The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1913-05-23
WOMAN'S PAGE
EpvcAToR TAKES
ISSUE WITH WHITE



Oele1ds Wanaa 31ljfaee s.
N0eossay u P1ogross
Some thoughts on Woman's
Suffrage" by Ed White in q
recent issue, would transplant
US into the civilization of 1000
years ago, to whom Paul adj
dressed himself. The passages
quoted has reference to a differ
ent age. a different condition,
a different people. We, in no
wise, apply them in this age to
the custom and acts of men or
women in other things. hence
there can be no application to
suffrage. We have passed the
age when, if a woman would
learn anything she must ask
her husband at home. W. will
agree with Mr.. White that
woman was not created to rule
over man. 1t is our opinion
that the wise Creator intended
that they should work together
for the upbuilding of his king
dom. To give women the un-
restricted ballot" could in no
wise mean that they would
have authority over men, 1t
would mean simply that they
would have authority WITH
MEN in looking after their larg-
er home. Even in the last 100
years home life has marvellous
ly changed. A century ago it
was a woman's ambition to
make a good home. She has
the same ambition today, but
che must 60 about it in q differ
ent way, because she lives in q
different age. Food. clothing
and disease are controlled by
outside influences. A mother
needs the ballot in order to
regulate or help regulate pure
food laws; cloth is manufactur-
ed and clothes made outside
the home, the mother nee de
the ballot in order to protect
the interest in her children's
welfare on this score: vice and
disease is rampant, q mother
needs the ballot to secure better
laws regulating sanitation and
to keep her localities free from
vice and crime. A woman
without ballot has no way to
protect her home and her
children. in the really. vital af-
fairs of life. It is no longer q
question of whether women
want the ballot. 1t
is her duty to take it and it is
mans duty to see that she has
this opportunity placed into
her hands that she may defend
her husband, her home. her
children against the ten thous-
and lurking foes in the way of
sickness. disease, contamiiat-
ed food, death traps, etc.
Zueblim says: "She must learn
housekeeping with new imple-
ments and new opportunities.'
She must learn to do municipal
housekeeping" It is an old
saying that the state is only
the home writ large"
Who are the men that oppose
suffrage? The larger number
of them are men engaged in
anti-social work, as the saloon
keepers, the keepers of dives
and houses of prostitution.
Bishop Hearst says Vice in
our great cities will never be
conquered until the ballot is
put in the hands of women
The liquor interests of Kansas
said, in the great campaign of
a wear ago. we must beat
woman's suffrage in Kansas or
the women will outvote Us
1O.OOO to L."
The question is up to us in
North Dakota. What will we
do about it?
The future of the state de-
ponds on ita wives and child
rem. Excellent az has been the
viewpoint of men in the past
it has not been sufficient; and
this will be increasingly 30 in.
the future with the home COM
ing more and more under new
economic condition. At every
crisis Of a mans life a woman
is always waiting to help him
if she may"
TITS not for US to trife, Life
is brief,
And sin is here;
Our age il but the falling OF q
laat.
A u4Opplng tear
We have no time to sport away