Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-09-12

five galleries and main floor, every seat
mad apparently been sold and permission
obtained from the fire commissioners to
Sell 400 standing room tickets.
One hundred and seventy-five college
girls in caps and gowns acted as ushers
and made a striking contrast to the pretty
women in evening dress whom they esq
corted to seats and boxes. Two of the
girls acted as pages or escorts for the
evening to DR.. Ann Shaw and Colonel
Roosevelt.
DIR. Shaw. ably assisted by a splendid
orchestra composed of both men and wom-
en-, opened h meeting by recalling the
fact that 66 years ago the first woman
suffrage convention in the United States
was held in a tiny Methodist Episcopal
church in New York city. AT that con-
,vention two people. q colored man and a
white woman. lifted up their voices in be-
half OF woman's right to vote. The man
was Frederick Douglas: the woman was
Elisabeth Cady Stanton.
: LII. n p~araphrased Llncoln's famous
statement by asking the men of the Unit.
ed States to make our government in fact.
what 1t is In theory, q government of all
the people. by all the people for all the
people.
h speaker then presented Colonel
Roosevelt who was given an ovation by
MS progressive friends. Men and women
80 ~e PoAS0 VI Iu0 DUIlOIu8 arose 00O
waved flags n handkerchiefs ana
cheered Justify, while the Colonel bowed,
smiled and waved his hand. at his delight
ed audience. 1t reminded me OF the re-
ception given Caruso in tho same building
a few months previous. But of course this
was a sedate and tame demonstration
compared with those which the Colonel re-
ccives al q really truly political meeting.
AT last the subject OF this storm of ap-
prevail held up his hand for silence and
delivered the opening words of his speech
IN mas slow, forceful. staccato style, SEEM
Ing 70 bite off each word as it fell from
ms lips: Men and women, my fellow
citizens" This caused the applause to
ripple forth again for several moments.
Civilization, the Colonel said, was spread
Ing eastward fast. The old idea of man
as the master Of the family was giving
way to the nobler and higher idea of equal
partnership. The speakers deliberate and
careful judgment, after as thorough and
impartial an investigation as he was able
to make In every state where woman suf-
frage had already been granted, was that
IN no case had it produced damage In any
form, but that in every case It had worked
for civic. social and Industrial Improves
ment. He had received, the speaker said,
q very interesting letter from Miss Ida
Tarbel, giving many excellent reasons
why she thought women ought not to vote.
It occurred to him that If Miss Tarbel
was competent to advise him how to vote,
she ought to be fully competent herself to
vote. In every community where women
have been given the vote, it has meant
so much less of power to the underworld.
Out in Michigan, before election, the
speaker saw placards posted in the win
lows Of all saloons reading: "Vote
Against Woman Suffrage" These plac-
ards, he was careful to explain, he saw
from the outside OF the saloons. In con-
clusion he asked that the ballot be given
to woman, first. because 1t was her right.
second. because it wa mans duty to
grant 1t, and third, because the best inter-
ests of both men and women would be
served by SO doing.
The pageant which followed cannot be
adequately described. The immense Met
iopolitan stage allowed the needed impress
sion of vast distances. / append q brief
word picture taken from the New York
Press: +
The scene was the Elysian Fields by
moonlight. In the background rose the
Mountain Of Freedom. At zach Of the
white columns Of the temple stood q
white-clad sentinel of Freedom, watching
over women sleeping on the terrace below.
Hope. im~personated by Florence Flem-
ing Noyes,. appeared on the temple steps
carrying q lighted torch. She came down
the steps and lit a flame ON the Altar Of
Truth. Her handmaidens followed and
kwined garlands about the altar. Then
with Hope they danced barefooted among
the sleeping women.
At this point Woman, portrayed by
Pauline Fredericks. entered, seeking to
touch the fitting forms which always
cluded her. In despair she knelt before
the altar and was shown a vision Of
Freedom. far within the temple, standing
with hands outspread and wings poised.
The vision faded and a procession of the
states descended the steps. The min
states in which women vote appeared with
a burst Of triumphant music and mount
ed the temple steps. From the forehead
of each of these favored states cleaned a
brilliant electric star.
Woman rushed after them. but was
barred at the foot Of the steps by the
spears Of The men Of the states which have
not woman suffrage. She appealed to JUS
tice. who parted the phalanx Of spears
with a sweeping stroke Of hee sword.
Az they stood at the altar. Columbia.
played by Lillian Nordica, appeared to
the music Of my Country. IT'S of Thee"
Hating before the altar, Nine. Nordica
waved an American flag and began to
sing. 1.-THE Star Spangled Banner" Swept
away By enthusiasm the audience rose.
waving American fags. and Joined In the
singinB> In q second b house wa . nut.
tertng mass Of red, white and blue an
eho rool trombled with the ochoeA
Thus ended the most impressive woman
0fegago Asmonstratioa esae held = tn
$50 vos1A ~ . The present tina
19enne and 9ehoej Report Cards
Jfum the New York Independents
got 30 In brushing my teeth this
Nonthl What'd you get5'
lou get!S
This - the sort Of question Michigan
telldren are asking each other thia
AprinG. TOR the home-and-Dchool report
xSrdE n being tried out In Hillsdale and