The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-02-18

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the next campaign explaining why
they could not trust the people to vote
upon an issue in which so many people
are interested-Cambridge Nor h
Star.
The legislators of the state are
merely representatives Of the people,
and it is for the people to state their
wishes. Therefore, if the legislature
denies the people the opportunity to
express themselves at the polls on a
question important and vital, it usurps
its function, acting as a guardian, not
as a representative. The Herald does
not desire, at this time, to take a
stand for or against woman suffrage,
but it does believe that justice de-
mands the submission of the question
to the voice of the people. The SEN
ate was not called upon to determine
the right or wrong of the cause. 1t
was asked to submit the matter to the
people. 1t should have done so-Wa-
basha Herald.
The defeat of woman suffrage in
the state senate was not a surprise
The surprise was that it came so near
passing. A change of only two votes
would have been sufficient to pass the
bill, the final roll call standing thirty
three against the bill and thirty in its
favor. Woman suffrage is live issue
in Minnesota as well as in many other
states. In another two or four years
the women of this state will be enfran-
chised and will have the same oppor-
tunity to vote on public questions as
men have now. And why should they
not Red Wing Republican.
The Ore, firm believer in woman's
suffrage, had hopes that the measure
would pass both branches of the state
legislature at this session, to the end
that the measure might be submitted
to the electors of the state, and we are
sure that the amendment would be
adopted by a large majority. The
states that have accorded their women
the right to vote are mighty glad of
it. The only reason Minnesota holds
out against them is, apparently, the
fear that with women in the political
game, it would spoil things generally
for the male politician, and that the
state would become clean and whole
some, bright and progressive, as have
the states that allow their women to
have say in state government 1t is
not a matter for the senate to settle,
anyway; all that the women ask, and
all that the senate can do, is to pre-
sent the question to the electors of the
state for a decision, and the senators
should be willing to do that much in
the interest of a proposition that has
SO much in it that promises good for
the whole state.-Hibbing Ore.
The woman's suffrage bill failed in
the state senate. 1t is just measure
and should have passed. The brewer
les, however, opposed it with all their
might. In this state the following
are barred from voting: Inmates in
the insane hospitals, convicted GRIMM
ais in the state penitentiary, charges
in institutions for feeble minded, and
women. The patriots who oppose
granting equal suffrage assume
grave responsibility in demanding that
women must always be classed as at
present IN Minnesota.-Roseau Region
What is the matter with our state
senate, anyway? Doesn't it believe
the people are able to manage their
own affairs? Evidently not, from the
stand it has taken on woman suffrage
and will probably take on reapportion-
ment. 1t will not even allow the men
TO decide whether or not we shall have
equal suffrage, and it would disfran-
chise lot of the men by either con-
tlnuing in force the present legislative
apportionment or by the adoption of
some such monstrosity as the "seven
senators" bill.-Warren Register.
The equal suffrage question has
been forced by the senate into greater
prominence even than that which
rightly belongs to it It now becomes
a question as to whether the people
have right to decide such matters
for themselves. The senate says no.
Mortified News.
This paper regrets to note that the
proposition for submitting a constitu-
tional amendment providing for ex-
tending the ballot to women was lost
in the senate last Tuesday, but at the
same time glad to note that Senator
Dale voted for the submission of the
question. There is no sound or reas-
enable argument against allowing a
vote upon the question and no valid
reason why women should not vote if
they want to on all questions.-M adi-
son Independent-Press