The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-01-14
Your Country Needs You.

IN
During the dark days of the re-
bellion noble men came from farm,
hamlet. town and city in answer to
their country's call. To-day q
trumpet sound, as loud and as long
as then, comes to the Christian,
intelligent American woman, to
come to her country's rescue. Over
a million foreigners are landed each
year upon our shores. Notwith-
standing their ignorance, supersti-
ton and Old World ideas, they are
soon Invested with all the rights of
citizenship. In 10 different States
six mon hs after their arrival.
They soon become the tools of willy |
politicians and lawless men, and it
has become almost impossible to
pass or enforce righteous laws. To
offset this gigantic evil which
threatens the life of Our nation,
Woman, the great moral power in
the home, school and church, must
come to the rescue, and to her must
be given the ballot.
The fundamental principles of a
democratic system Of Government
like that-of the United States are
that
Everyone who has to obey the
law shall have a voice in making it,
and that
Everyone who has to pay taxes
shall have a voice in saying how
those taxes shall be spent.
To carry out these principles,
our country has given a vote to
everyone over FL years of age, ex-
cepting criminals, lunatics, idiots,
aliens and women.
is IT RIGHT?
t Is it right that the mother, the
r sister, the wife, or the daughter
O should be classed with criminals
/, and luuatics, or treated as aliens
), from foreign country?
IT Many women have to pay taxes
e on real or personal property.
is Is it right that their money
d should be taken, and no represen-
n tation given them?
v Is it right that while the loafer,
y the gambler. the drunkard, and
n evan the wife -beater has vote,
,e earnest, educated and refined
e women are denied it?
!, Is it right that the saloon-keeper,
l. whose hope of gain lies in tempting
at the brother or son to indulge in
habits that may prove his ruin,
id should have vote, while the
s mother, sister, or wife. whose life
is thereby made miserable, should
be helpless in altering the law?
Is it right tnat the inmate of an
at almhouse should have a vote, while
r a women who earns her own living,
a and, it may be, tolls hard to main
'e tain her family. is denied it?
i'd Is it right that capable women,
who farms her own land, should be
c. thought unfit to use vote that is
if given to the most ignorant of her
lie hired men?
i'd Is it right that an educated
4. woman who can be trusted to teach
s. school, cannot be trusted with a
,e vote that is given to the boys she
O. has educated before they have her
% years Of knowledge?
70 Is it right that women should he
IS considered wise and good enough
20 to be school directors, and yet are
not deemed wise or good enough
S to vote for school directors?
E. 1t is right that woman teacher
'e should be expected to train boys in
|, all the duties of good citizenship,
E. while she herself is denied the su-
d preme privilege of citizenship-the
n ballot?
Sc Is it right that mother who
has trained her family in the fear Of
God, and who prays daily that they
k may be delivered from evil, should
j. be thought unworthy of vote
v. that is freely given to the bias
phemer, the liar, the prohigate,
the wife beater, the gambler, and
the drunkard.
Is it right that woman should
! be considered citizen in the tax
office and the criminal court and not
- - at the polls3
- - Is it right that married woman
y, ~ who labors as hard as her husband
'e ' for the home, the property being
' in his name, if he dies without a
:, will, she only receives third OF
~ =. the income of that property If
40 40 the property is in her name and
- she dies, he has life estate in all
;, she possessed.
- Is it right that women teachers,
,e ,u stenographers, clerks, cooks, etc.