The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-03-13

leave that question to the ladie
themselves, and if they say the
think they should have the right t
vote and say so unanimously, then
am willing to support woman's suf
frage bill, but there must not be on
dissenting voice. Women of Okla
homa vote on educational matters
and many of our school superintend
ents are women"
Senator Borah of Idaho, whose
state has long had suffrage, in speak
ing of the proposed measure for the
rest of the country, said:
Il think it may be said withou,
doubt that woman suffrage in Idaho
has been altogether beneficial in oul
state. 1t has not accomplished all
which it's enthusiastic supporters
prophesied, but it has accomplished
much-all which conservative people
expected.
"The idea that woman suffrage
takes away woman's womanliness is
ridiculous. Those who urged such
puerile, threadbare and diaphanous
arguments ought, out of self-respect
to change front. A woman who takes
heed of the questions now in politics
and exerts her influence for her COM
munity, her state and country will
likely come out of the contest with
quite as much womanliness and re-
finement as those who withhold
themselves from such work and pass
their days in card playing, cigarette
smoking, restaurant lounging and So
cial life so much availed of today.
Women very generally vote. In
our state they take an interest and
are doing so more and more each
year"
Senator Owen of Oklahoma is a
stanch friend of the suffrage move
ment, and advocated the question be-
fore the constitutional convention in
Oklahoma few years ago.
In 1886 the house committee, of
which f. P. Hepburn of Iowa was
member, in it's report ADVOCATED sufS
frage. Representative Hepburn said
yesterday: "I have not changed my
opinion on the subject since then. |
feel the same as l did at that time
toward the movement"
An extract from this report says:
Give woman the ballot and she
will have additional means and in
ducements for a broader and better
education, including knowledge of
public affairs, which she will not fail
to avail herself of to the uttermost;
give her the ballot and you add to her
means of protection to her person and
estate.
MAN has not been consciously I'm
just to woman in the past, nor is he
now; but he believes that she is in
her true sphere, not realizing that he
has fixed her sphere, and not God, as
he imagines. This is as true of the
barbarian as of the Christian, and no
more so. IF the 'unspeakable Turk.
should be solicited to open the doors
of his harem and let the inmates be-
come free, he would be indignant,
doubtless, and would swear by the
beard of the prophet that he never
would so degrade lovely woman, who,
in her sphere, was intended to be the
solace of glorious, superior man.
"Yet, as man advances, woman is
elevated, and her elevation in turn
advances him. No liberty over given
her has been lost or abused or re-
GREETED. Where most has been given
her she has become best Liberty
never degrades her; slavery always
does. For her own good, therefore,
she needs the ballot
"Woman's vote is needed for the
good of others. She is an enemy Of
foreign war or domestic turmoil; she
As friend of peace and home. Her
influence for good in many directions
would be multiplied if she possessed
the ballot. She desires the homes of
the land to'be pure and sober; with
her help they may become so. With
out it what is the prospect in this re-
gard? Politics must be purified or
we are lost. To govern this great ma
ton wisely and well is Not degrading
service; to do it all the wisdom, abil-
ity and patriotism of all the people
is required No great moral force
should be unemployed.
Mrs Katherine Reed BallingtoK
wife of Capt Darlington of the Artil-
lery Corps and daughter of the late
" G A..