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("The State of Kansas is out of debt."—Press clipping.)

is out of debt! Oh, when the anti-speaker, stern and tense, Declares that woman has no business sense, Describes the wild taxation we shall pay, When woman, flighty woman, has her way, Paints the financial smashes, The failures and crashes That must ensue when woman takes a hand In governing the land; Don't be annoyed; just smile and say: "But yet Kansas is out of debt."

Kansas is out of debt,— Kansas where women vote; whereas to date New York, the proud, the rich, the Empire State, With its magnificently male finance, And business interests that have looked askance