The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-29
ADDITIONAL SOCIETY.
SUFFRAGE NOTES
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pen with which it was signed was
presented by Governor Hanna to your
president, who presented it, to Mrs. e.
M. barrow, president of the Votes for
Women league, who with Miss Jean
cite Rankin had been at the capital
for weeks working for the measure.
Mrs. barrow in recognition of the
twenty years fight the w. C.. r. u. has
made for suffrage, returned it to the
president of the w. C. r. u. The most
cordial relations exist between these
organizations.
1t is interesting to remember that
in territorial daysa suffrage bill pass
ed the assembly and was vetoed by
Governor Pierce. Twenty years ago a
suffrage bill introduced by Senator
Stevens of Dickey county passed both
houses n was defeated in a fight
which in excitement and dramatic in
cident has been equalled only by the
famous lottery fight. The speaker Of
the house refused to sign the bill and
eXpunged the records. This was among
my earliest experience in legislative
work. -.& $500 r
We must not deceive ourselves with
the idea that because so. many great
suffrage victories have been. recently
won that we shall necessarily win
here. If we sit with folded hands and
$3.50 ~ NitS'N ASIol y . ~ We SDdll
in all probability be disappointed. We
shal secure a majority of all the votes
cast at the election next fall for women
Suffrage only by a tremendous cam
paign. 1t is absolutely necessary that
every man and woman who believes
IN women suffrage, should be willing to
work and sacrifice. for it For. this.
year we must sidetrack things Of less
er Importance n give this right of
way. BY winning this victory we will
help every interest in which we are
concerned.
We are not working and sacrificing
ease, comfort, the quiet delight OF
nome and perhaps health itself merely
Tor the pleasure Of voting, or. ecause
we believe that all governments de-
rive their just powers from the con-
sent of the governed; and we are gov
erned without our consent. Or because
we believe that the principle for which
our fathers fought and died, taxation
Without representation is tyranny
SUI nolas. While these arguments are
unansWerable vet down deep in the
nature of every woman there is a
greater reason. 1t may not be con-
sldered an argument but it is also nm
ansWerable; 1t may, be amusing TO
some but 1t cannot be laughed out Of
court. 1t is the maternal instinct. it
is that which makes the mother tiger
fight for her cubs, and in fightine The.
dangers that threaten her Offspring
the words of Rudyard Kipling are
true, THE female Of the species is
more deadly than the male" Il is
mother love, God implanted, which
names into a white heat of hate
against every evil which lies in wait
to entrap her loved ones and weaken,
and destroy them body, mind and soul
The time is past when the parents
In the home can shield and protect a
chlld until 1t has passed the anger
Gus shoals Of adolescence and Iaunch-
ed out into young manhood or wom-
anhood The home is not even able to
control the purity of the food which
nourlshes its body. Jane Adams saws
that milk from 10000 t~ubercular cows
is shipped into Chicago every morn
ing. Is 1t n wonder that so MANY
Daples die IN that city-sacrifced for
greed of money? 1t will require leg
lslat1on in three states to change this,
In former years the farm produced
almost the entire supply for the fam
lily, the outside work was done bv the
farmer and his boys and in the kitch-
en- under the mothers watchful eve
the raw material was converted into
food and clothing for family. needs.
The father and mother. controlled the
conditions under which; the children
worked. Under the new industrial ism
this will never again be possihIe Thn
boys and girls and the women who
worked under the quiet protection of
homes are now pushed out into the
ferce arena where RACES the struggle
Tor bread. We u face the new con
dltlons; we can never go back to the
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Inc new lndustrialism with it's cities.
It's corporation owned factories and
mills, Whlrring machinery, smoke. dust.
Ill ventilated rooms, long hours, low
wages and u~nsanitary conditions, is
our present problem. Conditions un-
der which men, women and children
work a now be regulated only by
legislation. ..,....,....
Thousands of children, because of
the drink habits Of their fathers. are
opnged to work in these factories and
mills when they should be at school or
at play. II is estimated that in this
land OF the. free, and home of the
brave, there are today approximately
2,50O,OO0 children under 16 years of age
shaving in factories, mines, mills and
messenger. service. Twelve thousand
OF these children work in cigar fac
tories, 5000 in saw mills, 1000 in glass
factories, $4,000 child workers are in
our textile mills; 10000 Of these are
under II years of age. One hundred
baby hands are annually cut off by
the machinery in these mills. Do YOU
ask why mothers want the ballot, let
these baby hands answer.
We are told that if women vote they
will lose the chivalrous protection Of
men. There are 5000, 900 women who
are wage earners. What has the chiv-
alrous protection of men lone for them?
investigations have been made in a
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