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4A | AUGUST 27, 2020 | COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL Cottage Grove Sentinel 116 N. Sixth St. Cottage Grove, Ore. 97424 NED HICKSON , MANAGING EDITOR | Opinion 541-902-3520 | NHICKSON @ CGSENTINEL . COM The First Amendment C ongress shall make no law respect- ing an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Govern- ment for a redress of grievances. “I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” —Thomas Jefferson (1800) USPS#133880 Copyright 2020 © COTTAGE GROVE SENTINAL Letters to the Editor Policy The Sentinel welcomes letters to the editor as part of a community discussion of issues on the local, state and national level. Emailed letters are preferred. Handwritten or typed letters must be signed. All letters need to include full name, address and phone number; only name and city will be printed. Letters should be limited to about 300 words. Letters are subject to editing for length, grammar and clarity. Publication of any letter is not guaranteed and depends on space available and the volume of letters received. Letters that are anonymous, libelous, argumentative, sarcastic or contain accusations that are unsourced or without documentation will not be published. Letters containing poetry or from outside The Sentinel readership area will only be published at the discretion of the editor. Political/Election Letters: Women provide crucial voice in true democracy a personal level, there is no ques- tion that the wisdom and insight they offer each day as part of my own life has a profound impact that could never be duplicated by a men-only mentality. Ask any of us male journalists in the newsroom and we will One hundred years ago, Or- admit that the cumulative IQ egon ratified the 19th Amend- in the newsroom seems to ment in 1920, joining 35 drop considerably without other states in ensuring that the influence of our publish- the right to vote could not be From the Editor’s Desk er, Jenna Bartlett, and front denied based on gender. Ned Hickson office manager Meg Fringer. It’s important to note that On the home front, my this came some eight years 1906, 1908, 1910 and finally 1912 wife Alicia, as well our daughters after Oregon had already begun Elyse and Elizabeth, have always (more times than in any other permitting women to vote in provided much-needed perspec- state elections in 1912. Ironically, state) — before women’s voices became part of the discussion in tive in family discussions and this was the result of a narrow decision making that help assure state decisionmaking. approval of 52-percent of voters we don’t devolve into an old epi- It was a campaign that began — all of them cast by men — to sode of “King of the Hill.” as early as 1870 as part of the guarantee that right as part of I say all of this to illustrate how, Oregon suffrage movement led Oregon’s state constitution. on just an individual level, the Today, it’s hard to imagine our by Abigail Scott Duniway, who value and importance of women’s utilized her Portland-based democracy without the crucial perspectives impacts my own representation of women’s voices suffragist newspaper The New life every single day — and why Northwest to fuel the debate in in a nation where, according to I can’t imagine not having those the last census, women outnum- favor of securing women the influences and perspectives as right to vote. bered men 161 million to 156.1 part of our national discussion. In a not-so-subtle twist of million — for a nearly 1-to-1 What an incredible loss it irony, it was her brother, Har- ratio. would have been if not for the vey Scott, who was her biggest In fact, there are only nine determination of those like Abi- states where males make up more detractor, thundering his oppo- sition in the pages of The Orego- gail Scott Duniway to assure that than 50 percent of the popula- we as a state — and eventually a nian, where he was editor from tion: Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, nation — can benefit from the Idaho, Montana, Nevada, North 1866 to 1872. voices of women in the discus- Simply looking at the impor- Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. tance of women’s perspectives on sions that define our democracy. In all the rest, including here in Oregon, women represent the majority of individual voices and perspectives that make up our decisions as a state — and ultimately as a nation. However, even in Oregon, which was among the first to provide that right, it took six ballot attempts — in 1884, 1900, Election-related letters must address pertinent or timely issues of interest to our readers at-large. Letters must: 1) Not be a part of letter-writing campaigns on behalf of (or by) candidates; 2) Ensure any information about a candidate is accurate, fair and not from second-hand knowledge or hearsay; and 3) explain the reasons to support candidates based on personal experience and perspective rather than partisanship and campaign-style rhetoric. Candidates themselves may not use the letters to the editor column to outline their views and platforms or to ask for votes; this constitutes paid political advertising. As with all letters and advertising content, the newspaper, at the sole discretion of the publisher, general manager and editor, reserves the right to reject any letter that doesn’t follow the above criteria. 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