The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09
Mrs. Isabel WorreII Ball Dis
cusses Kansas Politics.
How Women Are Now ENertlng
an Influence.
way A REPUBLICAN.
Amazed That Women Should
Ever Be Anything Else
Cause L. the Same as That Of
the Men.

washington. ID. G.. March 9.-over 200
women 81 the United states gathered IA
Washington last week. not as women
sufrra gisEs. but as Republicans, anu ASr
the purpose Of rejoicing az the eiettAoAl
of President Mckinley and Vice Fresl-
dent Roosevelt and 10 exploit the part
women took in bringing It about me
coca sion was the Inauguration Dan
quet~ given by the Woman ; NaLlDhai
Republican association, at the Riggs
hotel
T,he speakers were all women Of note
and the whole affair was managed ~
women. though many men We're present
as guests. The toastmistress was MIS-
u Ellen Foster formerly All Iowa Wo-
man who is now a resident Of the ma
tional capital city and president Ct ms
orgariza tion. which has done eIIeetlSe
work for the Republican party II tlle
states where women vote
Mrs Isabel WorreH Ball. the Wen
known newspaper woman OF Kansas
made one Of the notable speecnes oA tAie
evening in responding TO the toast q
THE Western Woman in Politics.
When she concluded the baraueIefss Ia
showing their appreciation Ior neE
splendid effort arose 70 thslI let an
voted unanimous thanks rms was
great honor paid Mrs Ball. trough her
forceful and eloquent efforts fully JUST
fed the ovation conferred.
In treating her subject Mrs Bali said
.Self-vivisection might be considered
a somewhat difficult feat. Yet that IS the
task set me to do. The Western Wo-
man in Politics Is my subject and
ann an uiinoisan by birth. a Sunf1ower
by adoption. a Republican by natural IN
clinatiOn. hS- education and environment
"A kind Of politician But why the west
ern' woman in politics. Why not Wo-
rnen2 All wonen2 ] cannot compre-
bend conditions in a country like ours
under which woman could I've and
not be intel esred in politics / cannot
see how she can avoid being a parLisSaA'
r 1-.1+ CHI
thing hut o Republican. because the
Republican party has always been the
friend Of women
with the women OF the west to be
interested fin politics is simply to be pa
triotic Thee is something in the ozone
of the occIdeut that inculcates these
sentiments a teacher in kansas
school said 70 one of her urchins-
sammy. give an example of he current
use Of the verb sets and sits
Sammy looked wise and replied. The
United States IS a country upon which
the sun never sets and upon which no
other county ever SITS That boy had
a mother Wboss politics were founded on
patriotism Patriotic men cannot be
produced in homes where patriotic wo-
Some Viii say that this Is politics
and not patriotism And ask. Are the
two sepaTatle?' We define politics as
that branch cf ethics which has for its
subject the BrCE q mode OF governing "A
state so as f1 secure its prosperity. peace /
and safety. and to attain as perfectly IS
possible the ends Of civil society Is not
this the highest plane that patriotism
can reachg and do You find IL highly de-
velGpad outside the Republican party
Surely on this hisn plane any WON ar !
might safely stand. bur here the daugh- /
ters of the east and those Of the west /
come to the parting Of ways. Why /
E0nsaryat isfn- for one reason, custom for !
another. The eastern woman IS con- I
servative. She is bound to customs such
.-Fr1a
Is afraid TO break the bands that confne /
Ter though she longs 10 do SO. She has
her Woman'a clubs and teas and dinners
for recreation. She has a thousand lit /
tile interests that hold her to mOss-grown
precedent, and she fears criticism if she /
steps out Of the beaten path
The western woman has left all this I
behind her and has blazed a path for /
herself 1t tuay be she never has known
the slavishnass Of this hampered life at 4
all She may be by birth a child Of ia
west Her mother may have gone to I
Is airs for Instance Eut al men and Wn- i
men sought asylum in other states, for I
sake Of acquiring land and wealth. buc i
TO make kanSa state of free homes. 4
That was the inspiration Of the west 4
ward tide that carried on its bosom ne 4
W hite sehoez1ers Of the prairies freightcd /
as was the AIayhoWer. with souls that Il
longed TO deliver the new territory out \
Of the HAND Of bondage and to write 4
across it on the map free The word I
was written and the pioneer mothers
helped to write it, There We're no rail-
roads. no telegraph lines no news papers
no schools, no churches Kansas was
simply blur on the map and pronis=sI
to be a blot m the national eschutcheoa
The savage WaTWhocp vet fingered in /
the air. they encountered billiards.. bar-
Ger humans urouth, grasshoppers. fires
that blast ard burn and winds that were
weary with. travel. Had they been OF the
common mould they would have folded
their hands IN supine despair and the
waves Of civil strife would have engulf-
ed them. ami theirs. But they were i.r,.
cI the common type Since before their
Slres crossed the wintry seas to the in
hospltable shores Of the New World
their chara ter had been forming TO
steel them tn meet just such vicfssitudeS
Inc heirs or all these ages Of thought
these noble women transmitted their IN
tsnsified dover Of mind ana viii to rhsirl
children. and meme OF them ever kns.r
me meaning Of the words fear or fail
6ut the western woman has suffered and
StfGsslsA I'D aStra per aspera to The
stars through difficulties has been her
Iaotto, ana today the stars are shining
IN her face
with such an heritage the western
woman IS armed against foes domestic
ana foreign she has an abiding interest
IN all that goes on about her Her mind
H. pure, and she has ever a smile or9 ner
lips, song ia her heart. a purrosa IA
IKE mat purpose Is to uplift ard ela-
Nate mankind She knows that she car
not do this alone. She does not try Ia
~ me west men and women have al
ways gone hand in hand with aeoneness
OF purpose. He strengthens her sic
E0ftans and makes him better
The wonian's cause is mans They
rise or sink together. dwarfad or god
like. bond or free For she thar o41+ ~
Of nature. shares with man his nights
aiG days moves with him to one goal