The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-22

with the men voters, since the county
officials are elected by men alone. II
the facts are as stated, they constitute
an argument for woman suffrage and
not against it, Whatever may be a
woman's failings they are not likely
to be lacking in humanity. In Kansas,
as in every other state, the bulk of
the unofficial charitable work is done
by women, and the women who have
worked the hardest in that line, are,
most of them advocates of the ballot
for women.
among the twelve new inspector ap-
pointed by the mayor of Greater New
York in the bureau of weights and
measures, there are two women. The
mayor declares this bureau to be one
of the most important branches of the
city government.
The Norwegian representative to the
international Woman Suffrage Alliance
at Stockholm gave figures showing an
enormous increase in the Women's vote
since the women Of Norway have been
enfranchised. Her contention was that
Social rights are the direct cause of
the development OF social interests and
1t is therefore wrong to withhold the
rights till after the development of the
interest
Mems leagues for equal suffrage have
/ just DCC4A OLS dAiL6Q III OWeQ6n ana
Denmark, and one is in process of for
nation iii Germany.
Many physicians have sent communi-
cations to the woman suffrage head
quarters, expressing sympathy with the
cause, and promising to do their part
IN securing the passage Of the suffrage
amendment
In 1885 only seven industries were
open to women of the United States.
The census of 1900 names SOB separate
| occupations, and in only eight of these
there were no women workers.
Big Tim Timothy d. Sullivan. is
one state senator of New York who
resolved that the womans suffrage bill
now pending shall have fair show
There isn't going to be any funny
business when the bill comes up says
the senator. ITS going to get a fair
snow twenty years ago, when you got
! up IN the morning all you saw was
men gong to work with dinner pals
NOW tnere are just as many women
carry lunches. They are entitled tC
protect themselves, and labor is emit
tied to the protection of having their
votes cast and counted"
In the political conditions now exist
ing which have disheartened many In
the success of the principles of a re-
publican form of government, we are
surely reaping the harvest OF the rea-
SOning which enfranchised the nontax-
paying man, while the taxpaying wo-
man remained DISTINGUISHED: whicf
thrust the ballot unasked into the
| hands of the negro Just out of slavery
| while the author of Uncle Toms
Cabin pleaded fer it in vain; which
urged the Indians upon the western
prairies to accept suffrage as a favor
while the opinions of missionaries anc
| teachers who We're trying to raise their
1 to the level of civilization, were count
/ ed with idiots, insane, and criminals
/ on election day; which crowned witt
| sovereignty many an illiterate alien
| while denying representation to educa.
/ ted American women. Such inconsist.
ency in the application of Justice does
not find its equal in all the worlds
/ history.
David Starr Jordan, president of LIE.
| land stanford university, in a recen
address, in which he declared woman
| suffrage to be inevitable, added: "A.
men have learned through responsible.
ity, women will learn, and when boti
have learned there will be a doubl,
degree of wisdom to govern the world
4 We need the help of both men and Wo-
men to do the things that need doing
The time is past when we refuse wo
men the ballot because they canno
fight. for the business of killing mer
is coming to an end"
Find New Oil Well.
Neodesha. Kan, July ga well re-
Gently drilled on the Gathers farm
four miles southeast of here, by n. S
Cibprt EJnu-ard Tgnprla ard Fer.