Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-09-20

fas as they they go, but they don't
go far enough. They only go half
way. And you never read a defini-
ton in your life which declared that
a republic is a form Of government
in which one-half of the people
elect representatives to govern the
whole Of the people. 1t is not a re
public. 1t is an aristocracy, an aris-
tocracy Of sex. If you men in Da-
kota believe that governments de-
rive their just powers from the con-
sent of the govtrned, then you have
got to vote yes on the women
suffrage amendment on the 3rd day
Of November, or you belize your be-
lief. Women are governed equally
with men, and since we are governed
equally with men, and the govern
ment depends for it's rights and laws
on the consent of the governed, 1t
bust be on the consent of the gov
erned women equally with the gov
erned men.
History Of Franchise.
There can be no possible reason
for ONE not voting, except that
they didn't vote is no more true of
women than Of men, because the
time was when all men didn't vote.
Men voted in this country for many
reasons, but not because they
men. First, men voted because they
YER members of the church; next
men voted, after the Revolutionary
war, because they owned property
$3.50 worth Of property. They said a
nan who had that much property is
a safe citizen because in order to
protect his own property he will be-
have himself.
We women believe in human quail
fications, and that men are not en-
titled to vote because they are men,
but because they are human.
And SO, when after the Revolutions
airy war, they were allowed to vote
because they paid taxes on $3.50
worth of property, then there arose
the great Democratic party under
the leadership of Thomas Jefferson,
and he believed that an accumulation
of wealth in the hands of a few men
would endanger the freedom Of the
people unless they had the power to
defend themselves and their rights,
and the right Of suffrage was ex-
tended to the white laboring men of
this country.
Further Changes.
Then there arose the great party
called the Republican party, and
they said a man isn't entitled to
vote simply because he is white. He
is entitled to vote because he is a
man, and so the Republican party
struck the word white" out of the
qualification for voting and left the
word male" in the constitution
there by itself. And that is why we
are here tonight. God told man in the
beginning, 1T is not good for man to
stand alone" So we are here to ask
you men of North Dakota to take out
your official eraser just once more
and rub that word male" out of your
constitution and make your state
what it ought to have been in the be,
ginning, and what it must become
before the guaranty of the national
constitution becomes personified in
the life of your state, for the ma
tional constitution declares that it
guarantees to every state a republl-
a form of government, and yet ii
North Dakota until that word male
has never done it. We will never
have that guaranty fulfilled in the
state Of North Dakota until that
word male" is stricken out Of the
constitution, and the constitution
reads, as every constitution Of a
great free people ought to read,
every citizen, twenty-one years OF
age. possessing the necessary quail
fications, shall be entitled to cast
one vote at any or every election,
and have each vote counted" and
that is what we are asking for.
We are not asking for the ballot
because we believe that women will
bring about the millennium; we arc
not asking for it because women will
always vote; or because women will
bring in such beautiful laws that
men would not know themselves
from angels; or in order that wom-
en- may straighten men out. We are
for it in order that women
may straighten themselves cut, and
look up into the face of God and the
face of man, free citizens Of a free
state.
Anti Suffragists.
We have a noted, anti-suffrage lady,
who has come out here from New
Jersey. She has come here to Da-
kota to tell the Dakota women that
their place is at home, and I think it
is very kind of her to leave her home
and family to come out here to tell
You that. She is coming out here to
tell you North Dakota lei and wom-
en- what poor specimens of women
you have out here. She will tell you
if you permit the ONE of North
Dakota to vote it will disrupt the
break up the home and de-
stroy all family ties. Now I think
you ought to be grateful to New Jer-
sey. We owe New Jersey a great
dal for the corporations it has given
us. And l believe Mrs. ELEPHANTS
is connected with the cor
porations of New Jersey. I think
nearly all noted anti-suffrage leaders
you will find connected with corpor-
atoms, even here in the state Of
North Dakota.
N. D. Pioneer.