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Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-18

has come to know the ladies ask fo-
nothing unreasonable, and the. ef-
forts are as much toward their health
and happiness, as that of eve:y :esi-
dent in the city. The ladies VOL CRIT
In fight for clean streets and alleys.
then began crusade for pure food.
sanitary meat markets and grocsr
stores, bakery shops, ETC., until now it
is pleasure to enter any OF these
places in Grand Forks.
Now crusade has been started to
do away with the circulation of the
germ laden dust, especially during
such hours as the streets are crowd
ed with people. The merchants are
being asked to do their sweeping in
the early hours OF the day before the
shoppers are about and to flush the
Sidewalks in front of their buildings,
thus preventing the spread of germs
that carry infectious diseases.
Devils Lake stands much in need
OF more womens' work along
these lines We have a prosperous.
growing town with possibilities of
making it one of the prettiest and
best home town in the state. MANY
conditions along civic lines could be
bettered, but they never will be until
the women of the town take hold. It
takes women to do this work They
must take the lead Men, when proper
ly approached, will assist, but general
~ the average business man is too
busy with his own cares to Worry
much about the conditions around him.
He likes them right of course. and
will assist, but it is always the wom-
en- who must lead There is one thing
certain, an aggressive women's league
in Devils Lake would have the hearty
cooperation of the Inter-Ocean. Let's
see what can be done.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-18
WOMEN'S WORK.

!, There is no town in the whole North
west that shows more what the miet
determined effort of few women can
40, than the city of Grand Forks.
5Grand Forks should not be named
alone, Valley City and other towns in
the state have felt wonderfully, the ef-
feet or Women's work, but Grand Forks
comes a little in the lead in manv
5snllngs Through the efforts of the
sSW ','tt Civic League, that town has
come to be about the cleanest. most
santtary, place in the northwest and a
paradise to live in.- It is just a few
Eears ago the good women of that city
banded themselves into a Women's
Civic League with the object of bet
Iering civic conditions along such lines
as they could reach. Their efforts
nave been a great deal more far-reach-
ing than they ever dreamed. They
iaVe not only accomplished wonderful
iesults in their own town, but their
ssRorts are becoming an inspiration to
many other places. The first effort
1f the league in Grand Forks was
light for clean streets and alleys. Many
ordinances were not being lived up
70, for no reason, but that there seem
5sd no one interested enough to call
5soT their enforcement. They coaxed
he city council into. cooperation with
hem and have been coaxing them
light along until it has come, when
.onlmittee of ladies from the league,
gait on that august body, all business
thrown aside until the ladies are
s:.lven what they want. The couTcil
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-18

Il tistics showing whether men
r. previously used their votes to
better the laws
He is not asked If he is sure
T. he can still De good father
He is not asked to remain
attractive" after he votes.
Is But all such requirements, and more,
are made OF women when they aspire
to vote
Mrs. Gait said at the Senate Suffrage
hearing in April, 1910: In the one
hundred and twenty years OF national
life, no class of men have been forced
to organize a movement in behalf of
their own enfranchisement- Yet Am
erican women, who have conducted a
persistent, intelligent movement for
half a century, which has grown
stronger and stronger with the years.
appealing for their own enfranchise-
ment and supported by petition of
400 600 citizens of the United States,
are told that it is unnecessary to con-
slider their plea, since all women do
not want to vote"
Just so long as the oppositioni can
keep the suhragists busy giving pro-
misses and proof that women will use
the vote to good advantage when they
get it, just so long will the opposition
keep on asking for more promises and
more proof.
1t is time to stop that sort of work,
as suffrage work, and concentrate all
our energies on the real point, namely,
that the qualifications for voting shall
be made without regard to sex.
WHO forms the opposition? Not the
organized Anti-Sufrragists. (they hardly
COUNT. but the special privileged class
es and the professional politicians who
are stitutionally opposed to more vot-
ers and to the extension of more power
to those who vote"
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-18

Fargo Searchlight: No subterfuge
70 combine progressives and stall
warts in both parties so as to get a
pliable' man for judge of the s,,.
creme court as successor to Judge Nor
gan next year, will go down with the
people The present plans of certain
men who would like TO try to control
supreme court judges, is to pick Nd
ana support some man who has in the
past been trusted by the people, swell
MS head, and make him pliable and
"nen ne is pliable "and fit for their
use to get him before the people and
secure his election to the supreme
bench. The Search-Lght is watching
Inc game" very carefully.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-18
Probe ITION.

Men say prohibition is failure.
They claim it does not prohibit. They
state 1t breeds perjury. They tell of
the good points of well regulated"
licensed liquor traffic. They ask that
prohibition be repealed
They are either hopelessly ignorant
OF frankly insincere. If they believe
in their claims, they then have failed
utterly to understand the workings of
this law we call prohibition. Prohibi-
ton is not perfect. It's degree of per-
lection depends largely upon the pub
lie opinion of community. Men vio-
late it, it is true. They commit perjury
to do so. They make the law a mock.
cry at times.
But one good result among many
others which prohibition accomplishes
is great enough to justify it hundred
times. 1t cuts down the consumption
OF liquor. 1t makes our streets more
orderly 1t is conducive to public NOR.
ais. 1t Is economically good thing.
1t means fuller dinner pail and heal.
thier men and women. But greater
than all these things land in reality
this is the greatest aspect of the ques-
ton by far it results in a new race
of young men. 1t means that a vastly
greater number than under the license
system will grow to manhood as alb
stainers-not all of them but thou
sands Of more of them than formerly
and 1t means that each year will see
an increasing number who by their
early training, traditions and environ
ments will in later years not need a
law to keep them from drink. Ten
years will not tell the whole story, nor
twenty. But the day is coming when
North Dakota will reap the harvest, of
more self controlled men and women,
of healthier cleaner public opinion and
better economic conditions. If you
doubt this, If at times you are discour-
aged with prohibition, 60 down into
one of the high license states. Watch
on a Saturday night at the bar of any
saloon and see tens, yes hundreds of
young men from eighteen to twenty
one years of age befuddled with liquor
and poor in pocket. Then come back
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-18
MccuMsER's soPHlsTRY.

Senator Porter ]. McCumber of
North Dakota is responsible for the
following interesting portion of re-
ciprocity argument delivered before
the United States senate in Washing
ton:
'Mr. President, the farmer boy who,
driving his broken and heavy horses
with his load OF vegetables or cord
wood for city consumption, reveren-
tally turns aside to yioid the road to
high-bred steeds, glittering harness,
and spotless carriage, or who, by acct
dent may get glimpse through folds
of silken tapestry, into some parlors
whose shining floor he feels would be
profaned by his step, may justly be
excused if he. does feel in his heart
the stirring birth of some vague, in
definite hope that some day, some way,
the walls of his own little cottage may
be broadened and heightened and all
his shcOry surroundings brought to
a higher degree OF beauty, with its in
fluence for refinement: and culture.
And l, who have followed this lad and
know every impulse Of his heart, may
also be pardone' il approach this
subject from his sta'G:.1: It and actu
ated by desire TO help him and ill
those who live his life to realize to
some extent these hopes and aspira-
tions.'' :
According to Senator McCumb Der, the
poor farmer boy SHES off the road
for the fashionable city folk, and peeps
longingly at the hardwood floors Of
towns people. Senator McCumber
looks with the eyes of the farmer boy
at the tariff question and sees in the
coming Of reciprocity the ruin of North
Dakota agriculture. The trouble with
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-18

in the heart and mind of the farmer:
boy is the conviction that justice and
the square deal are the worth while
things of this life; that the Today he
lives in, demands men of different
calibre than McCumber; that econo-
mic questions will be settled rightly,
only, when placed in the hands of men,
who at heart stand for the Newer
Craftsmanship" of the nation, states
manship to which McCumber is SO
distantly related, that he is like the
lost tribes of Isreal in connection with
it. 80.
If McCumber had ever stood for
what the farmer boy of North Dakota
knows to be honest progressiveism,
then his latest effusion, of which the
above is fair sample, would ring
truer back here in Dakota. AS it is,
Dakota farmers know that the things
they have fought for-cheaper machin-
cry, cheaper clothing, cheaper living
McCumber has fought against. He
has stood with Aldrichism day in and
day out. His offering is cheap and
counterfeit and belongs to political
currency that long ago was retired.
Today, when he would purchase pub
lie approval with it as medium, the
farmer boy of Dakota bites it once,
and passes back to the articulator
from Wahpeton his lonely antiquated
dollar - +; #
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-18
a Sign of the Times

ihat the good people of North d.
Aota are not very much affected by
'sUcr trivial matters as droutbs. or
partial crop failures, is proven in no
way more emphatically than by an ex-
animation of the records of the secre-
tary OF state concerning the issuance
or the state license for automobiles
Over 5000 of these vehicles have al
ready been licensed and tags are being
shipped out at the rate of 300 per
olen Before the time, set bt law
within which licenses must be secur-
ed oy all owners it is anticipated that
FULLY 1000 will be recorded: and this
does not include motor cycles. of
which it is expected that fully five
hundred will apply for licenses.
: Unlike some of our great centers of
population this vast expenditure in
North Dakota does not mean that
homes and other property have been
mortgaged 10 secure a horseless vehi-
Gle. On the contrary, in almost every
instance the purchase has been made
from the thrifty savings of our farm
<ers and merchants, and simply means
that our people know good thing
when they see + and are not so short
OF ready cash out that they are able fl
crafty their desires; and, more sig.
fn1flcant than all it means that the
partial failure of 1910 in agricul+
products has in no way impaired the
purchasing power Of the state.
/ Think of it. Seven thousand autos
for which 81 900 would be a very con.
: servative average for each. This
means an initial investment of at least
S1,01o,0o0- Nothing depreciates more
rapidly in selling value than an auto
mobile: yet our farmers do not hesi
/ tate to spend this large sum of money
5for what might very fairly be consi..
%ered lu~ury. Nothing slow abou;
North Dakota in this.-State Bulletin
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-18

1t is stated that a certain Devils
Lake business man who aspires to the
position >of county treasurer has been
told that for the present there is moth
ing doing in the treasurer line and
that the best thing he can do is to
polish up his lightning rod for use
when the present century gets out Of
its teens. Also some say that this
business man doesn't take kindly to
the answer handed down to him from
the throne. Well, we'll see what we'll
see.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-18

Senator McCumber is that he is as far
OF the trail of truth on the tariff ques-
ton as he is cross-eyed when he trys
to look through the eyes of the farm
er boy at hardwood floors and silkeE
tapestry of city folk I
To :-s specific. the Dakota farmer
boy ne.er SHES on the road to gixe
place to the city folk with their high
bred steeds, glittering harness and
spotIess carriage The Dakota boy
either gives his city cousin a scant
half Of tie road and views the lowly
city dweIler with stern disapproval
from his throne ON the lofty seat of the
grain tank, or else he whirls By in the
~old mans" auto and makes the well
bred" steed unceremoniously take to
the diEch.
The Dakota boy has long felt Ger
tain stirring births" He long ago
felt within him a desire for education
both in agriculture and arts and he
is getting both today. He long ago
felt a desire for letter home and
better lives for his parents and him
self. Also he long ago felt a desire
for better political conditions in his
state While he is divided sharply
on the question OF reciprocity, he is
not divided or divisable on the ques-
ton of justice and equal opportunity
And along this line he will some day
have a message for Senator McCum-
Der that he will deliver with thousands
of white, fleecy ballots upon a June
primary day to come.
The Dakota farmer today looks far
ahead and sees through and beyond
the gilded periods and smiling sophis-
try Of the senior senator from this
state. The farmer boy is reading and
thinking and digesting his thoughts.
Consequently he is not afflicted with
any stirring births" when he reads
the senator's speech. When he thinks
back over the record of McCumber he
remembers the manifold times when
McCumber has stood shoulder to Shout
der with the interests at Washington,
when McCumber fought with Aldrich
for the Payne tariff bill, when he
worked and shouted and "articulated"
against the popular election of sena-
tors, when in short, the senior senator
voted persistent1y against the interests
of the farmer boy and directly in
faver of the trust-dominated east. And,
remembering these things, he looks
suspiciously upon the late sonorous
periods of McCumber and doubts the
seething sentimentality of his plea for
the poor farmer boy He thinks that
upon other occasions and at other
times this same new-grown champion
of his. rights could have done valiant
service for the poor farmer boy and
for the cause of right, but didn't.
The farmer boy of Dakota today has
LII ACu LILO 1dSC tO"dIu d 1lSul WHICH
McCumber has never seen. The farm
er boy knows that there lies in the
bosom of Mother Earth, whose heart
beats swiftly beneath the broad acres
of. Dakota, the means to give him and
his fellows higher, loftier and broad
er home, to bring into his life the re-
finements, the comforts and the better
things he sees through the "silken
tapestry of the city. He knows that
he has already gotten a fair share of
these things and day by day will get
more. Also he knows that these
things will come and are coming, re-
ciprocity or no reciprocity.
But bigger and broader and deeper
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-18

1t looks as if the republican primar-
les will see big fight for the COVER
norship between Miller and Burdick.
Burdick will have the backing of many
stalwarts while Miller will have the
backbone of the progressives with him
throughout the state. The fight prom
Uses to be the best we have seen
in years. 1t will just about
tell the tale as to whether true
insurgency is going to continue in
North Dakota or get side tracked.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-18

A county official of Ramsey county.
whohas a record which places him be-
yond caviling tongues and in place.
where the people of the county want
to keep him is Supt. John A. Haig.>
Without exception he is satisfactory
to all factions and his faithful, pro-.
gressive work as county superintend-
ent is something of which the county
may well be proud. He has put the
schools of the county upon a high
plane and rendered the kind of SER
vice which money alone can not buy.
His love of school work, an unusual
ability for and understanding Of the
work have contributed to make his ten
ure in office successful in every way
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-18

here and you will say there is just one
side to the question and it is the pro-
hibitior side. The difference in the
atmosphere which the saloon casts
upon its surroundings alone will settle
the matter with you. ~,
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-18

If the local socialists allow them
selves to be split up as it seems they
are now doing their influence in Devils
Lake civic and political affairs will
be short lived.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-18

Devils is knownt
with railroad facilities
rovner Ro,ete
and Pierce
beter) there were tvo
n'do" under cultivation
spending onI not
milk butter
the speIz, the catie
Is It cultivate the a
qua'ntanee Of the people who tospend9
sit worth while
population doubled and ali ts acr.s
Isl worth while to consider he dmne door?
Develop dwdho peon7
nrosner
people pursuit.
Are we going to invite the winter
sno roor ,
cities?
The accommodations why not saw aNeh
comea
This entertainment REQUIRES ,,,n,
! and o 4#4 ~" I.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-18
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= The secret of success lies in ..
!" embracing every opportunity .
+ OF seeking high and right ends, .!
+ and in never forgetting the .
+ golden rule of catechism," Do .
j. ing your duty in that station of .
!" life to which it shall please !
= God to call you"
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-18
lowing facts:

l. The first voters got their right
by the original colonial char
tiers, most of them including
religious qualifications, and
all of them including property
qualifications, thus restrict
ing the ballot to relatively few
men.
2. After the Revolution, for the
sake of the common defense"
and the general welfare" the
religious qualification was re-
moved: A large number of
men were then enfranchised,
but they did not ask for the
vote, no did they promise to
use it well or to use it at all.
3. In 1870, by the Naturalization
Act of Congress, another large
number of men were en-
franchised, which act also en-
franchised their descendants,
and again, they did not ask
for the vote nor promise to
use it well.
4. When the negroes we're given
the vote, it was not at their
request, nor were they requirs.
ed to show that they would
make good use of it.
S. The same has been true of
the enfranchised Indians.
Now what is required, at pre-
sent, of a man before he can
vote in the United States?
He must be 81 years old.
He must be native born or
naturalized.
In some States he must be
=: able to read.~ ..
sIn a. few Southern States there ar
dditional educational and propert
affecting the negro voter
III That is ALL.
He is not asked whether he
will use his vote.
He is not asked if all men
want to vote.
He is not asked IL he thinks
the laws need changing.
= He is not asked II he will pro-
mise to better the laws.
He is not asked to give sta
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-08-18

liz oAo"CIS " IuSoc 4uGStlOuS are
very interesting and important; inter-
esting to all public-spir people who
believe in social progress; important
to every citizen of the country, whether
concerned or not about social progress.
But, they are interesting and import
ant because they are parts of neces-
sary economic and social reasearch,
not because they are suffrage argu-
ments. While it is true that there
is no State in the whole country, the
laws OF which are as fair to women as
to men, this fact forms no part what
ever of the logic upon which the equal
suffrage demand is made.
While it is true that most suffragists
are public-spirited people, and there
fore are deeply distressed about I'M
just laws, and are. keenly endeavoring
to bring about better legislation, they
have to remind themselves over and
over again that such interest and such
work belongs to their duty as citizens,
and does not belong to their work as
suffragists.
They also have to remember the hi
story of the enfranchisement of men
in this country, as shown by the fol-
lowing facts:
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THE REAL POINT.

as organizations, are steadily and in
creasingly asked the following cues
tons:
1. What are the present laws
relating to women and chill
dren in the various State?.
2. How great is the discrimina-
ton against women?
3. How much need is there for
more legal protection for chill
dren?
4. Just how much better are the
laws relating to women and
children in the States which
have Woman Suffrage than in
those which have not vet
gained it?
Newport daily independent., 1911-10-06
SEWER FACILITIES
 NOT SUFFICIENT
In Capital City Says Engineer Buchanan Now In Inde-
 .pendence County.

Little Rock, Oct. 6.-Col. B. c. Buchanan, civil engineer, left last night for Independence county, where he has charge of the work on the Curia Drainage district which was created by the last legislature. This dis trict will drain 25,000 acres of valuable land contiguous to Black River, and it is estimated will cost in the neighborhood of $25,oOO
 Col. Buchanan has made a close study of the sewerage pro- position ill Little Rock, and said :: "The greatest thing Little Rock needs just now is 9 better sys- tenn of sewerage. The entire South and Southwest portions of the city are without sewer facil- ities, except for "a few septic tank systems. which are all right, when constructed proper ly, which these are not. And even then they do not answer the same purpose as the drain age sewers.
 "There should be a trunk line sewer extending from near the new penitentiary, along the high water line of Fourche, tun- neling under Oakland cemetery for about 25OO feet, and thence draining into the river. This would be entirely feasible, and is the only means of taking care of all that section where the city is now growing more rapidly thna anywhere else. It could be paid for by throwing the South ern portion of the city into an improvement district. The trunk line would be about six miles long, and it might be car ried even to the Four mile gro cery at a cost not to exceed $12,OOO per mile. And no mo- ney could be expended that would add more to the growth and healthfulness of the city.
Newport daily independent., 1911-10-06
Agents Take An Interest.

Special to Independent.
 Little Rock, Oct. 6.-Insur- ance agents and mayors all over the state are taking a great in- terest in the plans for Fire Pre- vention Day which will be ob- served everywhere next, Mon- day, Oct. 9, upon proclamation of Governor Donaghey. Appro- priate exercises are to be held that day in all the public schools, and mass meetings of business men will be held in the evening. They will discuss ways and means of lessening the great fire waste of the state. An eff fort is being made to awaken the public to a realization of the importance of their cooperation in reducing the fire loss.