Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-05-15
W.C.T.U. Notes

In the following poem by Hall Game,
that notea author expressed clearly
and forcibly his idea of woman's place
1t is we'll worth rendering.
The Mother Of the Man.
When the Lord of Creation gave the
woman to the man,
In that blest but brief existence ere
the rule of i'll began,
Then He knew what of her conduct,
whether innocent or frail,
That the female of the species would
be the scapegoat to the male.
When He ordered that the woman,
both as mother and as wife,
Should obey her law Of being as the
vehicle of life,
Then He suffered it to happen lest the
generations fail,
That the female of the species might
be "deadlier' than the male.
Not to govern or cajole him, not to
court or speak him smooth,
Not to snare or to enslave him, but to
cheer, inspire and soothe:
Not his temptress,- not his slavemate,
not his subject, not his squaw,
But his helpmeet and his angel by the
right of Gods own law.
Nurturing, nursing, guarding, giving
strength with heart and hand;
Paying toll in pangs to nature, which
no man may understand;
Danuntless from the God who made
her without fear to draw her
breath,
Savior of the week and helpless first
at birth and last at death.
Therefore, why should man, the in
crate, when hechooses to confer,
Welcome every fool andcoWard, only
close the door on her?
Room, sirs, room within your councils,
bare your foreheads if you can,
Forbehold, without your portal stands
the mother Of the man!
In Golfers Weekly of March 16,
Frederic C. Howe, in an article on
Why Want Woman Suffrage" gives
some very sane and sensible reasons
why the ballot should be given to
women. We regret that lack of space
forbids our reproducing the entire ar
ticle, but we give few extracts:
l have no interest in the suggestion
that women should vote because they
are taxpayers; no more interest than
l have in the suggestion that men
should vote because they are taxpay-
ers.
/ ant women to vote because they
are women just as want men to vote
because they are men.
When double the suffrage in
America will double the self-respect
of America, and self-respect is the
most valuable thing in the world.
When man loses work he loses
self-respect. When he loses self
respect he avoids his self-respecting
fellows.
Take the ballot from men, even
from those who do not prize it, and
they lose self-respect / once heard
western governor say that men of
his own class who had been convicted
of some crime that disfranchised them
had come to him and said: Govern
or, We have paid our penalty, We have
endured the sham That was hard
enough But to come back home and
find that We are no longer a part of
the state and the nation, that we
cannot bear" And the begged to be
restore tod the privileges Of citizen
ship.
The dignity which differentiates the
freeman from the serf is the dignity
Of the ballot.
I want woman suffrage for what it
will do for woman, for what it will do
for the muddle we have made Of pol
itics.
I also want woman suffrage for self
ish reasons. I cannot myself be hap
py in a world here there is so much
poverty, so much hunger, so much suf-
fering that can so easily be cured.
For poverty, hunger. suffering are
unnecessary in this land Of abundance
Of ours: as unnecessary as typhoid,
yellow fever or smallpox that science
has almost exterminated. These dis
eases came from unsanitary environ
ments, from bad sewers. poisoned
milk, polluted water. So poverty comes
from unsanitary legal environment.