The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-10
MRS. JOHNS G0ODNEWS
Just Returned From Idaho
With the Information That
That State Has Undoubtedly
Adopted Woman Suffrage.
Opening Of the Woman Suffrage State
Convention at Representative
Hall Last Night-An In
teresting Programme.

teresting Programme
The Topeka Equal Suffrage associa-
ton entertained the delegates, visiting
sufra gists and their friends last even
ing at Representative hall Tt was
sort of preliminary meeting to the Both
annual convention of the Kansas Suf-
frage association which opened this
morning. The audience was large. wen
dressed and cultured looking one.
Bailey's orchestra was stationed in
the northwest corner OF Representative
hall The chairs in the hail were ar
ranged SO that there was an aisle 20
feet wide through the center. Misses
Anna Wardan and Pearl Brubaker.
dressed in white, led the grand
march"
The orchestra struck up 1.-THE Man
That Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo,
and the young women advanced down
the middle aisle Thirty-tive couples
followed 1t was dlstlnctlVely q WOTn-
ems meeting, for there were but IL
men in the march. Not one-fouTth of
the audience took part in the march,
probably because they wanted to view
ii from q point of vantage. Some pretty
figures were gone through with by the
marching sumra gists- Directly following
the TWO Young women was AlOnzo War
dali and Mrs Kate r. Addison, the
president of the suffragists.
The march was continued around the
room and through the aisle for ten min-
utes, ana then the marChers We're seat
ed, and Mrs. Cornelius asked all to Join
in singing ~Columbia's Daughters" The
orchestra started the song to the tune
Of Hold the Fort" and the audience
sang.
Harkt the sound Of myriad voices,
Rising in their might;
IT'S the daughters of Columbia
Pleading for the right.
Raise the flag and plant the standard,
Wave the signal still;
Brothers, We must share your freedom.
Help US and we viii
Great Republic. to thy watchword
Wouldst thou faithful be,
All beneath thy starry banner
Must alike be free.-Chorus.
There was an absence of base voices
IN the song, but the women made it
sound well and they sang with Q will
The recitation by Mrs. Kate Whiting
Dana was well received. She gave Col.
Carter Of Gainesville, and was recall
ed.
Mrs. A H Horizons address was a
scholarly effort, and was one of the
strongest and clearest essays on wom-
an suffrage that has ever been read in
1opeka- she gave a short history of
the primitive work in WOmanfs enfran-
chlsement. and compared the Ocupa-
lions OF certain men at the present time
that sex mad nothing to do with adapt
ability for certain professions.
The chef of l)elnOnicO's cafe receives
more than the highest salaried profess
or IN Cambridge university" said she.
THE most celebrated dressmalze in the
world is man. These men are not
looked down upon on account of their
occupations, because they have excel
ed IN their line. Then why should not
women be allowed to engage in what
ever occupation they choose, if they can
excel in 1t1 The largest ranch owner i'm
Kansas is a woman. Yet the most ig-
norant laborer on her place can vote to
increase or decrease the value of her
property while she is not given the
right to represent her own property
Mrs. Horizons paper was literally ap-
plauded and was read in an easy. con
yersatOnal tone, distinctly audible i'm
all parts Of the large hall.
The next number on the evenings
programme was a Symposium
Good speakers gave three minute
talks on woman suffrage.
The SYMPOSIUM was led by Mrs Rina
A OTIS She said: we hold the high
est position in the WOrld-that of wife
ana mother The position is higher than
president or governor, which certainly
entities US to a voice in public affairs"
Mrs. Kate r. Addison, state president
Of the association, urged the women to
be encouraged by the work which had
been done.
Mrs Laura M. Johns was called upon
and said:
i am very. very glad to be the bear
er Of good news We think that Idaho
has adopted woman suffrage. we
have heard from the most populous
centers where we have reason most to
fear and SO Far the vote is Overwhelm-
1ngly in favor Of suffrage. Last year
we had Utah to rejoice over. I am
very glad to meet you and to tell you
Of Idaho doing justice to her women.
E1tla Green PROBABLY the most sue
cessful woman commercial traveller in
the United States told of her experience
with women in business pursuits 1T
is said that every door to success is
labeled. push" said she There is
always a demand for skilled labor 1
have found that if the woman works
along, never preSumIng on sex. she
VIII claim just as good wages as a man.
she should never forget that she is a
lady. Business knows no sex Bust
ness is strictly business, and has no
social side.
Miss Green made the rather unex-
I pected assertion that where a woman
! does work equally as well as a man,
I and accepts equal responsibilities with
q man. she receives equal pay with q
man.
Miss Green also said that she had re-
/ ceived letters from many women ask
/ ing advice as to how they should earn
a livelihood When she had asked
I them what they wanted to do they had
nearly always responded. "Oh. any
/ thing" Miss Green said that the world
/ didn'. want people who could do any
/ thing in such an indefinite gOOd-for-
nothing way II wanted people who
could 40 some particular thing we'll
and were trained to 1T. She said that
/ the complaint against women in bust
ness is that they are not thorough
/ enough.
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