Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-08-23

All matter for this column is supplied
by the Josephine County Womsn's Chris
tian Temperance Union, Y. and L. T. l.
Branches.
On August the Grants Pass womans
Christian Temperance Union held
an exceptionally interesting and
profitable meeting. Mrs. G. G.
Ament, Superintendent of Franchise
department furnished a program
which consisted of vocal music by
Misses Ella Savage, Lulu Lund and
Kittie Loughridge. Recitation by
Mrs. Laura Gunnell. Brief paper bv
Mrs. Whipple upon the sdvisability of
Franchise from a religious stand.
point, also one by Mrs. Caldwell
from the standpoint of . mother.
Important questions were discussed
and further consideration to be had
At next meeting.
Following is the paper by Mrs.
Weidman upon the subject THE
AdvisSbility of Suffrage from an
Educational Standpoint.
Higher Educational is the very
highest pinnacle to be reached by the
human mind. A person with an am
bition for higher education and the
putting forth of that ambition by
unceasing and undefatigsble efforts
to gain that education is sure TO
bring about condition in their
physical as well as their mental and
moral natures whereby as they gain
that that is good and scientific in
the same proportion they lose that
which is low and csrnal. II is very
seldom that you see a person when
striving to reach the higher places in
life and to master the greater prob =
lens in science, that possess low
desires but rather the lower degrees
of life are repulsive to them. There
fore in Education we find the funda-
mental principles Of all that 1t takes
to make the world better. Our
Heavenly Father in the creating OF
man and woman saw fit to place much
less of the animal nature in the
average woman than he did in man.
Man has the greater power OF
strength therefore he takes pride in
that strength and enjoys using that
power to weld his little .scepter Of
authority and that condition will
last until he Ia educated up 20 the
point of knowing that while he may
have the greater amount of physical
strength she has as much endurance
and q greater amount Of electicity Of
nature than he and the time is GER
tainly not far remote when our
brothers will see this more clearly and
woman and man will stand on the
same level in saying who shall rule
this mighty country Of ours and how
it shall be ruled.
"Visit our schools of t day and you
. will find many mere girls than boys
in our graduating classes. Don I
think for one minute that those girls
are going to sit down and never be
heard from again or that they are
going to sink into oblivion and all
those years of hard labor and study
be laid on the shelf while they at.
tend only to the duties of wife and
mother. No, a hundred times. no
it gives them the power to stand
equal on all subjects with their
husbands and even a prenatal in
flnence on the little ones Of the home
as we'll as the greater influence dur
ing the growth Of the child. Then,
show me why should not that mother
have right to say who should sci
the examples before her children in
government, state and municips
affairs. We hear some one say
oh, it causes divorces and dissen
tions in families II women vote. II
we pick up any of the papers W,
find there are not few divorces
now and what is the cause Of nine
tenths of them? Can it not b,
traced directly to place where NJ
good woman would allow it to sta,
IL IN her power to get rid Of 1t
On the divorce question, will Civ,
as my authority the Hon. Lewis W
Cunningham, judge of the Firs
Judicial District Of Colorado. III
said: Il believe the greatest goo,
n that has so far resulted from equa
suffrage in this state has been quit
indirect; first 1t has compelled mel
! to think twice Of woman and he
rights where he thought OF her not a
all second. it has compelled woma
to read and investigate for herself
: The fears that homes would be broke
up and women become imm Oldest an
masculine have never been realized
having had about as large an exper
r ience in matters come. ted with di
: vorce litigation since 1898 as any ma