The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-15
SHE DIDN'T SHOUT 'RAH.
Susan B. Anthony Sees a Football
Game But Isn't Startled

Chicago, Nov. 15.-Susan B. Anthony at
tended her nrst foot ball game Saturday:
Among the excited crowd who thrOnged
around the side lines on Wanderers field
alo " StII the contest between the Shl-
Gus of the tyranny Of man and the wrongs
of her sex, intent only upon punts and
passes and the ysanthemum-headed
gladiators who fought for the possession
The leader Of the .women's rights cause
company with mrs. S. E. Gross. at whose
nome she IS visiting. The phaeton in
a point of vantage near the middle Of field
and when the play began Miss Anthony
Mrs. Gross, who is Enthusiastically fond
of the game, was kept busy explaining the
wanted to know ali about it.
Why don't they kick the bal?'' asked
plain the paradox by which a game which
is supposed to be played with the feet is
played mainly with the hands, arms and
shoulders.
Miss Anthony remained throughout the
had spent most pleasurable and profit
able afternoon. She was full Of her aft
ernoon 5 experiences when VISITED IN the
evening at the home of Mrs. CROSSES Lake
II never thought should ever see a foot
pail game. said Miss Anthony and if
pose l ever should have had the pleasure
What do l think of the game? There is
They just take the BAH and then fan down
in heaps It's ridiculous
like Ru man T BeingPs ag th a At o0 rs too
thought they resembled apes, but after
they reGninded me -i more Of the seals saw
IN California. They dove Just as the seals
failed to see anyone hurt and don't see
why mothers should be afraid of the game.
It's silly but not brutal"
Miss Anthony arrived in Chicago Satur-
day morning for a brief visit before going
convention Of the Illinois branch of the
Women's Rights association. The con-
lodi q mr. a If fVErn Ia
after which she will again visit Mrs. Gross
for indefinite time.
Never were the prospects for Woman's
suffrage more promising than now" said
ceived today indicate that South Dakota
and Washington is also iiISeIV to be on our
side when the final returns come in. We
now have five StateS-W yOming, Colorado,
Utah, Idaho and South Dakota-where a
woman is allowed the right of suffrage.
Add to these q states where she is allow
All this shows that enormous strides have
been made in the last few years.
the states where woman is allowed to
vote the system has worked admirably I
look forward to a time when all the west
ern states will allow women to vote. Then
the more conservative eastern states will
gradually be forced to follow suit.
1.-The good effect of our system is plain
ly apparent in the states where we are al
lowed to vote Realizing that new bal
ance of power has arisen. the men now
strive to put up the best rather than the
worst men as candIdates- Ihey realize
that no woman would vote for ignOble
man. In the same way, If women were
running for office no man would vote for
an impure woman Man has a high ideal
of woman and woman has an equally high
standard by which she judges man.
1.-The reason womans opinion is not
valued is not because she is intellectually
inferior. but because her opinion counts
for nothing if she cannot vote The boy
soon sees that his mothers opinion counts
for nothing. while his fathers carries
great weight, and accordingly looks down
upon his mother and sisters. Woman suf-
frage will do away with all this. 1t will
also make marriage less of a failure. Men
will not have to go to the club to talk
politics when they can get an intelligent
opinion under their own roofs
with regard to Illinois, I shall advise
the delegates at the convention to wait for
q constitutional convention before taking
further action. Illinois should be satisfied
with no halfway concessions. A consti-
tUtiOnal convention will be held here sooner
or later. Then let the women of the
state rise and demand that the word
male in the constitution be stricken out"