Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-03-01

whether they should come north or 90
south. Heads they came north, tails
south. They got a cent with a head on
each side, tossed it, and came north and
started the woman suffrage question. 1t
had come up, he thought, in every as
sembly since. He did not believe in it.
In the first place, although since state
hood woman had had the right to vote
on school matters, only 7 per cent Of
them on an average had voted. In the
second place, while he felt that
every oma present was intelli-
gent, and would cast a proper
vote, yet it must be admitted
that back of them, was the large per
cent of the unintelligent and uneducated
who would but add to the confusion
Of suffrage and government, as does the
unintelligent male vote. This latter
class was the source of greatest danger
the greatest opportunity for the en-
dangerlng wiles of the socialist and the
communist. Why add to this, and to
the already deranged political system,
the father, who, with six or eight fllial
daughters, would become a fixed power
in politics, and who could direct the
votes of the girls, who would see no
course but to vote with the "old man."
Continuing, the colonel paid a glowing
tribute to womankind. Eloquently, he
painted a word picture of her influence
at the Preside and the hearthstone,a as she
directed her child Alright, and aided and
comforted her husband with loving SYM
pathy and counsel. But in politics, he
said, was a changed being, and
was just as consummate a schemer, and
capable of as much deyiltry as a man.
He didn't believe would purify
politics. He didn't believe they we're in
tended for that work. He didn't believe
God intended woman for that sphere, or
that He intended the North Dakota leg
i~slature to change His original plan of
creation.
And following out the question of the
intelligent vote, he dealt upon the dere-
LECTION of the man who cast his ballot
carelessly, tLoughtlessly or for a pal
try consideration Of a few dollars. Had
he his way: every man should vote, and
be punished for a failure 80 to do. But
let that vote be cast wisely, carefully,
thoughtfully, and he with all others
would stand by the will of the majority,
SO expressed. He deprecated the alien
element, with which the larger cities are
congested, and which control the munic.
ipal government. The element which
has come with all our Haunted civiliza-
tion and advancement, and which is ever
ready to be shifted and changed from
side to side at the suave tongue and the
siren tone of the demagogue. And here
was a source of danger which must be
met by the calm patriotism of the Anglo
Saxon blood, which, although diluted
and mixed and weakened in the associa-
tions and changing processes of the years,
still existed in strains clear, pure and
healthy enough, he trusted, to preserve
the nation, and hand down to future
generations, the trust which has been
b~equeathed to us out of trials, tribula-
tons and sufferings of our ancestors.
And so he saw danger, in the con
tinued counting of disaffection in the
masses, by the demagogue and the ere
former" Danger, too, from the careless
consideration Of the obligation and
duties of citizenship. AS with a COM
munity, so with it's representative in any
legislative assembly. The average legis-
lator would rise no higher than the aver
age of his constituents. And from this,
he drew a lesson of the necessity and
wisdom of laying the foundation for
wise legislation, good citizenship and
sound government in the schools and
colleges of the state. The closing of the
ears to the siren tones Of the agitator,
aud a closer devotion to the lessons of
patriotism, and the duties of citizen
ship. The heritage, bequeathed the
present generation, was the grandest, the
wealthiest and the most precious
within the limits of Imagination
And if every citizen will remem-
Der that the preservation of one
God, one language, one government and
one flag is the sacredest of duties and
the most binding of obligations, and be
governed in his actions by a desire to
fulfill the trust 81 imposed, law, order
and government would prevail. and dem.
DOGGY, anarchy, and the kindred evils
which grow out of a careless considera.
alton of duty, be swept away and vanish
Seldom has there been heard in the
city a finer, or more eloquent appeal than
was made by Colonel Plummer in his
closing. And never was an audience
more thoroughly pleased, satisfied and
impressed.
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