The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-05-08

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pondence of a few. weeks ago,
seems to be afraid of the words
"suffragist' and politics |
think she should take a vaca-
ton herself and'let her husband
take care of the children for a
while. Then after she has had
a rest from the care of a large
family and gets out in the
world and sees what is going
on, l don't think she will
be so afraid and she might even
get up courage to attend a SUIT
fragist lecture. Now auntie. ]
don't want to shock you 80 that
you will collapse but l don't
think that Peter or Paul or
any apostle had the ballot in
their life, but because they
didn't have it is no reason that
you shouldn't. 1t is only a
short time since men that had
no real estate have had the
ballot. Now if you will just
take a look at the last fifty
years of the political history OF
the United States l think you
will find that it might be good
for those seven children of
yours if you let your husband
take the care of them and ran
for office yourself. You know
that many men when you speak
of giving the women the ballot
will puff up like a blow snake
and say they don't know
enough to vote" that they
the men and boys-have all the
political wisdom. 1t makes no
difference whether men have
an education or not. they think
they are the only ones
qualified to vote.
Now auntie, here . for a lit
tie of that political history: In
1868 seventy per cent of the
people of the United States
owned their own homes free OF
any incumbrance. About that
time there was a current state
ment that Uncle Sam was rich
enough to give US all a farm
and the government proceeded
to do it with our homestead
laws. In 1914, only eight out
of every hundred of the Aineri.
can people own free homes,
while Uncle Sam has been Civ
ing away free homes for the
past fifty years. Now Auntie,
how long do you think it will
take for Big Business to get all
the homes of the Common PEG.
pie if they can contin ne ID
absorb them at the present
rate7 You can't pick up q local
paper today bat you see from
one to a dozen mortgage fore
closures on that many homes.
Don't you think that it is about
time to give those wise hus.
bands a vacation in the govern
ing, voting and Office holding
and let the women try q hand
at it while that eight per cent
of home owners still have their
homes7 do you think that you
are doing your whole duty by
those eeven children by stay
ing at home and looking after
them and not even thinking
where they are to live after
they are grown up? DO you
know that there are seventy
million people in the United
States that have no home, and
seventeen million too poor to
marry7 1t is safe to say that
two-thirds of all the people on
the earth have no home, and if
all the landlords should tell
them to move on, where would
they 90. You often hear our
politicians say that the United
States should hold the Philip
pine Island because they do
not know enough to govern
themselves. Now in view OF
the mess they have made OF
our home government, do you
think that they are experts at
it7 The way I have heard they
teach government over there is
with "lead'-the way they
used to make good Indians
of the Red meni
" And / read that a sheriff in
california said that if the un-
employed came into HE county
he would line them up and
shoot them down in rows. Now
auntie, don't you think you
had better look into the govern
ing business, for some of those
seven children of yours might
sometime be homeless and of
the unemployed; and you