The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-18
GRANVILLE Hrr.nor s


only the deserted house Of memory but
that lives in tho hearts OF those we
love and who IRE left behind.
"Politics and Progress by Jennie A.
Morris.
The history of the world goes in q
circle. The world started as a tEeoc-
racy for government; that is. God was
supreme and ruler over all. People be-
camc tired OF this theocracy. The
world then had a monarchy. From a
monarchy Ii became a limited mon
archy. After some time the limited
monarchy was given up. and the re-
publican form OF government was
everywhere dominant. Then the world
will become tired of the republican
form of government and IL will have
an anarchy. which is no government at
ALL And then. all nations finding out
that man Is not capable OF righteously
governing man, will cry out again for
n theocracy. BE faithful at the ballot
box.
This is an age of individual liberty.
Right and duty and conscience should
guide us. Even majorities should new
er tyrannize over minorities in such
way as to prevent the honest express
sion of opinions in the most effectual
way-by marking a ballot. Women de-
mand no special law. She asks her
stand a free woman. side by side with
her brother man to aid in working out
the highest destiny of humanity.
The right to vote Is the highest test
Of liberty. Women realize their power
to think, and they ask the right to
agencies against evil. Women do not
think IL right to give suffrage to any
class as a class, but to all honest indi-
viduals capable of using 1t intelligently.
"valedictory, Citizenship and Suffrage" BY
Harold q. Bretherton.
Liberty was the watchword of our
fathers, and so IL is of ourselves. But
in their hearts the masses of the nation
cherish desires not only different from
but inconsistent with it. They want
equality more than liberty. Now.
there is a fictitious inequality and q
real and intrinsic one. Rank and IT.
ties. privileges and wealth make up the
first, and character and ability and cul-
ture the second. Excepting only the
distinctions OF wealth, we have abol-
ished the artificial inequality. and
now we are doing what we can to abol-
ish the real one. Vaguely and half un-
consciously. but every day more and
more. the masses cling to the fiattering
illusion that one man is essentially as
good as another. They do not deny
that there is a great difference in the
quality of dogs. horses and other lower
animals. but they refuse to see IL in
their own genus.
The history OF the progress of man.
kind is the history of its leading minds.
The masses. left to themselves, are
hardly capable of progress, except ma
terial progress, and even that imper-
fectly.
That political evils exist is universal
ly admitted. save by the political
tradesmen. who manage to turn public
1xvax .f.,r
The daily press is a mirror of daily
wrongs. INSCRIPTIONS political selfseek-
ing, incompetence in legislation, cor
ruption in office, defeat of the popular
viii. extravaganza in public expendi-
lures. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of law and
virtual dominance of the worst ele-
ments OF the nation.
The evils which terminate I'm the
system of universal suffrage have be-
come alarming. Patriots and thinkers
arc sounding alarms and deprecating
the tendencies OF our politics.
The highest intelligence and virtue |
seldom rise to places OF political re-
sponsibility and trust. But does nor
the public welfare demand that the |
public functions should be discharged |
by the most competent? The better |
and more competent classes are gem |
orally excluded from Offices by the |
urgency and unscrapu- |
IouSness OF political tradesmen in the |
of the ignorant voter.
Tota, Acknowledgement. temporary |
Or permanent. should be visited upon |
criminals and those who |
cannot read or write the American lam |
guaSe and who are totally ignorant of |
the principles OF our government
Nor would greater difficulty be expo. |
ricnced In determining the relative |
OF voters and the suffrage
competency OF each. than IN qualify |
ny for signature to bond. or FOR |
-eachinS. or medical or legal practice, |
DR. for taxpaying.
The city that can sc recognize itself |
hat those who supply the means of |
support and those whom education, /
virtue and patriotism have fitted to |
ldmirister the best government shall |
nave the chief control of its affairs, |
will lead the way In abolishing an |
inanoly as ridiculous as Il is odious, |
md give an impulse to it's own pros |
oerity which Will impel other cities |
hen states and finally the nation to |
'ollow its example.