Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-10-23

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neapolis Daily News.
WOMEN SHOULD NOT VOTE
The value of women as an asset to the nation would
decrease materially if she were given the vote, declared
Bishop Garrigan last Saturday afternoon in an interview
with the editors of the Sioux CITY Journal Bishop CARR
gan made it plain, however, that this was his personal opin-
ion and not to be interpreted as the attitude Of the local
CathoIIlc church on woman suffrage. He said.
Tins talk about the mission Of woman being to save
the world by taking an active part IN Legislation is all clap
trap. Woman will never save the nation, as she presumes
to put IT! by gaining the ballot; rather she will put it in a
worse plight.
The proper place for a woman is in a home, and when
she holds her home as a secondary consideration she is do
ing wrong. She cannot devote herself to both the home
and to politics without negecting one, and, judging from the
zealousness with which SO many Of our women are fighting
Tor the ballot, she is neglecting the home.
1t is a mistake to think that woman should have the
ballot because men have it. 1t is also a mistake to say that
If she does not have it she has less privileges than does
man. Woman has many privileges and rights that man
does not, privileges which are particularly suited to her sex.
/ is the place of man to take an active part in legisla-
ton to devote d portion of his time to politics and to active
petternent OF the laws, but it is assuredly not woman's
pace Co 90 So. II a woman IS what she should be in her
nome she has all the influence necessary toward the attitude
OF the family in political questions. If she is not what sh,
should be III the home she is not a true woman. and her in
nuence VIII never tend toward the betterment of the com
muhlty. 80 woman does exercise an influence toward poll
tics through her influence over the husband and son.
l believe that the usefulness of woman would decrease
II she was given the ballot. She could not possibly do
justice to her home If politics engrossed her time. and the
nome the most important Of our institutions, would suffer.
IL IS or vita! Importance that the home. that sanctnm of
;oVe ana purity, should be preserved. In proportion that
II IS preserved and kept pure the condition Of the state
hoth as an economical and spiritual factor, will flourish,
ana woman should realize this before she throws herself
INTO a struggle that cannot be of material benefit 70 lnr
out winch Will lessen her attractiveness as a mother and
rum her ending influence as a wife.
10 1nihlI the duties of a wife, to rear the children that
Goa has given her SO that the ynay become useful citizens
VINO wall be a credit to Him by whose mercy they exist. is
tnH MISSION OF woman, and not a physical scramble for lau-
res which, once She has them, will turn into a crown of
'"' I'D anu "0' " "'e"'. 0. roses as she now thinks.
AN UNEVEN FIGHT.
Twenty years ago several thousand white nmn annoa1.
&C 10 congress to be made free. They were American cit.
lzenS, but they were slaves. They we're bone Of orr bone
and flesh of our flesh, yet they were bought and sold as
property. Their work involved the oreafast haz,rd t.
called FOR spirit, and courage, and devotion. life and prop
erty. were committed to their skill and their fidelity. Their
the instant, at the command Of their masters, to sacrifice
themselves to others, or to preserve the property of their
owners.
They were American sailors. Their calling was q
ancient and honorable one. But the greed of great steam
SNIP companies and great ship owners, and their power
and influence with Congress had wrought such CHANGES in
our maritime laws that no sailor could secure employment
unless he bound himself by contract to a service which made
him the property of the ship in which he sailed. He was
TO sign away a part Of his wages in advance be-
lore he was accepted by his masters. Once signed, the con-
tract chained him to the ship. No matter how imposed
p mere was. no escape during the term of the contract.
1t he found that the vessel was overloaded, or that
there were not men enough to safely man the shin. or that
1ney were SO unskilled as to make destruction Imminent
every hour after she put to sea, and he failed to appear at
the appointed time, or, if he left her, even when she was in
a safe port, under the b%arbarous laws enacted by a Com
gress ready to do the behest of the ship owners. he could
oe seized and imprisoned on the orders Of the ships master.
thousands OF these brave, high spirited men, who loved
the NE, turned their backs upon the sea, and sought en-
ployment on land. Their places were filled by men willing
70 accept siavery,--men from the Mediterranean, from
Arabia, India, South Africa, China and Japan. They were
cheap men. The steamship companies wanted cheap men.
men who would work for low wages and live on cheap fare.
Inc ship owners secured from a willing Congress legis-
latlon limiting their liability to passengers, and to the own
ers OF freight and cargo. With heavy insurance on the
snip, paid by the public In excessive and unrestricted
charges Tor the transportation of passengers and freight,
Inc loss OF a ship at sea became a matter of less and less
concern TO steamship companies and ship owners. What
mattered it to them that the sailors were of an inferior
breedg What matteredit to them that there were not half
enough ME boats to provide for passengers and sailors2
What mattered it to them that the crew were unsklled in
handling lifeboats or required even in an hour of supreme
peril the services OF interpreters to make known the orders
OF the captaIns Their liability was strictly limited by the
laws of Gnngress.
Under these conditions is it to be marvell4d at that if
teen hundred and seventeen souls were lost vixen the eth
tanlc' went down, two hours and a half after she collided
with an Ice berg, IN a sea as smooth as glass; It followed