The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-10-24
WANTS RIGHT TO
SCORE BOODLERS.

garding equal suffrage-that it is the
want to be man woman who desires
the right to register her political
opinion on the ballot sheet, that be-
lieves in the right of woman voting
on all questions of governmental law,
is indeed a grave error. individually
the progressive men of the country
saw they consider it lever of great
strength that could be used to over
turn many of the worst conditions
now obtaining in the political circles
of this country.
Not the least of these would be the
doing away with the pollution of man
hood by the professional boodlers'
who are now a recognized part OF the
political campaign, and who take this
method of fleeing not only men VINO
desire political preferment for the
better attainment of personal inter
ests, but men who truly wish for the
best interests of state and nation,
and who desire through legitimate
ambition to represent their constltu-
ents in working for necessary legis-
lation. a
Both these classes of ambitious
men are held up, in the parlance OF
the street, for large sums OF money,
to win the boys to our side, and the
candidates seem helpless, struggle as
they may against the injustice OF it.
These vote buyers are throwing out
upon society a shadow of insidious
crime. a shadow that enters the
home and falls upon the hearth stone,
shadow that taints the blood of the
little unborn, as we'll as creating an
environment that tends to make DIS
honor less abhorrent to the wife and
growing children.
No doubt today there are many
men engaged as boodlers who are be-
slowing an heritage of this kind upon
the family he so desires to physically
protect and that he loves with blind,
selfish devotion. Some day men will
awake to the fact that it is not ma
terial things that count most to the
coming generation, but that 1t is
character. The buyer of men and
women who sell their vote and influ-
ence against principle and honor can
not give this to the little ones so
dear to their hearts. This is passed
to wife, to child to home a heritage
of criminal instincts that Will in time
find their legitimate outlet in the
embezzler, the prostitute, the thief,
the murderer, the defaulting member
of society.
While Theodore Roosevelt was gov
ernor of New York, he recommended
in his inaugural address that woman
be granted the right. to vote. Recent
ly when interviewed on this subject
he said he was an ardent advocate
of woman being given the right to
register her political views, just as
well as a man. Last winter care
! full canvass of the United States sen
ate was made by Washington papers
and it was found that a large major
ity of the senators were in favor OF
granting this right to the women oil
the country, for the reason that indi
vidual right to determine the laws
under which each had to live had al
ways been something that men con
tended for from time immemorial
and they should not longer wish to de
prive woman of this individual right
Through apathy and ignorance Of
conditions men have gotten many
things pertaining to moral law in 9
sad condition. Now, it is woman
) woman, the presiding spirit of the
home; woman, the moral protector Of
the home; the wife, the mother, the
: sister, who can rescue poor misguided
7 man and lift him to the height abov5
: the seething, rotten conditions into
which he has got himself. Where
woman enters with the determine
, ton to make better she always &C
! complishes that desire-never is hel
: hand raised against existing condi
.. TONS but thew are crumb1ed and for