment. which proposed to
give the right of suffrage to women.
They succeeded in defeating the amend
ment. but the war will be carried on.
and in 1898 the men OF California viii
arise and give to women the right which
is theirs