The Dickinson press., 1913-06-14

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Address Of Mrs. Amidon, Mrs. WAL
dron's Conservation Article
and Resolutions are
Given This Week.


Given This Week.
The state press have given several
very complimentary notices of the fed
Grafton meeting in Dickinson last week
indicating that guests in the city gave
a good report upon their return home
and that the PRESS, mailed to all the
visitors, helped the good work along.
Mrs. T. D. Casey, state vice presi-.
dent of this district, was making ar
rangements for this meeting when she
was forced to submit to an operation
and the work was carried on 10 sue
cessful completion by Mrs. Guy Hunter
and Mrs. V. H. Stickney and sub-com-
mittees. Mrs. Hunter was made chair
man and presided ..at all the sessions
in a most agreeable and able manner.
Mrs. E. A. Lillibridge acted as secre
tary.
We are giving our readers this week
synopsis of Mrs. Amidons address
before the seventh district federation
meeting last week, also Mrs. Waldron's
conservation report and the resolutions
adopted too late for reproduction last
week.
COMMON SENSE SUFFRAGE
Mrs. Amidon in her address Com
mon Sense in Suffrage" took the view
that people and things we're not so good
as they might be under existing condi-
tions-that this condition was on the
verge of rapid change for the better;
that potent element in the coming
improvement was equal suffrage. She
quoted authorities and cited instances
to show that the ballot for women
would react favoraby upon themselves
and their husbands and child rem. 1t
would be good influence in the polit-
ical. husinessand industrial world and
most of all, it would make for the inn
provement of the home. She ended
with an appeal to the lukewarm woman,
urging her to work for the ballot, an
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fits for which she is now working by
indirection.
Speaking Of existing conditions, she
said linen work in an atmosphere of
strife and competition so keen that
real efficiency is out of the question;
as we'll talk of we'll directed energy lin
burning building with it's attendant
noise. running and counter direction. ="
1.-The American woman is so far
from contented that the world.has by
common consent affixed to her porten-
tious adjective. the ominous word rest
less. Is she capable? We think not,
since she has no accredited place in the
world of in dustry, and in the law she
is classed with idiots and the insane
"A child is handicapped by the mistakes
and weaknesses of his generation. He
cannot make winning fight for his
own; it must be for all or we are de-
feated.'
MANY SIGNS indicate that the Amer
ican home in its present form is near
the breakinf point. Among these signs
may be mentioned the increasing mum.
Der of men and women bachelors who
deliberately refuse family cares; the
growth of the apartment house with its
near-home existence. the homeless army
CT Globe trotters. the insoluble help
problem. and the wellnigh prohibitive
cost of maintaining home and fam.
ily."
1t has always been a forced march.
human PROGRESS. and we have always
done it in the hardest way, single file.
now from every side. comes the ring
ing order by twos. - the call of equal
suffrage. The reason is obvious the
road to better living is a long. weary,
uphill way. We have been STRUGGLING
along the by-way. men on one side.
women on the other. Since we are all
going in the same direction, it will be
easier to walk together in the middle
OF the road. That is the whole arsu-
ment for equal suffrage.
Short as has been it's trial, some
things can already be accredited to
women's vote in the. suffrage states.
Even Colorado. mining, money ridden
Colorado had developed because of it.
the power to fight and sometimes to
defeat the beast. She conseryes her
forests through amos mills and her chill
dren through Ben Lindsey, two men
openly claim that they never could
have done their work without tho
woman's vote.
This same women's vote recalled
tne corrupt mayor of Seattle and the
wnlte slavery judge of California. It
Oregon and enforced the model citv or.
dlnance OF Portland; nor has there been
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