Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1914-11-06
BY Minnie D. Stuart,

Woman's attitude toward her FAM
lily, toward her friends, toward her
community, toward herself, has al
ways been helpful one. Her desire
has ever been to help her family, her
friends, her community, helself, to get
the most and best out of life. An:
now that she has taken up the slogan.
Votes for Women" she is actuated
by this same inherent desire.
This demand of women you may
be sure is not sex war; that would
be ignoble and useless; it is fight
for higher characters, nob1er human
beings and a better world to live in.
And toward this end women inter-
ested in the cause of equal suffrage
are bending their energies. They
are struggling, not for themselves,
but for the race. Sons who are no.
BILE, brave, generous and true can
only he SONS of women with these
same characteristics. No woman,
conscious that she is deprived of the
sense of power, no woman who is
enslaved in even small degree, can
give the world its great men.
An editorial in a recent magazine
has truthfully said: "a woman owes
her country patriots hear, a citi
zen's interest and INDUSTRY, fam
|ilys health and happiness Yes,
she owes this to her country just as
much as does her husband Women
are beginning 10 realize that they
have a Responsible! as individuals
in shaping the destiny of he world
II they had TO rea|:Zin.r sense of :th's
what better would they b. than saw
age women? It soam; TO me that The
future influence 3or good wof1a
new woman. il you wish to call her
so. with her hrca1, Vision and
with her mind trained 10 r. edom
socially and economically, with her
her interest in the development of
civilized society, would be doubled
by giving into her hand the ballot.
In an argument for or against the
extent of suffrage to women in this
day and age no new or startling facts
can be given All arguments have
become threadbare. Every phase of
the subject has been considered,> for
or against, by the brightest minds,
the keenest intellects, until we must
agree with the writer who said
there is nothing new under the sun"
The old, moth-eaten theories of the
ants; men the natural protectors of
women: home her only sphere:
collaborating her business; spiritu-
atty and ideality her natural state;
politics too corrupt and vile, too low
and degrading for her to touch Of
fee holding ito which political free
dom leads> a demoralizing occupa-
have been so successfully refuted; by
those men and women who are de-
voting a large portion Of their time
and money to working for this re
form that it is with some trepida-
ton that speaker against suffrage
dares to bring them forth in their
modify and moth-eaten condition.
Never before in the history of the
world has oratory gushed and ragged
on this subject of social equality of
the sexes as now. From Atlantic to
Pacific our country resounds and re-
verberates with all sorts of criticism.
indictments, slogans and battle-cries
Unfortunately all reforms carry
with them drift, debris, and rubbish
as a large river carries on its bosom
the commerce of a nation; that
which builds up, strengthens All adds
life, sometimes carries with it refuse,
destruction. and even death as in the
case OF militance in England Put
on the whole, we are MOI ashamed Of
our company. We might enunerate, 4
If time and space permitted, the
names Of men in high standing ~
the world of letters, the names of
philosophers and scientists, the names
Of statemen whom the nation takes
delight in honoring. the names Of
eminent preachers of the World Of
Him who proclaimed lawful liberty
for all alike. all of whom have de-
clared their belief in the justice of
our cause, have written and spoken
for it, and stated their belief in its
ultimate success.
Women who speak from a stand
point of leisure, culture and wealth.
often say: Let the men attend to the
outward and masterful things, the
conquest of nature, the ordering OF
states. while women develop the in.
ner and spiritual life and preside
over the dignities and refinement,
of the domestic and social life. so,