The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-09-11
|. Y. A. COUNTS
TOWN WOMEN
LEAGUE WOMEN ARE ORGANIZ-
ING RAPIDLY TO OFFSET
FOES SCHEME


women will vote in the next North
Dakota election is viewed by the l. v.
A. leaders as their great opportunity
to defeat the organized farmers at
the polls and oust them from power
in the state. So confident are they
that the newly enfranchised women's
vote will in the main go against the
Nonpartisan League that they are
said to be already planning on a divi-
sion Of the spoils.
This is the way the /. v. A. leaders
reason: the strength Of the I. v. A.
is in the cities and towns. The wo-
men vote in the towns will naturally
be I. V. A. Since it is concentrated
and has easy access to the polls and
since the I. V. A. will be equipped to
get it to the polls, it will be voted al
most solidly against the League. The
country vote where the women are
for the League is scattered and it will
be hard to get it out. It will be hard
for the League to reach this vote with
it's propaganda. A large percentage
of the farmer will be, as result, in
different and the difficulty Of getting
them to the polls will combine with
this condition to produce greatly re-
duced vote Of League women. The
bigger vote of the town women will
increase the I. v. A. vote enough, say
the opposition leaders, to defeat the
League.
But in formulating this forecast the
I. V. AS. have left out Of their reck-
oning a new political force which will
undoubtedly upset these calculations
if it continues to grow as rapidly in
the future as it has in the past. This
new political force is the Women's
Auxiliary Of the Nonpartisan League.
Within a few months the Women's
Auxiliary has organized a half hun
dred clubs with hundreds of members
purely on their own initiative and
without the aid of organizers. They
aim to organize the League all over
the state so solidly that any effort Of
the I. V. A. to gain an advantage by
voting the town women will be Offset.
Those behind this movement keen
ly feel that the new public industries
of North Dakota are involved in the
issue and that the League women
must be reached and must vote in the
next election to save these state indus
tries from destruction. The opposi-
tion press has openly boasted that an
I I. V. A. victory will mean the sale at
auction, or some other disposal of the
new state enterprises. They will in
clude the Bank of North Dakota; the
mill and warehouse at Drake and the
big terminal elevator and mill and
warehouse soon to be erected; three
other mills and elevators now plan
ned; state coal mines; the. state insur-
ance department; grain grading laws;
farm loans and many other benefits
and institutions beneficial to the COM
mon people but adverse to the power
and. graft Of big business.
For these reasons, every League
women and every other Lacquer thru
out the state is urged to start the or
ganization Of Women's Auxiliary
clubs Immediately. There is no time
to lose. The League women must be
solidly organized to vote for the pro-
gram next election in order to Offset
the big !. v, A. town vote Of the wo-
men. Send in dollar and join, or
write to Amy G. Edmunds, Box 919,
Fargo, North Dakota, who has charge
Of the organization work. Five wo-
men can send in their dollars and join
and organize club anywhere.