The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-10-02
MANI SrtAkERS
4 BUST VOTES
FOR WOMEN N
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 AD.
DRESS BIG MEETINGS.

Women are going t O vote in North
Dakota!
Doubt it?
1t can't carry?
Well, If you think that, you do1't
know the spirit of the ome who aid.
ed the pioneers in laying the founda.
tons of this state; you don't know the
spirit of the suffrage leagues that are
found in nearly every town and in ev.
cry county. You don't know the spirit
of the people who have %applauded SUI
frage sentiments at the suffrage meet.
ings. 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. Nom-
II who for years have leased politi-
clans for what they wanted, desire to
express their opinion directly now.
The arguments against it are old stock
arguments that could be used against
men voting, for republics, like king
dOmS, have their faults.
Harriet Grim was one of the speak
ers who travelled over the state ad-
dressing enthusiastic audiences. When
she told of the success suffrage was in
Illinois she demonstrated that it could
be a success in North Dakota. Harriet
Grim found in the Illinois Legislature
men ~who~were being paid SIS a day to
wind 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
Dowell 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 ave the lives
of the babies but without avail; but
when ome got the VOTE she was put
on 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, Is, sometimes 20, hours a
day, tried to get relief; how 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 toured the state meeting
with tremendous success. Her work in
North Dakota nearly a quarter of .
century ago is, bearing fruit. every.
where crowds gathered to hear her, ad.
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. 1t is just 25 years
old, young, but sturdy. 1t needs help
to grow and that help will come from
the women, working always with the
men, not against them, for a bigger
state, better laws, better children, bet.
ter schools, greater progress in every.
thing. , ,..... -.