Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-27
A BUGLE BLAST.
Mrs. Marietta VI. Bones Opposes the Id
mission Of Dakota as StGte and Facors
Romans Suffrage.

WEBSTER, Sept. 27.
Please allow me space in you valuable
paper to present few reasons why Dako-
ia should not be admitted as state.
First, we are too poor to support any
more officers than we now have. We arc
not we'll enough acquainted with each
other; last but not least, it is not the Voice
of our people who are asking admission,
which is proven in the fact that nine out of
ten voting cit1zens) did not vote upon
this subject, and very many of the rolls
were not open az all-thrse in my own
county Day. But two of our three dele
gates saw fit to attend the convention; but
two of the six of the adjoining county at
tended and then only for two days.
While we may have enough inhabitants
to entitle Us to admission, yet we are SO
scattered and sparsely settled over an i'm
mense area that VIC are strangers to
each other and do not want to check the
tide of immigration which statehood woald
do ten to one. We cannot afford il.
Neither do we want the prescription law
repealed, because it gives our native peo-
pie an opportunity as it were, to give this
country a trial, which invariably induces
them eventually to make a permanent
home among us.
That class of settlers have money. We
need it. Our pioneers and foreigners need
about all they have to get here
and are poor, now, which can
not be said of us in this healthful and pro-
ductive country two years hence.
These statements are facts which cannot
be controverted.
Many will say your correspondent has
grievance, which is true, and a serious one.
1t was my privilege to have the honor of
addressing our state constitutional con-
vention, and appealed to that honorable
body's highest sense of honor and justice.
found they hadn't any, in behalf of our
women who are unwilling to be left in our
state organization with no more authority
in self government than have the paupers
and the idiots.
TIE all our pleading for equal rights
they turned deaf ear
with one honorable exception. Judge
Moody had the courage to say in open
and daughter are not as capable to vote as
I am to hold Officer" Then the shouts of
selfish ones arose: "That's so! all they
want is Office! ETC., which reminds me of
a man whose name I was writing for him,
who was quite UNDER the influence of liq-
uor and knew was my husbands deputy
clerk.) He said: "Hould on there before
you're signin' nay name, ill I ask yez a
few questions. If its after all SIGH wimin'
as yourself gifts in Office, how long will it
be fore SIGH felIer as me gifts in Of
ice?"
Women by nature are domestic and
would not be aspiring to Office. However
there may be the least excuse for this jeal-
ousy, for in all my acquaintance there is
one woman who would be too weak (?) to
refuse Office of Importance, If rendered,
but in all probability such thing will
never occur in Dakota, as she is full of
hungry (men) Office seekers.
1t was my privilege to be present with
the committee on elections for several
hours to answer questions and objections
to woman's saffrage. When a member of
that committee moved that the word
"male' be not incorporated within our
state constitution when adopted" that
motion was seconded. The vote upon it
was tie, when the chairman gave his vote
in the affirmative, and when their report
was given to the open convention it was
the word male" still in favor, and women
may still vote at school elections and for
school officers, etc.
That change of sentiment was evident
ly brought about by the manipulation of
the most powerful political ring in theworld
and truly that weak committee are moro
TO be pitied than to be blamed. That word
''male' will probably always be Gin favor"
80 long as only the voice of selfish males
are heard at the polls; which is like an ig-
norant squire who upon hearing his first
case, wanted to decide 1t after hearing the
witnesses upon bat one side, but when
persuaded by his wife to listen to the
other exclaimed, "why didn't you let me
decide the case when I wanted to? for
now who the devil can~ When the other
side can be heard, that decision will be re-
verasd.
That convention 30 thoroughly mixed
"a trick the subjects of womans suffrage
and prohibition that one might think them
one and the same The former want to
vote because it is their right. Prohibition
Is Ill lLA porLhut u ueSbiOu WulCu SuOulu UC
settled by the vote Of the whole people,
and not by the people, with one half of
our. citizens disfranchised and that half too
its most earnest friends. When women
have the ballot we will have prohibition
which soiU prohibit. Men make the pro-
hibition laws. They do not enforce them.
Women have no power but men make
laws to make drunkards of our children;
do this too according to their man-made-
laws, and we are powerless to say
you may because denied our
God. given right to that telling weapon Of
defense, the ballot. And it must not be
said the Democrats do all of this kind OF
work. One delegate chairman Of COM
mittee) was SO drunk that he could not
meet with his committee for two days.
Another was so boisterous that he had to be
carried by force to his hotel-if it had
been woman she would have been put in
Jail, and justly too-for safe keeping. An
other called to see me and was quite under
the influence of liquor, and when I
saw him an hour later he was 20 drunk
he could not recognize me.
If Susan B. Anthony or a Helen M
Gouger had been one of the chosen funeral
escort of our lamented Garfield, does any
one suppose that $4,000 worth of liquor
would have been consumed upon that one
funeral occasion; and SS2,328 90 worth
at the Yorktown celebration? One curious