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

SdHS, VIII eSCcpuOHS So lcCOIC, ldlC, dWu tl"ANN Nal lWy os
prove the rule. Such pennanence in the foundation of society, while
al that rests upon it has passed from change t. change, is proof in
It is idle to pirate Of the old time that has passed away and the new
time that is coming: The new time can no more stir the basis Of
human nature than it can stop the movement Of the earth,
special tasks assigned them in the work Of life, and men have not
There is scarcely a distinctive quality Of women that has not a direct
or indirect bearing upon them. Everything else in their existence is
ing the human race; and, during the best yearsfof life, this work,
fully discharged, leaves little room for any other: 1t is a work digni
the occupations Of men are but the leaves and branches. On women
of the intelligent and instructed classes depends the future Of the
to a numerous offspring, and rear them to a sense OF responsibility
and duty, there are no national evils that we cannot overcome: If
they fail to do their part, then the masses OF the coarse and unn-
telligent, always Of rapid increase, will overwhelm us and our in
situtions.
IS SUFFRAGE Il RIGHT or WRoNGa.
1t has been claimed as a right that woman should vote. 1t is no
right, but a wrong, that a small number Of women should impose on
which they do not want to assume, and which, if duly discharged,
would be a cruel and 'ntoerablc burden. This preteAse OF the female
affirmed that, if a single woman wanted to vote, all the others. ought
to be required to do so. 5.4 i
called right to vote a right which, # it exists at all, muse be common
to all mankind? There. are but a few of the most advanced nations
to vote would not produce political and social convulsions. Tic ruth
is this: If the exercise of the suffrage BY anyaindivduat or body q
individuals involves detrment to the whole people, then the right TO
exercise it does not exist. X @Nv
1t is the right and the duty Of the people to proyds itself with
GSso ag sGVe para%oSn t;o wh IA" a saes con ri%sse with it, It must na give g,s9 nay. Y lie
airbown theory of malenable right is unworthy the good. sense, 2
the American people. The most rational even OF the SuHfAgitS tNtHl
W0MAN sUFFRAGE NorPRoGREss.
Many women of sense and intelligence are influenced by the fact
that the woman-saffrage movement boasts Itself a noNensntfof pre-.
gress, and by a wish to be on the liberal or progressive side. Put ting
boast is unfounded. Progress, to be genuine, must be in accord with
natural law. If it is not, it ends in failure, and in retrogressioEl 70
give women a thorough and wholesome training bot. Oil bod and
mind to rear them in more serious views of life and IFS respofs1Hi
ties, are all in the way of normal and healthy development; put 70
plunge them into politics, where they are not: needed and for which
thy are unfit, would be scarcely more a moven'ent OF progress thar
toforce them to bear arms and fight.
O IN POLITICS AN A~NTIQUATED IDEA.
The social power Of women has grown with the growth Of civil,
under low social conditions, women have occasionally lad i degree
of power in public affairs unknown in the foremost natons@of the
modern world. -Four hundred years before Christ, tic question Of
giving political power to women was agitated among the most civil
lied OF ancient peoples, the Athen'ans, and they would rot follow ole th4|
example of their barbarian neighbors.
CONNECTION BETWEEN VOTING And FIGHTING.
The advocates Of woman suffrage have ridiculed the idea OF ANY con-
necton in. this matter between voting and the capacity tos fight Their 81
titude in this matter shows the absence OF reflection or quesuons Of gov
eminent, or the inability to form rational Judgment upon them Sia fact
it is worth nearly all of them a matter Of reason, but Of. sentiment
The human race consste Of two equal parts, tic eorabatant and
the non-cornbatant, and these parts are separated BY The lines Of sex;
It is true that some men are permanently disabled from fighting, and
others may be disabled in one year or one month, ard " to bear ann afn5
half Of humanity, and women are not. The question remains, What
has this to do with voting, It has a great deal 10 dc Whit and
above all in a government purely popular.
80 D1NGERoUs 10 c11I 'HIRMoNY"
miles; s'i ;t co nifio cyno 1ssnaj tho the g gGysana'f folcs sv or te aation; :S and , ,bs,
whether the form Of government was despotism, constitutional mon
t a5en geo or d to eSe2; the kin kiag os snd ps edn'peei tc con tro1y 'th w'f fece eo Of lie
SS >OpS wv > 10y us uN PottHuHAN1u- o'foIN' NNN
Kingdom, and malcontents dare not rise in Instruction ill Trey
think they have drawn away an equal or greater share Of it. Finally,
the majority in a democratic republic feels secure that its enactments
will take effect, because the defeated minority, even if it does not
respect law, will respect a force greater than its own. Once i'll our
history a minority rose against the majority, i'll the belief that it
could outright it. 1t may not be creditable to human nature that
we would have a stable government it is necessary to keep the bal
ance Of power on the side of law but the business Of government IS
to shape. itself to the actual, and not the ideal or milenial, condition
of mankind. %& a aE@S
There is another reason why the giving of the suffrage to wone'
would tend to civil discord. In. the politics of the future, the FREEDOM
;onnt Is rt n norOcciuu "nnncfiNrc will no fo all naHr2 fhOcfI
of finance and the relations of labor and capital Fronn3the nature
of their occupations, as well as other causes, women in general are
ignorant of these matters, and not well fitted to- deal with them
They require an experience, a careful attention, asdeliberation and
GOODNESS of Judgment, and a freedom from passion, SO rare that at
the. best of their political treatment is full Of difficulty and danger.
If these qualiies. are rare in-1nen, they are still more 50 in Worerv
and feminine. instinct will not in the present case supply their place
The peculiar danger of these questions is that they raise class ami
nosties, and tend to set the poor against the rich, and the rich
against the poor:,Th,ey became questions Of social antagonism. Nov,
most Of lis have had occasion to observe how strong the scial rival
rns and aninnosites Of women are. They far exceed those OF men.
If, in the strife between labor: and capita, which, without great self
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