The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1913-05-16
sUFFRAeETTE N REPLY
70 EDMUND WHITE


Dear EdltOr:
1 see by your last issue that
one Ed. White has got a bad
case Of anti-suffragette and it
Gems to have settled in his
head Would you please al
low me space for a few words
in reply7
According to Mr.. White, the
Bible is the place to 60 to if
you want to study Political
Economy or anything else.
Pretty soon we will be asked
to find there the price of butter
and eggs in Chicago. Since
when has the Bible become a
treatise on Political economy
Where do we find anything in
the Bible about proportiona
representation, OF the initiative
and referendum, or recall, or
manhood suffrage, or any other
kind of suffrage? If the Bible
doesn't say anything about
woman voting or holding office
it certainly doesn't say any
thing about men voting either.
Does Mr. White believe in the
divine right of kings? He
should remember the millennium
is ahead of us, not behind.
Things are going to be different
in the future. We should stop
looking at the black and bloody
past, when might was right
and look forward to the bright
and glorious. .millenial day
when men shall beat their
swords into pillow shares, and
their spears into pruning hooks
and all people shall dwell to-
gether in peace.
All of the passages of scrip
ture which Mr.. White quotes
have to do with religious or
domestic relations, and if wo-
men did not speak or teach in
the churches, there isn't much
doubt but that we would soon
have no churches. What about
our Sunday Schools7 Who are
the teachers7 Women in most
cases! What about our ladies
aids7 Who hustles round
amongst the male skinfints
after the preachers salary7 and
if it doesn't break up the home
for women to teach and lecture,
and collect donations from
close-fisted male parishioners,
it surely wont if they are al
lowed to say with their votes
what laws they are to live un-
der. It appears that man is
such a noble creature that wo-
man is liable to get a cramp in
her neck looking up to him;
and of course. when he tells
her to Go home, Squaw," she
knows she ought to and not
learn anything her domestic
lord and master does not or
can not tell her.
It's all very we'll for women
to take in washing or work in
a laundry, scrub Office floors.
clerk in a store twelve hours a
day for So or 81 per week, or
work in a factory as FIVE million
women and girls in this coun-
try are doing for a living, but
perish the thought of her hav-
ing a vote about the laws that
govern her hours of labor, or
the condition of the factories or
the amount of her wages. Let
ting her vote on these things
would be unjust, against reli-
gion land the trusts) and would
break up the home. They no
doubt would also vote for open
saloons. white slavery, high
tariff and trust ownership of
everything in sight. Pretty
soon her neck would relax and
no logger having Man, the
Lord Of Creation, to look up to.
that would be serious. Don't
give them a vote.
Nine states have adopted
universal suffrage. and are
proud of it. In five years, no
doubt, the rest will folio ".
Some people would have us be-
lieve that if we expect to cross
those PearlyGates at the end of
our journey, we must 60 back
six thousand years and adopt
the mode of life Of those people
who neglected to furnish them
selves with frnck c.as y
paJamas, and silk hats, but
wore a costume Of fig leaves in
stead. But. 40 fig leaves went
out Of fashion some time ago,
and, az we have an idea some
If us wouldn't look well in
them anyway, we will stick to