The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-11-03
VOTING IS DUTY
FOLK OWE SELVES
Mrs. Mary Hight, Declared
~ No Longer Privilege
ADDRESSLAST EVENING
Spoke To Magnificent Audience
Gathered In the Y. M. G. A.
Auditorium


Tina; * is the duty OF everyone to
vote and to vote for tho hest can
didate, man or woman" was tie
message brought to the audience at
the Y. n. C. A. building last even
ing, by Mrs. Mary Hight, national
Cnmmitteewolnan tor the republican
party. At eight o'clock the small
auditorium at the Y. nj. &. A. was
packed To the doors and there was
standing room only, with q large
number OF people standing in the
lower hallway waiting Tor chairs.
The chairs from the auditorium were
moved to the gymnasium anu more
chairs werc brought in and the bal
cony was filed with people also.
Then to add 20 tho troubles OF the
audience it was announced that
Mrs. Hight had taken a car from
Dodge Center at five o'clock and
ought to arrive in three hours. I'm
Ill her arrival Mr.. Joseph Kendall,
accompanied by Mrs. Wilbur NJ.
Taylor at the piano, led the audi
erce in a group of old time songs.
At S:45 P. NJ. Mrs. Hight arrived
and she said that to use her driv-
ers words, they sure came some"
The @;jeaker was everything that
was announced about her. She has
a very attractive personality and
was an interesting speaker. She
COZ. plimented Mrs. Manley l.. Fos-
seen of this state and stated that
she was at the very front of the ma
ional work for women. A plea was
made by Mrs. Hight to women. She
urged them to come out and regis
ter for voting If they had not al
ready done so. Voting is no long
err a privilege it is a duty and ME
woman who does not perform it is
a Stacker and a shrker. There is
absolutely no excuse for those who
do not vote.
Republicans Found Chaos
Twenty one months have passed
since the republican party has been
in power. One must go back that
length of time and see the chaotic
condition of the country. The war
had been over two years, but what
had the democratic party done to
start clearing away the debris of
war Not a thing. AThe argument
is used by them that the Republican
party has done nothing, but when
we look back to what they left for
us to clean up it looks like we have
done quite a bit. There was never
such extravaganza as during those
years and when the matter Of the
budget system was introduced into
the house and senate it was turned
down, and as soon as it came before
a republican majority, the bill was
passed and through its passage mil
lions of dollars in debts have been
paid. The matter of cancelling the
war debts has been brought up, but
since the republican administration
there has not been so much talk OF
1T. Nevertheless, IL the democrats
win in the coming election one is
going to hear more of the matter.
This would never do for the people
are groanning under heavy taxes as
| it is.
Discuss The Tariff
The subject of tariff was discuss
ed by the speaker and she stated
| that during the last administration,
she had talked with prominent sheep
grow ers in the Southwestern states
who had let their sheep go back to
pastures and had not sheared them
| because at that time Australian
wool had been selling so cheap the
American could not get reasonable
market for his wool. AS for other
nations Tetaliating if the United
| States has high tariff, there is not
a country on the globe that does not
! have a tariff. Out Of about sixty
seven years of the country's growth
there have been four democratic ad-
ministrations, and at the end of all
of these the nation has been near
| bankruptcy. An interesting thing
which Mrs. Hight mentioned was
that if the League of Nations had
been adopted by the United States
there would be $1,000 American
men fighting in Europe over some
question that does not in the least
affect the United States. T.
Things Are Moving
Things are moving at Washington
and everything is again becoming
" ork. Ono has but to look at the
congressional records of Kellogg to
see what he has done for the farm
err and everyone concerned. eve
must not vote for a person because
he or she is a woman, but for the
person who is the most powerful
who will do the most for the state
| To quote an old saying of Abraham
| Lincoln 1T is very dangerous tc
change horses in the middle OF the
stream is most appropriate today
The republican party is getting us
out of the chaos and now is the Tins
to keep lem there, to keep kellogg
who has done his best for US in the
senate so we may enjoy the promi
merit place 1T the nations head thai
he has made"
Mrs. Hight declared that Newber.
Iryism is not au issue in the cam
paign. the supreme court of the
United States having declared thai
Iquestion and her faith in the highest
tribunal in the land is mistaken.
Judge Lorin Cray introduced The
speaker. Mrs. Hight will speak IL
the cities and in Du]:th before
leaving Minnesota. *.
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