Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1914-10-30
Many SPEAKERS
BOOST VOTES
FOR WOMEN
HUNDREDS OF MEETINGS BEING
HELD OVER STATE TELLING
OF SUFFRAGE SUCCESS.
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What 1t Mans TO Other .*
States It Will Mean Here
EVERY COUNTY HAS a SUFFRAGE
# LEAGUE AND SPEAKERS AID
MI Z vi: DRESS BIG MEETINGS. n
Women are going to vote In Nortl

! Women are going to vote In NORTH
Dakota!% ~ e
! Doubt it? 1882
I 1t can't carry? as5
Well, If you think that, you don't
know the spirit of the women who aid.
ed the pioneers in laying the founda
lions of this state; you don't know the
spirit Of the suffrage leagues that are
found in nearly every town and in eV
cry county. You don't know the spiri.
of the people who have applauded suf
frage sentiments at the suffrage meet
jngs. If work counts for anything; II
justice and right and progress mean
.?nything at all, suffrage will win
in North Dakota, and If it carries, the
whole state is the victor. @ H.. =:
3 Women are holding meetings nearly
every night, they are selling pencils.
the pennies they make go to pay post,
age on literature, they are speaking,
they are working every day with a de.
termination that means success. Won!
en- who for years have leased politi,
clans for what they wanted, desire I'd
express their opinion directly now.
The arguments against it are old stock
arguments that could be used against
men voting, for republics, like king
doms, have their faults.
Harriet Grim was one Of the speak
ers who travelled over the state adj
| dressing enthusiastic audiences. When
she told Of the success suffrage was In
Illinois she demonstrated that 1t could
be success in North Dakota. Harriet
Grim found In the Illinois 1eigslaturd
men who were being paid SIS day to
wind clocks. Men do not know tho
value of nickel as do women, but by
working together, men and women al
partners, better government will re-
suit. Miss Grim told how Mary Nc
,Dowel for fifteen years tried to gel
the garbage deposal removed from d
| certain crowded district in the sluma
! where The death rate was higher than
| In any other part Of the state. Fol
| fifteen years she tried to save the lives
! of the babies but without avail; blu,
when women got the vote she was put
| on a committee to solve the problem
! without being asked. Today the babie!
live in her neighborhood, they do no
die. ~
Katherine Blake, head OF one Of thu
great schools In New York City, told
how the laundry workers, forced tt
work Is, IS, sometimes 20, hours {
| day, tried to get relief; how the shirt
waist makers tried to get fire escapes
but they could not. Politicians did no
fear them, they catered to people wit
could vote. -.
DR.. Shaw toured the state meetin,
with tremendous success. Her work IL
North Dakota nearly quarter of .
century ago is bearing fruit. every
i where crowds gathered tohear her, -ad
dresses were delivered from the plat
form OF her train and the cheers 0
/ the crowds echoing her remarks dem
onstrated that North Dakota is aliv'
/ to suffrage. E"~ ~. .,;.,- -.
! Many other noted women have plea'
+ for suffrage, for if North Dakota pass
Z es it the cause is helped all over tn
! United States. North Dakota need
/ suffrage, It. is q new state with won
/ derful possibilities. It IS Just Is year
old, young, but sturdy. It needs he'll
to grow and that help will come from
the women, working always with tn
men, not against them, for bigge
state, better laws, better children, bel
ter schools, greater, progress in every
thing. - =