The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-10-07
Equal RIGHTS for the Women.


This is time of political emergen-
cies in Montana. The women of the
state so recognize it and are seeking
in legitimate ways to win the light
of the ballot for themselves. At the
recent state convention of equal suf-
fragists in Butte there was much
practical work accomplished toward
making the reading public o. Mon
tana understand that the women who
are interested in this movement in
the state are women who love their
hon es, their husbands, their children
above all things. 1t is because of
this great love that the women of
Montana are working so earnestly to
better the conditions surrounding the
home life The woman who desires
the best for husband and children is
the woman who takes an interest in
something besides frying bacon, stir
ring mush and patching clothes. She
recognizes that there is world into
which her husband goes every day,
and into which her children must
pass as they leave the hearthstone OF
the home, and into which the sons
and daughters of every mother will
some day pass. This is why the
mother of today recognizes that to
keep apace of her husband and chill
dren she must be OF that world and
take an interest in its affairs, other
wise the day is fast approaching
when she will be laid on the shelf
as one whose opinions amount 10
nothing and will be relegated to the
rear in the nome life.
The personnel of those who were
in attendance at the convention was
all that any man or any child could
ask, nay, be proud to call their own,
Side by side sat women who WORKED
with their hands and those VINO
worked with their brains, none were
present of the idle cIass-there is
not room for them IN the ranks Oh
the earnest women of todav-tnose
who had only fair share of school
life and those who drank deeply ol
college lore; yet each worked anu
MANNED to the best of her ability lor
the uplifting of humanity. NO bitter
ness no blame, no censure because
Of mistakes made in the past by the
men who had made the laws controF
ling themselves, the women ana the
children. Today all women know
that men have acted as they thoughC
hest and that with the onward sweep
of progress they will know that WhaC-
ever goes to assist man will, in just
the same ratio, help the woman ana
the child and vice versa.
Among the addresses delivered at
the convention was one on The New
Parenthood," by Mrs. Green Majors
AN ideal mother and wife-and one
or the Juvenile Courts" by Mrs.
Margaret Cunningham, a woman
widely known throughout the state as
a mother, one who rs interested IN
the little ones of every mother as
} we'll as those of her own. Hers was
/ plea for the children who, whether
from mistaken indulgence on the par,
Of parents, from corrupt environ
: ment. or from being left without
| home or guardianship or parents, II
: is true that large number of boys
and girls are growing up in a schoo
5 of idleness and vice. These are the
/, ones who make up the criminal class
2 OF the country, who cost the state
t untold thousands of dollars eacf
}. wear through the courts, yet who
t can be saved through the right guard
e ianship. New environment and new
e methods of dealing with children viii
/ do much, as shown by Mrs. Cunning
ham, to prevent the increase o.
e crime and to make them first elias:
: citizens.
: Woman in City Government" wa
= another address delivered by one o
n Butte's leading clergymen-the Rev
S Lewis ]. Duncan. This was pro
nounced by all the best and mos
concise address of it's kind ever de
l. livered in the state.
s. Woman suffrage has come to stay
l. 1t is a phase of the evolution of pei
r feet government and nothing will dc
G. feat it.
n All progress has had for it's motiv
l. power the love of personal liberty
e Ali men have fought for this, of
e times unconsciously, down through
t. the ages and now that they are gain
ing it in greater degree than eve
o before, they are reaching out thei
= hands to help woman, who has eve
been their aid in all that goes t
= make life endurable and noble an
g real.