The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-09-27
+IOGAI NEWS.~

died In ChalliS last Tuesday
morning, Sept. goth, 1898, at
3 o'clock. Aged, about one
month. The funeral was held
from the residence on the fol
lowing day, a portion of the Odd
Fellows funeral services being
read by Miss Keenan& Mrs. Paul,
the parents of the little one both
being members of Silver Leaf
Rebekah Lodge No. 81, of this
place. The community extends
to the relatives of the deceased,
their heartfelt sympathies.
We desire to see every woman
in this county vote at the coming
election. The Weiser Signal ex-
presses our sentiments, when it
says Women should not re-
main backward about registra
ton. Whether by their desire or
not, the women of Idaho have
been assigned the duty of casting
their ballots upon the political
questions of the hour, and none
of them have a moral right to
shirk that duty, if they would
have right triumph over wrong.
The evil in politics is generally
&c most active, always has out
;ts fnIT ,Sasngth, and the women
of Idaho will not be silpls isqss Justice
to themselves, their families f0r
the State if they do not see to it
that the strength of the right is
brought forth to defeat those
ever restless influences adverse
to the interests of the people.
We have heard of number of
women who do not hesitate to
proclaim themselves silver wo-
men, but they also express their
intention of remaining away from
the polls, they will not register
and will not vote. Now, being
silver women, they must be so
because through some reason or
some influence they believe that
to be the right side of the finan-
cial issue; and if it is the right
side they do a moral wrong by
Withholding their individual
from that side and thus
giving strength to the other or
wrong side. If the financial
issue requires the support of the
men of the State it requires the
support of the women of the
State. If gold monometallism
carries in its train the evils we
claim for it, and it surely does,
then not one single vote should
lie idle in the effort to block the
path of the destroying monster.
1t means the same poverty for
the struggling woman as it does
for the man, and the woman
should fight it. 1t means the
same fall in property value, the
same doubling of the debt against
your little farm home, the same
tightening up of your life's op-
oortunities, the same grinding
iown of the rewards of your toll
% the wife as it does to the hus-
oand, and the wife should fight
t. 1t holds the same hard, hope
ess future for the children of !
he father. Do not believe that
his subtle enemy will not have |
'ut its full strength. Let every
silver woman feel that her vote |
S as potent for the welfare of |
Ter home and her children and |
herself as is the vote of her hus-
,and, and then let her go and |
asst it. 1t is important that /
,ver woman register, because
hought upon the matter of vot-
ng may change by election time.
The tax levy of Custer county
S undoubtedly the highest in the
State this year-S6.O0. Blaine
ounty's levy this year is only
$50.
An EDITORS path is usually well
llled-sometimes with flowers,
ometimes with thorns, and oc-
with brickbats. Some
nd fault with the paper if they
% not find themselves and their
oings mentioned, and others do /
ONE things who would vigoro-
sly kick should we mention it.
'ome think we ought to roast"
ur public officials harder for
heir illegal acts. and few think
re are downright mean for motto
lg them, for it's just so every
here" We find our position
luch like the old couple who, Il
ynorant of city life, stopped at
hotel to spend the night, and
S they were about to retire OBJ
erved a card on the gas Jet
'hich read: Don't blow out /
le gas" and just below it the
lords, Two dollars extra will /,
g charged if the gas is allowed
} burn all night" Upon seeing
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