Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-11-01
FAVORS SUFFRAGE IF WOME DEMAND "A IT.
WOMEN REPREsENTED EVERYWHERE
PLEADS FOR FATHER
Suffrage Movement Part of Effemi-
nate S~uferciality Of Generation

Ireally is about it. 1t is a sex war.
No, no, let me not say that. 1t is {.
mere handful of women breaking win.
dows, assaulting government minis
ters-a coterie whose possible and
soon) presence at the ballot box has
already served to bring a about a GU
rious condition of mental obsequious.
ness among men, so that on the floor
of this convention we hear members
vociferate 1T is a perfect enigma that
any man can take the other side of
this question:" HE must have some
sinister motive" ~
1 tell you the whole movement IS
but a part of the effeminate super
ficiality Of, this generation. This SUI
perficiality finds its consummation in
the present masculine abasement 0
witnessed in America and here on
this floor. women are more capable
than men," women are more honor
able than men," Women live oil a
higher plane than men," women
are more moral than men, women
will purify the ballot" And 80 on ad
nauseam. And when an %obsequious
bower to women is asked whether he
would car to go to wal at the re.
quest of a female presiden: Or female
senator, he deity avoids the issue by
saying, woman is greater than the
soldier, because she produces The SOL
der" What a answer! ,@ ".
You assert that female suffrage will
accomplish tremendous things. ! deny
it.. 1t is impossible. In political and
pecuniary matters women are quite
as selfish as men. And, as Judge
Peck admitted frankly. in the broad
cO%ntractural matters of life they are
really less careful.
Denver-where for twenty years
women have voted for everything,
from president to poundmaster--is as
corrupt as Philadelphia. Don't think
for an instant that, I,blame women
with this. All, no. / speak Of it be-
cause it denies the wonderful purity
and excellence of female voting.
Judge Lindsey's book, The Beast, tells
of Colorado politics for the past ten
years. And, mark you, he tells how
Senatoress Alma Lafferty and the
Hon. Mary Bradford, two suffragettes,
stumped Colorado against him.
When women exercise the govern.
mental function, a change quickly
comes oyer her entire status. Now
her fortune, as a wife, is immune
from the husbands creditors (for all
family a%ccounts). It. Is evident that
when women occupy these halls, side
by side with. men-when the wife's
vote may veto the husband's-wnen
she votes for the war which men
must fight-it is evidence, I say, that
when this comes about, her entire
stage and status change. She then
becomes the p~ecuniary head of the
house. a
Here in Ohio the wife has a dover
interest in every piece of real estate
owned by her husband. In Colorado
The has no such interest. He can sell
every. acre he has free from the
Wife's claim, save only the homestead.
When she assumed the governmental
function. she consented to enter the
arena of the in%dividualistic struggle,
where there is no sex known. The lie.
gal curtain fell from about her.
Why, when women got the ballot in
Colorado, it took many years for the
good women to step the Outcas1 wonl-
an vote. Denver has a large aban-
doned woman vote. The prevailing
gang used to vote them back by the
hackloads. It was merely another
evil added to the electorate.