The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-05-29
Woman Suffrage

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to be caught up today by the
women of the republican.
A few years ago some OF our
Canadian sisters, who were
probably young and believed
in the woman's influence of
which we hear SO much, under
took to circulate a petition ask
ing for prohibition, to be sign
ed only by women. A large
number of signatures were OBJ
tanned and a delegation of trust
ing women took their way to
Ottawa, obtained an interview
with the Hon. Mr.. Foster, form
erly a temperance lecturer, but
at that time a cabinet minister.
They were received with the
greatest politeness, listened to
very deferentially (chivaly here
you see) but were assured that
their petition was utterly
worthless. as there we're no
votes behind it, and this is
what ordinary chivalry amounts
to-froth and foam. Your So
called chivalrous man will
stoop to pick up your handker-
chief, which you r quite able
to do yourself, but if you lose
it, he willingly sees you heavi-
ly handicapped in your efforts
to earn the price of another.
How different from the real
chivalry of Wyoming. which
had grown hardy under the
breezes of equal suffrage.
Men are votes, women are
not. For this, reason men COM
mand appointments. 1T is
only on the plea OF economy
that we are able to retain wo-
men at ALL" was the reply
made to a lady in government
employ when she complained
of the difference in the salaries
paid to men and women.
Until very recently the aver
age wages of male teachers in
Massachusetts, was $144 per
month, while the female teach
ers received a little over $37.
In Boston,, cultured Boston.
} 1921 was the average wage for
men and 1913 for women. Now
mark the difference in Wyom-
ing, men and women receive
the same pay for any work
done for the state. In Utah
the passing of the equal suffr-
age bill was speedily followed
by a law giving the same pay
to male and female teachers.
1t has been we'll said AN
ounce of experiment is worth a
ton of theory and as we be-
lieve it has been shown that
we need equal suffrage, what
is our next move?
We must educate, educate,
educate. We must endeavor to
convince every II concerned
that our boosted liberty is a
sham, until every citizen has
the franchise.
In this campaign there is
work for every advocate. The
responsibility rests with us!
You, as we'll as me. If we feel
that we can do but little, re-
member the motto, Efforts,
not results, are II responsible
lities.'
Let me say to the mothers,
Never let your sons or your
daughters grow up with the
idea that there is inferiority in
womanhood. | have heard a
father teasingly taunt his little
boy, telling him he was a girl,
while the mother looked stnil-
ing on. not knowing she was
being insulted.
We have been told MANY
times that when the majority
of women demand the ballot
they will get it, we nave then
some work to accomplish.
First we must induce those
women who do wish for the
ballot, to make their desire
known as forcibly as possible.
Second, we need to convert
those women who do not want
it and show them their mis-
take. We have been told that
noted women in the so.called
higher ranks of society, the
noted four hundred, are oppos.
ed to the granting of the ballot
to women. We are not sur
prised at this. Many of them
are but useless cumberers OF
the ground whose only thought
is to rival the lilies of the field
In the glory of their adornment.
They are not called to go out
into the world, and, hampered