The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-17

| 10 give the ladies an adoiuona4 ADDRESS
tonight, and IL was thoroughly enjoyed
| by hundreds Of people
The subject announced was. (which
| Party is tae Best Qualified 10 Solve the
| Question of the Hour" and IL by party
was meant political organization her
| auditors have yet to learn the answer 20
the conundrum. The general impression
after the lecture was, however, that The
womans party was the one 10 parity
politics and solve practically all questions
| Of the ballot box
Speaking TO the Grand Army services
| held earlier in the day, Mrs Lease told
OF some OF her memories Of the sixties,
and said:
~ believe II there Is woman in the
United States who has right TO talk 10
you about the war. I am that woman.
l am glad 10 begin the woman's congress
| tonight as an experiment OF the woman's
question. Our soldiers have won hard
earned battles. and recent events have
proven that we are as uncomfortable on
-he sea as we are irrepresible on toe land.
We justly boast OF our liberties. Of our
pride 10 our flag; We tell our children
of hte days Of 10. while we make it our
boast for the first time in history we
have established a pure republic. Yet we
deny the taxpaying woman the right of
suffrage; we impose upon woman the
curse OF taxation without representa-
ton.
Every male child born in this country
is eligible to the presidency and the vote
Of the pauper counts as that OF the mill
lionare Times are changing. We no
longer look upon God as monstrous
nonentity-we have come to recognize
him as the soul of the universe. As our
Father. we no longer need TO address
him through priests of prophets. A new
religion is stirring the conscience OF the
race.
1--WE are beginning to recognize that
the all-saving religion is the religion OF
humanity. Man is physically positive and
spiritually negative. Woman is physi-
cally negative and spiritually positive,
hence they are more receptive to spiritual
truths, more responsive TO the stirring of
the new conscience. We need no priests
70 keep people out of hell, but we must
have moro perfect social conditions 10
keep hell out of the people. When we
have learned now TO live we need no theol-
ogy to teach us how TO die. For nearly
1000 years we have been taught to rev.
erence the virgin mother, and now we
believe some attention should be paid to
the virgin father.
II am going to speak my mind and II
any of you can't stand strong food. get
out now. We are now nearing time
when science will accomplish all that the
churches have prayed for. but have been
afraid TO attempt. We have advanced
g
have advanced from the coach to the iron
horse from the talow dip to the electric
light, from the crude tiu-type to the X
ray. We have nearly perfected device,
so the newspapers say-and they never lie
that will photograph thoughts. When
this is perfected men will have to take
to the woods; If they don't God pity
them
She entered upon the proper definition
OF a citizen to show that O. woman was
and by right must be citizen, and went
on to say: Nowhere in the constitution
appears the word she, her. or woman, but
man is used there in the inclusive sense
and means woman also. A woman may
keep a boarding house and support her
poor husband all the days of her life,
and then when she dies the newspapers
say she died at the residence of her nus
band. Your man-mad politics has entered
our homes unbidden, has invaded and
degraded our homes and taken from us
our name and our property.
Women are needed in politics. The
most conservative politician will admit
that II he had been sending all women
TO congress for years We could not have
done worse than has been done. A prom !
inent woman said to me only few days
ago Of Cassadaga camp. that she favored |
the ballot for Vrtuous women. There |
is no law against an immoral man vot-
ing Statistics show that for one i'm !
moral woman there are 1000 immoral men |
The percent of immoral men-how long |
faced some of you men looks such that /
II virtue were a test you could hardly /
find men enough TO vote on election day. |
Today there are more men than women 4
in the saloon business and the peniten- !
tiaries.
am not here to abuse men. I believe /
meant TO be the noblest work Of God, but \
place woman at his side. his equal in !
everything. II politics are corrupt, you /
men need little assistance. You have /
made about as much of a success in /
politics as you would If you tried to keep /
house and bring up family OF mother |
less children without woman's help.
eve are not battling for woman's /
rights, but for the rights of humanity; !
we mean TO bring about that day when /.
men and women shall equally enjoy our /
our blood-bought liberties. have the 1
regular woman's failing. When I get /
started talking I don't know wnen 70
stop. Tonight when look into this audi
ence and see men looking as solemn as
II they were az their mothers funeral
IL leads me 10 keep on. ] am not a csnda-
dat for any Office and never expect TO be.
4 woman has no right 10 belong 10 a
political party. but she has 4 right to
her opinions"
The applause which had been frequent
and hearty throughout the lecture. was
so long continued at its close that Mrs
Lease again came TO the front OF the
platform and said that not long ago a
newspaper reporter asked her nov she
happened 20 20 into politics and she told
him something Ike this:
II came from Scotch and Irish ancestry, (
and 30 It IS natural FOR me 70 attack wrong
as Il : for me 20 breathe. I am a Scotch
Irish rebel. Thank you"
Sacramento, Cal. Aug 1s.-Ths Callfor-
MA Democratic state Convention met IN
Sacramento this afternoon and organized
BY the election CT Governor James II
Budd as temporary chairman Committees
on credentials and permanent o-gauszs-
ton were appointed and recess as IA
ken untu 8 o'G.ock tbs evening The
seats Of the - delegates from saa Frsn-
o4c.- Al A--s ~ Tass