The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-06-30

than you can in the family. Equality is
the order of nature here. There is no
middle ground: it is either a slave or an
equal. Admit in the slightest degree her
right to property. to her person. or to ed
ucate, and she must have the ballot to
protect the and use the other.
In common with a large number OF your
readers. I am anxious to know how you
can show that woman suffrage would de-
stroy the foundation of society. Is this
prophecy of evil to come a matter OF in
spiration? If not, where is your present
evidence?. Full suffrage was granted to
women in Wyoming in 1869, and the re-
suit of what you believe will disturb and
destroy society has been before the eyes
of the American people for a period ex-
tending over a quarter of a century. Mum
icipal woman suffrage exists throughout
England and Scotland, and full suffrage
for women is being tried and tested in the
Isle of Man and in Ireland, and school
suffrage is greater in one half of the states
of the Union. What are the results? Have
the foundations of society been destroyed
by womans ballots in the places mentioned?
Let'us see. Birmingham. England. is on
record as the best governed city in Europe
and Glasgow, Scotland, as the most order
ly on the other side of the Atlantic, and
18Th ho,,a @x,o e,,4raon Tn tho 1cIo
of Man, there are no complaints against
the better half. In Ireland. a small island
with a population of $4,000, the men and
women are political equals and vote to-
gether as they think best. The voting
mothers, whom you call male women"
have here produced a state in which there
are nc prisons. no police, no thieves and
where none are very rich and none very
poor, but all plain. temperate. educated.
intelligent people. There is not n illit-
crate person to be found in the island.
Every mother or guardian is a teacher and
every child must be able to read, write
and cipher by the time it is seven years
old. In regard to the results of woman
suffrage nearer home, I cannot do better
than give your readers the Concurrent
Resolution unanimously passed by the
house of Representatives of the State of
Wyoming last year:
Be it resolved by the Second Legisla-
ture of the State of Wyoming.
That the possession and exercise of
suffrage by the women of Wyoming for
the past quarter of a century has wrought
no harm and has done great good in many
ways; that it has largely aided in Danish
ing crime, pauperism and vice from the
state, and that without any violent or op-
pressive legislation; that it has secured
peaceful and orderly elections, good gov
eminent and a remarkable degree of civil
~lization and public order; and we point
with pride to the fact that after nearly
twenty-five years of woman suffrage. not
one county in Wyoming has a poor house.
that our jails are almost empty, and crime.
except that committed by strangers in the
state, almost unknown; and, as the result
Of experience. we urge every civilized
community on earth to e~nfranchise its
women without delay"
Such is the testimony regarding the
working Of woman suffrage. Unless truth
dies and justice perish from the earth. it
is sure to come and come to stay.
CITIZEN.
Bottineau, June ~, 1894.