Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-11-03

GENTLY engrossing sphere in the i'm.
poltant work of rearing and training
children. No man can take the place
Of a mother, Sons are to be moulded
into good citizens; daughters are 70
be trained to the highest and hottest
position in life-that Of motherhood.
There are many women. yes, the over
sWthelming majority, who still have
the Old-fashioned belief in the. influ-
ence of a mother on her children, and
that all great men have owed their
greatness to their mothers. 1t is a
much greater thing to be the mother
of a Lincoln, Washington or a Web
ster than to be a woman politician.
Mothers and ChivaIry.
Men and women were made for diff.
feren. spheres. From the earliest
dawn of civilization men have worked
and women have shared in the dispo-
sition of the fruit of their joint lab
ors; the women doing the part for
which they are specially fitted. The
memory of a good mother has kept
many a boy from perdition. -
Some men from a mistaken idea of
~chiyalry. think of voting for the suf-
flage amendment. Such as these must
decide between the wishes of a great
majority of %home-loving women who
do not want the ballot and the small
minority of women who are ambitious
for political life.s Do not allow mere
clamor to make you deaf to the fact
that the great majority of women do
not want the ballot.
Carefully compiled figures show
that rel 80 per cent Of the women
in North Dakota do not want the gen.
eral ballot. These women are willing
to be represented in politics. by their
fathers, husbands, brothers and sons.
North Dakota, through mems votes,
leads in laws for the protection OF
women, children and the home. The
women of North Dakota have no
grievance which requires the ballot
or requires them to enter the political
arena. "a. z5a" a X
What About the Farmers Wife?
70 per cent of the women in North
Dakota reside on farms. These .wo.
men do not want the ballot. If it is
fastened upon them by the votes Of
men upon the demand Of the women
who reside in the towns and cities, a
real hardship will be worked upon the
farming element. Doubling the num-
Der of voters will practically double
election expenses. II. will also do
more, it vii mean a heavy increase in
the votes Of towns and cities. The
few women in the cities who want to
go into politics can go ito the polls.
Women in the country cannot. They
can not take their children to the
polls and they cannot leave them at
home. They have not the means,
ever if help were available, to get
someone to stay with the children
while they vote. The effect, of the
passage of the amendment will be 10
cut off their proper representation in
the state government; thus a minor.
ity, aided iby the women politicians Of
the cities and towns, will outweigh
and be able to carry through measur-
es which suit them but are inimical
to the interests of the farmers who
are the permanent foundation Of this
state.
Voters Of North Dakota should re-
member that the great majority Of
the women do not want the ballot and
that it Is wrong t oforce it upon them
by the will of a confessed minority. If
the majority is to rule, the wishes o.
the great mass Of, women of North
Dakota should be respected, and not
the demands Of, a strident minority.
On behalf Of the home-loying ma
jority of women of this state. we ask
you men. Of North Dakota toSyote No
on the suffrage amendment,
NORTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION
OPPOSED TO MANNFSUFFRAGE
political. Advertising
TO THE POLICY HOLDERS OF THE
PANY OF AMERICA.
Notice is hereby given that a meeting
Of the, ~policyholders Of The Prudential
held at the Home once Of said Com
in the City of Newark, New jersey,
on Monday, the seventh day. OF. tDecem.'
ber. A. d., One Thousand Min Hundred
and fOurteen,; at IL O'CLOCK noon, TO,
consider. the purchase by the said Com,
pany. for cash out of its surplus, for the
benefit of its ~policyholders, of such shares
of its capital stock as may be offered for
sale at the price of $455 per share. pursu-
OF New Jersey, 1913. and the order
Of the Chancellor, of said State made July
%, 1914. m NJ
AT such meeting every polityholder of
the Corporation who is of the age of
fN.nntv.nno vnnro N~ r1nuyQrfE and Whn0Q
policy has been in force for ats,lIeast. one
year last past shall be entitled to cast
one vote in person or by proxy.
FORREST F. DRYDEN.
President.
IA. 1914