The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-27
Not Unqualified in Her Praise
of Kansas Men.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Says She is Ashamed of Kansas
in One Particular,
But Also Proud of Her in Many
Others.

W ASHINGTON, Jan EI.-MFS. maze H.
Addison of Eureka, Kan, president of
the Kansas Equal Suffrage association.
was cne of the members of the national
association who appeared before the
judiciary committee of the house today
to urge the submission of constitutional
amendment, giving women the right to
vote.
Mrs. Addison says the women of Kan
sas do not feel like making any fur
ther efforts in that state just
yet to secure another vote on
the suffrage question. They feel too
keenly the defeat sustained when the
amendment was voted on to wish to have
another trial any time soon. They will
not abate one bit in the agitation of the
subject however, and will, she says, lay
the foundation for more determined
and stronger effort sometime in the fu-
ture.
Mrs. Addison delivered the presidents
address for Kansas before the associa-
tion, and in it she discussed the defeat of
the amendment and the present coDdi-
tions in Kansas. Mrs. Addison said:
SIN glancing over the programme for
this national American Woman's Suffrage
convention I could not keep from smil-
ing at the thought that each state presi-
dent was to be called upon to make a
short address. We can not all be night
lngdIoS, anu coming IEOIH d state LHdL
boasts of such daughters as Laura M.
Johns, Annie l. Diggs. Mary E. Lease
and Laura A. Gregg shall certainly not
attempt any flow of cratory.
'During our last political campaign in
Kansas one of our parties carried aloft
banner, bearing this motto, stand Up
For Kansas while the opposing party
carried the still more suggestive one, 'i'm
Not Ashamed of Kansas And SO am
going to stad up for Kansas, literally.
The other motto l can not fully endorse,
for to some extent l am ashamed of Kan
sas.
81 am ashamed TO say that her women
citizens are still pleading for the ballot,
while they should have been assisting
the temperance men to drive this resub-
mission sentiment to the sea, and then
buried it SO deep that it would have
known no resurrection
81 am ashamed of this farce that is
being played in my state. Each po-
litical party devising some prescribed
method; which without doubt would
have more force than our present prohib-
itory law. Anything to convince the
people that resubmission plank in the
next party platform is desirable And
all this time the liquor element is form
ing leagues and lining up for battle,
while mothers stand pleading for the
home without the power to enforce their
plea Away with such work! We hold
the men responsible for every home de-
stroved, for every mothers heart broken.
Let them handle with care the power they
have usurped to themselves.
II am not ashamed of Kansas
inasmuch legally she is
more tender of her daughter than many
of her sister states. l am proud that her
women are allowed entrance into all pro-
fessions with scarcely any opposition.
Our doctors, lawyers, teachers, farmers
and stock raisers are found all over the
state, and in the main receive equal
com pensation with men.
81 am not ashamed that our women
stacked arms after our bitter defeat, for
gradually as strength is given them to
endure, they have picked them up. And
this year the cry of shoulder arms has
for battle, and when once more we
low banner, nothing shall stop our
once eluded our grasp, shall never escape
again.
"FulI enfranchisement for the women
of Kansas! Aud 1 now most emphatic
ally declare that Miss Anthony shall yet
add another star to that banner so proud
ly carried by our Utah delega alton today
And we shall redeem the fame of our
fair state, for
4" All things como to those who stand and wait,
Sayeth the sage of old.
Now. ali things come TO those who grasp their
fate
And ever growing bold
Stretch forth their hands with careful grasp,
And tind their prize within their clasp"
Nl. F. M.