The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-02-01
THE WOMAN sUFfRAGisTs.
Addresses by Mrs. May Stocking
KnagGs and Harriet May Mills,

KnaRgs and Harriet May Mills.
Washington, jan. 27.-At this morn
ing's session Of the National Woman's
Suffrage association, an address upon
Between Daybreak and Sunrise was
delivered by Mrs. May Stocking Knaggs,
state president for Michigan. In part
she said:
To-day the world is awaking. Self
government for women is an accom-
plished fact in three states of our great
republic. The sense of humanity is
astir. The doctrine is daily gaining
ground that the world needs the coop
erative and coordinate work of man
and woman. We stand here tonight to
aVow our faith in the ultimate applica-
ton of the principles of republican gov
eminent. We believe that each human
being is whole, single and responsible;
that each human unit Is concerned in
the social compact which is formed to
protect individual and mutual rights.
Over how large a part of the world has
woman been given a measure OF free
dom and no evil thing has happened.
u much good! Home ties are cement
ed, not loosened. Children are better
born, not neglected. Social evils are
controlled or eliminated, not increased,
Pubic order n prosperity are promo
ted, not overthrown. In proportion to
u belief in the righteousness of our
cause, so ought u faith to be-. If we
are harnessed in with the eternal forces
Of right, we have nothing to fear"
The next address was upon Our Tn
conscious Allies" by Harriet May
Mills. She said:
"A great reform, like a great hero" is
helped by opposing forces. Those ar
rayed against woman suffrage are its
unconscious allies. We gain from their
opposition renewed power and a clearer
knowledge of the real issue. The anti
a~uffragists in New York state have UNI
consciously contributed to the further
ance of II cause by increasing agita-
rid US of the most genuine obstacle we
have met-the Indifferent woman. They
have rendered US much assistance in the
way of free advertising. They show
that they are beginning to think. That
is the first step in the development of =
s~uffragist. By this process many 'antis'
ave already been educated into adyo-
Gates of Il cause.
The majority OF the women now hold
ing public Office in New York state UNI
der appointment are antisuffragists.
They are performing their official duties
so well as to %disprove their own theo-
ries. Their efficiency cannot fail to con-
vert many to mi suffrage. The
antlsuffragists are taking part in the
very movement they protest against,
AS agitators and offlceholders they are
wholly out of their old-time sphere.
This is a tacit acknowledgement of their
debt to the woman suffrage leaders.
We believe Ia their energies will soon
be turned in the direction of fuller free
dom for their sex"
The closing address of the session was
by Mrs. Virginia D. Young, president of
the South Carolina Equal Rights asso-
citation. She began by explaining and
applying her caption: 1.-The Sunflower
Bloom of Woman's Equality" to the
principle sought to be established by
the N. A. w. S. A. and the occasion on
which the bloom" is most in evidence.
She then spoke of the power of de
niais' and "afiirmations," with an illus
tration from life.
Then she told OF the South Carolina
constitutional convention, and what
was sale and done there for the making
Of marring OF woman's political equal
ity. Telling about getting signatures
OF women to a petition for their enfran-
chisement. to the constitutional conven-
ton, a v rise to a brief depression on
woman as an agriculturist.