OUR FIRST BALLOT.

White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 399, 18 October 1928, Page 13

OUR FIRST BALLOT.

My Dear Y'a, — Many of you will just now be preparinii to cast >’ our hrst vote * " 111 you remember that this privilege was won for you by the labours and the struggles and the sacrifices ol' a past generation. Manhood suffrage in the British Empire is not yet a century old. The vote was held only by the few. the property owner and the free burghers, whose heritage it was. It was won for every man quite recently. Womanhood suffrage was still more recently won, and in our Dominion we have had the franchise only 35 years. We ought to have done more in that time. Will you, my dear Wise girls, help us to accomplish much this poll. Your vote is a (t) Privilege: Look upon it as a privilege to cast a ballot to help to make our Dominion a cleaner, wholesomer land for the children who are coming. The women of the past won this privilege for you, in the certain trust that you would use it for the good of the generations yet unborn. Will you prove worthy of their trust? (2) A Ildsponsibility: One you dare not shirk. Cast it carefully, listen to what older folk may say, but it is yours to make the choice. Cast it prayerfully, seek for the wisdom from above. Then vote as you know your great King would ha\*‘ you vote. Cast your ballot, >oui coveted first vote, so that all >ou» life you may be proud of it. Note for the candidate >ou can be proud of as your representative. \ ote against an evil trade, a trade you never could be proud to point to as youi choice. Let your first vote be your joy now and your pride through all the years to come. What do we need to keep the nation whole. To guard the pillars of the State? We need the Cromwell fire to make us feel The common burden and the public trust To be a thing as sacred and august As the white vigil where the angels kneel — We need the faith to go a path untrod, Tim power to be alone and vote with God.