f- '^P e- I. *ts»» -X 2r INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE TWO if Russian Women's Enfranchisement Their Suffrage Promise (blfede of Saint Thomas araiajiaja[afiyaiajajaj3/aa^JSf5raimiai3/a]aorajmi3i3i3i3iMsaimia,^imi3iscya*®iaiaiai3iaisis.i3iQiffl Will Be Demanded by the People. The Woman With a Country A Moral Obligation to In Russia, women will be included in the revolutionary turnover. Assurance UNDER. THE CONTROL DIRECTION OF ARCHBISHOP IRELAND .— Oklahoma Legislators wis tmz Paul Minnesota has come from Prince Lvoff, With Apologies to the Author of ra tttli Premier of the Provisional Govern CLASS BUID: I I "The Man Without a Country." Mrs. Lucas, First Woman to Enroll meat, that women are to help elect Doawopy CHAPEL 8 A t"M9 delegates to the Constituent Assembly. By Helejj Rowland 1 a BiU, Extols Political "With such a radical change," eraDErtCC HALL Leaders. [pfaMaMaMMEjaiaiaiaiajaMaiaMaMffiaaMaaMa^aiajfMaMBiaiaiajaisiSM^^'il says "one dispatch, "full extension o! n.!."T mji4i.f ?(IC AmWISTOATION BLDG A political promise is no scrap ot the franchise to them will follow Copyright, 1917 by the Press Publishing Ca (Tha New York Evening WorU). paper to Oklahoma legislators. An AL.VVA.YS,have soon." In the meanwhile at the Congress A CATHOLIC MILITARY COLLEGE overwhelmingly Democratic legislature They said of her, of Workers, Soldiers and Dele fe:' Ranked as an Honor School by the War Department demonstrated what President "Why shall she vote? gates held in Petrograd on April Sjiiv: 17, Collegiate Commercial Academic Preparatory "In time of war, what could SHE do to defend her Country—if «he had one? Wilson calls the "moral obligation" of a report was adopted containing tin Careful Mental, Moral and Religious Training the St. Lcuis national suffrage plank "Poor, foolish, tender, clinging, helpless little thing! recommendation that "women sha'l Eight Hundred and Thirty Students From Twenty-Five States Last Year. "How she babbles of 'Equality!' by adopting the Oklahoma suffrage have the same voting right as men." FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE ADDRESS "SHE—wl!b trembles in a thunderstorm, amendment resolution in both houses Minister Kerensky is ,a suffragist Very Rev. H. Moynihan, D. D. Pres. And shudders at the booming of a sunset gun! in March of this year. and it is the opinion of Mr. G. J. "Why shall she vote? SHE cannot fight, and kill and die, need be, if foi Back of Oklahoma's recent suffrage Ohsol, a member of the second Duma, her Country!" victory is a story of man's humanity now in this country, that the workingmen's Well, and gratitude to woman. It is told councils will insist that, It has come—HER Hour! by Mrs. Frank B. Lucas of Oklahoma Subscribe for the Press since women have borne a leadin? And, with her "tender, clinging, helpless' hands. City, who claims the distinction of part in every revolutionary and eJut She is making munitions—for England. being the only woman to enroll a legislative catlonal movement in modern Russia, shell*— With her soft, white, useless fingers she is fashioning measure. Enrolling an act. they shall be enfranchised at once. A hundred deaths in every one of them! Mrs. Lucas explains, is the final disposition "To deny these women even temporarily Everywhere, she is ploughing, planting, Ifttbtfim, made of a successful measure. the right to vote on the future Sowing, reaping, harvesting, of Russia,' says Mr. Ohsol, "will not And thu» savfe* thousands of Uvii "Why did they permit me to do it?" be tolerated by the masses." It is Kas Her Country. said Mrs. Lucas. "Because they knew the opinion of Russian women of I understood the procedure. It is my GAINS IN UNITED STATES prominence in this country that behind Give Your Government to vocation compile, annotate and the Russian revolution is the citate laws. The legislators let rhe shining promise woman's of freedom. enroll the suffrage bill because they On April 29th, Gustavus Losie, a Your Support! knew I could be trusted not to alter member of the German Reichstag a word or a line. Never was I so openly .advocated full woman suffrage tempted! The resolution had been "on in Germany, the ground that it amended to permit women to vote at was through the efforts of millions Woman Suffrage Now in IVlore Than Half The Area of U. S.« the primaries .but the amendment had If you value the privileges you have enjoyed of German women that the existence been lost. I did wa.nt to see that as an Americancitizen—if you want to make Woman Voting Strength Nearly Doubled Since of the nai.ion had been preserved." amendment. go in." certain that your children and future generations the First of January. will enjoy the same priveleges—you must do your share towards stemming the A PESSIMIST Nebraska's 77,520 square miles of territory has raised the total tide of oppression which threatens our shores. area in which women may vote side by side with men to a fraction Every citizen should make sacrifices in order more than half of continental United States. Eleven of the fifteen to insure the IMMEDIATE SUCCESS of the biggest states in the Union are now under the suffrage flag. The "Liberty Loan of 1917." Place in the hands total number of women of voting age to whom complete, or near of our Government at once the means of hurrying complete, suffrage has been granted, is now 8,557,808 48 per cent, of this number has been gained since the first of January, 1S17. the day of Victory and Peace. The total number of electoral college votes which women may participate in choosing at the next presidential election is 172—out oi Buy Liberty Loan Bonds a total of 531. ia Ninteen states of the Union nflfw Besides the signal successes A give women a right to vote for Presi- t-sse seven states, North Dakota, Our Government is offering a liberal return dent of the United States. °h°' 'nd, ?na' Ar a Model* and land, Michigan, Nebraska, there —3^2 per cent interest—for your money— North Dakota _ed tna woe pro- jiave been legislative victories of more in Session of 1917 suffrage victories the! 0r lass importance eleven other the safest investment for individuals, estates, first stats into the suffrage fold in states since January. business houses and public institutions. Help by the National American Woman Sul-1 Bills for full suffrage amendfrage your Government and help yourself. Association's drive for presi- ments to their state constitutions have For full particulars and subscription blanks dential suffrage. Ohio was the first passed the 1917 legislatures of New of the newly victorious states east York. Maine, South Dakota, Iowa, Oklahoma apply here. effi of to her the Mississippi come into and Michigan. own, and InJian-i is the first state In New York and Maine, the enfranchisement The First National Bank to let women vote upon their own of women will be voted "You say your mother is willing you B. MRS. FRANK LUCAS. enfranchisement, though the women should marry me, but your father on this year. In South Dakota, Oklahoma of 1890 Wyoming territory did this in Isn't?" and Michigan it will be voted International Falls, Minnesota of From the Governor, who-, was On March 6, Governor Brough on in 1918. "Yes. They never can agree. Mais pleased to *feign- the resolutions-down. Arkansas signed a bill giving women lied folks never can." WHERE THE SUFFRAGE FLAG of Mrs. Lucas has nothing but kin:! a now and effective form suffrage, FLOATS ?.rord3 for the men of her state. Indeed, the right to vote in primary elections, To recapitulate, the suffrage cause they seem to merit her praise. state to pass Arkansas tseing the first has this year cuineiied 338,314 square :And she should know for she chaperoned this measure. miles of territory. Up to the end of the bill through all its vicissitudes Suffrage War a Measure. 1916, suffrage extended over 1,205,329 up to the moment of passage Woman suffrage has become a war square miles, cr S9 per cent, of ui the closing ni^ht after the clock measure in England, Canada, Russia, continental United States, not including been stopped to permit the and France. Rhode Island is the first s= Alaska. On April 22nd. of this You Will rpiipaetion of legislative business. Buy Your state in the Union to adopt suffrage year, the suffrage flag floated over Men of ali parties throughout the as a part of our national preparedness. 1,543,643 square miles, or 50.9 per in favor of amendment tate were the On April 19—Wake Up America Like the cent. Including Alaska, wher women all to and did in their power Day—the message ran forth to every Straw Hat have suffrage on the same terms 'Militate its r^s-fre. zs village and farm that Michigan women men, 2,134,527 square miles, or 57 On the n'ght when the bill had last Latest Styles were going to be free to vot$ per cent, of the total possessions of the lot reported out of comnittee, yet been in presidential election's, thus sounding Early- United State. except the newly acquired Lucas persuaded one of Mrs. the note of preparedness for the Virgin Islands, are now under ts friends to call a caucus and bind in Shirts, national crisis in the Middle Weat, the banner of freedom. This area is ^aucus rule, and he members by Then came Nebraska with its eight a long way out of the "Half slave rrhen the measure came to a vote Newest Styles electoral college votes and Its addition Neckwear and half free" type of democracy later in the evening, it carried without of 318 903 women of voting age which still prevails in the other 43 a dissenting voice. She hurried to the suffrage forces. per cent, of the United States. with the engrossed bill to the House Hosiery and $1.00 up. to have that body recede from its primary election clause and ratify the substituted general election. Then back,she went to the Senate for the president's signature and again to the House for the Speaker's signature and to have the bill engrossed Distinguished for Correctness, Beauty of Fabric with its amendments. At 2 a.m. Mrs. Lucas had the satisfaction of enrolling the act which will emancipate and Unsurpassed Values— the Oklahoma women if the campaign prosecuted by the suffragists Stadium Clothes Juring the coming months is brought to a successful conclusion at the polls In 1918. The president of. the Oklahoma State Suffrage Association is Mr3. \delia G. Stephens. The correspond*8% secretary-^ MfSf Julia,- Wood-' vtir will strongly appeal to you because of their iVorth. Mrs. Lucas is chairman of the Unance committee. All three are splendid fit. They are priced right, too— residents of Oklahoma City, but representative women from all over the $15 to $30 str.te were largely instrumental in /?£euiTw£ ffeCOKO :he passage of this bill. mm* Select yours now and be ready to celebrate July 4th with the crowds at International Falls. r3 iv§ ., mi You Can Always Do Better Going Away? Hanan & Son, at "EAC7 10 'i-AOT AMD WEST IS V/Sdl," BUT THE WEST HAS EQUAL. Then Select O'Donnel, •v'' SUFFRAGE. fr" Kv Northern, Your Trunk, Doee Equal Suffrage "Feminize?9 presidential suffrage, the per cent, was •'. f'M and in eastern states, it was only 18.9. Quoting from the recent government Chippewa, 1 JM It would seem that the voting 10.8. Suitcase and report as to the proportionate woman has not 'feminized' the West "The Store of Quality" wr recruiting for the regular army in Brown & Co. and to any extent, and it would seem the various states daring April, Mrs. that the eort of men who respond Handbag at International Falls, Minnie J. Reynolds cites these first to their country's call are the Bass Shoes sort who give their women the vote. figures: "The average per cent, This Store. of their quota recounted by the far It would be Interesting to know how Minnesota sold at this store. many of the men who are sure that western states, ^practically all of equaf suffrage, was 29.5 women ought not to vote because which have they cannot fight have responded to Farmer at per cent. In the Middle West, where Y. State fcurtrauo women RT« states have glyen their, the call,to anps." lafe Si UipilllllipillillUliilWilllllljllll mi