Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-11-01
WHY SHE DOESN'T
Want SUFFRAGE
MRS. N. G. YOUNG GIVES
HER REASONS FOR
OPPOSITION.
NOT NEEDED nov
Says That Woman Does Not Wish
to Have Other Duties Fore
!. ed Upon Her. .

In an interview yesterday Mrs. N.
c. Young of Fargo gave twelve reas-
ons why she is opposed to the en-
reimbursement Of women in North Da-
kota.
Suffrage is not a natural right but
an obligation imposed by government,
frlm which women are exempted in
view OF tho duties toward home and
families which they are performing,n
she said I'VE are 0 making our
full contribution to the State, and 20.
,litical duties should not be required
of us. nHt @''#
Have to Back II Up.
stability of government rests upon
physical power to enforce its laws.
Behind law there must be force to
make it effective. We are unwilling,
even We're we able, to perform police,
jury, election and military duties, and
should not undertake the power of
law making without the responsibility
Of law enforcement.
woman Suffrage is the demand OF
a minority Of women. In North Da-
kota we have had rs years Of exper.
fence with the school franchise. This
experience has demonstrated that the
great majority of women cannot and
will not s the ballot.
North Dakota women do not need
the ballot. The great advance of wo-
men in the last century along moral,
intellectual. and economic lines, has
been made without the vote. Every.
opportunity, industrial, educational
and economic is ours without the bal
lot. We r free to advance and i'm
prove ourselves and our daughters in
all lines adapted to us.
Exercise Power Now.
Women now stand outside Of poll
tics and are free to appeal to all
parties in matters of education, char
ity and reform. We are thus able to
do better and truer work, unhampered
by party p%rejudices, affiliations and
divisions. We object to having our
legitimate Mother" work in charity
and reform impaired by the dissen-
sions that would come with political
life.
AN W Oul4A 10 INV llGAL -
a backward step in the progress Of civ
~ilization in that it seeks to efface nat
ural differentiations of function and
to produce identity instead o division
of labor. To ask us to perform not
only our W work. but that now done
by the men, is to diminish by one.half
Our present efficiency.
Woman's Citizenship.
"a woman's citizenship is just as
valuable as that Of a man, and her ser
vices are just as necessary to the
state, but men and women are differ
ent with talents that are complement.
tary, not identical. We ask the right
TO contribute u best gifts to the state
and protest against being forced into
the giving of services for which we
are unsuited.
Our present duties require all OF
our time and ability, and are such as
none but ourselves can perform. AS
men cannot do our work, we should
not be forced to take up their work.
We have confidence in men to attend
to political duties. North Dakota,
through mems votes, leads in laws for
the protection of women and children
and the home, and we women have no
grievance that requires us to 60 into
Women Suffrage is not a success
the states which have it. It would
be a mistake to place North Dakota
in the class with Utah and Colorado.
Women In the Home.
"The family is the unit in society
and the foundation Of the state. It'll
should be undivided. Our motto for
is Back to the Home''-not
'Out of the Home"
"The method now proposed of plac-
ing political burdens upon women by
the votes of men alone, without any
expression from the women concerned,
unfair, ~undemocratic and un.Ameri.
can.
ut would be a misfortune to both
and children to discharge men
from their natural relation to them of
and defenders. We would
lose more than we would gain, and as
the ones vitality concerned we there
tore appeal to the voters Of, the state