Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-04-20
Roosevelt on Equal Suffrage.

look, Theodore Roosevelt explains
how he is in favor of a thing to
which he is opposed.
He begins by saying that he be
lieves in woman suffrage, and he
ends by saying that the time is
not yet right for placing upon
women this great responsibility.
He reiterates the old PROPOSE
tion that woman's place is the
home. He repeats again and again
the trite argument that man and
woman are by nature different II
strength and in temperament and
that, therefore, their activities
must and will always widely
differ.
Worst of all he disparages the
women who are now taking an
active part in an endeavor to
bring about this great better
ment. He intimates that the de
sire of these women is to destroy
the home and bring about lati-
tude on the part of woman that
will eventually destroy civiliza
ton. J" J"
Huxley says that truth, in its
struggle for recognition, goes
through three stages. First, we
uo!4nIoAaI s! I9a4em 9ql aqua Ags
airy; is opposed to the vital, and
will destroy the home and civil
cation. Next, we say that it does
not make any difference either
one way or the other. Third, we
say that we always believed in it
Theodore Roosevelt is just get
ting ready to make the third and
final statement. The man is a
great politician.
Emigration and immigration.
On referring to Webster's Tn
abridged Dictionary-a work tina
| cheerfully recommend for origi
nal thoughts find that the
word "emigrant' refers to PEG
pie going away and immigrant
applies to people coming in.
The tide of immigration is low
er now than it has been fol
twenty-five years.
To be exact, the arrivals by
steerage, in the year 1911, were
49, 900 and the departures were
100000.
IF this keeps on" says Com
missioner VIM. Williams, " soo1
more people will be going out Of
America than are coming in. "
|, On being asked why this con
dition exists, Mr.. Williams says
that Canada and the Argen
tine Republic are taking thou
sands of families of class thai
formerly came straight to thu
United States. incidentally tn,
high cost of living in America
has a deal to do with it.
Most of the aliens coming here
now come from Mediterranean
ports, whereas several years age
Ireland, Scotland, Germany, Nor
way and Sweden sent us most Of
our immigrants.
America is no longer a pioneer
country. We need workers, ane
there is work here for everybody
that can work and will work, bu
the big inducements that new
country offers, whether founded
on fact or fancy, are NO longer
here.
In order to win now in America
you have to hustle. No gold is tc
be picked up in the streets and
the fabulous fountains of perpet
ual youth remain, as heretofore
in countries that have not been
thoroughly exploited and explor
ed.
The World To Day gives us the
following:
THE Wei are Of the Child.
A bill is now before the United
States Senate creating a child.
ren's bureau. We have a bureau
of agriculture, with many sub
committees and divisions, that ar,
designed to look after poultry
hogs, cattle and horses. And re-
Gently | was delighted to see a
pamphlet had been issued from
the Department of Agriculture OF
the subject of guinea hens.
The country s most important
asset, however, has been left to
time and chance and unkind fate
We certainly should have a
commission whose business it is
to look after the welfare of the
children, and collect information
pertaining to child life.
And a woman should be chosen