WOMAN'S EDITION.
THE
PLATTE SEMFWEEKLY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 1895.
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WOMAN'S EDITION.,
Emma Peckham
Effte C. Iddings.
Editor,
Manatrintr Editor, -
. rj-t w, ( Cakeie E. Adams,
Associate Editors, Caboline Belton.
Dept. Editors Correspondence, Minnie
B. "McDonald ; Women's Organiza-
tMM, Eunice Babbitt; Educational,
Mast E. Hosfobd; Railroad, Cabbie
D.BtooD.
CHrliitor, - Anna Kbamph.
it, - Ulan cite u. jjield.
Manager, -Eva M. Baldwin.
It, - JVlABY JV1. (jrKIMES.
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. To Friends and Subscribers.
We hope you will like our paper.
Though edited entirely by women
it is done in the interests of the
men- We are the Ladies' Auxil
iary of the Y. M. C A. We are
trying tofaise money to renew the
subscriptions for periodicals used
in ' the Y. M. C. A. rooms. We
.want to help the men young and
old. They have certainly helped
"us in this enterprise. First the
editor of The Tribune has turned
over to our use his press, paper,
tfme and patience. The business
men of North Platte have given us
- their advertisements without which
" bar plan would have proven a
failure.
Our first impulse was to settle in
this issue all questions of the day,
both local and national such as
irrigation, the financial question
and woman suffrage. On second
thought we concluded to leave
room for discussion of these sub-
..jecis for the men, in the future.
We have given you correspond
ence from friends from all parts of
the country. Articles on education
societies, both public and private,
and other articles "too numerous
to mention."
With this issue we retire to our
usual avocations, leaving the men
Jn .peaceful possession, for which,
,,-the editor we are sure will be
thankful.
Now that the. question of the.
rights of .women to the "ballot box
and25)uteprvileges 4s.n0 JoMger a
mattett aumiat wsation ot a lew
tyrant
la.'
which, whether she wishes or not,
every woman -must soon make up
her mind.
Does any thoughtful man really
believe that he has the natural
right to deprive another of the
means of self-protection, and that
he has the wisdom to govern indi
viduals and classes better than they
can govern themselves? England's
experiment.with Ireland, Russia's
. with Poland, the Southern states
with Africans, the Northern states
with women, all prove the impos-
sibility of one class legislating
with fairness for another.
The bitter discontent and con
tinued protests of all these subject
classes are so many emphatic de
nials of the rights of one man to
govern another without his consent.
Forbidden by law to settle one's
. quarrels with the rude weapons of
savage life; and denied their sub
stitute in civilization. The posi
tion of the citizen is indeed hope
less, with his -right of person and
property wholly at the mercy of
others.
Such is the real position of all
citizens who are denied the right
of suffrage. They may have favors
granted them, they may enjoy
many privileges, but they cannot
be said to have any sacred rights.
But we are told that disfranchise
ment does not effect the position of
woman because they are bound to
!the governing classes by all the
ties of family, friendship and love,
by the affection, loyalty and chiv
alry that every man owes his
mother;, sister, wife and daughter.
The rights of person and proper
ty must be as safe in his hands as
in her own.
Does woman need protection
- iiuui mc uicu ui ner own tainilyr
Xet the calendars of our courts
. and the columns of our dailv pa-
pers answer the question,
The disfranchisement of woman
is a terrible impeachment of the
loyalty and chivalry of every man
; in thip nation. And even if all
men were wise, generous and hon
orable, possessed of all the cardi
nal virtues, it would still be better
women to govern themselves,
,to exercise tneir own capacities
and powers in assuming therespon-
sibilities of citizenship.
Wnenever arid wherever the
right of suffrage has not proved
beneficial it has not been because
fbr
t
the citizen had too many rights, but
because he did not know how to use
them fbr;his ownadvantage.
Individual freedom and selt gov
ernment, citizenship and suffrage
are synonymous. In demanding
their own disfranchisement have
women been pursuing a shadow the
last half century? In seeking polit
ical power do they abdicate that
social throne where their influence
is said to be unbounded? No, No!
the right of suffrage is not a mere
shadow, but a substantial entity,
that -the citizen can wield for his
own protection and his country's
welfare, an individual opinion
counted on all questions of public
interest is better, than indirect in
fluence be it ever so far reaching.
When a majority of American
woman want the ballot they will
get it. You never met a man who
who did not assent to this convic
tion, and who did 'not second the
following assertion, that the worst
opponents to female suffrage are
women themselves. Women must
take an interest in politics and
throw all their influence on the side
of honest legislation. The republic
cries aloud for patriotic mothers.
Where are are our Cornelias. It is
not a woman's diamonds that help
the state. It is the jewels of true
manhood and womanhood in her
children, it is her own dignity and
integrity of thought and deed.
What we need is a campaign of
education. Women must be inter
ested in politics beginning with the
government of their towns and
counties. When their eyes are
opened in this direction, when they
see where the ship of state is drift
ing, then they will demand the
ballot to save their children from the
worst despotism ever conceived
the despotism of ignorance, anarchy
and cranks.
The right of suffrage is the only
untried remedy for the evils into
which a government organized and
administered solely by men has
plunged the nation. Contrast the
revelations of the Lexow committee
with the results given us by the
women of Lexington. It is not
enoug to say, in explanation of the
splendid spectacle of the defeat of
Breckenridge that women did it
without the vote. The more sig
nificant fact is that if women had
had the vote, " the contest could
never had occurred. If women had
the ballot, no self-confessed destroyer-of
woman's hooor would
ever be named for public oae. ,I
Wvomiafir where yremtn
that tke Most aotable
their politics is, that no political
party dare preseat a candidate
whose life is known to 'be unclean.'
To be quite frank, women, may
not use the ballot at first to good
advantage. Sbe will not use it
worse than her brother man. When
women are given the ballot the two
will work together in the political
field, each will correct the failings
of the other. The political world
then find woman quite as necessary
as the family does now.
The exercise of the right of
suffrage to women will supply an
element long needed to ensure the
lasting success of a republican form
of government.
There is no doubt that the silver
question will be the leading issue
in the next national campaign. It
is a subject of which both the great
political parties are afraid, and one
indeed, on which the people in both
parties are greatly divided, but the
country at large demands that it
shall be considered.
We are confronted by facts, not
theories, There is too little gold
in the world to make it a satisfac
tory currency. A fact, too, that
none will deny is that there is a
direct connection between business
prosperity and the amount of
primary money.
History shows jthat prior to 1873
for nearly two hundred years, there
was little fluctuation in the rela-i
tive value of silver and srold from
the ratio of 16 to 1, even though
England had demonetized silver
early in thejeentury. But when in
1873 the United States dropped
silver, followed so soon by the re
fusal of nearly all the European
nations to maintain its coinage, the
effect was inevetable. That gold
should have rapidly increased in
value was a natural consequence,
since it has had double duty to per
form, the law of supplv and demand
holding good here as well as with
other commodities. But while this
is trueHie pjice of all other articles
of commerce has decreased.
Here, too, the most serious ques
tion of debt confronts us. The
payment of a debt must be met in
the number of dollars promised,
and if those dollars have increased
in valud the result is evident.
The laborer and all producers of
raw material are the first and most
direct sufferers, in that manufac
tured articles are subject to so
many other influences than their
primary cost of material, but all
must be affected in a greater or less
degree. The philosophic historian
Hume truly says: "Palling prices
feature of
inseperable
com-
aadlmisery are
panions.
-We ares: face. vK
face-with the
question, what is to be our money?
Will it be possible for tlie United
States alone to restore silver? If
the United States and her people
were free from debt it would not
prove a difficult task. Our natural
resourses are great, indeed im
measurable, but we must have the
capital of older countries to develop
these resources. Our great enter
prises are in large measure upheld
by foreign capital and, as in the
management of any commercial
enterprise, we cannot hope to win
favor unless our business methods
meet with the approval of those
with whom we have dealings.
But is it not probable that Ger
many and France, and some other
European nations, would follow our
lead in restoring silver, as they did
in demonetizing it in 1873-4?
This dependence of our commer
cial life on foreign approval is but
one of the difficulties in the way of
the restoration of silver, some real,
some imaginary. We are told by
the monometalists that Europeans
would buy silver at seventy cents an
ounce and exchange it for our wheat
and cotton at much lower figures
than they now obtain them. But
we find that during the war and
the ten years following its close
Europeans paid adequate prices for
our products, though we had only a
depreciated paper currency. And
even if an international agreement
cannot be reached, after the restor
ation of silver by the most resource
ful country of the world, seventy
cents will not buy an ounce of
silver in any of " the European
markets. Anyone that asserts that
coin metals have riot a law value as
well as an intrinsic has certainly
read and thought very little. Aris
totle said: "Money is a creation of
law, not of nature."
The ultimate triumph of silver is
inevitable. The country needs, and
will have the unrestrained coinage
of both guld and silver. This can
not be accomplished at once. The
people must first be educated to see
its necessity.
Among the many reforms inaug
urated by the women of this country
is the work of the village improve
ment society. In the' March number
of the Forum tne subject is ably
treated byB. G. Northup, presi
dent of the villaere improvement as
sociations of the U." S Forty -yeamt:w4i
Hil
'Mass.'
tmt
LSMciation,
itr.'f
of :Stockbrkfr
'theintoxewhich are nicely
pointed and placeii various- parts
W w&myk- These associations
ImMIn free from political
ialaMciYiiould aU municipal
A M 'iMic places one of the
g pf the organization has
ranee of religious
iimosities, for it is
l:HMMI 0MMin WU1CU pcupic ui
lM rtliciw yti 111 political beliefs
MWJa A4ams in a recent ad
4tm ia Clikam; on "The Place of
ill jruiiauLuiujj,
difference between
of
Micipai -aniuis, &r
savins that once
s
were so busy at the
-arecioice with their
Hat and bandages
pickiag people who had
fallM oiieirfke'tdgethat it did not
occur t t to:Duild a fence along
tke too' of ike orecioice and thus
falls.
of jf aew society should
be few aifrwfcm :those things have
ed add otter im-
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scarcely anything
wkicVoae of these societies cannot
do. Mitaicipal reform, sanitary im
nrafenefet the improvement of
roads, sMwalks, parks and school
yards, faraiafciag drinking tanks
aad fountains, founding free libra
ries,' and reaioving nuisances are
aaiong tkebenefits which these so
cieties doeire to obtain. The
necessarylpoaey could be raised by
membership fees, by life-member
ships, aaattal subscriptions, lec
tures, fairs, coMcerts and other
eatertaiameats. Why cannot the
women ofx North Platte make a
stdy of this subject? With a wide
awake association, North Platte
cpald sooajjave the reputation of
being the ptettiest and most pro
gressive town of its size in the
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state. Tggjorganizalion of a com
petent and eaergetic society of this
kind would dp more than any other
method to advertise this place and
attract hoiaerseekers.
prevent
The
faflaar
bata lcoaniaiiih
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E$aal Siiffrage.
Upon retarriing to Colorado two
years since'after seven years' resi
dence in LfScoln county, I think I
was most imaressed with the idea
that one caa; aeVer again "begin
where he wH off." One finds with
theKeJispw,that "the.wprld do
mule, . ,
' waliafinad "Tke' idea
originated with Mrs. J. Z. Goodrich
who, -after repsatii efforts, arousad
enough interest to. call a "town
meeting and the society was organ
ized. The Stockbridge of the
present time is noted for its beauty,
while then it was a most forlorn
place.
Very few trees or sidewalks were
seen, and the cemetery was a deso
late spot covered with weeds and
surrounded by a broken down fence.
At the first annual meeting, the
amount paid in in cash and labor
was $1.3. At this meeting prizes
were offered to the planter of the
best fifteen .trees, to the one who
planted the most and best trees by
any of the public roads leading out
of town, to the one building the
longest and best sidewalk, to
the one making the best improve
ment in the grounds around his
dwelling, etc
About four thousand trees have
been planted and the society pos
sesses the income from $4,000 of in
terest funds together with individ
ual subscriptions. This society,
by offering to bear one-half the ex
penses, persuaded the railroad com
pany to add an acre and a half to
their grounds around the station
and erect a fine building. The im
provements made by the associa
tion led some of the wealthy resi
dents to donate a fine library and
lecture hall and similar benefac-!
tions to the town. The value of all
land and other property in Stock
bridge has risen as a result of the
work of their society.
Of course this is is only one of
the many examples mentioned in
the Forum article. I wish that the
paper could have been printed in
full for one can scarcely read it
without becoming- enthusiastic
when one sees the. varied and great
benefits which have sprung from
these organizations. The work has
spread vary rapidly since the first
organization, and the middle and
western states take the lead in en
thusiastic work, J. Sterling Morton
has done more for his own town and
Nebraska in general than any other
person. Owing to the influence of
Arbor Day it is claimed that Ne
braska annually plants more trees
than any other state in the union.
The majority of these societies are
composed of women, some of both
men and women, while others only
admit men as honorary members.
In some places the school children
form auxiliary societies for the pro
tection of flowers and shrubs, and
keeping the streets clean by picking
up scraps of paper, etc., and putting
Mt kfc viaws, mad new I
hiaftdtM touch wit Wi Wkm.
Te rittnsaimih-oK-r'aao
at tSar tiiae was the campaign
for sqnairsaffrage; but it was so
unlike, tjwfcxaai align of twenty
ta'same object, as is
4. The objective
ie, but it was
f. different road.
Then the oMlMinr argument was
simply thafwonMia did not know
enofh ta which was fre
quently added1 St. Paul's injunc
tion to 'Hal yonr women keep
silent," etc -Evidently the major
ity of our jaien and brethren held
this opinion' as the measure was
hopelessllt.
This article is not reminiscent,
but I distinctly remember hearing
Susan B. Anthony speak at that
time, arid tkejrtet. of an able argu
ment was proof of woman's mental
equality and denunciation of the
law which classecd her with infants
and idiots.
During the campaign of two
years ago no argument of that na
ture was mentioned in my hearing.
The wonderful advancement of
the sex in literature, art and me
chanical pnrsuits, by which it has
becoaM so dale a second to man as
to sonMtinws appear first,- is the
distinctive feature of the age but
that to quota Kipling, is "another
story," and requires a newspaper
of its own. - Sattce it to say he who
would make? use of that line of
-
special pleadtpf at'the present time
would And hkneelf laughed out of
court.
TJiere was! very little genuine
opposition iaColorado to extending
the right of suffrage to woman.
Wyoming's experience placed the
question beyond the pale of experi
ment, and tke general sentiment
'seemed to be that if the women in
sisted on voting "whv let 'em trv
it," "If she will, she will, you may
depend ori't." In short the popular
mind had become educated up to
the equal suffrage idea.
Four principal arguments were
used by:' suffragists in canvassing
for votes: 1
First Tlieintelligence of women
usually pat ta interrogative style.
"Should not ear refined, well in
formed and highly educated woman
have the sajae rifjht to a ballot as
the ignoraati iaan foreigner who
has jnst'kusaed on oar shore?"
SecoaeV-,Taxatioa without rep-
resentatiai tyraaay." "Should
a OK property, uuvc tL
right with indigent
matters requiring
f' r
Thira rHave not all women an
least aa.aafaal
man, in deciding
xne rawMH
The Time
The Opportunity
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Now, Presents Itself
For you to save yourself many dollars by buying your
dressvgoods for your mother, your laces and embroideries
m
for your sisters, ribbons and side-combs for your cousins
and your groceries for your aunt and candies and fruit for
your sweetheart at
Wt-P. BANES
The Hinman Building
on Front Street
Therefore patronize home industry by giving your work to the North
Platte Steam Laundry, Satisfaction guaranteed. "Work called for
and delivered at any time to suit patrons.
HAINLINE & GUPTIL, Props.
Ottm
s Shoe Store
Ludlow's Ladies7 Shoes,
Lilly, Brackett & Co.'s Men's Shoes,
J. B. Lewis' Boy's shoes,
Little Red Schoolhouse shoes for children.
The above are the best shoes made.-
Prices are low at Otten's Shoe Store.
io,pac
equal interest with men in deciding
vital points of government, as open
saloons, versus club rooms, prohi
bition, etc.
Fourth Solemly affirmed All
women would vote for good men
only for office, thus purifying poli
tics and instituting reforms.
To the first proposition was re
sponded, that if all women were
well educated or even well-informed,
there could be but one answer to
the question, and that a most em
phatic "Yes." But among the
ignorant foreigners whose right to
vote is challenged, there are prob
aWys many women-as men, and
tlMtee fenu;Wener acquire the
right of 'mmmgij vw. the wales.
Ifastje, toclaim
nofseaatakes' aa 1
i'dnalHither educated or re-
wfe tke fore-
ner goes-abrqad among his fellows,
acquires our language, and some
information as to, his political
duties, the women of his family re
main at home, speaking their native
tongue, , and not until the second
generation grows up, do they be
come Americanized, We cannot
double our intelligent vote by equal
suffrage without at the same time
more than doubling our ignorant
vote which sounds like an Irish
bull.
Proposition second carried to its
logical conclusion, makes the prop
erty the responsible voter. Many
years ago trie law 01 an eastern
state required each voter to pay
taxes on at least twenty dollars
worth of property. One young man
especially desirous of voting, but
lacking the necessary dollars, per
suaded a generous uncle to make
him a present of a donkey of that
value, when he at once became a
duly qualified elector Q, E. D. The
donkey and not the man voted. The
writer holds, however, that the
terms donkey and man were synon-
omous, in xuis connection, as any.
man above being classed with the
long-eared creation would have
rustled for his dollars instead of
begging them. Logically speaking
the alien, the minor, the mentally
incapable, and boarders in the "pen
itentiary, are tyrannized over on
this proposition when they are de
prived of the ballot.
Third All women have an equal
interest with men in deciding ques
tions of political economy, but ex
perience does not prove that trie
large accession to our voting popu
lation makes any differenne in re
sults. Last year our neighboring
town, Evans, "went dry" at the
spring election and a great flourish
or truimpets announced the hand
of the women voter. This year,
after twelve months' experience
with closed saloons and open club
houses, the town "went wet" once
more, but I have as yet heard no
claim that the womeu "did it with
their little hatchet" this time. I
presumewith no especial knowl
edge, in the premises there seemed
a choice between two'evils, and the
voters chose what seemed the least,
as they had done before, when men
only wielded the fateful ballot.
The last claim that women will
vote good men only into office, puri
fying politics, and hastening the
millenium, is the most attractive
bait presentsd that large class of
visionary reformers, who would like
to dwell in a modern Utopia. In
the first place the adjective good,
in this connection, means what it
stands for in the mind of the speak
er. Manv excellent women think
that man onlv truly fifood, who is a
church member, or at least a regu
lar church goer. Another large
class do not insist upon this re
quirement. but exact freedom from
all large and most small vices,
while still others condone many
sins if the man and brother is only
good in his domestic relations, and
a public spirited citizen.
Dearly beloved; don't for an in
stant imagine that political influ
ence is going to do for woman, what
she cannot-do for herself.'
"Tke kand that rocks the cradle
is tke hand that rules tke world."
- I do not' believe the accident of
sexTafees mere than half of human-
itjr, above the influence of heredity
and environment. I utterly refuse to
believe the" average man any worse
than the womankind with whom he
comes in contact,
The mother who bears and rears
sons, the sisters who grow to ma
turity with brothors, sharing alike
their father's influence, and the
maiden who enters her life work
with the husband of her own selec-
tense, in all they undertook; they
would carry their politics into their
parlors, and discuss men and
measures, when they should be con
fining themselves to tea and toast.
They would take such a striking
interest in their political faiths
that they would presently find
themselves cultivating unbelief in
their friendships, and
"The goblins will git you
If you don't watch out."
There seems a quality in human
nature which makes the infant cry
for the moon, and the adult strive
after things equally unattainable;
this quality will so dominate the
women of Nebraska, that they will
use their best endeavors to reach
equal suffrage even theagh it turn
ta "riLpleiv of Sodom and-opes of
sand" in their grasp.
I wilLonly add one word to both
sides of the suffrage story as I ha e
told it. It is my ideal of .what
should constitute the qualifications
of any elector.
Equal suffrage to all men and
women alike, who are twenty-one
years of age. or have lived twenty
one years in America; who are able
to read the Constitution of the
Uuited States in English, and write
Hon. htYvei nn incentive to strive for
higher levels than those trodden byl lely inttsarae
JL11CI1 U11U LUCU UUiJf Will X
the men who rule their affections.
'Resolutions never go backward. "
Nebraska will sooner or later join
the procession, and its residents
will find themselves in the throes
of a suffrage campaign. I will here
say to those who advecate the meas
ure, that I have found that one ab
solutely unanswerable affirmative
argument. A prominent business
man of Greeley said to me that he
advocated and had always advo
cated "equal suffrage." Why? Be
cause its right. No men, or set of
men have any just right to arrogate
to themselves privileges which they
deny to others simply because they
can,
Might never makes right "and
still with the heel of assertion he
trampled my argument down" if I
had any, which I didn't.
In conclusion I wish to add my con
viction, that the right to vote is of
no advantage to the average woman.
It may become a duty as it now is
in Colorado, and then every woman
should voto as early and often as
any man.
There are two vital reasons why
woman, for her own sake, should
pause before deaiandiag the ballot.
xke first is as old as rive and is
simply that a radical difference of
views on either politics or religion
imperils doawstic happiness.
Every wife has an undoubted
right to her own political belief,
but not all have the judgment to
realize that sometimes "silence is
golden."
Not many men can walk up smil
ingly to the ballot box and see his
wife nullify his vete when that vote
is the outward sign of his most
cherished belief.
If there is anything, better,
sweeter and more desirable than
happy and peaceful domestic rela
tions, I have not yet found it in
forty years experience,
The second objection is that a
difference in political views very
frequently destroys friendly rela
tions, outside the family circle.
Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, the famous
lecturer, warned us of this, in a
social address to women delivered
at the Oasis Hotel in Greeley last
fall. She said women were too in-
ceasc
to consider the desirability of equal
suffrage, but welcome the duties
and responsibilities of a citizenship
.which places men and women alike
on the broad platform of freedom
and equality before the law.
Katharine A. Stimson.
THE H. ft. BUTT
l i s r""-
McDonald Block,
North Platte, Veb.
Eircirybody IijouJs
I Who Is posted upon the subject, that tho
McDowell System of Drees Cutting nnd
iFlttiDg le the inoet perfect plan which human
"t skill has devised for this purpose. Ia the
NJ larger cities this method is taught through
schools of instruction. In North Platte iti
teachings are practiced by Mrs. Emma . Walsh
Grady block who will guarantee to pbomcbi.t tit
her patrons, and please them with her skill.
Call at-
ftRS. Ross' C0RSET FARL0R
and examine the Ladies' Miasms' and
'mm children's Waists.
il'nCl C TC from first class manufac-VVXli-
1 O turiag houses made
from the best material and a perfect fit guaran
teed to all who purchase.
You will find these popular
Corsets to chooc frost
The SeU-Adjwstiag Corset,
The MMnm MeCahe Corset,
The Heneekee, the Jackson "
The Vether Mahewd Corset,
(the beet of all.)
Ob Bpraee et., let 4oer eeath of Dowries' store.
If your Harness
is worn buy a new.
one of
who carries a full
line of first class
Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Robes,
Blankets, Whips, etc.
NORTH PLATTE, - - NEB.
MRS. HUFFMAN'S
Delightful Millinery
Parlors -i-
famed for the excellence of head
wear there constructed, -f -
The Trimmed deparfr-
ment embraces all the .
fashionable bprins
and Summer styles at pnc
to suit hard times.
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