Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-04-07
lna ask your cooperation.

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Let each child in the school, WHIT
is old enough. write an essay on
suffrage. Then let an afternoon
be get apart for the reading of the
essays and we would ask that the
parents be asked to hear them.
Another condition is either the best
or the two best are to be published
in the county newspaper and a du.
plicatc sent to US. For the best es.
say in each Supervised District a
prize of Five Dollars will be given.
All essays must reach me by April
goth when the whole club will
choose the winners.
Under seperate cover we are
sending literature which we hope
will be of use to you. Let each es.
say be accompanied by the Super.
intendent's name"
It Will be noted that no stipula-
ton is made that the essays will
b? for or against equal suffrage
in Nevada Or out Of it. NJ effort
is made to hiring the essays down
to a local issue. The frank object
of the contest is to promote in.
terest in the suffrage question,
The iisiugenuous quihble that
the College League is trying tc
force a political question into the
schools, and that our schools must
be protected is as absurd as it is
unfair. Our opponents are trying tc
confuse public thought by their use
of the word "Politics"; they sug.
gest that u question is one OF
partisan politics, which they well
know, is not.
The rule that politics and relig.
ion shall be barred from the school
means that no political psrty shall
aggrandize itself through the
schools and that no religious sect
shall do so. and suffragists are the
first to agree that the rule is q
wise one. The Republicans or Pro-
gressiVes or Democrats will benefit
by the discussion o. woman suffrage
in our schools just as much as the
Epi opalians or Baptists or Con.
gregationalists will benefit, which
is not one iota. Our opponents
know that we are not a partisan
organization, that there is not g
vote among us, that so far as the
Nevada constitution goes we are
political outlaws dependent for
success on the support of all men
of ali political parties. We are an
absolutely non-partisan organiza-
tinn.
a member who chose to work
with one of the political parties
last election felt it incumbent on
her to resign the suffrage society,
and her resignation was accepted,
which shows our in1exible non.
partisan position.
No suffrage organization known
to us anywhere in or out Of our
country is a partisan Political or
ganization; suffrage societies are no
more political parties than they are
religious sects. They are humani-
tartan, educational, reform organi-
cations dependent on the support
of all the parties, but having NO
connection with any of them, to
win the fundamental human right
of suffrage upon which modern
government is based.
This confused and %quibbling use
of the word "politics" in connec-
tion with the suffrage movement
in Nevada, this fierce agitation to
protect the schools from the
young and earnest and gentle girls
of the College League of orr Uni.
versity is making u opponents
ridiculous beyond our borders in
equal suffrage states like Cali.
fornia, which have encouraged SINH.
lar contests, and in countless other
states which have branches Of the
same College ! eague at their seats
of learning. To mention only 8