The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-04-02

harder lot has been the inheritance Of
ages behind her. We do not blame the
men of today that they have not come
into this heritage of power. Besides
the lesson of their lives has been that
they are just and generous and chiv-
alric towards women and they forget
that she needs other safeguards than
their own strong arms.
The religious, civil and social teach
ing of women thru all ages has been in
the line of self abnegation, and no
wonder that the masses of them have
been seemingly content to submit to
the laws that gave men absolute pow
ed. But woman's growing intelli-
gence, her keener sense Of justice, her
truer Interpretation of the Bible, has
proved that the nineteenth century
woman cannot be compressed into the
restricted garments that have fitted
her in the grosser centuries preced-
ing. She looks upon this form of gov
eminent, where the right to rule, OBJ
tanned first by the heaviest fist, is still
retained by one class, compelling an
other class to perpetual subservience.
The ballot is the insignia Of citizen
ship in republic and the consistency
Of denying this to class that fur
nishes four ifths of the graduates of
our schools and colleges, two-thirds of
the membership of our churches, but
permitting it to rule the male drunk
ard and debauchee, and welcoming to
it's privileges the scum Of the wide
earth after a brief sojourn on our
shores.
The absurdity of Haunting in the
face of the world that taxation with
out representation is tyranny" and
then systematically taxing the proper
ty of all women, while permitting
them no more voice in making the
laws or deciding as to the levy or dis
tribution of these taxes, than if they
were race of cannibals. The farce of
claiming that women are too poor to
ENTER politics, and then care nothing
for the opinions of these poor beings,
to declare woman's strength of char
acter to be the safeguard of humanity,
vet believing it too weak to bear the
strain to which mans is subjected.
The insult claiming that rights with
held are compensated for by mans
protection of woman in land where
wild beasts are not feared, where
venomous serperts have been EXTERN
mated, where savage Indians have
learned the way of peace, and where
there is nothing to be protected from
except men themselves.
The beauty of reiterating the demo-
cratic principle that all persons indict-
ed for crime shall be tried by jury
of their peers, yet with courts, judges,
juries and every officer Of the law,
men, this government has gone on for
hundred years, arresting, fining, i'm
prisoning and hanging women. 1t is
said that the great statesmen of to-
day are signing for an opportunity to
distinguish themselves and envy the
chance that came to Washington and
Lincoln to win enduring fame. These
men have forgotten women. But we
believe that today somewhere between
the oceans of our country breathes the
man-young he may be-who will
shrewdly lay his ear close to the earth
to catch the tread of humanity and
who will hear the sounds of woman's
oncoming feet. A man for whom
awaits fame to match Americas
greatest hero, who will lead the cause
Of forgotten woman to the heights of
political freedom.