Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-11-01
"EQUAL SUFFRAGE"' ..
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"FEMINISM"
sex WAR"
Henry Watterson Declares
Unrest of Women Due to Feminism
Woman the Shrine Maker

rrhe following excerpts are taken from a recent editorial in
Democratic editor and lecturer Henry Watterson under the caption
"The Courier-Journal prints elsewhere in this issue an appeal
from a Kentucky woman to the women OF Kentucky Tor contr1-
buttons to a campaign fund to be raised in aid of the National
American Woman Suffrage Association. This sets forth that the
18th Of August has been designated as 'sef-sacrnfce day, meaning
that on that day every earnest sufragist in the country will deny
herself something she would have had, as tribute to the cause Of
Freedom
Pursuing this communication one would fancy that the wo-
men Of the United States, Including the women Of Kentucky, arc
the victims Of some kind of prescription and persecution, whereas
they are in most Of the States, and notably in Kentucky, highly ia
vored at law and a paramount force in society, already voting
where they care to vote in school affairs:
That, unsatisfed by such conditions, they should seek precipi-
tate and universal suffrage, reflects credit neither upon their reas-
onablneess nor their discerlment.
The very thought Of setting apart "a day of selfsacrifce is
a little ridiculous. Why should a poor girl be asked to surrender
a ring, or trinket, that a lot OF noisy women may exploit them
selves and one another? What may she get out Of it, Because,
be it always borne in mind that, except the right to get down in
the bulLring and vote, sharing with the men of the dirt OF party
politics, there is not a law they would have enacted, or repealed.
The rights they have they do not value. The wrongs they com
plain Of do not exist. .--..
It is love Of woman, worship before the throne of God upon
whose affairs she sits and from whose elevation the furies would
hurl her, which inspires, and has from the first inspired, the Cour-
ierJounal. The man who would claim more for his sons than his
daughters, less for his wife than himself. is but half a man. Suf-
imperfect means to a most underlined and unsatisfactory end. AIDE
quatey met it would put upon woman responsibilities which most
ment will be proportional to her genuine concern in public affairs,
for it will bring her nothing she expects Of it.
It would merely double a suffrage: already unequal and III
adequate. For woman it is full of illusion and delusion. Because
it is 50. the Courier-Journa has. except under certain limitations
specified. consistently Opposeu IL, ieltNdnS 70 tdht II vi ln Lace
showing. Back Of the sufragMt it has seen the militant; back Of
the militant, the Feminist; Feminism, at once the genesis and the
terminal Of the agitation responsible for the prevailing unrest Of
woman. " -, %,%rst, ->@
.. Feminism. among the more advanced, avows itself the enemy
of a man-made world and a man-wrtten Bible, and all existing in
situations including marriage and the home; it proposes the aboi-
ton. Of sex and the recreation of woman in the barbara image Of
man, each woman to choose the father of her child, and as many
fathers as she cares to have, polygamy and the polygamous, instinct
to. be shifted from masculine to feminine initiation. The Sui
fragists Of America are but a little behind the Furies in England:
the Frrhs of England but a little ahead of time, Feminism being
the crux of the movement, its destination Sex War,
To be sure the leaders Of the crusade seeking Votes for Wo-
men deny this, most of them, we doubt not, sincerely. But revo-
lutions 90. not backward. Already it is declared in England that
suffrage is merely an outpost" Already has the richest and
most potential leader of Sufragism in the Jfited States announced
the coming Of mIitancy Of the Pankhurst variety unless the fran
chise be granted within the next two years. No question so mo-
mentors to organic society exists in any part of the world, and
the CONFECTIONERY, disdaining the cowardice alike OF levlty and
Of galantry, has alone among American newspapers so treated it.
It plants itself upon the blessed truth that woman was created
to civilze and humanze man; that she is a superior being; that
without her we should drop into savagery, that without
the ballot she has achieved the crown Of glory God .desig-
mated for her when He made her the moral light Of the Universe
the home builder and shrine maker, securing to the man, to her
children and to herself, one spot on earth where love abileth, which
may not be invaded by the selishness, the hatred and the slime OF
rival ambitions within whose sweet and safe seclusion and repose
the religion Of Christ may continue to be cherished and taught and
whence prayers Of alteration and gratitude may still ascend to
Heaven .
NORTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OPPOSED 70 WOMAN SUI
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