The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-09-03
A FEW REASONS WHY WE
SHOULD ALL VOTE FOR


SHOULD ALL VOTE FOR
EQUAL SUFFRAGE.
First and foremost is the fact that
it's the greatest uplift movement of
Modern times, SO say President Will
son, Roosevelt, Bryan, LaFollette, DR..
Elliott, Judge Lindsey-in fact nearly
every political economist and states
man in the United States, including a
large majority of our clergymen and
judges. There seems to be almost a
unanimous opinion in favor of this
movement by the leading thinkers Of
the day. There is, however, one very
powerful business organization op-
posed to it; of this we will speak lat
er.
The business man realizes, now-a-
days, that every movement that tends
to elevate the human race to make
each individual more independent,
more capable of earning and living a
higher and better life, adds to his in
come, and makes business mans life
more worth the living, for it not only
gives him an easier class to deal with
but more efficient help also, for that
reason he is doing his utmost to make
each patron "as good as the cash" and
at the same time eliminating ineffic-
lent help, all of which adds materially
/ in spelling bigger and better bus
mess. This system he can advance
in no better way that by giving to the
"best manager of the household"
chance to vote, thereby adding power
to her good judgment; every merchant
will admit that where the woman han
dies the pocketbook he can usually fig
ure on a good paying customer. Equal
suffrage adds one more vote for the
best interests Of the home and when
this vote is large enough to offset the
indifferent vote-the floater or manip-
ulated vote-then we get the best po-
litical management in city, state or
nation.
The farmer must figure that his pro-
ducts bring better prices and his land
grows in value as moral conditions i'm
prove, for it is a well known fact that
the higher civilized a community or a
nation the greater the demand for all
the good things of life, as proof of this
statement compare the prices paid for
poultry, butter, eggs-in fact every
thing raised on a farm, and the price
| Of land as well, with the same in less
civilized localities and countries. The
farmer, by giving his wife the ballot,
increases the value of his farm and
farm products in proportion to the
moral improvement sure to follow
equal suffrage, as predicted by the
above mentioned far-seenig statesmen.
This also adds one more vote for the
home interests.
Every voter who will take the time
to study this matter will be convinced
that equal surrage is great moral
power and that fully ninety per cent Of
woman's vote is now and always will
be for better home conditions, better
surroundings; better town for their
children to grow up in. The philos-
opher has said, in all ages, ION home
conditions hangs the destiny Of the
world" Where home conditions, in
state or nation, is the paramount
thought Of its law makers, there you
will find conditions most ideal.
We are sorry to admit that there are
few well-meaning, we believe, antics
who argue that inasmuch as all women
who have the ballot do not use it those
who wish it should not have it. This,
it seems to me, is very unfair argu-
ment for it means that if am so lit
Tie interested in the management of
my city, state or nation that ! do not
take the time to vote ] am then in po-
sition to say to those who do wish
for the election Of good men who will
manage our municipality for the best
interest of the home, because and
a few others like me do not vote
you should not have the privilege Of
voting. If we were to apply this rule
to the male voters every state would
soon be minus their state elections. AS
positive proof that women do vote
when occasion necessitates ] will cite
a case that happened in our own city
there is no need Of looking at this
proposition as found in some far-off
states for we do not understand all
the circumstances there and cannot get
them accurately unless we live there,
but should profit most by our own ex-
|perience several years ago part Of
the school board seemed quite unsat-
|isfactory to the majority Of Minot peo-
pie and at the school election the fe-
male voters turned out in large NUM-
bers and elected those gentlemen out
Of Office. Again at the last school
election there were AZ votes, male and