The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-11
THE CAUSE OF WOMAN.
Gov. Roosevelt's Address to the Ne.
York Mothers.

GOV. Kooseveifs Address to the New
York Mothers.
From the New York Press.
Governor Roosevelt, in his address to
the New YORK state assembly of moth
ers the other day, made one of the best
lndlrect arguments for equal suffrage
that mas been made for long time, The
stock objection has always been that
a woman who does her full duty BY her
nome VIII not have time to concern her
seiI Win outside matters. But Cover
nor Roosefelt said:
Il believe the mother must be more
IMAM cross between the head nurse
ana the housekeeper. She must have
an interest in outside things to keep
her own self-respect; and when she
spect Of her children. We know of a
mother good and kind, sacrificing her.
self to her children, who, through that
sacrifice, has sacrificed her power of
doing good. | wonder If you have read
Mary ID. Wilkins Revolt Of Mother
You should read it, for it contains pro-
found moral lessons" (This is the
story of a long suffering wife, tyran-
nized over by a husband who was
thoughtless rather than bad, and de-
scribes her final rebellion and it's good
results.)
Another favorite objection to equal
suffrage is the division of labor"-the
idea shat the mother ought to attend
to everything within the home and the
father to everything outside OF 1t.
Governor Roosevelt said:
y do not think it is right for the
father to let the mother have all he
care Of home life. No family can be-
come all that it should be if the father
does not do his share, or if the mother
does not keep in touch with outside in
terests and what is going on in the
world sufficiently to become an intel
Inc tn Enr hill lynY,
Many persons have a feeling that edu-
cation and intelligent interest in public
affairs tend to make women unwoman-
ly. Governor Roosevelt said:
There are women who develop the
intellectual side to the .dwarfing of The
womanly, but it is not necessary. Edu-
cate the girl to be just as much of a
womanly heroine as the heroines of any
of the romances of the last century, yet
have her wise, with well-trained mind,
thoroughly awake to all that is going
on in the world
The real objection to suffrage, in the
minds of many fashionable and fastid-
ious women. is the fear that the ballot
might bring them in contact with
something rough and unpleasant. Gov
ernor Roosevelt said:
II think all these people who are
bringing up the boys and girls who will
be naturally the leaders of the next
century should keep peculiarly in mind
to train those children to have not only
the negative motives, but to cultivate
the positive. AS one who sees infinitely
much of the wickedness in the world,
/ have grown to count the want of IN
telligent and strong effort toward
righteousness to represent a positive
misdemeanor We need all the effort to-
ward Righteousness possible. Your
children are the people who will shape
the questions of the next century, in
which there will be a coming together
of problems greater than ever before.
In the next century we shall need ev-
cry ounce of morality, of firm courage,
of steady purpose. We need not only
the nice people, the people who would
sit at home, who would confine their
efforts to passing resolutions, but we
shall need the people who feel burn
ing sense of indignation at corruption.
at wrongs, t injustice, at foul living
people who will go out and work to set
the world right
1t is peculiarly appropriate that these
words should have been spoken in AL
bany, the headquarters of the ants,
who would sit at home" and who
shudder at the idea of crystallizing
their disapproval of any evil into the
concrete form Of a ballot cast against