The Dickinson press., 1914-09-26
ADDRESS OF Or, ANNA
SHAW ON SUFFRAGE
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titled to vote because they are men,
but because they are human.

Titled to vote because they are men,
but because they are human.
And SO, when after the Revolution
airy war they were allowed to vote
because they paid taxes on $3.50
worthSof property, then there arose
1.-THE great Democratic party under the
leadership of Thomas Jefferson and
he believed that an accumulation Of
wealth in the hands. of a few men
would endanger the freedom Of the
people unless they had the power to
defend themselves and their rights,
land the right of suffrage was ex-
tended to the white laboring men Of
this country.
Further Changes
Then there arose the great party
Icalled the Republican party, and they
said a man isn't entitled to vote
entitled to vote because he is a man,
and SO the Republican party struck
1.-THE word white" out of the qualif-
cation for voting and left the word
male in the constitution there by
itself. And that is why we are here
tonight. God told man in the begin.
ming, ut is not, good for man to
stand alone So we are here to ask
you men of North Dakota to take out
your official eraser just once more
and rub that word male" out of your
constitution and make your state
what it ought to have been in the be-
ginning, and what it must become
before the guaranty Of the national
constitution becomes personified in
1.-THE life Of your state, for the nation
al constitution declares that it guar;
antees to every state a republican
form Of government and yet it has
never done it. We will never have
that guaranty fulfilled in the. state Of
North Dakota until that word "male",
is stricken out, of the constitution. and
the constitution reads, as every con-
stitution Of a great free people ought
to- read, "every citizen, twenty-one
years of age, possessing the neces-
sary qualifications, shall be entitled
to castaone vote at any or every cleo
ton, and have each vote counted"
and that is what we r asking for.
We are not asking for the ballot
because we believe that women will:
bring about the millennium; we are.
not asking for it because women will.
always vote; or because women will
bring in such beautiful laws that men
would not know themselves from
angles; or in order that women may
straighten men out. We are. asking
for ittm order that women may
straighten themselves out, and look
up intoGthe face Of God and the face
of men, free citizens of a free state.
s Anti. S,ffra pists
We have a noted anti-sufrage lady,
who has come: out here from New
Jersey. She has come here to Da-
[kota to tell the Dakota. women that
their place is at home and I think it
is very kind of her to leave her home
and family to come out here to tell
you that. She is coming out here to
tell you North Dakota men and wom-
en- what poor specimens Of women
you have out here. She will tell you
if you permit the women Of North
Dakota to vote it will disrupt the
family, break up the home and de-
stroy all family ties. Now I think
you ought be grateful to New
Jersey. We owe New Jersey a great
deal for the corporations it has given
u.s.. And I believe Mrs. ELEPHANTS
is connected with the corpor-
atoms OF, New Jersey. I think nearly
all noted antixsufrage leaders you
will find connected with corporations,
even here in the state Of North Da-
kota.
N. b. Pioneer
Twenty years. agosI came to North
Dakota for the first time. It was not
the Dakota Of today I was away out
on the ranches, away out on the
prairies. There We're little board
houses, covered with black tar paper
and little sod houses-desolate look
ing homes with no trees anywhere
about them. Of all the god-forsaken
looking places on earth there is
nothing moreSforsaken than a little
board shanty without a tree any.
where near it. / saw the brave wom-
en- and the splendid aggressive man
who laid the foundation of your state.
They used to say that it. was the duty
of the women to hold down the
claims. She held down the claim,
and then at the expiration Of the
time the young man proved it up but
forgot to prove it up in the name Of
the woman. that held it down.
Home &lVOte &
You owe as much to the women Of
Dakota as you do to the men that
you have what you have today, and
when I say that say no small thing
of the men. That doesn't mean that
North Dakota doesn't owe much to
its men. It owes everything to the
cooperative service Of the men and
women working side by side together.
Now what have you got? This great
state with all it's wonderful fields,
great barns with their tremendous
wealth. Now is the time when the
women Of North Dakota ought to be-
gin to vote, because in the wake Of
wealth comes vice; in the wake Of
vice comes corporations, and some
you know, has said, 1After cor
porations come barbarism and his
tory with all her volumes vast will
have but one page" And the only
way by which we can counterfeit the
Influences Of vices which follow in the
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