d, to the voters of Kansas, urging them to
support the pending Constitutional Amendment whereby the Right of
Suffrage is extended to Women under like conditions with men. The
gravity combined with the comparative novelty of the proposition
should secure it the most candid and thoughtful consideration.

We hold fast to the cardinal doctrine of our fathers' Declaration
of Independence--that "governments derive their just powers from
the consent of the governed." If, therefore, the women of Kansas,
or of any other State, desire, as a class, to be invested with
the Right of Suffrage, we hold it their clear right to be. We do
not hold, and can not admit, that a small minority of the sex,
however earnest and able, have any such right.

It is plain that the experiment of Female Suffrage is to be
tried; and, while we regard it with distrust, we are quite
willing to see it pioneered by Kansas. She is a young State, and
has a memorable history, wherein her women have borne an
honorable part. She is preponderantly agricultural, with but one
city of any size, and very few of her women are other than pure
and intelligent. They have already been authorized to vote on the
question of liquor license, and in the choice of school
officers, and, we are assured, with decidedly good results. If,
then, a majority of them really desire to vote, we, if we lived
in Kansas, should vote to give them the opportunity.

Upon a full and fair trial, we believe they would conclude that
the right of suffrage for woman was, on the whole, rather a
plague than a profit, and vote to resign it into the hands of
their husbands and fathers. We think so, because we now so seldom
find women plowing, or teaming, or mowing (with machines), though
there is no other obstacle to their so doing than their own sense
of fitness, and though some women, under peculiar circumstances,
laudably do all these things. We decidedly object to having ten
women in every hundred compel the other ninety to vote, or allow
the ten to carry elections against the judgment of the ninety;
but, if the great body of the women of Kansas wish to vote, we
counsel the men to accord them the opportunity. Should the
experiment work as we apprehend, they will soon be glad to give
it up.

Whereupon, the Atchison _Daily