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(Contributed. ) Home is the foundation of all gov ernments; woman is the foundation of the home and if every woman in the United States could vote today we would have our sweat shops, our red light, our saloons and all of the evils to be found in our congested cities and elsewhere. The idea of woman making or help making any better laws for the better ment of all classes than man made laws is rather doubtful, as a general rule our laws are all right. ~ The men who frame the laws are not themen who have the enforcement of the laws. Never in the history of this or any other nation has there been a docu ment written that can compare with the constitution of the United States, formulated, written and endorsed by men, men who no doubt builded bet ter than they knew, but builded for all time. I have my doubts if there are any women in all the world who could produce a law that could stand the test that the constitution of these United States has withstood. So it seems then that man beorn of woman rules with a far more reaching in fluence than woman alone can do. Woman's influence begins in the home, where the foundation is laid— upon which a man’s future, life—and his life work is formed as the light of a mother's love and heart interest leads him on and on to manhood's estate. No one questions the teaching and the influence Abraham Lincoln’s mother exercised over him and through his life—and I believe we can trace every notable man of our time back to some home where some wo man had his welfare at heart. Home is the natural environment of wo man; it is there she performs the re sponsibilities for which nature has fitted her. Imbued with the love of home, husband and children, in it any wonder that, that all that is best, purest and noblest in her nature en shrines her home? Out of such homeg come forth the men who make his torical, woman's influence, by what they achieve. No woman who has never been a mother is really com petent to speak from a woman's standpoint, on a question which gov erns the entire life of woman, as a wife and mother. They can gather statistics to back their arguments— plausible enough—but that is not depth of facts. God created man and woman equal in all essentials, necessary in the na tural conditions of life. One just as strong mentally as the other. It is only when woman enters motherhood that she weakens physically, by hav ing, through her new responsibilities, to increase her mental powers.Hven then they are equal; he in his world of action, she at her post of develop ment, protection and creating ideals shielding the inner sanctuary of the home. Happy the wife, blessed the husband, crowned with perpetual love the little ones, placed under such conditions. What more need any woman ask? Woman's vote will never change God's natural plan of life, neither will her vote change the most es sential things in life, viz. woman’s nature... Very.few.women..court no toriety, very few care for public life. Simply voting counts for very little in a national sense. Locally it might change local conditions—perhaps for the better—perhaps for the worse. We cannot judge—nor anticipate what the results of womans franchise in Montana might be, by Utah. The majority of women voters in Utah are Mormon wives and mothers. They are very domestic in their habits, home lovers, home makers and home builders—home—teachers—Elections create but little: excitement; home first, voting a secondary consideration. We had better Iet the men fight the evils that exist instead of creating more evils in our homes, beyond men's control. Men can provide a home but it is woman and woman only who can keep an ever watchful eye in the home, and train and teach the children properly. All things for the good of the human family eminate from the home and as long as we have women who are anchored steadfastly to their homes, our na tional ships and our states and mu nicipal crafts will sail on under the able statemanship in charge. I do not believe that there are very many women under 85 or 40 capable of using the ballot intelligently. They are not sufficiently informed on
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Dillon Examiner
Dillon, Montana, US
Wed, May 13, 1914
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