The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-10-31

StlOIS luliluS ITOlll tHelF source OF uuCy,
and innermost convictions Political
aspirants are only too often found in
the rank and file of those catering to
the momentary public clamor and rid
ing on the hobby horse of present
''isms" in controvention of what they
know to be in direct conflict with their
better judgment and of others rights
Such public men last but day in the
mind and memory of the sound think
ing, speaking and acting people of their
surrounding territorial habitation.
They exhibit neither forethought, force
of character nor stability to say the
least. Each incoming popular wave
sweeps them higher and thither head
long into its abyss until at last they
fail to survive and perish through
their own perfidy and weakness.
The great controlling mass of the
American people of today soon dis
Germ such characters on the other
hand, the man of sound Judgment.
possessing the force of character to
openly and avowedly, before the world
when necessity demands, is the one
whom all must and do honor and re-
spect a few jealous puppets may trot
along and bark at his heels, while the
great puDliC dIe tIctilHS dH
everlasting monument of fidelity, re-
spect and admiration for him and his
name. Idaho's Senator, Z. s. Senator
VIM. f. Borah, was on the eve of the
coming election called upon to decide
and announce to the world what his
position and vote in the u. S. Senate
would he on the Women Suffrage Bill
He had given the question long and
Z .lt.Sl,1 TO 70 70
would please a great portion of the
voters of Idaho; to vote against it
meant their displeasure and possibly
his defeat at the coming election. Ma
ture deliberation has convinced him
that he had but one duty to perform
and that was to follow the dictates of
/ his own clear conscientious conscience.
"Hew to the line and let the chips fall
where they may"
If his vote was to he the price of
reelection, then such should it be; he
possessed the strength and force or
character to perform his duty in the
premise as his mind dictated
There are two sides to the question,
one might to make right, that is, to
force wome1s suffrage upon the people
of the states of the Union whose in
!
and who had so registered their de-
cision by their votes at the polls in
their respective states. The other, to
say to such states, Il will not enforce
upon you such franchise until the
majority of your people speaking
through your votes, ask it." He fol
lowed the latter and right course
Here is what the New York Times.
1 of 1oi N
United States, under date of September
oath 1918, says in relation to Senator
Borah's attitude:
AS TO WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
1.-THE vote on the women suffrage
amendment will be taken on Thursday
There must be many millions of Amer
leans who believe that. good or bad
suffrage is a matter for the several
states to decide for themselves.
While SO many easy politicians of n!
parties are tumbling over one another
in their zeal foe the mythical ''womel
vote it was refreshing 10 anybody sc
belated as to believe in political prin
ciples to hear Senator Borah of Idaho
who has worked for women suffrage
for twenty-five years. give his reasoned
and philosophical opinion. He has al
lis a question which would be SETTLED
by and through the action of eacl
state for itself: and he. believes 81
now Yet in letter recently published
Mr.. Borah says:
.The question involves vital prin
ciple of government. | cannot reacl
the conclucion that the right to deter
mine who shall vote should be takei
away from the states.
at involves one of the most seriou
, problems that can be presented. !
, is question of changing the who'll
framework of our government. hecaus
f after the states have been robbed o
, their right To pass upon the question o
franchise there is no longer any state
, 1t is then simply a geographical eN
+ preston. And YOU cannot have hi
> Federal Union without great and DOW
erful commonwealths upon which th
r Union may reSt.
: "rha question put mp TO me by on
} women is. 'Shall | surrender my COZ
, victions tonchin,, the framework q
: the government for party eXnediency
c Mr. Borah he's thought n great dea
ahort tho subject and he cannc
chan~e his convictions for poltica
!. expedieif'y.
c "On account of the race question
3 10 force this amendment upon the sontl
FERN states is 10 them an irremediabl
:. injustice
"When this fi.chtful war is ovC
/ we will need united country as neve
+ before. The strain upon our frame {
: government will be almost beyond d
e scription. | cannot, | will not, recoF
t my name to a signal act of hardshi
for a large norton of the countr