The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-09-09
Blta{H EoVBt's RIGHT
NDTAfAN!|e|, sAYSI R.
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Roosevelt Breaks Long 81.
lence to Address,Suffra-
gist Delegation.
RECEIVES APPLAUSE
Franchise Privilege Neces-
sary to Uphold Our Stand
ard Of Democracy.

oyster Fay, n. X. Sept. S.-women
are entitled to the ballot as o right
and not as a favor. Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt told gathering Of about
200 suffragists and their friends who
motored to his home at Sycamore Hill
this afternoon. He declared hlmseli
most emphatically in favor OF woman
suffrage and was heartily appiahaeu
when nc said:
ION the whole, the citizen TO whom
| will ray the greatest Difference as
doing the most Indispensable Of All
duties is tho mother. l VIII put iet
ahead Of every other human being. 10
DENY the mother the vote seems 10
me something so prenosterons that our
descendants will fail TO nndefstan"
how we could call ourselves sell gov
arninr and democratic and Yet deny
it
Breaks His Silence.
This is the only meeting dealing
with any matter not directly connect
Sd with the war at which ] have con
sented to speak NJ all. said N" col
onel in opening his address i CON
10 soc this war put through TO n sue
ccssfai conclusion at no MAXIMUM
cost. | wish TO see every man ana
every woman III this country o'Nott
every ounc. OF his on her strength ~
the end and when | wish that demand
10 DC made upon every one l. Wish
corresponding justice 70 be done every
one.
.rs,rina the last three years we nave
been in the habit OF thinking about
what democracy means, and ! beieN'
,ha, as we grow wiser we VIII stead
ilv come TO the belief. that on the one
hand wc must in a democracy. surfer
no injustice and. on the other mana
we must do no injustice. IN othel
words, democracy must be u type O.
nolitical organism in which every
ri.ht enjoyed is conditioned upon !
dntv performed and every duty per
formed means the corresponding en-
joyment of a right.
eases Vote on Duty Done.
Il wish to state, with all the EN-
n,lasie in my power, that IL either MAJ
ar woman refuses to do his or he
duty, I hold that they have no ligfl
IN INC prlyilege of the suffrage. ! d
not put It on the ground OF sex.
mt Il, on the ground of duty. ! d
not ask the ballot fol woman as a Ia
yor say that i, should he given
her as n right People say that
women are given the ballot they wi
fail 10 perform their duties. l motto
,hai thc AVERAGE man who is most III
10 say that is the individual who Is NJ
,articulally OF the duty -periormiI
tyne himself
people have said to me that y
must not have women vote becau
they would Ill lac pacifists. The lo
knows ] d.snise a racifist ana ma
made no special effort to dissemh
my feelings about that. But ma
failed 10 notice that among them Z
shirkirg Sis,erhood of paciiists on
numbers the hleating brotherhood
pacifists.
white Rabbit Special"
This white rabbit special that h
heen going around the country mas II
foupa n place for the solcs of its &c
10 rest. ! believe that when the fis
appeal is made the mothers wives Il
daughters of America will stand u
a trifle ahead of their sons. hlsban
and fathers in sacrificing everythli
even those whose loss means lntlnit
" more TO them than their own Nv
they will sacrifice everything TO
great and lofty ideal.
"on general grounds, I have abs
lutely no question that suffrage mn
come as a matter OF right; II we
N continue OIL. democratic experiiit
nj government, 1t must come.