Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-05-26
WoMAN's DEPARTMENT
MABEL H. PoMERoY, EDITOR.
clubs.
IDA. PORTER noYER)

are unconciously liquldating a debt
inasmuch as the early womsn's rights
clubs made all subsequent clubs pos
sibIe. These in turn are assisting TO
make woIan's rights fact. Since
organization OF woman's clubs OF null
tifarous character, the tenor OF the
press has been revolutionlzed The
age of ridicule has passed together
with the angelic period, and in the
place of derlsion or apotheozation
there is a tone of dignity and &C.
acknowledgement. In other words wo-
man is a recognized force. Even her
mystic influence is harnessed to the
plain every day shafts of the public
chariot, and she Is no longer solicited
to bewitch, for polling purposes but
bluntly asked to work. We are no
more butterflies, but bees OF the
worlds hive. There are plentiful
cries from Macedonias: "Come over
and help usp Our state superlntend"
ent of public instruction said in re-
cent address, referring to the necessl-
ty of improved methods in education:
81 look to the women Of Pennsylvania
for help in this matter" And while
we are assisting others, lot us put in a
few vigorous strokes in our own be-
half. We are driving ideas into the
public mind with tack hammer in
stead Of mallet OF course we know
the value of patience, and that water
dropping day by day wears even the
hardest rock away" but I'd hate to
operate stone quarry on that prin-
ciple
All clubs are tributary to the suf-
frage stream. Especially do civic
clubs need fostering care. They are
embryo suffragists, and will be the
full. Aedged creature before they know
it. For after repeated abortiVe at
tsmpts at conquest by the much
lauded Influence always spelled with
capitaD, they will come to think the
ballot much more dignified aud pc.
tent than persuasive witchcraft. Sup
ply these clubs with literature, our
least aggressive leaflets, such as
"Women on school boards" "Mother-
less institutions" THE parents duty
10 the school," Women in the munich
pallty," and number Of others of
equal excellence. Not that clubs
should be made regular recipients,
but occasionally articles are issued
we'll suited for club discussion.
Clipping bureaus should be feat
ure of every local suffrage society.
Such q department would furnish
work for many otherwise inactive
members. AT stated intervals these
scissored items could be forwarded to
the state clipping bureau for compil-
alton or use as deemed expedient.
Such are the requirements to rem
der our press work more potential,
end while the attainment may DO for
hidden by an attenuated treasury, the
necessity of extension confronts all
press worke re-, for with the press rests
the success of the suffrage cause.
Women and Crime.
Some interesting statistics have
lately been compiled, showing the
proportion of women among the in-
mates of the different state prisons.
The figure are taken from the United
States census of 1860. Omitting
fractions, they are as follows:
In the District Of Columbia, women
constitute II per cent of the prisoners
In Massachusetts, and Rhode Island,
IA per cent; IN New York 49, in Vir-
ginia IL; in New Jersey 10; in Penn
sylVanla and Maryland 8; in Connect
lieut. 8; in Alabama, New Hampshire,
Ohio and South Carolina Z; I'm Florida,
Maine, Mississippi, New Mexico and
Tennessee, 6; in Georgia, Illinois, In
diana, Kentucky, Michigan. Missouri
North Carolina and West Virginia, b
in Arkansas and Delaware 4; in Gal
ifornia, Minnesota, North Dakota
Texas and Vermont, 8; in Colorado
Iowa, Montana, Nebraska and Utah
2; in Arizona, Kansas, Nevada and
South Dakota, 1; in Washington four
ffths Of one per cent; in Oregon and
Wisconsin two-ftths Of one per cent
in Wyoming and Idaho, none.
A prominent Episcopal bishop late
ly objected to equal suffrage on the
ground that "to the vote Of every
criminal man, you would add the vote