The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-10-09
SPEAKERS
BOOST VOTES
FOR WOMEN
HUNDREDS OF MEETINGS BEING
HELD OVER STATE TELLING
OF SUFFRAGE SUCCESS.
What It Mans to Other
States It Will Mean Here
EVERY COUNTY HAS A SUFFRAGE
LEAGUE AND SPEAKERS AID.
DRESS BIG MEETINGS.

Women are going to vote in North
Dakota!
Doubt it?
1t can't carry?
Well, if you think vat, you don't
know the spirit of the women Who aid
ed the pioneers in laying the founda.
lions of this state; you don't know the
spirit of the suffrage leagues that are
cry county. You don't know the spirit
Of the people who have applauded suf.
frage sentiments at the suffrage meet
ines. If work counts for anything; II
Justice and right and progress mean
anything at all, suffrage will win
in North Dakota, and if it carries. the
whole state is the victor.
Women are holding meetings nearly
every night, they are selling pencils,
the pennies they make go to pay post.
age on literature, they are speaking,
they are working every day with a de-
termination that means success. Won.
Ell who for years have leased politi.
clans for what they wanted, desire to
express their opinion directly now.
TIE arguments against it are old stock
arguments that could be used against
:2cn voting, for republics, like king.
Gems, have their faults.
Harriet Grim was one of the speak.
CTS who travelled over the state al.
" 'Sssirg enthusiastic audiences. When
ne told Of the success suffrage was in
i...aois she demonstrated that it could
Is a ucccss in North Dakota. Harriet
Grim found in the Illinois Legislature
non who were being paid SIS a day to
%iud clocks. Men do not know the
value of nickel as do women, but by
working together, men and women, as
partners, better government will re.
suit. Miss Grim told how Mary Nc.
Doweil for fifteen years tried to get
the garbage deposal removed from a
certain crowded district in the slums
where the death rate was higher than
in any other part of the state. For
fifteen years she tried to save the lives
of the babies but without avail; but
when women got the vote she was put
Oh a committee to solve the problem
without being asked. Today the babies
live in her neighborhood, they do not
die.
Katherine Blake, head of one of the
great schools in New York City, told
how the laundry workers, forced to
work IS, 10, sometimes 20, hours a
day, tried to get relief; hsw the shirt
waist makers tried to get fire escapes.
but they could not. Politicians did not
fear them, they catered to people who
could vote.
DR.. Shaw toared the state meeting
with tremendous success. Her work in
North Dakota nearly a quarter of a
century ago is bearing fruit. every
where crowds gathered to hear her, adj
dresses were delivered from the plat,
form of her train and the cheers Of
the crowds echoing her remarks DEM
onstrated that North Dakota is alive
to suffrage.
Many other noted women have plead
for suffrage, for If North Dakota pass
es it the cause is helped all over the
United States. North Dakota. needs
suffrage, it is a new state with won.
derful possibilities. It is just Is years
old, young, but sturdy. 1t needs help
to grow and that help will come from
the omen working always with the
men, not against them, for a bigger
state, better laws, better children, bet
;e- schools, greater progress in every.
thing.