The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-10-29

sion, against mobs and riots rearing
their fearful heads within this peace
full land during the very sessions Of
this Convention. Against crime and
disorder, and all the army of evil,
civil society wages its war and gov
eminent is the method of protection,
protection of US all. The trouble, Mr..
President, is not in the principles
which underlie government. Men and
women alike acknowledge them and
would enforce them, honor and truth,
and justice and liberty; the difficulty
is to find out how to protect them. The
difficulty is to frame the measure, to
direct the battle, to tell where and
how the blows are to be struck and
when the defenses are to be erected.
Mr.. President, in the divine distri-
button of powers, the duty and the
right of protection rests with the male.
It is so throughout nature. It is so
with men, and I, for one, will never
consent with the divine right of pro-
tecting my wife, my daughter, the wo-
men whom / love and the women
whom / respect, exercising the birth
right Of man, and place that high duty
in the weak and nerveless hands of
those designed by God to be protected
rather than to engage in the stern
warfare of government. In my judg-
ment, sir, this whole movement arises
from false conception of the duty
and of the right of men and women
both. We all of US, sir, see the petit
ness of our lives. We all see how poor
a thing is the best that we can do. We
all at times long to share the fortunes
of others, to leave our tiresome round
Of duty to engage in their affairs.
What others may do seems to us
nobler, more important, more con-
spicuous than the little things of our
own lives. It is a great mistake, sir,
it is fatal mistake that these excel
lent women make when they conceive
that the functions of men are superior
to theirs and seek to usurp them. The
true government is in the family. The
true throne is in the household. The
highest exercise of power is that
which forms the conscience, influences
the will, controls the impulses of men,
and there today woman is supreme
and woman rules the world Mr.. Pres
identt. the the time will never come when
this line of demarcation between the
functions of the two sexes will be
broken down. / believe it to be false
philosophy; believe that it is an at
tempt to turn backward upon the line
of social development, and that if such
step ever be taken, we go centuries
backward on the march toward high
er, a nobler and purer civilization,
which must be found, not in the con-
fusion, but in the higher differentia-
ton of the sexes. But, Mr.. President,
why do we discuss this subject? This
Convention has already acted upon it.
A committee as fairly constituted as
ever was committee, has acted upon it,
a committee which had among its
members four who were selected by
III. women who lead this movement,
which had a smaller number Of gentle
men who were known to be opposed to
it, the great hody Of which was COM
posed Of men whose ideas and feelings
upon the subject were utterly UNI
known, has acted upon it, and reported
to the Convention. The Convention
has, by a unanimous vote, decided that
it will not strike the word finale"
from the Constitution. Now we are.
met, sir, by proposition that instead
of performing the duty which we came
here to perform, instead Of exercising
the warrant given us by the people to
revise and amend the Constitution, we
shall have recourse in a weak and