The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-07-08
QUIT THE VOTE HUNT
WOMEN DESERT CAMPAIGN BE.
CAUSE OF HEAT.
Weather Conditions Are Unfavorable
to the Cause of the Suffragettes;
Superintendent Young of Chicago
Is Pleased With the Decision Anent
Bible and the Public ScO0lS; the
HusbandlesS Fair One Advertise.
Especial to The Free Press.I


Chicago July campaigning in
hot weather for votes for women suf-
frage is trying work, even when the
campaigners are carried from city to
city and village to village by automo-
bile, as the Chicago equal suffragists,
touring western Illinois, have discov-
cred The "Blount EXPEDITION" held
together very well until Galena was
reached but at that point two members
of the party suddenly learned that their
presence was required back in Chicago.
They were Mrs. Catherine Waugh Me-
Culloch an attorney, and also Justice
of the peace in Evanston, and Miss
Helen NJ Todd, state factory inspector.
This has left the burden of the cam
paign to arouse western Illinois women
upon the shoulders of DR.. Anna Blount
and the Rev. Kate Hughes. The de-
serters said they "hated to quit be-
cause they knew the auto tourists were
winning thousand votes day for the
cause of equal suffrage. This campaign
is unique in other aspects besides the
and are touring the state by automo-
bile instead OF by train They are uti-
ling conditions in the ranks of the
democratic and republican party, as
arguments for women suffrage, and are
devOting considerable time to the MEM
bers of the recent legislature that elect
ed William Lorimer to the United
States Senate.
Pleased With a Decision.
The Bible-any version of it-and
all religious hymns, and prayers have
been barred from Chicago's public
schools by the Supreme Court of Illi-
nois, on the ground that it is viola
ton of the constitutional right of re-
Egious freedom THE wrong arises"
says the Supreme Court, not out of
the particular version of the Bible or
form of prayer used or the particular
hymn sung, but out of the compulsion
to join in any form OF worship. The
free enjoyment of religious worship
includes freedom not to worship. 1t is
not a question to be determined by a
court in country of religious free
dom what religion or what sect is
right. All stand equal before the law.
The reading of the Bible in school is
instruction. Religious instruction may
not be the object of such reading, but
whether it is so or not. religious in
struction is accomplished by it. What
right have the teachers of the school
to teach children religious doctrine
different from that which they are
taught by their parents" The deci
sion pleases most of the school au
horities, Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, the
superintendent especially. Il believe"
she says, that moral training and the
teaching of the fundamental principles
of truth, honesty. right living in pri
vatc and civic life, and common hui
manity, have an important place in
the public schools. but the teaching
of anything that might be construed
as sectarian is liable to jeopardize the
main mission of the public schools
education for all
Many Advertise for Husbands.
Some of the progressive spirits of
Oak park. the exclusive suburb on the
western border of Chicago which has
steadily refused to be annexed, are
seriously considering turning the tables
on the far west and advertising in
that section for men to come to marry
some of Oak parks many husbandless
women. This has been prompted by
the returns from the schools census,
just completed, which disclosed the fast
that the little city has l,SOl more
women than men, and 81 widows
btu only ninety nine widowers. The
total population shows a gain OF Lilo
over last year, now amounting to 10
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