The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-06-06

just as we We're about to be presented
to a prominent social worker.
But fa%cinating as the office was we
had to hurry down to watch the great
ington square were the many cars that
were to carry speakers all over the
city. Perfectly planned they arrived
and departed on schedule time and
square in the first twenty minutes.
thousands more in the mall at Central
park, hundreds in groups at the many
corners where the cars stopped and
sooner had the cars stopped, (the
crowds usually were ready waiting)
than one group got out with literature
another with vote pledges, while the
ideal, the crowds were attentive, ana
the speakers were eloquent and en-"
thusiastic. They had that contagious
enthusiasm about them that makes one
feel better for having listened. In New
York the day was a tremendous sue
cess and eagerly we awaited reports
from the rest of the country.
In they came, such stupendous re-
ports. II Boston, 200, 600 see suffrage
parade, Chicago, largest parade in his
tory Of the city, thousands of women
in ten divisions marched, Hartford,
Yale, Wesleyan, and Trinity college
men marched with hundreds of women,
Philadelphia, seven thousand in line,
Pittsburg; monster parade, Indianapo-
lis, great crowds, and on 1t went. All
over the country reports kept coming
in telling of thousands engaged in a
national movement.
1t seemed Just like election night,
and so We remarked, but 1t was just
a regular day. Every day they are
working like this, these big people
of the country, names Of men and wo-
men that stand for such mighty works,
1t made n feel good to be an Amer
lean.
ed in New York will not be without
results. The clean citizens Of all par
ties realize they cannot fight the ire
mendous battle against corruption in
New York state alone, all must CO.
operate. The statement that the bad
woman Is given the vote with the good
is but a statement and a theory. 1t
does not work out that the vote is
only increased, men know that the
good vote is tremendously increased
and the tenement women who do the
buying, and in many cases pay the rent
and stand the strain Of the liquor traf-
flc, are going to vote for decent gov
eminent.
North Dakota Plans
The officers of the national head
quarters display the keenest interest
in North Dakota. They are keeping
their eyes on us here. The state that
was the pioneer in pure food, that has
the lowest death rate and the highest
birth rate of any state, that has many
distinguished citizens who are known
throughout the nation, cannot afford
to turn suffrage down. OF course they
are not going to. The presence of anti
s~uffragists from other states only slim
ulates the citizen workers of North
Dakota and makes certain victory
doubly sure.
1t must strike the great Norwegian
and Swedish population as passing
strange, that coming to d country that
is supposed to be ultra progressive
from their own, where woman suffrage
has been common for years, they find
women of other states, like the carpet
baggers of the old south, e~ndeavoring
to warn against the danger" which
they view with alarm" of giving to
one-half of our citizenship the right
to enjoy the same privileges they now
have in the old country. There is no
now visiting Norway will return to
North Dakota in the fall enthused with
it work in their native land.
After all, our d~istingrishsd visitors
they are our allies. the ants"
Melvin Hildreth.