The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-02

Maybe North Topeka people have
habit of staying at home and minding
their own business just little too
much, but they are not behind the
times. They are all right, and we
have had splendid success in our can
wasting. We are going to give a ma
jority vote for the suffrage amend
ment, or I shall miss my guess. So
Mrs. John r. Patel.
"Our government was organized,
and we fought England on the ground
that people who are taxed should be
represented. If We pretend to have
republican form of government We
must not refuse one-half of the people
of legal age the right to citizenship;
and they are not citizens without the
right to vote.''-J. Hanson Taylor, Car
penter.
81 believe in woman suffrage for
every reason that 1 believe in man
suffrage, and I think that tells the
whole story."-P, I. Bonebrake,
Banker.
st called up to tell you a bit of
good news I sent one or your Mother
Goose books to a little cousin, Doro-
thy Bohn, in Portland, Oregon, and
she learned the melodies, sang them
to her father and we have won vote
away out there.'-Mrs. J. F. Cecil,
president Shawnee County E. S. A.
ct assure you that personally I am
heartily in sympathy with woman suf-
frage. You are aware no doubt that
the American Federation of Labor has
endorsed, and L believe that the ma
jority of the unionists of Kansas will
support the constitutional amend !
ment."-W. 7. Luce, Industrial Coun- /
ell of Topeka.
"Tor 80 years I have carefully and
earnestly studied history, civics and !
law with reference to suffrage, and L |
have yet to find one qualification es- |
sential to voting that would not bar |
some persons, male as we'll as female. |
from the ballot box, or that would bar |
all women.'-J. c. Ruppenthal, judge |
TWenty-third judicial district.
At am for suffrage for women, edu-
Gated by the side of her brother. anC |
to share with her husband the re-
sponsibilities of parenthood. Equally /
interested with him in good schools. /
good social conditions, good laws, his
equal education, by environment, by
birth. Why not give the woman, our +;
mother, sister, wife, the ballot? say /
Yes. 1t is their due, and they should |
have 1t, and must have it."-Anson S /
Cooke (senator) formerly of Beloit, |
now of Topeka.
1T believe in giving women the right |
to vote not because of any arguments |
from an inherited sense of justice and /
fair play, which every citizen of the ,
United States above all nations should |
possess. In former years while con-
ceding the justice of their request, and !
willing to grant it, I doubted the wis |
dom of the move, but in view of the |
many municipal and other reform |
movements that have been carried out .
or accomplished by women, believe
that great deal of good will result
from it. But back of it all is the /
principle of a square deal."-John T.
Lacey, Sharon Springs. representa-
tive0.
my chief reason for favoring wo-
man suffrage is, 1 attribute what lit
tie I have achieved in honor, in pro-
perty, in the respect of my neighbors
and in character, to the influence of
my Christian mother who is now 81
years old, and still admonishes me to
follow the high ideals she inculcated
in me from infancy. I know that she
can cast her vote intelligently, which
I am sorry and ashamed to know so
many thousands of the male voters can
not dol. w. Brown, Haverhil,
representative Fffty-third district).
my immediate reason for favor
Ing tie acknowledgements of women
is that the most serious problems of
the present day are industrial, and our
whole industrial system is affected by
the employment of women and chill
dren. Naturally the child must be re
garded as ward of the state, because
he lacks strength and experience for
self-d direction; but no such reason ex-
lists in the case of the woman.''-OWen
r. Lovejoy. General Secretary National
Child Labor Committee.
1.-THE Kansas voter cannot find one ,
real argumentative point why our
Kansas women should not have the
right to vote. Her natural talents en-
title her to equal rights with men.
The real objection, fear, among men
is their unjust prejudice against it.
Think of the absurdity of a few in
telligent Kansas voters opposing it on
this ground For the sake of the fair
name of Kansas men-those of you
who hold this yiew-discard il and
join the increasing army of men who
believe in doing right and voting right"
-Chas A. Case, Abilene, Representa-
tive.
''I am heartily in favor of .he suf-
frage amendment for one reason
problems of society are daily and
hourly becoming more complex and no
progress can be made toward their So
luton without enlisting the most earn
est thought of every intelligent human
being. L am convinced that there is
no way to bring about a correction Of
the evils from which humanity suf-
fers without giving woman's influence
an expression at the polls."-A1den S.
Huling, Representative of Organized
Labor.
1.-THE active interest respecting suf-
frage all seems to be in its favor
There is d passive resistance to IT, no
doubt. The political committeeman
and active men in the communities are I
quite commonly outspoken in its ia
vor. This, of course, does not 1,eces-
sarily indicate that everybody else is