The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-04

law requiring women to keep out Of
barroOms a good one. 1t should be en-
forced, and the officer did right in ar
resting that woman. A barroom is no
place for a woman, no matter what
century she belongs to-
Councilman Camp, member of the po-
lice committee, said: Saloons have no
right to admit women into their places
Of business. If a woman wants to
drink whisky, let her do so at her home
or some place where she won't be seen.
Saloons were intended for men exclu-
SiVeIy, and the law should be enforced -
Mrs. McLendOn said: You desire
my opinion as to a woman's right to
enter Atlanta's licensed saloons and
drink Intoxicating liquor?
AT the imminent risk of FORGETTING
your respect, I must say I believe wo-
men have an equal right with men,
who are only the other half of a COM
mon humanity, to enter any place made
respectable by the law which governs
both sexes, but only under certain con-
ditions would go into those gateWays
to hell.
For a certain amount of money the
government gives, barriers and conveys
to certain men the right to rob women
of all that is good in their fathers,
brothers. husbands and sons, and event.
with whom they are in partnership.
BY law and custom, women are ex-
pected to preserve the social, moral,
physical and racial integrity of the
people. The absurd requirement bears
the stamp of impossibility on it's face,
but woman, in her ignorance, blindness
and gullibility, accepts the speciOuS
charge and has been staggering under
the StupendOus load for ages, without
accomplishing the greatest desire of
her heart. Handicapped as she has al
ways been, who can wonder that she
did not succeed2 without cooperation.
there can be no progress; united we
stand, divided we fall and men and
women must continue to live together
until the end. The keynote to success
along these lines is a single standard of
morals for men and women. Not one
restriction should be removed from the
code of morals made by man for the
correct government of woman, but he
should be compelled to adopt the same
for himself, then we would see such an
uplifting of humanity that the angels
would rejoice. l imagine they must
weep when parents declare their sons
must sow their wild oats, but their
daughters must not even know what
Wild oats are, for fear they will refuse
to marry the sewers and become old
maids, which used to be a term of re-
proach. That was before the voice of
the new woman was heard in the land
and bachelor girls were unheard of
DO not imagine am in favor of bar
rooms nor of the liquor traffic in any
manner, shape or form. 1t is the best
part of my religion to despise and fight
it in season and out of season, but do
think II absurd to restrict women from
entering the saloons and allow them to
stand at the doors to have their bottles
and pitchers filed and carry home to
drink it in that sacred place. Right
here let me observe that women are al
so as absurdly handicapped by the
prejudice manifested against their vot-
ing with men at the precincts, and those
same men enter the beautifully furn-
ished and brilliantly lighted LIQUOR sa-
looms These cherished institutions
seems to be separatOrs of the sexes in
stead of drawing the living forces into
harmony. Yet the world applauds when
men and women live together until they
are grayheaded and ready to die. al
| though they are uncOngenial and living
in discord if not actual warfare, caused
by poisoned liquor and impure politics
"A boy in Atlanta, reared and loved
by his mother, is allowed to roam the
streets, enter the saloons and the
brOthels, but the mother must not be