ered and died that you might be free. For
you Charles Sumner fell in the Senate of the United States. He
fell to rise again, but others fell for whom there was no rising.
Having received this great gift of freedom, pray you go on to
make it perfect. You may think that you have a free State, well
founded and stable, and that it will stand; but remember that the
State, like the Church, is not a structure to be built and set up
but a living organism to grow and move. Its life is progress and
freedom. Do not think that you can stay this great tide of
progress by saying, "Thus far shalt thou go and no farther." No
such limitation is possible. That tide will oversweep every
obstacle set in its way.

Why, men of Kansas, having been so nobly endowed at the
beginning, have you let the younger children in the nursery of
our dear mother country learn lessons that you have not learned?
Are the women of Wyoming and Washington better than your women,
and do the men of those Territories love their women better than
you love yours? You will say "no," with indignation; but remember
that love is shown in deeds far more than in words. Until you
make your women free I must hold that you do not love them as
well as those do who have given their mothers and sisters the
gift of political enfranchisement. This place is the temple of
your liberties; here, if anywhere, should be spoken the words of
wisdom and be enacted just and equal laws. However grand the
words may be which have been spoken here, may they become grander
and better and deeper, until to all your other glories shall be
added that of having set the crown of freedom upon the heads of
the women of your State!

Only a few gleanings from the many speeches can be given. Professor W.
H. Carruth, of the Kansas State University, said in part:

We are likely to meet some good-natured person who will say:
"Why, yes, I am in favor of woman suffrage, but I don't see that
there is any need of it here in Kansas. If I were in Rhode Island
or Connecticut, where there are so many laws unjust to women, I
would petition and work for it; but I don't see that it is worth
while to make a fuss about it here." Now, what can be said to
such a person? Weapons are both defensive and aggressive. The
ballot has both uses. What would