greatly in the $100 from the Drapers.[82] That makes
$250 paid toward the tracts. I am very sorry Mr. J. can not get
off Curtis and Beecher. There is a perfect greed for our tracts.
All that great trunk full were sold and given away at our first
fourteen meetings, and we in return received $110, which a little
more than paid our railroad fare--_eight cents per mile_--and
hotel bills. Our collections thus far fully equal those at the
East. I have been delightfully disappointed, for everybody said I
couldn't raise money in Kansas meetings. I wish you were here to
make the tour of this beautiful State, in which to live fifty
years hence will be charming; but now, alas, the women especially
see hard times; to come actually in contact with all their
discomforts and privations spoils the poetry of pioneer life.
The opposition, the "Anti-Female Suffragists," are making a bold
push now; but all prophesy a short run for them. They held a
meeting here the day after ours, and the friends say, did vastly
more to make us converts than we ourselves did. The fact is
nearly every man of the movers is like Kalloch, notoriously
wanting in right action toward woman. Their opposition is low and
scurrilous, as it used to be fifteen and twenty years ago at the
East. Hurry on the tracts.

As ever, S. B. A.

Seeing that the republican vote must be largely against the woman's
amendment, the question arose what can be done to capture enough
democratic votes to outweigh the recalcitrant republicans. At this
auspicious moment George Francis Train appeared in the State as an
advocate of woman suffrage. He appealed most effectively to the
chivalry of the intelligent Irishmen, and the prejudices of the
ignorant; conjuring them not to take the word "white" out of their
constitution unless they did the word "male" also; not to lift the
negroes above the heads of their own mothers, wives, sisters, and
daughters. The result was a respectable democratic vote in favor of
woman suffrage.

In a discussion with General Blunt at a meeting in Ottawa, Mr. Train
said:

You say, General, that women in politics would lower the
standard. Are politicians so pure, politics so exalted, the polls
so immaculate, men so moral, that woman would pollute the ballot
and contaminate the voters? Woul