The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20
COPPER FIGURES IN WAR

COPPER FIGURES IN WAX
 "Our copper facilities may even de- eide the kind of government under which we are to live, whether it will be more liberal democracy or wheth- CT it will be an autocracy.
 To-day we are going to war for the sake of democracy. This war will give that word different meaning, liberty will come to mean more than it ever has in history, and we will en- joy, everyone subject to government, the right and duty of helping to gov ern ourselves. Democracy will take on greater and broader meaning, some thing that is real and can be appreciated by all of us.
 "The education of the public is the beginning of true democracy. This Is being Accomplished in our country by many means The greatest factor prob ably is the public schools. There is a tendency all the time to get all edu cation on the basis of our present public schools. Colleges are beginning to be run on this principle, vocational schools and all institutions of learn ing.
 "The ballot is another great fac tor in the education. It requires thought and study to assume the re- sponsibility of selecting men to form the government under which you and yours are to live and by which you are to be governed.
 PRESS IS HAMPERED "The press, our great free press. is another one of the educational means. The greatest trouble is ! that while it is free in one sense | of the word. fin many 1t Is ham, 1 pered. IM my opinion the press I should he placed upon the same | basis the public schools; 1 board of directors should be in 1 charge of eack paper, 1t should | have free circulation; super intendent cdttOr-in-chfef or whatever you may wish to call 1 him should he elected and he di- l rectly responsible to the people, 1 and that anyone would he allowed l to write and sign an editorial for l publication. paper of this char l acter would have a hundred per l cent circulation and the advertise
 ing would easily carry it. md at l the same time the opinion of ev- i eryone would have n chance to be made pubIic.@
 q maintain that no nation has right | to call itself a democracy which allows only approximately half of it's popula- 1 tion to vote, to have absolutely no voice i in the government. The absent voters law is another one of our Montana lib eralitieS. It matters not where you are if you are registered in Montana you have Ia perfect right to your vote on election day, the same as if you were at home. Proportional representation should bt linaugurated in every form of government It has been tried and not found wanting in the balance, and instead of the mi nority having no voice in their govern ernment it follows the true democratic
 spirit and gives each division, according
 to it's size, a voice.
 ''The world is crying for greater de
 the coming generation. how they would
 accept the new processes and innova I tions. but the recent strike of the New
 York school children has quieted mA
 mind upon that subject. With thei soap-boX oratory and desire for justic,
 at any price I can see great futur,
 for real democratic democracy. Tn,
 spirit that is manifesting itself in thei
 actions now will not die with age. bu
 will ever be growing into increasng vol
 ume and strength. It is not going to b.
 an easy matter to infringe upon thei rights.
 f q am constantly looking forward t that day when we can not only say
 am as good as you are but also vol are as good as I am.'' , n Miss Rankin spoke at the Central Higl p school auditorium, under the auspice
 of the High School Lyceum and splendi
 audience greeted her and applause wa : freely indulged in throughout her lee ! ture.