The Suffrage Advocate from Lawrence, Kansas • 4

Down To Hardpau. In response to the general cry of hard times and scarcity of mouey, and a demand for a very low price, we have decided to reduce subscription rather than enlarge the paper, rind have cut it to the line of actual cost in hope of stimulating subscriptions. can handle the matter in some way: But again lie bursts ferth: This thing is wrong and right-mind ed women do not want it; and we do not propose to drag them into the slums to satisfy the bold and brazen women who want to display themselves before the world. And again: who step beyond these bounds (home) deserve to be sternly rebuked." And further: That we never thought of it till the wise Susan B. Anthony and other wise people from the east, from whence all our tortures come, came herj aud informed us of the fact.

We have been invaded by wandering pilgrims from afar carrying messages of great joy unto much people; ccming to convert the heathen in Kansas who do not know what is good for them. All such stuff as the above is only an appeal to the donizens of the "slums" or to those on their level against women, aud the professed fear as to drag ging the latter "into the slums" is only hypocricy! Women who want to We do this, tirst, because we believe twelve columns per week all that can be profitably devuted to a 'single 'subject, either by the editor or the reader, and secondly, because a much larger list of subscribers should be obtained at a very low rate, and a correspond ingly stronerer influence exerted on the voters of the state. We have now distributed at our own expense about 5000 sample copies' of this paper. Our list of paid subscribers in Douglas County is nearly equal to our very moderate expectations, but outside of this county it is not what should have been expected. We now offer you five copies until November 15th for only one dollar, or single subscription for twenty-five cents.

When it is remembered that we use no stereotyped matter or reprint, and that we set more type each week than the average weekly newspaper, it will yote can afford to be "sternly rebuked'' from the "slums." Such rebukes will come from no source other than the slums, and from those who pander to their denizens, or like people, for votes. Nathan Creji in Wyandotte Herald. A Modern Claude Duval. A dispatch to the Topeka Capital Jrom Sterling says Claude Duval, be seen that we have made the lowest possible price one that will meet ac I tual expenses only with a much larger list than we have yet obtained. Overmyer on Immigration and Suffrage.

Mr. Overmyer, in his Leavenworth speech, turns woman suffrage and prohibition into a question of immigration. He At the adveut of prohibition Kansas was one of the best advertised states of the union. Its capacity for raising grapes was heralded all over the world, and capital came here and invested. Prohibition came and the people quit comiug.

The evil fame of Kansas in that respect has been spread abroad to the world. And then again he says: If this proposed suffrage amendment should carry in this state you would have twenty years more, of empyrical and esthetic legislation, twenty years more of supreme effort to make everybody good and clean and sweet. All the peculiar and ill-balanced people of the four quarters of the world come here as the place of the Eldorado of their hopes. You would see the gnarled, spectacled and savagely mor al. They would come like the locusts of Egypt, like the grasshoppers, like the army and the chiuch bugs that invade your fields.

Thus we see that the immigration to be attracted by the sale, of liquor is to be welcomed; but that to come in consequence of the enfranchisement of women will be an evil. He says that "woman has' no vote because the ballot would degrade her." And again: "It is not because women are not sufficiently intelligent to vote that we object to the duty, but because she is woman.1' But this claim is not consistent with the elaim that woman suffrage would give us sthetic legis lation," whatever that may be, and twenty years more of supreme effort to make everybody good and clean and sweet." After all it is the use that those women ''sufficiently intelligent to vote" would make of the ballot that troubles Mr. Overmyer. This "esthetic legislation," and legislation to make everybody "clean and sweet," is where the shoe pinches. Is "twenty years more of supreme effort," in the line indicated by Mr.

Overmyer, to degrade woman? This plea that woman is disfranchised for her own good is only the plea of all tyrants that his oppressions are for the good of his victims. But it is truly awful to think of the influx of the "gnarled, spectacled and savagely moral!" The un-gnarled, the uu-spectacled and the savagely immoral may come to us like the locusts of but save us from the contrary! Perhaps a tax upon immigrants, say of $100 per head upon the "gnarled;" of $200 per head upon the "spectacled" as presumably more wise, and therefore more dangerous and of $300 per head upon the "savagely moral" as the worst of all would avert the danger! An accompanying bonus upon liq uor drinking immigrants might also be an advantage! At any rate, so far as it is a question of immigaation we of Hutchinson, spoke there against the suffrage amendment, opposing it from a moral standpoint Most persons have heard or read of Claude Duval before, and the name is singularly appropriate for sucli a lecture, And what a treat from an intellectual and moral point of view this lecture must have. been. It says he advanced strongideas against woman suffrage, and we infer the strongest came from Kansas City by Will you not try to aid our circulation? Lj Carried Too Far. He glowered fiercely.

he demanded. "No, John," she repeated, "I shall not get up and build the fire in the morning any more." For a miuute he ruminated bitterly. "It strikes me there is a suggestion, of the dullness of despair in his tones this is carding your blamed man-nishness too far." Denver Tribune. but we wonder where the moral objections came from. Probably he got them r'rom the Indians and is enjoying a monoply of this rare pro duct.

He who is not free is not a man. He who is not free has no sight, no knowledge, no discernment. Freedom is the apple of the eye, the visual organ of progress, and to attempt because freedom has inconveniences and even procure civilization without it would be like attempting to cultivate the grouud "without the sun. Hugo. Two Points Of View.

Wife How people gaze at my new dress! I presume they wonder if they wonder if I've been shopping in Paris. 7 Husband More likely they wonder if I've bee'n robbing a bank. N. Y. Weekly.

We are prepared to do all kinds of job priming in the best manner at reasonable rates. Send us your work and we guarantee satisfaction When the world has become sufficiently civilized to grant to mothers their rights, the most natural thing to follow is that mothers will protect the rights of their children. Woman's Weekly, Omaha, Neb. A Reasonable Hope. 1 "Say, Bagly, do you suppose we shall ever meet in another world?" "I do.

't know; but if we do I hope you won't be able to get off the chestnut: Well, old man, is this hot enough for you?" Brooklyn Life. Subscribe for the Advocate at once so as not to miss a number. Oniy 25 cents through the campaign. J. M.

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