The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-17

the men guilty OF It: nor men who con-
done il
What have these women done? Are
they TO be punished for some dreadful
crime? No; they are to undergo this
brutal degrada ton because. and only be-
cause. htsy have not paid fines impos-
81 upon them.- and the city treasury
wants money. Any moment they could
go free as the ewo at Kansas City did,
by simply raising money No warden
OF a peni.entiary would dare dress wo-
men prisoners n male attire and send
them into the mines or elsewhere to do
the work Of men. Yet women in the PEN
itentiary are there for serious crimes.
and their Imprisonment is their punish
ment; while city prisoners are guilty
Of viola ting mere city ordinances, and
their Imprisonment Is but the means OF
extorting money. A poor woman may
be thus imprisoned for simply letting a
chicken get from under her control to
terrorize a law-abiding community; and
she must wear overalls and break rock
unless she can mortgage her coal stove
or sell her chickens for enought to help
out the deficiency in the municipal rev.
enues. Imprudently tossing tomato
can into back alley, and thus. ignor-
AMY. endangering the public health. may
pat overalls on a woman. Considering
that city ordinances are SO numerous
that one can scarce get through break
fast without having committed fifty dol
lars worth Of offenses-if he should be
caught--the opportunities for women to
ia ra
quite numerous. and no woman can
make sure OF long skirts as regular
thing unless she has some way to
raise money
at strikes me that il the Kansas City
and Leavenwortn police commissioners
are the best 20 be had for Populist pur-
poses. the system would better be abol-
ished. If women are 10 wear overails,
let some other party attend to putting
them on. The dressing rooms for ladies
at p0lce stations are even worse than
at 'one night opera houses, and 1t must
be embarrassing TO fresh policemen to
act as lady's maids al rock pile time In
the morning.
II really do not think the Peoples par
ty was organized specially to originate
and carry out reforms OF this charac-
ter.
Il am partisan, but not a mere party
partisan. I am a partisan as to the
laws treatment of the defenseless; and
1 am just as willing 10 stand up for the
helpless poor against officials wearing
the livery Of a reform party as against
officials Of party which makes no phi
lanthropic pretensions. My feaity is 70
Populism-nor simply to every man who
gets appointed to something as Popu-
list. BY their fruits We shall know
Them and the overall-rock-pile fruit was
not grown on Populist trees.
Perhaps some politicians may disap-
prove my course. 1t makes very little
difference to me; the Populist party will
approve 1t. II any Populist in office can
possibly be hurt politically because
member Of his party publicly denounces
such an infamy as that proposed at Kan
sas City, that Populist ofYice-holder does
not belong in Kansas. He should go to
Siberia, and find proper field for his
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