The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-23

ming high and that the chances for the
success of the amendment in that state
are good She has sent a report of an
ADDRESS made by Robert Burdette be-
favor OF the enfranchisement of
women. Among other things, he speaks
OF the military argument against fe-
male suffrage The following is copied
from his speech:
when has she ever shrunk from
gong to war? She risked her life
Wnen the soldier was born. She
I wound her arms about him in all the
years OF his helpIessness. She robbed
HeF acnlng eyes of sleep, night after
night, when disease fought for the
little soldier. She stood guard over
MIN, keeping the house quiet and still.
When the tiny warrior would sleep in
the daytime. She stood on the firing
line, battling with the foes of unc1ean-
| mess, OF contagions of excessive heat
ana cold, protecting her soldier. safe
| IN the clean. sweet fortress of his
nome She taught him to take his
1lrst step that he might march to the
Icall of the drum some day. She taught
him his first words, that he might some
day shout his defiance against his
lcountry's foes She trained him to be
| and brave and true hearted. And then
one day she sets him forth at the
wheels of the guns-her beautiful boy
to be food for the fire breathing of
the black-ipped cannon Her boyi
Heart of her heart! Love of her love!
Glorious victory!' shout the head
lined papers. And she cries, with
Elizabeth Browning's italian mother:
Dead. One of them shot by the sea in
And one of them shot in the west by
the sea.
When was there generation that
bayonet 1unged into the heart of a
soldier that had not cooled its hot
wrath a hundred times in the soul of
the mother!
When the soldier goes through one
battle, the mother has wandered over
a score of slaughter fields, looking for
his mangled body. He sings and plays
in camp a month, and then goes out to
fight one skirmish. Every day and
every night of the thirty. the mother
has been on the picket line; she has
prayed beside his blanket while he
slept; she has walked through a hund-
red alarms that never were; she has
counted her agonizing prayers with the
throbs of her aching heart She |
would have to go to war, If she had
a voter She has no vote now, and yet
she goes to war Wari What do men
know about war? What does a mere |
soldier suffer in time of war? What |
does the soldier know about war? The |
as a consequence of her securing the |
ballot is a fool, as well as a brute"
Women in Kansas are as intelligent |
virtuous, and public spirited as are the !
women of Australia, New Zealand, Tas-
mania, Finland, Norway, Isle of Man, |
Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and
Washington, where women vote for all
officers elected by the people. The
women being the mothers of citizens
and future citizens. have the greatest
possible stake in the government and
deserve the greatest possible honor
and power.
Thirty-four women are included in
the venire of 129 jurors drawn for the
September term of the Supreme Court
in the City Of Tacoma, Wash.
Juarez, Mexico. claims to be the only
city in the world in which the direction
and control Of the city parks have
been turned over com mpletely to women,
A board of eight women managers hav-
ing exclusive control of them.