The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1920-09-29
WEDNESDAY,, SEPTEMBER 20, 1920
FORCE NOT NEEDED IN AMERICA

FORCE NOT NEEDED IN
There is in the fulfillment of the Nineteenth
amendment q deeper significance than what
25. OOO, 900 women of America will do with the
ballot, now that it has been assured. In these
days of unrest, idle talk Of bolshevism, revolu-
ton and isms of all kinds, there is being en-
acted in this country, a lesson to all Americans
the lesson that the fundamental laws of our
country can be changed without that kind of
revolution which leads to bloodshed as its ulti-
mate connotation.
The granting to women.o of America, for good
or i'll, full political responsibility after seventy
years of agitation, purely Of a political nature
and without violence, is a vindication of that
form of government conceived by our forefath-
ers. The American constitution, called by
Gladstone the grandest instrument ever con-
ceived by man at one time, has grown elastic
with the years through amendments and SUI
preme court decisions, which follow election
returns to a point where tits ever amendable
to the true convictions of the people as a whole.
The American people can have under our
form of government. any kline Of government
they want, just as soon as they make up their
they want it.: they can have anything just this
side of a monarchy all the way to simon-pure
MARKHAM socialism-if they really want it.
The 48 separate states which make. up the
union are all individual laboratories for govern
mental experimentation. One state tries a new
experiment and the other forty-seven sit back
and watch to see how it works. Another tries
it and the forty-five still hold back and watch
the wheels go round. ~ Another arrives at "a
point where it is felt that the new scheme works
each one drawing something from the other.
Then, a sufficient number eventually having
reached the conclusion that it is the thing to
do, national public opinion is quickly crystal
lized.
Without as much excitement as comes with
= national election by itself, $4,000, 900 people
are given the right "of self determination
through the American form of government. To
grasp what this means numerically consider
the fact that in Ireland, which for centuries has
been. a battle ground, there are but a little more
than four million people, and in Poland there
are few more than twelve million.
The American people under the American
constitution can have anything that they want
just as quickly as they make up their minds
they want it, whether it is suffrage, prohibition,
bolshevism or any other ism; wholly aside from
the merits of any one of these measures, this
is the true significance of the victory of votes
for women.
The people of North Dakota, under the con-
stitution of the United States, staunch support
ers of that constitution and defenders, whether
it be in war or in peace, have set an example
to all the other forty-seven states-and the
other states are watching North Dakota. They
are watching it SO closely and intelligently that
already an ever increasing number are follow.
ing in it's foot steps. The people, are awakinq
to the vast Indifference the public has hereto.
fore held to its own needs and necessities.
On November End, North Dakota will vote tc
uphold the rule Of the majority-and the people
will be the winners and not the favored few
lighting now for their life breath of spoils.
OF course the American people can have any
thing him they want, when they want it and 1hov
they want il, and North Dakota will show th,
World how true is that statement.
Es 81 the ballot, shall the monarchy Of capital
s4 Ism, not the individual capitalist, the profitee
and others Of his ilk SO stinsily, vet generously
today pouring their millionss aof sop into th
whirlpool of politics that spells ruin for thei
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