Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-02

/ think to look at him.
doncd, as it was abandoned by the
anCients
The legislator, whether in congress
or the states assembly, Invariably re-
cts the power that elected him
Members who depend upon CONNER
cial interests for success bend their
energies to promote the commercial
interest. Members who depend FOR
their election upon the labor vote
never tire in search of something to
labor organizations. The foregoing
amendment would unequivocally give
/ the power of the electorate TO the
/ families of the country and would
/ lessen the power of the vicious ana
/ the hobo-the proletariat' who is de-
/ fined by most writer's aS a person un-
skilled. uneducated, without property
and having neither home. family, re-
/ lig1ous or national ties. by giving to
each head of the family-the husband
and the wife-from two TO five times
the strength of the 'proletariat' AZ
/ the same time extending TO all citi-
zens without regard to sex or other
conditions. their natural right to one
vote each. All the rest can be ac-
quired by the citizen and becomes at
once reward for his efforts--a re-
\
citizenship reward for education,
for family ties. granted TO both the
husband and the wife, and in case OF
war with a fcregn enemy Il reward
fof patriotism.
ut does more. In a measure elimi-
mates. without indirect methods. the
negro problem OF the south, for the
reason that the average negro, par
ticularly the dangerous voter of the
D a. L. t...lsH .I..,u IT,, Il,
would reward the stable element.
those who maintain families, and
homes. and in all experience of the
southern states this class of negroes
are not a menace to society. As a
rule the southern negro who owns a
home. who continually maintains
family relations. endeavors To educate
and support his children, have almost
sacred regard for lava regard
stronger than racial ties, for they as
Jurors would convict member OF
their own race who should violate the
laws Of society and home. There is
quite "A distinction between this class
OF negroes and the liquor-drinlSing.
crap-shooting, coke eating coon OF
the south.
There is another consideration,
and that Is no one has fear of a bal
lot in the hands of the wives and
/
well fear the vote of the slums wom-
an. and this measure would give the
wives and mothers voting power
from two to three times that of the
slums woman, and who would for
moment deny that power to the wife
and mother?
Power to Wives and Mothers.
"By giving the wives and mothers
this power would eliminate to n great
Or IL ~ n In gl u
woman or man, while to give them
equal power would cause candidates
for public office. politicians and po-
/ litic2l committees, to ransack the
slums section because securing their
votes would he mere matter OF
money. Under equal suffrage. as now.
farmer may drive in to market-this
producer who Is endeavoring to feed
the world, and clothe mankind, to
maintain a home. support n family
and preserve society, would not more
attract n candidate than II veritahle
| saloon bum. lie would as likely run
after the hobo with an equal power
ut the ballot box. as he would this
stable citizen. Whereas, to give this
farmer, in addition to his natural
vote. one vote for maintaining family
relations. another vote for supporting
and educating children, and his wife
Il
reversed. The candidate would make
the most strenuous efforts To capture
that farmer with his three votes and
| like number of his wife's, even tho he
had to neglect totally the hobo with
but one vote. The ineXorable rule
would follow that the families OF the
country would constitute the elective
power of all candidates to public Of
| flee. Legislation would proportion
| ,al. IN
ests of the homes of the country, and
since homes are built among all
classes 1t would tend to place check
upon class legislation based upon oc-
cupations or wealth and poverty. but
would go directly toward the object of
fostering and building the home In
terest of the country-and why not?
Who can deny the wisdom OF this
course"