The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-11-18

nowadays cannot be limited to the four walls
that enclose the dwelling. A woman cannot be
an efficient honle-r1aker who limits her lntelll-
gence and activities to what goes on within these
four walls" eve only do half our work when
we fit our children for the world. The other
half is to fit the world for our children"
All the women do not want the vote NO, but
the number of women who have asked tor the
right to vote is larger than the number OF men
who have ever asked for anything in the whole
history of our country. In Our colonial days
very few men were allowed to vote. At the
time of the Revolution, only small proportion
had been granted the privilege. When Thomas
Jefferson wrote the Declaration of independence,
he asserted that "all men are created equal, and
the fathers of our nation said that taxation with
out representation is tyranny, and yet the fran
chise was but slowly extended to men. The rea-
sons for Withholding it were in many cases pre-
cisely the same ones now urged against giving
it to women Gradually the restrictions were re-
moved until in 1896 New York dispelled the last
property qualification in response to petition
signed by $4,000 men. In 1867 there were &c.
900 New York women petitioning for entran-
chisement in vain. On Oct. %, 1915, 10000 men
and women in New York City alone participated
in the suffrage demonstration and parade, and on
Nov 2, 1915, the men of New York. to total
of 241 1928, asked that their sisters, wives and
mothers be granted the power to vote, and yet
they are denied! Do all the women want the
vote? No, and they never will DO all the men
want to vote? No, and they never have.
Who approve of votes for women? A majority
of the men in the ~ suffrage states; also those IN
Alaska, Norway, New Zealand and Australia J;
great men like Ben Lindsey, William J. Bryan,
TT oil of ii
cabinet, and hundreds of thousands of others, as
well as President Wilson and ex-Presidents Lin
coin, Hayes, Garfield, Harrison and Roosevelt.
Who disapprove? First and foremost, the pres
ident of the y. S. Brewers Association, followed
bv all the army of deluded men in the employ of
the iouor traffic, and "all the forces of vice and
crirne.' With which group would you prefer to
align yourself?
What is North Dakotas attitude on the ques-
ton? In Nov. 3, 1914, 40,209 North Dakota men
voted to extend the franchise to wo1ner1-nany
more than majority of those voting on any OF
the other constitutional amendments. Wishek and
his boosted $4,000 voters sodly opposed It.
Gronna, Helgeson and Young all approved OF the
extension of the franchise to North Dakota
women. Senator McCumber is the only one of
our four men at Washington who opposes it. he
is being petitioned now by thousands of North
Dakota citizens to the end that he may change
his mind. .lr
At future date the question will again be be-
fore the voters of this state. In the meantime the
progressive men and women are quietly systerna-
tically and persistently working for the political
equality of the sexes for constructive legislation
and for the upbuildng of the fairest state in the
Union. Are you constructive or destructive?
Barnes county is proud to have within its Dor
ders the following officers Of the states Votes for
Women League: Mrs. Grace Clendenning, VIM
bledon, president Mrs. Vida Dennstedt, Wimble-
don corresponding secretary; and Mrs. Mary
Zetterberg, Valley City, recording secretary.
A part of the program outlined by the organi-
cation at it's recent convention at Minot, is:
"To stand by the work of policewomen and juve-
nile officers in the different communities, to work
for permanent and constructive peace, for better
civic conditions better educational advantages for
ALL better babies, and for better environment for
the youth in both rural and city communities
Would not any thoughtful voter be proud to
ally himself with those engaged in carrying out
such program?