The Guymon Democrat. (Guymon, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 31, 1918 Page: 2 of 8
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GUYMON DEMOCRAT, GUYMON, OKLAHOMA
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The following nmondment to our I'oimtitutlon, nmi'mlliiK Sec-
tion 1, Article 3 of our Constitution, should lie thoroughly consid-
ered. It in not only our privilege but our duty to vote on this
amendment. Head the amendment carefully and no to the polls
on November 5th and vote for this amendment by stamping in the
square opposite the word "yes" or If you are of the opinion that
women should not have suffrage and Kiven the same rl«tht to vote
iia men, you can vote against this amendment by stamping in
the square opposite the word "No".
J. I.. LYON, Secretary of State.
roNSTiTi TIONAI.
Submitted in accordance with Senate Concurrent Hesolutlon No.
5, which provides:
For the Submission of a Proposition to Amend the Constit-
ution (enfranchising Women, Deflning the Qualifications of
KIci tors, and i'rovldlng for an Klectlon Thereon.
The amendment provided to be submitted proposes to amend
Section 1 of Article 3 of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma
mo that It may read us follows:
Article III. Nun'riige
Section I. Qualified electors of this State shall be citizens of the
I'nitetl Kliiles, citizens of the ;lnte, Including persons of Indian de-
scent fiuitlve of the United StateM), who are over the age of 21
years and who have resided In the state one year, In the county
six months, and in the election prorinct thirty (lays next preceding
the election at which such elector offers to Vote; I'ROVlDKn, that
no person adjudged guilty of k felony, subject to such exceptions
as the Legislature may prescribe, nor any person kept In a poor
house at public expense, except Federal, Confederate and Spanish-
American ex-soldiers or sailors, nor any person in n public prison
nor any liliot or lunatic, shall lie entitled to register and vote.
SI IA l.l j THIS AMENDMENT BR ADOPTED?
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women had the vote.
In the first place, there is little if
any such discrimination.
In the second place, the women's
vote could not do away with it if it
existed, because wcrk and wages are
regulated by the universal law of
supply and demand-
Samuel Gompers says women get
less for their work than men because
they ask for less.
That is true in a sense. But is far
from being the whole story.
The fact is, that unless they
put a small price on it them-
selves, and unless it is inferior qual-
ity, women are not paid less thnn
men when they «11 their wcrk.
It is when they sell their time that
the difference between men' und
women's pay appears.
Arid this is a matter the ba'lot can-'
not change, because it is controlled
by the physical facts of nature.
Tn thie general recognition of
vomnn's need of special protective
legislation we have the proof thit,
vnmen are venkcr than men physical-'
lv and cannot compete with men in
industry on a footing of absolute |
equality. j
of labor rrv frir sV"1'
and experience, for quanity and
qnn'itv of n"t,T)nt.
They do not pay for soy.
The question of the difference be-
tween nutn's and woman's pay, there-
fore, is fundamentally a physical
question.
It has nothing whatever to do with
politics.
"The vote", says Samuel Gompers,]
"doesn't mean a job, and equal suf-
fiace doesn't neocssarily mean equal
pay for equal work."—Boston Travel-
ler, May 14, 1915.
Mr. Gompers ought to be a good
judge. He has been interested in
labor for many years. He has also
had the ballot. His word, therefore,
ought to be acceptd a* pretty conclu-
sive evidence of what the ballot can't
do in the fie'd of wages and work.
In Colorado women have voted for
years. Has the ballot raised women's
wages in that state? Has it given
them "Equal pay for Equal Work"?!
In her brok entitled "Equal Suf-
fr;><re", Dr. Helen Sumr.cr says:
"Taking the pubTic employment as
a whole, women in Colorado reccive'
considerably less remuneration than
men."
(Signed) W. N. BARRY, Okemah.!
• GLENN CONDON, Tulsa. I
TOM W. NEAL, Poteau.1
Committee of the Minority.'
By Oklahoma Association Opposed to
Woman Suffrage,
MRS. T. H. STURGEON,
President.
healing he desires, but we do contend
before anyone is allowed to assume
that function, such person should be
required to most arduously and intel-
ligently study every phase of the
human body, its peculiarities and ail-
ments. Such restrictions are prop-
erly described by the state as they
ere in other matters requiring scien-
tific research. We believe our legis-
lature studied every phase of this
matter in the weeks it was presented
to them and that thciir act should be
sustained.
Tenth: Finally, we submit that
this is the time when every theory,
every procedure has an opportunity
to be tried. We are in a world war
and men are no linger moved by sen-
timent. The thing that can serve is
used; the thing that cannot serve is
cast aside. Proceeding upon that
basis, the United States Army and
Navy now have rr.ore than 30,000
doctors looking after the health of the
boys who go out to fight for our
country, but in neither Army or Navy
is there a single Chiropractor.
CLAUDE A. THOMPSON.
LEROY LONG.
JOHN W. DUKE.
O. J. LOGAN.
WARREN K. SNYDER.
A. L. WAGONER.
ARGUMENT AGAINST THE
ABOVE AMENDMENT^
Vote "NO" on this amendment for
the following reasons, to-vvit.;
First: The demand for 1 Votes for
Women" is based largely upon the
extraordinary assumption that "what,
holds true between man and man
must tht reforc hold true between man
and woman".
But the establishment of this prin-
ciple would mean "a fair field and
favor to none"—the last thing in the
world women should ask.
The whole trend of modern legis-
lation is toward further special priv-j
ileges and protection for women.
Their nature demands it. The inter-
ests of soeic'y demand it. Mother-
hood, potential and actual, must be
protected if the race is not to perish
from the earth.
There is no question of superiority,
inferiority or oquality involved in
this d'scussion. Men are not equal
to women. Women are not equal to
mi n. They are simply different.
And the constant tendency of civili-
zation is ttward further differentia-
tion.
To say that men and women are
"ciqual," or that one sex is "superior"
to the other, is as senseless as to say
that air and w.Vcr are eouiH, or that
one is superior to the other.
Each is superior in its own sphere.
Both ure essential to life.
But they are essentially different
and cannot be compared.
To psk women to assume the bur-
dens of government is to ask her to
neglect her natural functions for a
wasteful duplication of effort in a
field for which nature did not intend
her.
The dutj' of men is to protect won-
en from such wasteful and unnatural
burdens.
Second: H">vv can women best
serve the stnte? Can they serve it
best by entering into polit'cal contests
u ith men or by duplicating the efforts
of men in politics?
Or e.in they serve it lic it by leaving
the turmoil of politics to men and di-
recting their energy and their gifts
along lines denied to men by parti-
san political ties?
The bal'ot is not a panacea. It is
not a spiritual influence. It is mere'y
nn instrument of convenience in the
transaction of the business of govern-
ment
True reform begins not in the bal-
lot box or in the halls of legislation,
hut in the cradle, in the nursery, in
the school, in the church, around the
family fireside.
And there, without the ballot,
woman can do more toward making a
bettor world than anything men or
women can possibly accomplish thru
politics.
Women react upon the government
just in proportion as they are alert,
inteM'gent, we'l informed and public
Mrited, through the creation of an
"igent public opinion.
Vrl'on is rorfly crystalled
ifnion. And in the creation
'blic op'nlon women now
iendo'.:s influence. The!
>vv Suffrage affects
question that con-
*• class of women.i
-"tn is found
'our child-
>rk and
■re.
CHIROPIlACTOR HKFEItEMIl M LEtilSI.ATlVE ACT
Head carefully the following ballot title. The. 1917 Legislat-
ure passed as act requiring choiopractors to take certain examin-
ations, this being objcrt d to by the ohiroprpctor fraternity. After
the Legislature passed this act the chriopractors initated a refer-
endum petition. This referendum petition is for the purpose of re-
f 'rrlnir the bill passed by the Legislature to the voters of the State
to be unproved where an objection has been raised as to the Jus-
tice of such leglulntive act and the required number of petitioners
P"ote®t, which has been done, and filed in this office. It is your
privilege and your duty to vote on this law as to whether you think
It a 1u«t or unjust law. If you think the Legislature was unwise In
passing this act, it Is your duty to go to the polls on th day of
election and vote for the rendering Inoperative of this legislative
act hv stamping opposite the word "No". If you are of the opin-
ion that the Legislature did not err in passing this act and you are
;n favpr of restricting chiropractic as now pract:ced, by requiring
exnmlnations of chiropractors, It is your rtuty'to vote to
uphold tho Legislature and against the chiropractor by stamping
In the square opposite the word "Yes",
, J. L. LYON, Secretary of State.
State Question No. 1)1 s Referendum Petition \o. 110.
ballot titles,
The gist of the proposition is:
To veto and render Inoperative Senate Bill No. 111, passed by the
1917 Session of the Legislature, and approved by the Govenor on
Mnrch °7. 1[>17. Which act provides who should he considered as
p—-otlclng medicine; provides that nnV person claiming to practica
anv drugless system of healing must show an attendance upon a
reputable college for a period of twenty-seven (27) months and
pnss "n examination In certain subjects before a license shall be
granted. S'ich license when issued to the holder to pract-
ice ri"Ulrica* practice only: provides that one chiropractor shall be
appointed on the State Board of Medical Examiners, who shall ex-
amine applicants as to their knowledge of the technique of chiro-
practic, the balance of the examination to be conducted according
to tiie rules now provided for other applicants.
JORDAN OIL CO.
seven yerlrs on the average, when
they graduate into matrimony.
Fortunately for her the interests of
the industrialwoniien are not selfish
inere.-ts. If they were she would be
helpless, with the vote or without it.
Her real interests, cn the contrary,
aoe community interests, and the
community takes care of them as a
matter of self protection.
Tho question for the voters, there-
fore, is not how the vote will affect
the woman in industry, but how will
it pffect the average woman, who is a
marriexl woman with three or four
children ?
While less than 10 percent of the
Women citizens of voting age in any
state express a .desire for the
vote!, the most undemocratic act of
which the men of that state could be
guilty would be to approve a Woman
Suffrage amendment.
Fourth: Thij fundamental principle
of democracy is the consent of the
governed.
This implies majority ru'e.
And as at least 90 percent of our
worn.cn citizens ao far as we have
nny evidence, cot-sent to our form of
rovernment, and express no desire
for a chancre, it is clear that the in-
terest of democracy demand that their
wishes be considered, lather than the
wishes of the 10 percent, who are
'n revolt against our rovernment and |
rtomnnd that, unWe'come and in-j
'prions burdens be placcd upon their!
sisters.
The demand is for "justice for
women."
Verv well. But for which women? !
For the 10 percent v ho demand.' ARGUMENT SUBMITTED AGAINST quarantine serum and antitoxines,
Or for th« 90 percent who protest or . the REPEAL OF TIIE MEASURE which measures the Chiropract-
say nothing? j _____ ors loudly and constantly decla'm
Let us by all means lie just to against as being poisonous and dan-^
women. ! We ask.the voters of Oklahoma to to mankind Evm ^ j
Rut let us be just by respecting the !ot,° No on the Proposition for the hogg ^ ^ q{ ^
richts of the majority who consent fol>°w,n« ™as0"®: , ^ , farmers are now protected against
to our government, for in this way we p ir*t: r^e House ancl Senate of diseaf(? hy the use of measures con_
shall be just to the State and to ALL |!,e S/«le ^ ^ <*emned by the Chiropractic profes-
women, even-though they may not tees from each of them- studied tho sion. i
W ,0 minority <*^!
Fifth: Woman Suffrage is de- in cach house voted to require persons S,®1®n 19 to ,be a.,!"wed to Freel
nviu'ed hv Soci-ili I >n I Feminist w holdiiv* themselves out as chiropractic ance among the sick men, women j
hy feOiMnll ! linn Feminist as , t anfl philHrpn nf fiiir f
"a mrana to an end"-tho end bcinff hcalers undergo a long and proper d en of ®Ul ;,tate' that thc.
"i oomn'ete soci-il rcvo'ut'on " study of the fundamentals of anatomy ?rc!l wrong has been done our
wlln ^lTco^ .urBc,y. .b.tetric. n,i «- «'
are not taxed without retirement-itio-i ot-her matters pertaining to the treat a ,'es in subJe-tin? them to vaccin^
("irl t « ' •' «ieSd people before .hey •" .•«•' «; typhoid, smalpox,p.„-
h<r t'txes wh^t every male taxnaver #hould be '^nsed to ^.ct^ any and ^ admin.stration of se-,
"o S-m,hlic iLrov7mr^ Ind nro ^rm of "medocine" in the State of,"™ to cure them of meningitis and
tmion of .fe nnd nronertv .Oklahoma. It should not be over- that the time is, now here
And She is ren-e on^l bv all the'looked that al1 understand the ^r the intelligent voters of Oklahoma; j
r t ! ,rr? cll^ words "practice of medecine" to mean to ^ «« ^ord against the lowering
. u mmunity, tion of the r>osition of stan(lards of medical education al-
hecause they cannot represent them- , e '^"mpt.on o the position ft , . in other states I
hoaler,advisor and treator of sick, ren'1V set up in otner states.
Unloading Station and Tanks North of Ttuilj £lcre
AUTO FILLING ST \TiON
(South of Equity Store)
Always Ready to Serve You Give Us a Call.
Gasolire, Kerosine, Lubricating Oils
and Greases, Automobile Tires
AND ACCESSORIES
Stations at Guymon, Oklahoma and Hansford, Texas.
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SHALL SENATE BILL NO. ill BE APPROVED?
YES
NO
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IF YOU frSEED
A Cultivator, Harrow, Wagon, Gas Engine,
Grinder, Pump Jack or Groceries, Coal or
Grain, let us show you our line.
Our low prices for cash will do the rest.
A Dollars Worth for a Dollar at the
Farmers' Store
Guyirm Equity Exchange
Guymon, Okla. W.'T. Bratton, Mgr.
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SAVE MORE!
You have pledged your sav-
ings to Uncle Sam for War
Stamps. Now begin to save
by purchasing the best and
cheapest groceries in the eity.
DELIVERY AT 4 P. M. ANY PLACE
IN TOWN.
©. y. Alexander.
The above law is now on our Fifth: VJ e call your attention to
, the fact that the law we seek to in-'
selves without representing her.
Their interests as taxpayers are Pcrsona'
identical [statute books and if you believe, Mr.
Furtkomo™, , much .mailer' Voter, in tho prrtMi.n of yorr^lf, l" "
porcontjiire of women than men pay your family and our boys in the Army
the enfranchisement of women ani' vote "No" and permit the
would ereify increase the percentage ',AV tf> rema'n BS legislature pas-
of non-taxpaying voters; and thus
sed same.
assuming for the sake of argument I Sccond: Chiropractors in all states
the older states of the Union.
Sixth: The effort to set aside this
law of the legislature of your' state
is only an effort to permit illy prepar-' '
ed men and women to go out among
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MGGormick GOrn Harvester
Repairs and Twine
Grain Drills
Stoves and Ranges
Wind Mills
Well Casing, Pipe
Wagons, Horness and Furniture.
Jackson Broth j
lu. PHONE 146 GUYMON,OKLAHOMA.
■ :r,n v uM lev, U* woinTi tax- rcruins, antitoxins or drugs in the ^"rTtf the^aT /vwva~vw£
payer, as well as the male tax payer, treatment of the sick. This position ln® luncTltn ot artvi.or in the great-
In . vposition than befor*. , is invnribly —unwd by their leaders fSt wwfwd* confronting the hn-
'th-it then, is a Nation between heretofore have declr.red that they1 ^e people, to hold themselves out as
t r ation and the ballot, votes for did not believe in quarantine, vaccines, a^ors, as capable of taking life and
The f'irt is. however, that taxation'and instructors; that they did believe mnn bcin?-
and the vote have no connection what that all such measures could be sup-i Seventh): We submit that before
snow r. ; plemcnted by simple manipulations person is allowed to assume the
A man may own property in every of the spinal column. j function of advisor to the sick, he or
city and town in the state except the Third: We submit that heretofore "h*' should be requ red to undergo a
ore where he lives, yet ho can vote all courts inquiring into their prsrt- course of study and show their
on'v'in the one where he lives. | i^es have determined that they are fitness to diatrnose, recognize and
Minors and aliens are fully taxed either spurioiss ostfpnths, claiming tTC!,t 'i:'ease b<fore they are permit-
r>n the'r orowrtv, but are excluded t® by their measures than te!' to hold themselves out as such
from the fr nebiae. J even the osteopaths themselves claim; adv sors.
A svstem of government batsed on ^at they set aside all teachings of F>M: If the hogs and cattle of
property would give the rich man a scientists and findings of srentists our farmers are kept free from di-
■nvrr ever the poor man that would based on years of accumulated en- sease hv the use of vaccines and se-:
'roy democratic government and. denvor and study. j rums it ill becomes any set of men to
in its place a plutarehy. | Fourth: Our present great Army rtrcry the'r u#c in human being to
nth: "Equal iwy for equal and Navy and those of the allies have prevent disense, and this in substance
" It imp'ies that women work- j been freed and kept free from typho;d( '* fVoetly what the Chiropractic pro-,
as nw hours and as efficiently i fever, diphthrria. epidemic mening- is attempting to do.
s men are discriminated against in itis and many other infections, here-
the matter of pay on account of sex.jtofore the greatest destroyers of
and that this would not be so if the soldiers in time of war by he use of
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Ninth: We have no objection what-1
ever to a person employing any school f
or system of medicine, treatment or
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