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To Friends and Subscribers.
We hope you will like our paper.
Though edited entirely by women
done in the interests of the
Ukt T.ndies' Auxil-
FC. A. We are
lodicali 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,
. time and patience. The business
men of North Platte have given us
their advertisements without which
our 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
jects 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
Jlo mention."
With this issue we retire to our
usual avocations, leaving the men
in peacetul possession, for which,
the editor we are sure will be
thankful.
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Now that the question of the
rights of women to the ballot box
res is no . longer a
t,
1 mttet 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, hey may have favors
granted them, they may enjoy
u many privileges, but they cannot
: beSaid to hive any sacred rights.
But we are told that disfranchise
ment does-not effect the position of
womb because they are bound to
t!e governing classes by all the
ties of family, friemdship 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 nee'd protection
from the men of her own family?
Let the calendars of our courts
and the columns of our daily pa
pers answer the question.
The disfranchisement of woman
is a terrible impeachment of the
.-oyalty and chivalry of every man
in this nation. And even if all
zneuwere wise, generous and hon
orable, possessed of all the cardi
nal virtues, it would still be better
for women to
govern themselves
w wvnc lucir own capacities
and powers in assuming therespon-
aujiuues oi citizenship.
TT71 -i
wucucver ana wherever the
right of suffrage has not proved
Denenciai it nas not been because
the citizen had too many rights, but
because he did riot know how to use
them for his own advantage. H s
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
dow, but a substantial entity,
t the citizen can wield for hia
protection and his country's
Ifarc, an individual opinion
on all questions of public
better than indirect in-
jlfrever so far reaching.
majority of American
womanivant. tiie oaiiot tneywiu
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
w nere are are our uornenas. it is
not a woman's diamonds ihat 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 o;
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 Irexow 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
Breckenridfre that women did it
without the vote. The more sier
nificant fact is that if women had
had the vote, the contest could
never had occurred. If women had
the ballot, no self-confessed de
stroyer of woman's honor would
ever be named for public office,. In
AVyoming where women have voted
for, twenty . vyears, . it is Universal
that the most notable feature .of
their politics is, that no political
party dare present a candidate
whose life is known to be unclean.
to De quite iranK, women may
not use the ballot at first to good
advantage. She 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 ffovernment.
are inseperable com-
&e
witn
There is no doubt that the silver
question -will "be the leading issue
in the next national campaign. It
is a subject of which botlTthe 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 srold I
in the world to make it a satisfac
tory currency. A fact, too, thatj
none will deny is that there is a
direct connection between business
prosperity and the amount of
primary money.
History shows that prior to 1873
or nearly two hundred years, there
was littic - fluctuation m tiie rela
tive value of silver and gold 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 erold
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should have rapidly increased in
value was a natural consequence,
since it has had double duty to per
form, the law of supply and demand
holding good here as well as with
other commodities. But while this
is true, the 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 subiect to ko
many other influences than their
primary cost of material, but all
must be affected in a greater or less
degree. The philosophic historian,
Hume trulv savs
and fRisery
paniom. , , . . ;
Wearir face jto face
question, what is to be our money?
Will it be possible for the 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 arid, 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" monometalis'ts 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 teri 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 buv an ouuee ot
silve'r in any of the European
markets. Anyone that asserts that
coin metals have not 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 the subject is ably
treated by B. O. Northppresi
dent of the village improvement as
sociations of the U, S. Forty years
ago the first incorporated village
improvement ocpty, ther Laurel;
Hill Association, of Stockbridge,
Mass., was formed. The idea
originated with Mrs. J. 55. Goodrich
who, after repeated efforts, aroused
enough interest to call a towii
meeting and the society was organ
lzed. 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-
'llms prices
ual subscriptions. This societv.
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
id erect a fine building. The im
provements made by the associa
tion led some of the wealthy resi
dents to donate- a. fine library
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
them.:
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picking.:
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the top
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which
do. Mt
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yards,
and foul
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among
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for eat
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years ai
possibl
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reached
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and idic
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years aj
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The
the sex
chanics
become
to some
distinct
that to
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wouTdJji
special j
would
court.
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opposit
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for vbt
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forme
than any other state in the union. have
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 man.
keeping the streets clean by picking
up scraps of paper, etc, and putting
f
t.-v-
T JTRIBONE ERlML VJifliflU,
, '-Si, .
1895.
wfrich are nicely
tiuvarious parts
associations
i vfrom political
J ail municipal
ices one of the
lization has
rdfreligious
tities, for it is
twhich people of
political beliefs
4n a recent ad-
-oa. l ne r lace oi
.v,i. .. ,
jniiantnropy,
wence between
1
methods ot
icipal affairs, al-
LTimr tnat once
v
so busy at the
ioice witn tneir
. and bandages
people who had
-that it did 6t
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For you to save yourself many dollars by buying
dress goods for your mother, your laces and embroideries
for your sisters, ribbons and side.-combs for your cousins
and your groceries for your aunt and candies and fruit for
your sweetheart at
w society should
i
tmoffsnave mi A TT' T3l
other im-1 JLiit; xxiiiuiau uuuumg
i-'thosia
are ln-
lything
societies cannot
rm, sanitary lm-
Jnprovement of
irks and scnpoi
jlrinking tanks
unding free libra-
ii .
lBgl nuisances are
is vhich these so-
l obtain, t Tue
cpild be raisted by
by lile-memDer-
I sribiicriptions, lec-
erts and other
Why cannot the
jfiaxie mane a
ct? Withawide-
i North Platte
reputation of
it! and most pro-
its . size in the
ization of a com-
society of this
e than aay other
e this place and
rs.
on Front Street
W. T. BANKS
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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.
Ollen's Shoe Store
i
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.
equal interest with men in deciding-
vital points of government, as open
saloons, versus club rooms, prohi
bition, etc.
Fourth Solemlv affirmed All
women would vote lor srood men
only for office, thus purifying poli
tics and instituting reforms.
To trie nrst 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-
dwith the idea Pnatlc "xes." But among the
again 'begin ignorant foreigners whose right to
One finds with vote 1S challenged, tnere are prob-
hat '.'the world do aDlv as many women as men, and
urning wanderer "ese female foreigners acquire the
.views, find new nffnt ot suffrage with the males.
No one can go so far as to claim
that the accident of sex makes an
individual either- educated or re
fined, and whereas the man foreig
ner goes abroad among his fellows,
acquires our language, and some
information as to his political
iffrage.
f,to Colorado two
seven years' resi-
unty, 1 think I
"cath on" to
as t est he can.
place
his fellows.
nsation in Colo-
was the campaign
but it was so
same object, as is main at home, speaking their native
e. The objective J 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 ag-o the law ot an eastern
state required each voter to pay
taxes on at least twenty dollars
worth of property. One young man
especially desirous of votincr, but
lacking the necessary dollars, per
munciation of the saded a generous uncle to make
cd her with infants him a present ot a aonney ot that
value, when he at once became a
duly qualified elector O, E. D. The
donkey and not the man voted. The
writer holds, however, that the
terms donkey and man were synon
omous, in this 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-
e, pat it was
different road.
argument was
i did ot know
which was f re-
it. Paul's injunc-
ur women Keep
tly the major-
brethren held
le measure was
fe, not Reminiscent,
Wit' t r
rei&ember hearing
my speak at that
t.of an able argu-l
)f woman's mental
in this connection, means what it
stands for in the mind of the speak
er. Manv excellent women think
that man only truly good, 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 conaone 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.
'The hand that rocks the cradle
is the hand that rules the world."
I do not believe the accident of
sex raises more than half-of Jiunian-
ify, above the influencec. 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 moonrfind the' adult strive
af teethings equally unattainable;
this qualityMvill so dominate 'the
women of Nebraska, that they will
use their best endeavors to reach
w 1
I
fold 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
tion. hnve no incentive to strive for
higher levels than those trodden by' lebl 'J 1,aa-l!f1'
xiienu.nu liicu uuijf win j.
campaign ot two
iment of that na
med in my hearing.
il advancement of
Iture, art and me-
bs, by which it has
second to man as
pear lirst, is the
e of the age but
ling, is "another
nres a newsoaoer
it to say he who
at line of
at the present time
out of
ill laughed
fery little genuine
)lorado to extending
rage to woman.
inence placed the
the pale of experi-
general sentiment
it if the women in-
"why let 'em trv
11, she will, you may
In, short the popular
le educated up to
ige idea.
il arguments were
rists in canvassinc
E
itelligence of women
interrogative style.
ir refined, well in
ly educated -woman
ight tb a ballot as
lan foreigner who
Ion our shore?"
cation without rep-
ranay." "Should
.property, have at
Ight with indigent
matters requiring
avenue.'"
!not all women an
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 the
large accession to our voting popu-
lauon maices any aitrerenne in re
sults. . ;Iast 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
presume with 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,
the men who rule their affections.
'Resolutions never jro backward."
Nebraska will sooner or later join
the procession, and its residents
will find themselves in the throes
of a suffrag-e 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 the
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
slipuld votp as earljy and often as
any man.
There are two vital reasons why
woman, for her own sake, should
pause before demanding the ballot.
The first is as old as Eve and is
simply that a radical difference of
views on either politics or religion
imperils domestic 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 vte 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-
cease
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. Stimsox.
THE H. M. BUTT J
McDonald Block,
North Plntte, Neb.
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Who Is posted upon the subject, that tho
McDowell System of Drew Cuttintr and
Fitting le the most perfect plaa which human
skill has devioed for this purpose. In the
larger cities this method is taught through
schools of instruction. In North Platte It
teachings are practiced by Mrs. Emma E. Walsh
Grndy block who -will guarantee to rsopzBLT tit
her pctrons, and please them with her skill.
Call at-
rs. Ross' Corset Farlor
and examine the Ladies' Misses' and
Children's Waist.
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Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Robes,
Blankets, Whips, etc.
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Parlors h&-
famed for the excellence of head
wear there constructed, -f
The Trimmed deparfc-
ment embraces all the
fashionable Spring
and Summer styles at prices
to suit hard times.
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