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oligarchical cry of croaking conservatism calling for a
"white man's government"--appealing by this, and like
slogans of class and caste to the lowest and meanest
principles of human nature, dangerous alike to real
republicanism and true democracy. Expediency, that great
pretext for the infringement of human rights, no longer
justifies us in the retention of a monopoly of political
power in our own favored class of "white male citizens."

In the summer of 1871, Mr. Wait and myself removed to Salina,
where Mrs. Hannah Wilson resided. She was the only person in this
section of Kansas I ever heard of doing any suffrage work between
the years of 1867 and 1877. She was a woman of great force of
character, and a strong advocate of suffrage. She was born in
Hamilton county, Ohio, and came to Salina in 1870. After Miss
Anthony lectured in that city in 1877, Mrs. Wilson circulated
petitions to the legislature and to congress. She was also active
and aggressive in the temperance cause. When she learned of the
Lincoln _Beacon_, and its advocacy of woman suffrage, she wrote
an article for the paper, and accompanied it with a kind letter
and the price of a year's subscription. Mrs. Wilson was a Quaker,
and in her dress and address strictly adhered to the peculiarites
of that sect.

Miss Kate Stephens, professor of Greek in the Kansas State
University, writes that she has made diligent search during the
past summer among the libraries of Topeka and Lawrence for record
of suffrage work since the campaign of 1867, and finds absolutely
nothing, so that I am reduced to the necessity of writing,
principally, of our little efforts here in central Kansas. In the
intensely interesting letters of Mesdames Helen Ekin Starrett,
Susan E. Wattles, Dr. R. S. Tenney and Hon. J. P. Root, in Vol.
II., all written since 1880, I find no mention of any woman
suffrage organizations. Mrs. Wattles, of Mound City, says: "My
work has been very limited. I have only been able to circulate
tracts and papers"; and she enumerates all the woman suffrage
papers ever published in America, which she had taken and given
away. A quiet, unobtrusive method of work, but one of the most
effective; and doubtless to the sentiment created and fostere