The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1913-01-16
THURSDAY, JANUARY is. 1913. NO. 4s.

held to be not worth trying and will be
watched with great deal of interest.
In one Of the large counties an Off
ial has already brought about numer-
)us marriages and he has lately re-
ceived from another county the names
Of 100 bachelor homesteaders who ask
to be put on the active list. He re-
plies that he has the addresses of 1900
Eastern women chiefly factory girls,
who desire to go west, marry and grow
up with the country. It was among
the Rockies that the first woman suf-
frage states were founded and if they
are also to be the pioneers in state
promoted marriage they will be re-
sponsible for another novelty in the
science of government and sociology.
At various times in the worlds his
tory a surplus of men has looked round
for the corresponding surplus of wo-
has it that the fellow colonists of ROM
illus realized that the need Of wives
was imperative. In looking for a solu-
neighboring native tribe, the Sabines,
seemed likely and the Roman bachel-
ors proceeded to help themselves to
mates by superior strength When the
Sabine warriors rushed to recapture
their kinswomen they found them not
unwilling prisoners, but advocates Of a
peaceful alliance with the Romans,
and that was plainly the best basis
for being happy forever after In the
early history of Virginia. IA years af-
ter the first settlement Of jamestown,
the London company began to ship
young women to supply the colonists
with wives at a cost of 1870 pounds Of
tobacco for each one of the fair assist
ed immigrants The matches mainly
turned out we'll and were not without
certain elements of romance No state
Is prouder than Virginia of its first
families. They have given the country
eight presidents and one of the eight
was grandfather of another president.
Again the White House will be the
abode of a Virginian for four years
and it would not be counted to his dis
credit If his line of descent should be
found to include one of the matrimon-
ial transactions in tobacco
Let it not be supposed that the ex-
pertinent in the state of Washington
lacks seriousness. There is good stuff
in it's surplus men or they could not,
among other things, raise apples that
have taken the lead In the markets of
the world for excellence of flavor. form
and color. A homesteader without
wife is a lonely object There Is work
enough around him for two and he
seems willing to share it on the coop
erative principle AS both husband
and wife have the full ballot they break
even in politics Membership in the
legislature Is open to both. A board |
IN control of the state bureau of matri.
nony should be equally in charge of
men and women. Courtship will be |
even il state assists in |
bringing it about. In an affair of this |
sort no initiative can deprive either
side of final personal referendum
Princes are habitually married as the
state directs. Napoleon was welded
he second time by sending a proxy to
he ceremony and first saw his wife on
country road in France when ne
opened the carriage door and looked
n upon the blooming Maria Louise
otherwise Mrs. Bonaparte. 1t remains
or the state of Washington to make
rood and so far It has scored no fall
ire.